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Perform Video: Google to announce Android TV

Google is reportedly planning to announce a next generation for its television plans, dubbed Android TV. According to GigaOm, the platform will be built into set-tops and smart TVs like the existing Google TV offerings, with access to variety of over-the-top services. But, two new evolutions ...

Perform Video: Detailed look at TIFFEN Filters on the Sony F55 Camera

Sony have created a highly detailed look at the Tiffen filter system on the F55 camera TIFFEN demonstration video presenting a comprehensive range of filters, shot with the Sony F55 camera and Panavision Primo spherical prime lenses in 4K. See Sony and Tiffen for more

Perform Video: A Look at the Free Color Vibrance Plug-in

Make Colors that Stand Out in Adobe After Effects: A Look at the Free Color Vibrance Plug-in Andrew Kramer of Videocopilot takes us through his new (and free) Color Vibrance plugin for Adobe After Effects (Compatible with After Effects CS5, CS6 & CC): Intense bright colorization can be...

Perform Video: Sony F55 vs Arri Alexa Skin Tone Reproduction Test

Sony USA compares the Sony F55 to the Arri Alexa for skin tones: This is not a camera comparison, it is a simple demonstration of the skin tones reproduction shooting LOG with the native ISO settings and applying the corresponding LUT’s provided by both manufacturers. No color grading was a...

Perform Video: Review of The Padcaster - Turn your iPad into a Production Camera

Here is a quick review of one of the more extreme video rigs available for the iPad.  In this video the guys at The Slanted Lens check out this one-stop rig to turn your iPad into a complete production kit: You can mount it on a tripod, attach microphones, lights, lenses, or other accessories.

Perform Video: Panasonic GH4 vs Blackmagic Production Camera 4K Dynamic Range Comparisons

Here’s a comparison of the dynamic range between the Panasonic GH4 and the Blackmagic Design Production Camera 4K, by Phil Hover: Testing the two cameras for dynamic range and color. Left is GH4, Right BM. Both UHD, download for full res. Almost no color correction – only saturation added to the ...

Perform Video: RagLite to Kickstart World’s First Flexible LED Light Panel

With LED lighting systems growing in popularity for both video and photo use, it’s inevitable some interesting variations of such setups are going to come out. Case in point: behold the RagLite, or as its creators prefer to call it, “the first-ever flexible LED light bank.” Developed by Chad So...

Perform Video: Adobe: Next Evolution of Creative Cloud To Be Announced on June 18th

It’s reported that the next evolution of Creative Cloud will be revealed during a live keynote on June 18th at 1pm Eastern time, and it promises to be a big announcement. Adobe have already teased… “all-new desktop and mobile apps, new creative hardware, hundreds of new features and...

Perform Video: Samsung: Get a Free NX30 if You #DitchTheDSLR

It’s reported that Samsung are set pull off a huge publicity stunt in order to convince DSLR users to swap out for a mirrorless camera – they are handing them out for free! On June 4th between the hours of 12pm and 6pm in Times Square NYC, Samsung will giving away free NX30 cameras...

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Perform Video: Epic 10-Year Timelapse Shows the Construction of the 9/11 Memorial

The 9/11 Memorial Museum opens officially this week. It is the final piece of the decade-long effort to memorialize the victims and location of the deadliest terrorist attack to ever take place in the USA. The above time-lapse, shared by EarthCam, documents the almost ten-years of con...

Perform Video: Commercial Drone-Flight Permits Possible by November 2014

Good new for aerial filmmakers as U.S. aviation regulators, the FAA, said they are considering a streamlined approval process for flights of small unmanned drones for film making, utilities inspections, farming and other low-risk operations. With the first regulation allowing commercial...

Perform Video: Adobe Premiere Pro CC - 10 Things Beginners Must Know

Terry White takes us through 10 things that every beginner must know about Adobe Premiere Pro CC: See how to edit a video from start to finish even if you’ve never used Premiere Pro or edited a video before.  

Perform Video: How to Work with RAW and Log Footage in Adobe Premiere Pro

Rich Harrington shows us how to work with RAW footage and log footage in Adobe Premiere Pro: Rich shows you how to work with log footage by using color correction and Look Up Tables, or LUT’s.

Perform Video: Adobe Creative Cloud Down for nearly 24 hours

Subscribers to Adobe’s Creative Cloud have been unable to sign in and access the company’s suit of applications  since Wednesday Evening. The technical error has left many who depend on the company’s offerings in the lurch. Adobe stopped offering standalone versions of their ...

Perform Video: Canon Bring Us Two New Lenses: EF 16-35MM F/4L & EF-S 10-18MM F/4.5-5.6

Off the back of an unusually quiet NAB 2014, Canon have just announced two new lenses, the full-frame EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM and the APS-C EF-S 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 IS STM. While both lenses are slower than some other Canon options in this range, they both have image stabilization, and the APS-C le...

Perform Video: How to Make a Pinhole Camera from a Pringles Can

This young photographer’s name is Fresley, and for a recent science experiment she decided to show YouTube how to turn a Pringles can into a pinhole camera in just over 8 minutes. Give it a shot!