Jonny Elwyn

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Jonny ElwynSoftwareTRMNL X for Video Editors – My New Desk Friend What's a TRMNL e-ink display and why would a video editor want one? Here's why...

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Jonny ElwynSoftwareSound Design Training for Video Editors Your mix sounds fine. It could sound professional. Take this 5 lesson email-based course to learn how to add audio polish to every project you touch.

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Jonny ElwynSoftwareUseful Premiere Plugins for Video Editors If you're a professional editor, these Premiere Pro plugins will save you hours of manual effort on every project.

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Jonny ElwynSoftwareAffordable Colour Grading Monitors When you don't have a lot of money but you want an affordable grading monitor, you might want to check out these great options.

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Jonny ElwynSoftwareThe Beginner’s Guide to AI Video How do you make your first AI video? Follow this complete beginner's guide to AI video generators and you won't get lost!

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Jonny ElwynSoftwareHow To Make a DCP For Film Festival Projection How To Make a DCP For Film Festival Projection Latest update: February 2026 Creating a DCP (Digital Cinema Package) for cinema and digital distribution of your feature film, short or trailer is now…

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Jonny ElwynSoftwareInside Artlist’s New AI Toolkit Artlist wants to be the one-stop-shop for AI Creators. Can it's new AI Tool Kit deliver on that ambition? And is it's own image model any good?

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Jonny ElwynSoftwareThe Best AI Tools for Video and Audio Post Production These are the Best AI Tools for Video and Audio Post Production available today. Use them to save time, earn more and deliver better results for your clients.

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Jonny ElwynSoftwareIs DaVinci Resolve Studio Worth It? Is DaVinci Resolve Studio worth it? What AI features and Pro tools make upgrading make sense? How much can you save compared to subscription apps?

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Jonny ElwynSoftwareThe Best High End Stock Video Footage Sites Discover the best high-end cinematic stock video footage sites in this detailed comparison. There's never been a better time to buy professional stock shots!

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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