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Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoKIT NOIZ One Series D and more KIT Plugins offers some of the most authentic analog-style audio plugins, thanks to their relationship with Blackbird Studio in Nashville.

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoMixWave Spiritbox – Courtney LaPlante There are various ways to create plugins. You can come up with something from scratch. You can model a piece of analog hardware.

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoHEARTBREAK – The first film edited on FCP X? Making a standard film takes about the same time as birthing a baby – about nine months. While I’ve found that generally to be true, some take longer – a lot longer.

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoAudio Mastering with Grand Finale The concept of audio mastering stems from broadcast and vinyl LPs. Radio stations wanted a competitive signal, but also needed to keep levels strong without distortion.

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoSafari Goes Wild Again Safari Audio (formerly Safari Pedals) has always had an atypical approach to developing audio plugins.

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoLemurAudio SIMON Mastering EQ There are plenty of equalizer plugins on the market, but not every one is called a ‘mastering equalizer’.

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoResolve Grading in One Node I’ve written numerous articles about streamlining Resolve color correction/grading workflows. Sure, at rare times a complex node tree is called for.

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoKiive Paradox FX – Round 2 I previously reviewed Kiive Audio’s entry round of their new line of Paradox effects. Kiive has now expanded the line with three additional plugins – Stereo Distortion, Mod Filter, and PlasmaVerb.

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoDaVinci Resolve Workflow Simplified Again I’ve posted a number of articles about keeping your DaVinci Resolve color grading workflows simple. Several of these have focused on using third-party DCTL effects (DaVinci color transform language).

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)Videosonible smart:chain There are tons of audio plugins on the market that emulate vintage hardware. A few companies buck that trend by taking a modern approach – vintage in sound when called for, but with modern processing…

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoDaVinci Resolve – Six Apps in One Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve/Resolve Studio is constructed as an integrated set of media tools. These have either been acquired and redesigned or developed from scratch by the Blackmagic team.

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoiZotope Joins the Boris FX Family First, a bit of the backstory as we know it. iZotope is widely recognized as one of the go-to brands that’s critical to the audio community.

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoThat G-Word Again Let’s talk about gamma issues again. I’ve previously written about the Premiere gamma ‘bug’ and Premiere’s color management tools. Unfortunately, gamma levels are a never ending issue.

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoAI vs Indie Filmmaking Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought an onslaught of content, including deepfakes, parodies, visual storyboards, and even real commercials.

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoTeezio Azul Does the world really need another 1176 plugin? The folks at MixWave and Grammy-winning mixer Patrizio “Teezio” Pigliapoco certainly think so.

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoFxFactory Pro 7 FxFactory has a long history with post users. Noise Industries’ first effort was developing effects for Avid Media Composer on the Mac.

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoNOIZ One Series C and Chamber D Audio effects plugins tend to come in two flavors. Either they emulate vintage analog gear with sonic character and skeuomorphic interfaces to match.

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoKOLOR BASIS for FCP Back in June I introduced you to KOLOR, a boutique software development company focused on professional grading tools for Apple Final Cut Pro.

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoKiive’s Paradox FX I’m not talking about a dilemma, but rather the new Paradox FX Series of plugins from Kiive Audio. This Canadian software developer is known for their analog-style audio plugins inspired by prized…

Digitalfilms (Oliver Peters)VideoCineDream Expands FCP Color Tools If you are into color grading, then 2026 is turning into a bumper crop year. Adobe is working on the new Color Mode for Premiere (still in beta) and Resolve 21 just added an entirely new module for…

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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