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Linux Users Rejoice: Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve 12.5 for Linux Now Available (Industry Press Release)

Posted by on Mar 3, 2017 in Featured, Industry, News, Press Releases, User Press Releases | 0 comments

Blackmagic Design today announced that DaVinci Resolve, its professional editing and color correction software, is now available on Red Hat and CentOS Linux. This allows customers with Red Hat or CentoOS 6.8 or 7.2 systems to download and use the free version of DaVinci Resolve or the full DaVinci Resolve Studio. Adding Linux support gives customers more choice in hardware, allowing them to build extremely high performance, low cost workstations for editing and color correction.

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Edited with DaVinci Resolve Studio: “Please Tell Me I’m Adopted!” (Industry Press Release)

Posted by on Mar 3, 2017 in Featured, Industry, MicroFilmmaking, Press Releases, User Press Releases | 0 comments

Blackmagic Design today announced that DaVinci Resolve Studio was used to edit, grade and finish “Please Tell Me I’m Adopted!,” an original shortform comedy series from Wraptastic Productions premiering March 6, 2017 exclusively on Amazon. DaVinci Resolve Studio was used by Chris Sobchack, executive producer, to handle the entire post production process.

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Tackle Challenging Workflows: New DaVinci Resolve Control Panels from Blackmagic Design (Industry Press Release)

Posted by on Mar 2, 2017 in Featured, Industry, News, Press Releases, User Press Releases | 0 comments

Blackmagic Design today announced two new portable hardware control panels for DaVinci Resolve, its professional editing and color correction software. With professional editing becoming extremely popular in DaVinci Resolve, these new control panels are designed to allow color correction workflows to be mixed in with editing workflows, while introducing new levels of quality in affordable hardware control panels.

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Serving Hard Light: 5 Ways to Light Through a Window (Article/Tutorial)

Posted by on Feb 27, 2017 in Articles, Behind-the-Scenes, Featured, Lighting Tutorials, Lighting/Gaffing, Tips, Tutorials, Walk Throughs | 0 comments

The first step in lighting a daytime interior scene is almost always to blast a light through the window. Sometimes soft light is the right choice for this, but unless you’re on a big production you simply may not have the huge units and generators necessary to bounce light and still have a reasonable amount of it coming through the window. So in low budget land, hard light is usually the way we have to go.

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Oscar Nominated Films: Blackmagic Design Congratulations (Industry Press Release)

Posted by on Feb 22, 2017 in Featured, Industry, News, Press Releases, User Press Releases | 0 comments

Blackmagic Design would like to congratulate all the 2017 Oscar nominated films and the production professionals whose hard work and creativity helped bring them to life. Blackmagic Design is honored that its Pocket Cinema Camera digital film camera, as well as its DaVinci Resolve Studio editing, grading and finishing solution, were used on some of this year’s Oscar nominated films, including “Hacksaw Ridge,” “Arrival” and “Moonlight.”

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Econolighting: Illumination without Movie Lights (Article/Tutorial)

Posted by on Feb 20, 2017 in Articles, Featured, Lighting Tutorials, Lighting/Gaffing, Tips, Tutorials | 0 comments

After my last post ranting about the very limited usefulness of redheads, I was asked what the alternative is for cash-strapped DPs. There are plenty of cheap fluorescent photography-studio-type lighting kits available on eBay now, but they have their own problems. So can you light without any film lights at all? Yes, you can – and here are a few examples.

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