Why does Final Cut Pro handle Flash Video f4v files better than Premiere Pro?
First off, if you want Flash’s .f4v files to work in FCP X, you need to change the extension to .mp4. So myfile.f4v becomes myfile.mp4 I’ve been doing some streaming lately with Ustream. It’s a decent...
View ArticleTime Lapsing Around Italy with Flicker Free
Stephen Smith, a long time videographer, used a recent trip to Italy as an opportunity to hone is time lapse skills. The result is a compilation of terrific time lapse sequences from all over Italy. He...
View ArticleVFX Students: Get Ready to Work for $600/mo.
I was talking with the owner of a mid-sized effects house in LA last weekend. They’ve always done most of their work where they could get subsidies to pay for part of salaries… Canada, Singapore, etc....
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Samsung Galaxy S5 Does NOT Shoot 240fps. It Shoots 120fps and Plays It Back...
Apple’s iPhone 6 and the Samsung Galaxy S5 both shoot 240fps (or so you might think… 1/8th speed at 30fps is 240fps). Since we make Flicker Free, a plugin that removes flicker that occurs when...
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iPhone 6 vs Sony FS700: Comparison of Slow Motion Modes (240fps and Higher)
Comparing slow motion modes of the iPhone 6 vs the Sony FS700 The Sony FS700 is a $6000 video camera that can shoot HD up to 960fps or 4K at 60fps. It’s an excellent camera that can shoot some...
View ArticleFCP 7 Is Dead. It’s Time to Move On.
It’s been almost 4 years since the last update of FCP 7. The last officially supported OS was 10.6.8. It’s time to move on people. Beauty Box Video 4.0 (due out in a month) will be our first product...
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4K Showdown! New MacPro vs One Nvidia GTX 980
For NAB this year we finally bought into the 4K hype and decided to have one of our demo screens be a 4K model, showing off Beauty Box Video and Flicker Free in glorious 4K. The Digital Anarchy NAB...
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Odyssey 7Q+ .wav Problem – How to Fix It and Import It into Your Video Editor
We have a Sony FS700 hanging around the Digital Anarchy office for shooting slow motion and 4K footage to test with our various plugins ( We develop video plugins for Premiere Pro, After Effects,...
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Creating GIFs from Video: The 4K Animated GIF?
LIKE Digital Anarchy! I was at a user group recently and a video editor from a large ad agency was talking about the work he does. ‘web video’ encompasses many things, especially when it comes to...
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Using a Nvidia GTX 980 (or Titan or Quadro) in a Mac Pro
As many of you know, we’ve come out with a real time version of Beauty Box Video. In order for that to work, it requires a really fast GPU and we LOVE the GTX 980. (Amazing price/performance) Nvidia...
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Wacom Tablets and Repetitive Stress Injuries
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 tablet. The...
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Don’t Go To Art School, Especially for Video/Film/VFX
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...
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Tips on Photographing Whales – Underwater and Above
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...
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Tips on Photographing Sports – Sneaking a Lens In and Other Stories
I love photographing sports. It’s a lot like shooting wildlife/Humpback Whales in many ways. It requires a lot of patience and quick shooting skills. Unfortunately, I’m usually limited to shooting...
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We Live in A Tron Universe: NASA, Long Exposure Photography and the Int’l...
I’m a big fan of long exposure photography (and time lapse, and slow motion, etc. etc. :-). I’ve done some star trail photography from the top of Haleakala in Maui. 10,000 feet up on a rock in the...
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Computers and Back Care part 2: Forward Bending
Go to Part 1 in the Back Care series Most folks know how to pick up a heavy box. Squat down, keep your back reasonably flat and upright and use your legs to lift. However, most folks do not know how...
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VR: Because Porn! (and Siggraph and other stuff)
Over the last few months I’ve been to NAB, E3, and Siggraph and seen a bunch of VR stuff. Most VR people with their headsets One panel discussion about VR filmmaking was notable for the amount of time...
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Is The iPhone A Real Camera?
For whatever reason I’ve seen several articles/posts over the last few days about whether you can be a photo/videographer with a camera phone. Usually the argument is that just because the iPhone (or...
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Tutorial: Removing Flicker from Edited Video Footage
One problem that users can run into with our Flicker Free deflicker plugin is that it will look across edits when analyzing frames for the correct luminance. The plugin looks backwards as well as...
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De-flickering Bix Pix’s Stop Motion Animation Show ‘Tumble Leaf’ with Flicker...
Like us on Facebook! One of the challenges with stop motion animation is flicker. Lighting varies slightly for any number of reasons causing the exposure of every frame to be slightly different. We...
View ArticleCreating the Grinch on Video Footage with The Free Ugly Box Plugin
We here at Digital Anarchy want to make sure you have a wonderful Christmas and there’s no better way to do that than to take videos of family and colleagues and turn them into the Grinch. They’ll love...
View ArticleF’ing GPUs
One of the fun challenges of developing graphics software is dealing with the many, varied video cards and GPUs out there. (actually, it’s a total pain in the ass. Hey, just being honest :-) There are...
View ArticleWhat Exactly is Adobe TypeKit?
So let’s talk about something that’s near and dear to my heart: Fonts. I recently discovered Adobe TypeKit. I know…some of you are like… ‘You just discovered that?’. Yeah, yeah… well, in case there are...
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Just Say No to A.I. Chatbots
For all the developments in artificial intelligence, one of the consistently worst uses of it is with chatbots. Those little ‘Chat With Us’ side bars on many websites. Since we’re doing a lot with...
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Photographing Lightning during The Day or Night with a DSLR
As many of you know, I’m an avid time lapse videographer, and the original purpose of our Flicker Free filter was time lapse. I needed a way to deflicker all those night to day and day to night time...
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Using A.I. to Create Music with Ampermusic and Jukedeck
For the last 14 years I’ve created the Audio Art Tour for Burning Man. It’s kind of a docent led audio guide to the major art installations out there, similar to an audio guide you might get at a...
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Re-discovering Fractals with Frax
My first software job was with MetaTools doing Quality Assurance (Where I was KPTJim if you were online in those days). They made Kai’s Power Tools Photoshop plugins (KPT), Bryce, Final Effects After...
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Downloading The Captions Facebook or YouTube Creates
So you’ve uploaded your video to Facebook or YouTube and you’d like to import the captions they automatically generate with Artificial Intelligence into Transcriptive. This can be a good, FREE way of...
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Depression, Suicide and Being A Creative
While there’s less stigma attached to depression than there used to be, it’s still not always accepted or people have a hard time understanding it. In the last six months I’ve talked to a lot of people...
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Artificial Intelligence Gone Bad
There are plenty of horrible things A.I. might be able to do in the future. And this MIT article lists six potential problem areas in the very near future, which are legit to varying degrees....
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The Role of Concept Art in Film And Games
Recently attended E3, the industry conference for all things games, and while the games, booths and general spectacle are always cool, one of my favorite parts of the show is a quiet, out-of-the-way...
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Interview: The importance of transcripts in documentary filmmaking
Green Screen shoot for the interview with the sons of Bakersfield Sound Legend, Bill Woods. L to R: Tammie Barbee, Glenda Rankin (Producer), Jim Woods, Bill Woods, Jr., Dianne Sharman. Hidden by...
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