I’ve spent the last 7 years going out to Maui during the winter to photograph whales. Hawaii is the migration destination of the North Pacific Humpback Whales. Over the course of four months, it’s… Tips on Photographing Whales – Underwater and Above
We released a new tutorial showing how to remove prop flicker, so if you have flicker problems on drone footage, check that out. (It’s also at the bottom of this post) But what if… Avoiding Prop Flicker when Shooting Drone Video Footage
Drones are all the rage at the moment, deservedly so as some of the images and footage being shot with them are amazing. However, one problem that occurs is that if the drone is… Removing Flicker from Drone Video Footage caused by Prop Flicker
One key way of speeding up the Flicker Free plugin is putting it first in the order of effects. What does this mean? Let’s say you’re using the Lumetri Color Corrector in Premiere. You… Speeding Up Flicker Free: The Order You Apply Plugins in Your Video Editing App
We love to talk about how Beauty Box Video is used on feature films by the likes of Local Hero Post and Park Road Post Production or broadcast TV by NBC or Fox. That’s the… Beauty Work for Corporate Video
I’ve been live streaming various events for small organizations for a while. Most recently for the Against the Stream Meditation Center in SF (if you’re into mindfulness meditation and dharma talks check it out… Live Video Streaming on the Cheap
One common problem you see a lot is flickering from stadium lights when football or other sports are played back in slow motion. You’ll even see it during the NFL football playoffs. Stadium lights tend… Removing Flicker from Stadium Lights in Slow Motion Football Video
I’ve written about this before, but Forbes recently wrote a couple awesome pieces taking down San Francisco’s Academy of Art, really spelling out why for-profit art schools are such an overpriced scam. And they are.… Don’t Go To Art School, Especially for Video/Film/VFX
I’ve written about this before, but Thanksgiving came along this year and I left on a 5 day, two city trip without my Wacom tablet. Which reminded me exactly why I’m thankful for the… Wacom Tablets and Repetitive Stress Injuries
First off, neither will fail completely. VR will succeed in games and AR will end up like the Segway… used by mall cops and tourists. And, yeah, there’ll be some industrial and entertainment (e.g.… Why VR Will Fail. (and AR too)
First off, the important bit: All the current versions of our plugins are updated for El Capitan and should be working, regardless of host application (After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Davinci Resolve,… EL Capitan, Plugins and the Anarchist
We have a new set of tutorials up that will show you how to easily create masks and animate them for Beauty Box. This is extremely useful if you want to limit the skin… Easy Ways of Animating Masks for Use with Beauty Box in After Effects, Premiere, and Final Cut Pro