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ABOUT ZACUTO
Zacuto camera accessories manufacturer – sales & rentals
Located in Chicago, Illinois, Zacuto opened in 2000 primarily as a rental house and is now known for their Zacuto USA brand of extremely high quality, originally designed camera accessories.

Zacuto USA products are designed, manufactured and assembled in the USA. Designers Jens Bogehegn, Steve Weiss & Mandy Rogers have over 53 years of combined film, video & photographic experience. Known around the world for designing gear that is universal between cameras and quick releasable. Zacuto USA takes cameras and transforms them into whatever you need them to be, for any kind of shooting application. Zacuto was the first to recognize HD-DSLR as a revolutionary game changer. Our camera kits and optical viewfinders set the standard within the industry.

ABOUT ZACUTO RENTALS
Zacuto Rentals is your supplier for the Video DSLR revolution. We challenge you to find another rental house more intensely devoted to providing excellent customer service. We will do everything we can to go the extra mile for our customers. At affordable rates, we have the rigs, pieces and parts to transform your DSLR camera into a cinematographer's dream machine. In addition to building custom "a la carte" orders, Zacuto Rentals' "turnkey" camera packages have set the standard in the video rental industry. Of course, we still support all established broadcast and prosumer video camera formats that are popular today. Whether you're a seasoned DP or a camera novice, our rental staff will help make sure you have all the equipment that your shoot requires for success.

ABOUT ZACUTO FILMS: Wanting to come full circle and get back to their roots of creating original content, In December 2008, film/video veterans Steve Weiss and Jens Bogehegn created their first Webisodic Series: FilmFellas. This round-table discussion, with an infinite background, creates the perfect intimate setting for viewers to get into the minds of emerging filmmakers. For a complete schedule of Zacuto Films Programming, visit zacuto.com/

ABOUT FILMFELLAS: FilmFellas: a behind the scenes peek featuring influential and emerging new filmmakers who are making, creating, and challenging the independent film scene and how we view entertainment. Follow this continuing series...you won't want to miss a webisode as the cast and topics change. Producers Steve Weiss, Jens Bogehegn and Scott Lynch sit down and dine with industry movers and shakers where talking film is their family business. "As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a filmmaker." If this is your mantra, then you've got to see FilmFellas! To view behind the scenes footage, and watch first-run FilmFellas webisodes visit zacuto.com/filmfellas

ABOUT CRITICS: In August 2009, Steve Weiss, Director of FilmFellas/critics, and Philip Bloom, a London based Cinematographer, come together as dueling co-hosts to candidly critique web based video content. [ critics ] Premiering August 17th, Zacuto Films presents a new webisodic series. With the growing popularity of video content sharing forums and video-centric social networking sites such as Vimeo, the program is the first webisodic show which critiques exclusively: web based video content. [ critics ] offering an eclectic mix of personalities, perspectives and laughter. "The personalities of Weiss and Bloom are electric." To watch the full web series and to see behind the scenes footage and exclusives, visit zacuto.com/critics

ABOUT THE GREAT CAMERA SHOOTOUT SERIES: Zacuto Films presents the latest in their Shootout Series, "The Great Camera Shootout 2011". This epic three part web series chronicles the changes in the industry with all of the latest cameras on the market. This series was created over 8 months as Zacuto Films documented the Single Chip Camera Evaluation (SCCE), which was the most scientific camera comparison to date. The SCCE compared the Sony F35, Arri Alexa, WeissCam HS-2, Phantom FLEX, 35mm Kodak stocks 5219 and 5213, Sony F3, Panasonic AF-100, Canon 1D MarkIV, Canon 5D MarkII, Canon 7D and the Nikon D7000.

Recent activity

  • Forum comment
    1 week ago
    Steve Weiss commented on Embed Statistics reporting two different play counts.

    Ok cool. Thank you. I think the reason it was doing this was for the first 3 weeks that the video was out, we used a privacy option in the settings the "Where can this video be embedded?" feature was set to "Only on approved sites" option to only allow Zacuto.com to embed the video. It seems that while this option is turned on the statistics record that there was an embedded play, but it does not record what site the embedded play happened on. Thanks again, -Scott

  • Forum comment
    1 week ago
    Steve Weiss commented on Embed Statistics reporting two different play counts.

    Hi Tommy, What I'm asking is why there is a disparity between the two pages. One page lists 105k Embed views and the other lists 42k Embed views. This page reports 105k Embed plays: http://vimeo.com/stats/video/24334733 This page reports 42k Embed plays: http://vimeo.com/stats/video/24334733/embeds They should both be reporting 105k embed plays. I'm just wondering why they don't, and if it can be fixed. -Scott

  • Forum comment
    2 weeks ago
    Steve Weiss commented on Embed Statistics reporting two different play counts.

    I'm trying to determine the where most of our embedded plays are coming from. But when I look at the video linked below and I look at it's main statistic page the "Total Embed Plays" is listed as being 105,003. But when you go to the "embeds" tab at the top of the statistics page, where you can see the urls that are embedding the video, only 42,189 plays are accounted for. For the first couple of weeks the video was only allowed to be played on zacuto.com. During this time there were about 55,000 views on the video. So what I believe is happening is that the Embed statistics that are reported with the URLs are not counting embed plays that happen when a video has security settings that only allow specific URLs to to play the videos. Is this what's happening? Can it be fixed so the numbers are in sync with each other? What I'm afraid might happen in the future if say I have two separate websites that are both embedding the video. But I have the embeds protected so only those websites can embed. I may not be able to determine how many views came from each site. Which would make it hard for me to determine which site was getting more traffic on the video. -Scott Lynch Zacuto Films Producer Link: http://vimeo.com/24334733

  • Video comment
    1 month ago
    Steve Weiss commented on Zacuto's Z-Finder Pro

    Yes, you can use this on the 60d

  • 1 month ago
    Steve Weiss added [ critics ] - Behind the Scenes - Part 1 to [ critics ]