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Dylan is a Creative Director and Motion Graphic Designer in Boston, MA. Many AE tutorials here - thank you Dylan.

Lightworks is a professional NLE used to edit many Hollywood and indie films.  Very affordable - available in free and low-cost versions.

..."this kind of cinephilia amounts to an oxygen-deprived hermetic practice that takes people further into the folds of their navels, so that they don't have to actually engage with the world"

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Les Blank passed away yesterday

Premiere Pro, After Effects, and more are getting an upgrade

a quick preview of new features to be included in the next release of After Effects

Once in a while, directors are able to assume both subject positions within the same shot.

for every "House of Cards" on Netflix, there are dozens of less noteworthy attempts to bring television-style content to online video. These upper-echelon YouTube networks are interested in high-quality programming, too, but their model is more of a hybrid that places pricier productions atop a pyramid of user-generated videos.

useful for color correction of digital photos

The correct way to add a bitmap graphic in the Premiere Pro CS6 titler.

Here's the link to an interview with filmmaker Michael Glawogger

Film critic and curator Mark Cousins chronicles the birth and evolution of the great and popular art form- cinema. This 15-hour journey filmed over six years on five continents covers 11 decades of movie history illustrated with over a thousand film clips.

I Am Cuba - Undeniably monstrous and breathtakingly beautiful, ridiculous and awe inspiring, 

The original cut of The Shining contained a short scene featuring Wendy and Danny in the aftermath of their night of terror. Director Stanley Kubrick ordered the scene to be cut.

Here's a link to an article from makeuseof.com on quick online photo editors.

"she (Beatrice Welles) does not want the film to be finished, she only wants the film to be seen as a documentary. Showtime wanted to finish the film (as a feature)"

This article gives an overview of the key differences between digital cinematography and still photography

Today Adobe released Creative Suite 2 to the public free of charge.

Smart rendering in Premiere Pro has been available for DV and DVCPro formats for years. In Premiere Pro CS6 (6.0.1, and later), smart rendering capability has been added for Long GOP MPEG2 OP1a export

useful Photoshop keyboard shortcut to create a copy of merged layers