The American manufacturer Samson has introduced the new Q9U dynamic professional microphone with cardioid polar pattern for broadcast, podcast and live streaming, which outputs the recorded sound both analog and digital, thus eliminating the need ...more

Vimeo continues to work on the transformation from a YouTube alternative to a production platform. For example, Vimeo is now integrating the AI technology from Magisto into its offering to enable users to easily create videos for Socal Media (Vimeo ...more

Dolby has introduced the new HDR format Vision IQ especially for televisions, which as an update should improve the playback of Dolby Vision. The aim is to achieve an optimal display of films that support Dolby Vision - depending on the lighting ...more

Ignace Aleya shows in this After Effects tutorial video, how you can actually turn an autumn landscape into a snowy winter landscape with a little color correction and a few simple filters. The interesting and - as we think - quite clever ...more

The South Korean tragicomedy Parasite was recently nominated for an Oscar in six categories -- for Best Film, but also for an Editing Oscar, among others. A few days ago, the American editing company ACE nominated it for Best Edited Feature Film ...more

The stockfootage and soundtrack portal Shutterstock (which also includes Premiumbeat), has launched a new annual music subscription, which offers filmmakers or podcasters a quasi flat rate for GEMA-free/royalty-free soundtracks at a price of 179 ...more

At the Sundance Film Festival, Adobe announced new project management and collaboration features for Premiere Pro. A new Production Panel in the program interface will make it easier to organize the workflow for complex or extensive projects such as ...more

In America this week the music fair NAMM took place and Blackmagic was also present as an exhibitor. Blackmagic also exhibited new audio features from Resolve that will be included in the upcoming version 16.2. For example, there will be a new ...more

ARRI Rental has put the ALEXA 65 Showreel 2020 online and presents an entertaining summary of what is currently considered state of the art in moving image production: Among other things you can find excerpts from the highly awarded Joker, Doctor ...more

The newly introduced, mirrorless system camera X-T200 apparently equips Fujifilm with the same 24.2MP APS-C sensor that also works in the X-A7. It offers more phase detection pixels and thus an improved autofocus, as well as faster readout than the ...more

Recently, the World War I epic 1917 by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall, Spectre) has also been shown in German cinemas. This Behind The Scenes video shows the incredible effort that was put into the planning to achieve at least the optical ...more

Edelkrone has introduced the JibONE, a new portable and intelligent mini jib arm system for small cameras, which can be controlled and programmed both manually and via app. Horizontal, vertical and diagonal camera movements by crane can be easily ...more

In many areas, new AI/Deep Learning algorithms are revolutionizing the way we work with video - one area of this is the intelligent interpolation of frame rates, i.e. the calculation of one (or even several) frames between two existing frames of a ...more

David Lynch - the old master of the dark and absurd celebrates his 75th birthday with a short film on Netflix entitled "What Did Jack Do? In typical manner Lynch celebrates here in rough black and white pictures absurd dialogues with a monkey. ...more