In the wake of the Corona crisis, Motion Array is now allowing several of its products to be used free of charge for 90 Premiere, which can help users to continue working on projects while working from home. The special offer includes the ...more

Manfrotto introduces new, lightweight travel tripods -- actually for photographers, but if you're a filmmaker on vacation and don't want to carry a large tripod with a heavy video head, you'll occasionally switch to such alternatives; static shots ...more

The Sony Corporation has announced a restructuring in which the camera division will be spun off into a separate business. The three divisions of the "Electronics Products & Solutions" division "Imaging Products & Solutions" (including cameras), ...more

Once again, quite surprisingly, Apple has made available today on its support pages without much comment a file called "Apple ProRes RAW for Windows 1.0 (Beta)". Unfortunately there is no other (yet??) very informative information about the Windows ...more

Among the numerous participants in the Sennheiser survey, we drew lots for the eleven lucky winners today and have already notified them. Many thanks -- also on behalf of Sennheiser -- to everyone who took part! And for those of you who were not lucky enough to win a raffle today: the next one will definitely come...

Speed booster to full frame? What at first sight seems to make little sense, can be very helpful in some cases: Because the mirrorless Canon R has a full frame image sensor, but this is not completely usable for filmmakers in 4K mode -- as known, ...more

Adobe has announced that in view of the developments around COVID-19 the Adobe MAX Europe, which was originally planned for June 15-16 in Lisbon, will be cancelled. Adobe is committed to helping protect the health of its employees, customers and the ...more

From one day to the next, practically all public cultural activities were shut down to contain the corona virus -- the theatres and concert halls are closed, the museums and even the cinemas. Especially small and independent operators are threatened ...more

Now Apple has also taken the Coroakrise as an opportunity to make a special offer: the free demo version of the video editing program Final Cut Pro X (version 10.4.8) for Mac can now be used for 90 days - previously the demo was limited to 30 days. ...more

Normally, the large FX tool package "Red Giant Complete", which consists of the Trapcode Suite, Magic Bullet Suite, Universe, VFX Suite and Shooter Suite, normally costs per month as a subscription - but in the wake of the Corona crisis, Red ...more

Apple provides its professional 10-bit HDR 6K monitor Apple Pro Display XDR with the possibility to implement user-defined reference modes via firmware update. Precondition for the update is macOS 10.15.4. :Apple Pro Display XDR - user defined Pro ...more

Actually, the famous Cannes Film Festival was supposed to take place in May (12.-23.5) as usual, but also here the corona virus forces the organizers to rethink. They are now considering postponing the Cannes Film Festival until the end of June in ...more

GoPro is taking the times of social distancing and quarantine at home as the occasion for a major home competition via Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and TikTok, running from March 23 to April 30. Every day, GoPro will select 5 favorite content from ...more

It was clear that the NAB could not take place in its previous form in view of the current situation - but so was the damage of a total cancellation for the film industry (and of course the organizers). The NAB has now taken the obvious way out and ...more