If you fly your drone close to no-fly zones, the latest version of AirMap App (iOS/Android) now provides practical flight assistance. AirMap warns pilots in real time when their drone is approaching a no-fly zone defined by geofencing (such as ...more

Kipon should be known to most as a manufacturer of lens adapters. But together with the German high-end optics developer IBE Optics (who also developed lenses for ARRI Prime 65 S and Prime DNA lenses), Kipon is now also launching focus reducers and ...more

The American tripod manufacturer Colorado Tripod Company has launched a funding campaign for a tripod system with a titanium ball head using Kickstarter. Due to the special properties of titanium, the hollow ball head of the Highline model is ...more

Short films in abundance on the shortest day of the year: on 21.12. the Short Film Day will take place again, where anyone who wants can organise their own small (or big) event. There are currently 246 events registered nationwide, and some will ...more

Many Windows users in the professional video environment might have waited for this: Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC and Adobe Media Encoder CC now support ProRes export on Windows as well. To be more precise, two important variants of ProRes are ...more

It's time again: Google (YouTube) publishes the top 10 of the most successful YouTube trends in 2018 just in time for the end of the year. If you're looking for a career as a YouTuber, you shouldn't be afraid to share the world at the birth of your ...more

Until recently, Blackmagic exclusively used hardware USB dongles to protect the paid Studio version of its compositing/editing and audio editing program DaVinci Resolve. Users in Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve Forum now report that their version of ...more

If you still need an example that with a budget of estimated 9.5 million dollars even with a "normal" full format mirror-less cinema picture on a professional level can be produced, the current Hollywood production "The Possession of Hannah Grace" ...more

The Rotobot plugin uses machine learning to create mats. Using the common deep learning techniques, Rotobot is able to isolate instances of pixels belonging to "semantic" classes of objects like people, cars, etc. In practice, Rotobot knows 81 ...more

The signs for the approaching, official launch of the mirrorless Panasonic S1 full format series are increasing. Panasonic has just released a new promotional video with photographer Annie Griffith. Naturally, the S1R with 47 megapixels is the focus ...more

Like every year the film critic David Ehrlich has produced a very worth seeing Supercut of his opinion the best films 2018. His selection includes a broad spectrum of very different films such as "Suspiria", "Roma", "Annihilation", "The Ballad of ...more

In a comprehensive producer study, the current economic situation of film and television producers in Germany is scrutinized -- it´s all about turnover, costs, budgets, jobs, the clients, funding quotas, distribution of rights and much more. Another ...more

Cruise has taken the release of his film "Mission: Impossible Fallout" on Blu-ray as an opportunity to tweet from the set of the currently in production sequel to Top Gun an urgent appeal against motion smoothing (movement interpolation) which is ...more

Nvidia has introduced a new top GPU model, the Titan "T-Rex" RTX. It is the most powerful graphics card so far and has a massive 24 GB DDR6 RAM - twice as much as older models of the Titan series. It uses a fully developed Turing graphics chip and ...more