Winging It

By Michael Goldman

It Might Get Loud Director Davis Guggenheim brought his subjects--guitarists Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White--together for the first time...

Input

By Cynthia Wisehart

At Sundance this year, I sat in the Filmmaker Lodge with Davis Guggenheim flipping through his iPhone; it was filled with his photographs from his documentary It Might Get Loud, about guitar legends Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White...

Apple Final Cut Pro 7: First Look Review

By Jan Ozer

By now you know that Apple has launched an update to Final Cut Studio. Here's a look at the newest features....

JVC GY-HM100U Review

By D.W. Leitner

Recently, a filmmaker friend of mine confided to me on the eve of her trip to Baghdad that her 5lb. Sony HVR-Z1U would be too heavy for all-day use in the wilting temperatures of Mesopotamia...

Review: Noise Industries FxFactory Pro

By Franklin McMahon

FxFactory Pro from Noise Industries is a package of expertly designed, powerful plug-ins that generates digital effects for Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Apple Motion on the Mac OS X platform...

G-Technology G-Speed eS PRO XL

By Dan Ochiva

While local storage works for many postproduction setups, some newer, less expensive technologies are enabling editors to add larger high-speed disk arrays once only affordable by the big players...

Dedotec Dedolight Mini DLOB

By Dan Ochiva

Among DPs, Dedolights have long been a favorite. The compact, solidly built lamps offer useful features not found in many other lights...

Focus Enhancements FS-H200

By Dan Ochiva

Tiny hard drives anchored the first generation of portable recorders; now, the latest varieties of flash memory are fast and cheap enough to start turning up...

Digital Vision Dailies

By Dan Ochiva

While telecines and computers have been around for quite a while now, a number of companies continue to attempt to figure out the best way to join the two technologies to offer a complete digital dailies solution...

Grass Valley Edius Neo 2

By Dan Ochiva

Grass Valley’s Edius Neo garnered fans with its speed when editing AVCHD-formatted material...

Calibrated Software Calibrated{Q} series

By Dan Ochiva

Viewing and editing the growing number of formats proliferating these days takes more than just having the latest NLE program...

High-res Dreams

By Dan Ochiva

While Dalsa's dreams of creating the top 4K digital camera are dashed--the company closed its digital cinema division late last year...

Fade to Black: Nate Apffel

Most stories with a good ending don’t start with someone falling off a cliff. Yet it was just such an accident that set Nate Apffel on the path toward filmmaking ...