ARGO – The Real Spy Documents
ARGO won the 2013 Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Writing and Best Editing. The film details the rescue of 6 U.S. diplomats from Tehran in 1979. The CIA created...
Low Budget Filmmaking
VashiVisuals’ Top 6 Blog Posts of the Past Year
VashiVisuals launched in January 2013 and to celebrate our first anniversary...I wanted to share the 6 most popular posts of the last year. The 6 posts are a combination of...
Video Editing Using Pictures and Still Images
[caption id="attachment_3002" align="alignnone" width="1920"] The Parallax View and the famous still image montage[/caption] A film editor will often sift through hundreds of hours of footage shot for a project. These...
Behind the Scenes with Shane Hurlbut, ASC
A film set is a chaotic, fluid and high-pressure situation. Every member of the crew must be professional, creative, flexible, diligent and dedicated. Cameras can't roll until the DP has...
Davinci Resolve Lightbox Looks #2
[caption id="attachment_2865" align="alignnone" width="1952"] 4 projects I have color graded over the last couple months[/caption] (more…)
Over 335 Film Editing Tools + Assets: Free Templates / Presets / Plugins for Premiere Pro, Media Composer & Final Cut X
[caption id="attachment_2817" align="alignnone" width="1275"] Free templates, presets, plugins and tools I use every day for my film editing jobs[/caption] I'm always on the lookout for tools and assets...
Making Video Look Like Film with LUTs
Digital Video is the de facto capture medium for almost all productions these days. The cost, ease and immediacy are all significant factors that make it so appealing. The visual...
Splitting The Focus in De Palma’s ‘Blow Out’
[caption id="attachment_2500" align="alignleft" width="200"] Schneider Optics Split Focus Diopter[/caption] SPLIT DIOPTER A Split Focus Diopter is half convex glass that attaches in front of the camera’s main lens to...
The 4 Best Lenses for Amazing Lens Flare
Love them or hate them...lens flares have been trending non-stop over the last several years. You can find them in every J.J. Abrams movie, car commercial, wedding video, print...
3 Low Budget Editing Tips for Action Movies
Every movie has moments of action and intensity. These moments can be physical, emotional, dialog driven or even delivered through camera movement. When Walter White verbally explodes at someone in...