1) Buy Camera with shallow DOF. 2) Buy Batteries. 3) Buy Media 4) Shoot Something. 5) Upload to the Interwebs. I kid, I kid. If only it were that easy. In all seriousness though. This is what we all strive for right? We want to be successful filmmakers. The good news is that while not a comprehensive or exhaustive list these 5 easy steps can be applied to almost any area of your life. 1) Determine what being a “successful...

Yes, the title of this blog post is a ridiculous take on the great film “Dr. Strangelove,” but I’m feeling a bit saucy today, so sue me. On second thoughts, please don’t sue me. Seriously Sorry for the hiatus, but spending 42 days straight on the road for the #CFLive Tour with Philip Bloom stretched our resources a bit thin. We are back at it now, and we hope to continue to evolve with all of you this year. Lesson...

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...