The Sound of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

The Sound of The Hunger Games.

The Sound of Prometheus.

The Sound of Argo.

The Sound of Skyfall.

The Sound of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

The Sound of Transcendence.

The Sound of Tomorrowland.

The Sound of Oblivion.

The Sound of The Revenant.

The Sound of Gravity.

The Sound of The Dark Knight Rises.

The Sound of Inception.

The Sound of Interstellar.

Color By Numbers: Jean-Luc Godard.

Color by Numbers: Hayao Miyazaki.

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Color by Numbers: Sofia Coppola’s Pastels.

Color by Numbers: Napoleon Dynamite.

Color By Numbers: Amélie.

Color by Numbers: Steven Soderbergh.

Color by Numbers: The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Color by Numbers: Zodiac.

The (completely unnecessary) remaking of Oldboy.

The 180 Degree Rule.

The Long Takes.

Six Uses for the Bird’s-eye Shot.

How Paintings Matter in Movies.

The Three Types of Hollywood Editing.

The Cutaway Shot.

The Graphic Match Cut.

The Sounds of Aronofsky.

 
The sounds of Darren Aronofsky, including fantastic movies like  Black Swan (2010), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Pi (1998), and The Fountain (2006). Simply brilliant.

NAB 2012 wrap-up.

 
• Blackmagic announced a hard-to-believe camera featuring a 2.5K image sensor, 13 stops of dynamic range, built-in SSD recorder, popular open standard uncompressed RAW and compressed file formats, compatibility with quality EF and ZF mount lenses, and LCD touchscreen monitoring.

• Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 is out with and enhanced 64-bit playback engine that can handle 5K resolutions, and higher, new trimming options, compatibility with Mac touchpad gestures, a Warp Stabilizer that was previously confined to After Effects, and expanded multicam editing for more than four cameras. Taking a page from its sister app, “the audio oriented Audition, Premiere Pro CS6 offers a redesigned and more functional audio mixer. Adobe also introduced SpeedGrade, a film finishing and color grading app, and Prelude, for ingesting, logging, and transcoding.

• Autodesk announced Smoke 2013 for the Mac, a new version of what the company is now calling video editing software and at users of Apple’s Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer who want high-end editing and finishing tools in one app. The new price is “only” $3495, down from $14,995 for the 2012 version.

• Panasonic announced a bittersweet firmware update for the AG-AF100 that provides 1080 50p and 60p modes. That’s the sweet part. The bitter? They want users to pay $300 for the upgrade.

• Canon announced the 1D C ($15,000), which has the same chassis and still shooting features of the EOS-1D X ($6,800), and captures 4096 x 2160 8-bit 4:2:2 video to a CF card at 24 fps. Unlike the X, the C swaps a headphone jack for the X’s PC sync.

• The higher-end Canon EOS C500 ($30,000) offers the same ISO range as the C300 (320-20,000) and requires a dedicated external recorder, but captures in two full-RAW flavors: 4096 x 2960 (for motion picture), and 3840 x 2160 (for 4K TV). Both of these modes offer 10-bit 4:4:4 at 60 frames-per-second. There are two additional RAW option, 4096 x 1080 or 3840 x 1080 resolutions, which are also 10-bit 4:4:4, but at 120 fps. The camera also offers

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