As digital filmmakers, it is becoming more and more important that we can create effects, styles and looks that can compete with the bigger budgeted filmmakers. Our equipment is getting cheaper and more sophisticated, therefore the gap is growing smaller and smaller between what we can do on a microbudget level vs. independent level vs. studio level. It’s a very exciting time to be a filmmaker.
I was happy to be asked to test out Video Essentials III as it’s a product I’ve been reading about for a while. My number one concern was, as a filmmaker armed with a Nikon D300s, would its Rolling Shutter filter be able to counteract the CMOS shutter distortion from movement? Close.
And that’s what I think sums up this product. Close. There’s a lot of good stuff here, and a few great things, but overall, we’re experiencing the kind of “pad the product” filler that we often see in effects plugin packages for Photoshop and video editing packages Then the question becomes, sure, I can do that, but why would I?
