Sean Nelson

My "fire safe" is my safety deposit box at the bank.  It's about a kilometer away from my house and I figure that it's extremely unlikely that it will burn down at the same time my house does...

Yes, this is exactly the same concept as shooting still photos in RAW and distributing them in JPEG.   You capture in a high quality format to give you more flexibility to process the image ...

If you have a camera that shoots in AVCHD format then you can get it down to about half that rate, but HD video does consume a lot of storage and that's just a fact of life.  Video editing ...

In Premiere Pro (at least in the CS6 version that I use), placing a 4K clip onto a 1080p sequence will result in only the central part of the image being visible.   So yes - you have to rescale ...

Yeah, that's essentially "keying", which causes parts of an image with a specific colour to become transparent. Shooting in front of a green screen is the most commonly method because it's easy to ...

I think he wants to have only part of the upper clip opaque, so that even with it at 100% opacity he can still see the lower video in some parts of the frame.  To do that you need to use a ...

Thanks.  I shot the whole thing using two cameras - one on a fixed tripod and the other either handheld or on a tripod with a fluid head for smooth movement.   The individual clips in the video ...

Combining images like this is known as " compositing ". I don't have Premiere Elements (I use Pro), but it appears to be able to do this - see the following Adobe help page: https://helpx.adobe.com ...

As Abrak described, if you're planning to export in 1080 then it's probably best to edit in (i.e., use sequences that are set up as) 1080 as well.   This way you'll be able to do the kind of ...

Here's a video of the Airbus A380 that I shot here in Vancouver.   As with most of my videos, it was shot in manual focus mode.  If you're shooting aircraft in flight I find that you can usually ...

Oh, that's interesting, I didn't realize that Premiere was available separately - thanks for pointing that out. I also use Audition and After Effects. The former I can probably easily find an ...

I've run into the same problem: CS6 won't work with the newer Adobe raw converters that recognize my Panasonic GH5. Right now I'm working around the problem by using the DNG converter to convert ...

This isn't something I've actually noticed before, but after reading this thread I went and had a look at my GH5 and also my GH3.  Both seem to have a pretty similar blackout time with the ...

Well, if you're in a Cessna 172 then the best answer is: "open the window". On a commercial flight, there's really not much choice - you're stuck with whatever window is in front of you.  Airliner ...

Yes, that is exactly what the 180 degree rule is:  use a shutter speed that exposes each frame for half of the frame rate.   So at 30 frames per second you'd use a shutter speed of 1/60th of a second.

I totally agree.   At some point in the not-too-distant future I'm probably going to start getting into 4K video editing now that my cameras are capable of it.  When I do, I'll need to upgrade my ...

Even if you shoot with the camera locked down, panning a 2K window across a 4K frame will still result in a staccato effect if the pan is fast enough.

I love the framing of that with the line of buildings along the bottom! With the RX100, you can turn off the focus peaking highlighting in manual focus mode.  When you're shooting something distant ...

The first thing I want to mention is that if you're shooting the moth on a dark background then the exposure indicator is probably going to show underexposure because the majority of the image is ...

That strikes me as an excellent idea, although the spherical plastic dome you referred to probably wouldn't work as well as a true parabolic reflector. Perhaps you could find a used satellite ...