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You'd be surprised. 90% of the color-correction I've done in features has revolved around overall contrast and brightness levels, and also sneaking in what I call "electronic flags" to add a shadow...

Sadly, music mixing has very little to do with motion picture dialogue mixing, especially in 5.1 surround. Totally different disciplines. You could compare shooting a concert with shooting a dramatic...

I don't see anything about this being pitched to low-budget movies. This is a technique where you stitch the left side of one good take with the right side of another good take, and composite the two...

This is the right answer as I see it. To me, the timecode merely gets you in the ballpark; the slate clap confirms that sync is real. All the automatic dailies systems I know of -- MTI, Pix, etc. --...

That's my opinion as well. But beware of power downs and reboots. Having a timecode slate to verify sync is very handy, and at least that will give the editor a clue in case the camera has a...

Talk to your re-recording mixer now so that whatever you do, it won't have to be undone later on. There are huge mistakes that can be made early in the process, and those will wind up costing you...

Call me crazy, but I think good color correction and talent can achieve all of this already. I don't have a problem with people who want to add grain to images, particularly if it makes video noise...

Good recommendation, Jack. The guys over on Gearslutz' post section are experts at using Pro Tools, and there's a lot of "recommended practices" and "do's and don'ts" in terms of getting a film mix...

There's a reason that Pro Tools is the standard in the industry. I've tried everything else, and nothing is as flexible or has the sheer number of options and plug-ins available, not even by half.
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Where did you see it, Ross? I saw it in 3D Imax here in LA and it looked fine to me. I had no issues with the picture quality at all. To me, the 3D has to always be in service of the story and...

I think the other bad things, like their relative color temperature, grey scale balance, color accuracy, and 8-bit video are also major issues. Some of these, you can adjust and compensate for, to a...

I have seen issues where you get an error message if the durations don't match between video clip and sound clip. Export an EDL and see if the durations are identical. The other possibility would be...

I would not suggest trying to experiment and build one yourself, because of possible safety issues. Call up a big rental house and see if you can get one of the larger Smokemakers, like a Smoke...

I would strongly recommend David Crosthwait at DC Video in Burbank, who is an absolute Jedi master at coaxing maximum quality out of old videotapes:

DC Video
177 West Magnolia Blvd.
Burbank, CA...

Can you just sync by hand, using a clap? Not to be obnoxious about it, but this is the way it's been done for the last 90 years or so, and it works very well. Without any trouble, on a nonlinear...

Yeah, I'd say buy or rent a HD broadcast camera designed specifically for live production. I think the Red is a great camera for many things, but not for live TV.

As far as I know, there is no workable timecode once the camera is running in varispeed. All you can do is clap at the head and sync it by eye. And even that will only stay in sync once the sound is...

Nope, that's the way to do it right. And I would suggest recording at 192kHz / 24-bit in order to give you the best possible sound quality in the event of a 2:1 or 4:1 slow-down. I would also suggest...

I've said many times: two of the biggest 3D movies of all time, in terms of box office, were Alice in Wonderland and The Avengers -- both shot flat and dimensionalized, both making over $1 billion....

The right one that's appropriate for the scene.

Actually, there's a major surprise in the book's ending that's not in the movie trailer.


Two books: Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow -- the exact same story told from the viewpoint of another...

Very, very mixed reviews:

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/09/the-great-gatsby-what-the-critics-are-saying/

What I'm hearing is $40M this weekend, then a steep dropoff. We'll see. I think...

There was a very big-budget 3D feature shot with an A-list director a couple of years ago, and the director and the DP chose to ignore the stereographer's advice for the first week of the shoot....

I think Arnold above gives you good advice.

The Zoom recorder is to a top-notch recorder like the Sound Devices what a Canon 5D is to the Red Epic. Both capable of acceptable results under optimum...

I think these two goals are at odds with each other.

Get a separate audio recorder and record at a high sampling rate, like 192kHz/24-bit, along with a very high-quality microphone placed in the...