“Inch by inch, model by model, Canon is slowly dragging the DSLR toward its destiny: a full-fledged photo-video hybrid camera. We’re not there yet, but the $800 T3i brings shooters a bit closer with a video-centric swivel out screen. First thing’s first: If you have a T2i, don’t freak out. You’ve still got a killer camera. The T3i has the same blood & guts as its predecessor, just in a spiffier, more...

We just got back from a great educational workshop called IN[FOCUS] in New Orleans. Some people have asked us why we continue to go to workshops? We strongly believe in practicing what we preach. One of the things we harp on about is the importance of education,hence our putting together the Canon Filmmakers Live Tour. However, throwing events is simply not enough in my humble opinion. Once you think you know everything, you may as well...

I have said it before but we absolutely love Magic Bullet Looks and do all of our color grading with it. I came across this tutorial where Apple Certified Master Trainer Simon Walker shows you how to quickly create and manage custom presets when using Magic Bullet Looks and Magic Bullet PhotoLooks, and how these are automatically shared across the host...

You have all seen the 7D 1000 fps BMX video by now I am sure. The guy that made the video slowed it down to almost a stand still with incredible results using Twixtor. Here we have a tutorial from Crumple Pop for achieving good results just using Apple Motion, which if you are using FCP, it already comes bundled with. Here’s the tutorial: Here is the final result: This should work fine with any of the Canon DSLR’s that...

Thank you to Eric Kmetz the winner of the Canon Filmmakers Live contest for Chicago and a great friend of ours for putting together this amazing tutorial. His winning entry can be seen below. This is very helpful for anyone who does multi-cam shoots not just weddings. This tutorial was originally done for [IN]FOCUS a multiple day workshop/seminar/networking/educational/party/all around good time that Cristina and myself will be...

So, over the last two days, I had two friends run into the same problem while editing DSLR footage in FCP. The problem was that even though the sequence settings matched up with the footage from the DSLR,the audio that was recorded separately was mysteriously drifting out of sync. This is a very frustrating problem that I personally lost quite a few hours over. I tried literally everything I could think of. I thought it was the recorder I...