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Flash Sync Speeds Explained

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Matt Granger shares some super tips on flash sync speeds and the extremely useful HSS or High Speed Sync function.

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Smartphone Filmmaking

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Smartphones are such powerful cameras now that they’ve increasingly become a viable option for videographers and filmmakers looking to shoot with shoestring budgets.

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Dynamic Video Montages

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Need to improve the montages in your next project? Check out the technique in this video tutorial to improve the flow of your edit.

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Attach Text to the Ground in After Effects

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Learn how to make your text stick to the ground using the 3D camera tracker in After Effects. Source: Cousteau Christopher: http://tinyurl.com/hjg5onr

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Camera Settings Before You Shoot

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When you embark on any video project, the path from inception to a finished project requires making a vast number of decisions that will affect the look and feel of your project. When you fire up your camera, you’re immediately

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How POV affects your Filmmaking

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Different POVs (points-of-view) can invoke vastly different emotions, so it’s important to be able to distinguish between them for maximum effect on your viewers.

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Logging Interviews in FCPX

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A list of 7 tips that make FCP X an exceptional tool for logging interviews, so you can save time in your edit and tell the most compelling story possible.

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Flow State in Film Making

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Arthur Moore speaks about his ‘Flow State’ when making his top notch videos. “The Zone” he talks about when creating his films is a place of “Limitless Creative Flow”. This guy is very likeable and does amazing things with FCPX.

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Keyword Ranges in FCPX

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FCPX is one of those tools that doesn’t do everything. What it does do, is really easy to use and often super powerful. Range Selections can apply multiple keywords to multiple I/O range selections across a single clip in the