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Firmware & software · 108 stories, +52 vs last week

Firmware & software: 108 stories in seven days, +52 on the week before.

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ToolfarmSoftwareTop 5 Under $100 – Audio Plug-ins Did you know Toolfarm carries tons of great products, including audio plug-ins for $99 or less? You can get great-sounding audio, without hurting your budget.

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Synchedin sound effectsAudioSticky Tape Sound Effects Match Pull Tear and Contact Choose sticky-tape sound effects by the action: unrolling, tearing, pressing down and peeling away are different events. Match the amount of material moving and the listening position in the scene.

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Jeff CableReviewsPantanal Photo Tour: Our last couple of days (and a little birthday fun) If you have been reading the last three blog posts, you know that we visited the South Pantanal before heading to the north to focus on the jaguars, which are plentiful in the area.

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The PlaylistCinemaJoaquin Phoenix And Jonathan Glazer Finally Team Up… For An AI Eyewear Ad Joaquin Phoenix and Jonathan Glazer collaborating on a film sounds like a cinephile’s dream. The Oscar-winning actor and the filmmaker behind “The Zone of Interest” and “Under the Skin” seem…

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Gold DerbyCinemaOscars 2027: Where are the women screenwriters? Only two women currently rank among the screenplay favorites, and both are in the Best Adapted Screenplay race.

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Gold DerbyCinema‘American Idol’ sets Season 25 premiere date and a 2-hour anniversary special Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, and Lionel Richie are back on the judges’ panel as the show moves from Hollywood to Atlanta.

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PlaybackCinemaIn Brief: Telefilm invests $2.21M across 24 film festivals Plus: Martini Films partners with a New Zealand prodco to develop a comedy series, the Vancouver International Black Film Festival adds two board members, and more.

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Cartoon BrewVFXOn The Use Of AI In Sylvain Chomet’s Dior Ad: A Correction And An Apology Suspicious imagery (check the hands, always the hands) suggests AI use in Sylvain Chomet’s Dior ad, raising questions about its hand-drawn claims.

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Animation World NetworkVFXPBS KIDS Sets Premiere for Gustavo Dudamel's 'Carnival of the Animals' Half-hour 2D special pairs hand-painted watercolor backgrounds with the LA Philharmonic's Hollywood Bowl recording; airs November 16 and streams free on pbskids.org.

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PlaybackCinemaQuebecor revenue grows in Q3 with telecommunications boost The adjusted EBITDA for Quebecor’s media segment jumped 69.7% in the quarter amidst a modest revenue increase and cost-reduction initiatives.

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The PlaylistCinemaSylvester Stallone Says Steven Seagal Was “Begging” To Join ‘The Expendables,’ Despite Previously Saying He Turned It Down Sylvester Stallone and Steven Seagal may not have a legendary feud, but their quieter beef has been simmering for years. This week, it finally boiled over.

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RealscreenCinemaHBO slates Oobah Butler docuseries and doc short “The Hotline” HBO will premiere the five-episode docu-comedy series Oobah: Scams For a Better Tomorrow on November 22 from A24, Abso Lutely Productions and Central.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo