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The Best On-Camera & Shotgun Mics
Buy a shotgun mic and the box will tell you two things: a polar-pattern diagram and a range…
The Best Wireless Mics for Creators
Put the current wireless mic kits on a table and they look like one product in five boxes.…
The Talking-Head Studio Kit
A seated talking-head video is the easiest thing to shoot badly and one of the cheapest things to…
The Complete Solo Creator Kit: Camera to Timeline at $1,500, $4,000, and $8,000
Every “creator kit” article on the internet stops at the camera. Body, lens, maybe a mic, grand total…
Edit-Ready Camera Buying: What Your Camera Costs You in Post
Camera reviews are thorough about everything you can see. Sensor size, autofocus tracking, dynamic range charts. Almost none…
10GbE for Video Editing: Switches, Adapters, and When 2.5GbE Is Enough
Gigabit Ethernet moves about 110 MB/s on a good day. A single stream of 4K ProRes 422 HQ…
The Plugins Actually Worth Paying For
Plugin marketing is a genre of its own. Every tool promises to transform your workflow, every launch video…
The Best Laptop for Video Editing
Every laptop maker sells a “creator” machine now, and most of them are gaming laptops with the RGB…
The Small-Studio VFX Pipeline Stack
Every VFX vendor now sells an indie tier, and every indie tier comes with a different set of…
The On-Set VFX Data Kit
Ask any VFX vendor what eats a shot budget and you’ll hear the same word: guessing. Guessing the…