Welcome to my 1995 hobby! One of my hobbies is video production!

Adobe Premiere 1.0 Released Interview

Alex Gollner: Let’s start at the very beginning… The program that became Premiere… Randy Ubillos: …originally known as ReelTime. …was actually demo software. Tell us about that I was working for SuperMac and they were working on something called DigitalFilm – one of the very first digital video recording cards. It did quarter frame standard definition – they were pushing the limits of the JPEG chips that were available at the time and we needed some software to try it out. In about 10 weeks I put together a demo and we’d bring in people and show them editing on a computer and it was going over pretty well. The marketing department had just gotten out of software at SuperMac and they weren’t sure what to do with it and so as it got close to shipping the card in late 1991 my software was sold to Adobe and they released it as Premiere 1.0.

--From alex4d

How to make a short film

Although filmmaking is a highly technical discipline involving a variety of skills, making a short film is a good hands-on way to learn about filmmaking. The entry barrier to making a short film is lower than it has ever been due to advances in technology. Digital cameras require no film and allow for post-processing on standard personal computers.

--From nyfa

New Red Monstro 8k Camera

his new camera and sensor combination, WEAPON 8K VV, offers Full Frame lens coverage, captures 8K full format motion at up to 60 fps, produces ultra-detailed 35.4 megapixel stills, and delivers incredibly fast data speeds of up to 300 MB/s. Like all of RED’s DSMC2 cameras, WEAPON shoots simultaneous REDCODE RAW and Apple ProRes or Avid DNxHD/HR recording and adheres to RED’s dedication to OBSOLESCENCE OBSOLETE—a core operating principle that allows current RED owners to upgrade their technology as innovations are unveiled as well as move between camera systems without having to purchase all new gear.

--From red

Canon has five new cameras registered

Japanese website Nokishita has discovered that Canon has registered no less than five new cameras online, and with the camera industry's largest trade show, Photokina, just a couple of months away, we could see some of them pretty soon.

--From techradar

Best hardware for video editing

You might have captured the footage of a lifetime, but if you don't have a decent computer for video editing, you won't be able to make your footage sing. Fortunately, that's where we can help. In this guide, you'll find our picks of the best video-editing computers, at a range of different price points to suit your needs. Why choose a desktop computer instead of one of our best laptops for video editing? Well, assuming you have a permanent base for it, you'll benefit from better specifications for less money. Also, being able to work on a broader display allows you to pick out minute detail more easily, and see what your film will look like on a bigger screen. As well as highlighting our top choices of the very best Windows PC and Mac computers for video editing here, we've also got you covered if you're on a budget. (And if you aren't sure which program to use once your computer's sorted, then you can check out our favourite video editing software, too.) Read on for the best computers for video editing...

--From Creative Bloq

Biggest Box Office hits of all time

As an increasing number of films find global audiences, their box office totals just compound. And rankings of these totals are ever changing, as blockbusters both predictable (the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise) and unexpected "Frozen" are released. Here, find the latest ranking of the 25 highest-grossing films, worldwide, of all time, per Box Office Mojo.

--From Newsday

Top 10 Best Video Editing Software

If you are just starting out in the video editing world, paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for an editing suite may not be possible. Luckily, some of the best video editing software out there is free. You don’t have to pay extravagant prices for the capability to put together professional-quality video. Whatever you splice together in these suites can stand up next to almost anything you pit it against.

--From elegant themes

How to build your own render farm

When you work with 3D or video rendering, you quickly realize—excuse the tacky, car-salesman tone of this cliché—that time is actually money. Under a tight deadline with very demanding tasks, you need more than just a faster machine. You need a lot more power, and one of the main ways of getting it is to divide your task among networked machines. In my recent Mac Pro review, I mentioned that a workstation computer (whether from Apple, HP, or Dell) is designed to be good at a lot of tasks that are demanding on the CPU and, increasingly, on the GPU. But a workstation can be too much machine for some things, so often you want to free it up to use for asset production instead of saturating it with render tasks. Work stations are overkill to use as what I call "dumb muscle."

--From Arstechnica

Best Video Editing Software

Whether you're looking for a free video editor or a premium post-production suite, we've found the best software for you – if you're making a whole movie or just need to trim a single clip.

There are superb free video editors available, which you'll find in the second half of this article, but we've started by rounding up the finest premium editing software on the market right now.

Opting for a paid product will get you high-end extras like 360-degree video support, motion tracking and multi-cam editing, but that's just the start. The extra resources available to commercial projects help to refine the entire package, often bringing more accurate and configurable effects, an enhanced interface and a faster rendering engine.

If you're a total beginner, there are affordable video editors that will make the whole process as easy as possible, with automated tools that will optimize and transform your clips with just a couple of clicks. These user-friendly editors offer a gentle introduction to video editing, so you'll learn the basics and be able to make the step up to a more advanced program when you're ready.

--From techradar

Tips for making engaging short films

How you can you shoot the most engaging short movie and keep your audience hooked from the first to the last minute? I decided to do a search on Google on what is a short film, and I got the following definition:

“A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits".

But ask yourself? What is a short film and why do you consider making one? The answer is more complicated that the previous definition and you can’t find it in Wikipedia. And for sure, you can’t find the way to shoot engaging short films without first understanding the right procedure as well the right definition of what the short film is.

You can only find it deep in your soul and heart. So what is a short film and why would you make a short?

--From 48filmproject