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Editing is an arduous, time-consuming, and complicated craft that challenges both hemispheres of your brain, but, notes NoFilmSchool, it’s a little easier when you known the types of cuts that you'll use most often in your work. A new tutorial from Filmora breaks down five cuts you need to master, from the match cut and the jump cut to the J and L cuts.

Filmmaker Michael Moore burst onto the nonfiction film scene in 1989 with Roger & Me, a documentary about the the devastating effects of widespread layoffs by General Motors. His latest documentary, Fahrenheit 11/9, is a call to arms or, rather, to the voting booth to resist the Trump administration. At Film School Rejects Moore offers documentary tips, including this: Don’t make a documentary make a film.

One of the interesting features of the new Nikon Z6 and Z7 full-frame cameras is their ability to output 10Bit video through the HDMI port for use with external recorders, notes DIY Photography, adding that the 10Bit HDMI output is something that Sony doesn’t offer. Now you can see what video shot this way looks like in the short film Dreaming, which filmmaker Marin Marinov shot using a Nikon Z6 prototype. The film’s daytime shots were captured internally using Nikon’s flat profile. The night shots were made using N-Log with the Atomos Ninja Inferno external recorder.

Time lapse. Hyperlapse. Infrared. Even time travel (sort of). In an age when everyone has a camera in their pocket that can also shoot video, photographers and ...filmmakers are using a gamut of techniques to grab the attention of viewers. Today we've gathered several short videos that have been getting attention on the web for their creative depictions of landscapes and cityscapes. Mwita Chaca's "Welcome to Hong Kong" mixes time lapse, hyperlapse, and real-time footage to capture the city. Photographer Christian Mohrle's 8K time lapse "Infrascapes" was made from 20,000 infrared images. There's also an aerial view of Scotland and a drone flyover of ancient Pompeii https://www.ai-ap.com//motion-landscapes-and-cityscapes-mo See more

Has the buzz worn off your drone cinematography? If you’re ready to move beyond shooting neat-looking aerial footage and start telling stories with your flying camera, check out a new video from Adorama TV, in which Dirk Dallas of From Where I Drone covers five cinematic drone techniques, from the Reveal and Tilt Reveal to the Top Down, Orbit, and Tilt While Tracking.