A film school graduate, McDougal’s focus has been screenwriting and photography. He has also recently taken up programming and is proficient in JavaScript-based Web frameworks.
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11 years ago
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Professional Photographers of America (PPA) has been pressing the FAA to ease commercial-use restrictions for professional photographers who wish to use UAVs in their work. The organization is optimistic we are getting close to a new FAA ruling that will allow select industries to operate RC and autonomous aircraft legally, among them filmmaking and certain types of photography, farming, and…
11 years ago
Whether using your GoPro action camera for underwater filming, skydiving, or simply taking selfies, Revo has the accessory you need. From waterproof housings and…
11 years ago
Now available at B&H is Panasonic’s 2015 line of compact consumer camcorders, first announced at CES in January. Most notable are the HC-VX870 and…
11 years ago
So you’ve made the plunge, and are now the proud owner of your very first GoPro HERO. Or maybe it was an unexpected but very much welcome gift. Either way, if you’re new to the action-camera genre you’ll be wondering, understandably, just what the heck you can do with it.
Whether it’s…
11 years ago
Though many of us are familiar with cameras having two ports―a timecode in/out port and a genlock port―we may not consider why both might be needed. Perhaps we dismiss genlock as just a legacy holdover from the times before switchers had built-in frame synchronizers. The terms “sync” and “timecode” are often used interchangeably, and the fact that timecode can be used to sync devices only…
12 years ago
Since the introduction of Creative Cloud, the question has been: does Adobe's move mean a radically altered workflow for content creation professionals, particularly video editors? For the moment, the answer is probably not. For all intents and purposes, Creative Cloud applications remain ordinary desktop applications; Adobe has merely eschewed the traditional perpetual license in favor of a…
