Mario Feil and Nino Leitner invited me to shoot the behind the scenes of their short "13:59" filmed on a pre-production unit (No. 6) of the Canon EOS C300.

"13:59" short film: vimeo.com/33425317

Read more about shooting the short and the C300 on Nino's blog:
ninofilm.net/blog/2011/12/09/canon-eos-c300-review-short-film/

And here's another BTS from Patrick Zadrobilek:
vimeo.com/33460995

Since we've had the "is Talon or MCS better for me" question a lot lately, we decided to throw together this little video.

If you have further questions or want clarification on anything, please let us know. We will be putting more of these award winning master piece videos together over the next several weeks.

You can read more about the Master Cinema Series here:
letusdirect.com/master-cinema-series.html

Here I share what I have done to modify some work lights that can be found at the hardware store for use as video lights. Keep in mind these lights become hot so take care where they are placed and keep a fire extinguisher in your equipment box just in case. I have never had a mishap but it is better to be safe then sorry. The good points about these lights are they are cheap and readily available. The cons besides the heat are they draw alot of amps so do not plug them all in one electrical outlet but use outlets on opposite walls to draw from different breaker circuits. This avoids tripping breakers needlessly. I have never had a mishap using these lights nor tripped a breaker and I have been pleased with my results so far. I do plan on purchasing cooler flouresent light banks in the near future, but until I can afford them, this offers a nice temporary solution.

Keep in mind you are using lights designed for one use and applying them to another use completely. You therefore proceed to modify/use them at your own risk and Lowe Runo Productions cannot be held liable in any way.

In addition I have found these lights to be very warm. Around 2300 to 2700 kelvin... So dont try to mix them with daylight or even 3200-3400 K lights unless you are going for a warmer mixed look.

Short video on how to add a motor to the Igus camera slider using basic materials.

This is Part 2 of my RE:Vision Effects Twixtor tutorial, the most advanced Twixtor Pro tutorial on the internet. If you haven't already, it is recommended you check out part 1 first to understand the basics of Twixtor. vimeo.com/23151793

Featuring an example from 'Darrienia' vimeo.com/32156942 a short film by Danny Cooke and myself, We shall be exploring Twixtor Pro and how you can take advantage of open and closed masks to help calculate where the pixels should move frame to frame. Resulting in a far better interpolated image.

As always, before you start, for best results use a shutter speed that will match your final framerate to avoid blurry slow motion. Also, use the highest framerate setting on your camera possible e.g. 60p, 60i or if you are using a 5D Mark II use 30p; The more frames Twixtor gets to play with, the better!

Hope you enjoy :)

Link to Dennis Hummel's Twixtor Pro tracking points tutorial : vimeo.com/24571687