Slow-Motion and Colored Powder Make for a Fantastical Skateboard Video

Sebastian Linda uses high-speed cameras, colored powder, and some good old-fashioned beautiful cinematography to create the short skateboarding video, "The Revenge of the Beats," a Vimeo Staff Pick.

Says Linda in the behind-the-scenes video also found below, "The point was to bring back the fantasy to skateboarding." (via Fstoppers)

LightWave 3D Group Unveils LightWave 11.6

The LightWave 3D®Group announced new features in LightWave 11.6, the newest version of its award-winning 3D modeling, animation and rendering software for artists and designers. LightWave 11.6 software offers modeling, rigging, animation, effects, dynamics, and near limitless render nodes in an award-winning integrated LightWave render engine—providing studios and artists with everything they need to create an affordable and powerful end-to-end production pipeline.

MAXON Announces CINEMA 4D R15 for Professional 3D Content Creation

MAXON introduced CINEMA 4D Release 15 (R15) that redefines the 3D motion graphics, visual effects, painting and rendering software workflow. The next generation release of the widely-used 3D software platform reinforces the leadership MAXON has earned over the past 25 years by elevating the creative experience from project planning to content delivery, and is marked by powerful enhancements to modeling, text creation, rendering and sculpting.

Time-Lapse Gets Trippy in 'Mirror City'

Today's must-see time-lapse comes courtesy of Michael Shainblum and it's a real eye opener.

"Mirror City" turns San Diego, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Chicago into beautiful, abstract kaleidoscopes. Shainblum tells Planet 5D, "I have been mirroring images and video for a really long time, it has always been a certain stylistic choice in some of my abstract work. This project, however, has taken about 4-5 months to conceptualize and complete. The idea has been floating around for a long time in my head, it wasn’t until about 4 months ago when I made the idea an actual project.

Read more here and watch "Mirror City" below.

Watch a Free Video Tutorial on the Raw Canon DSLR Workflow

Neumann Films has provided a free video tutorial detailing their workflow for using the Magic Lantern hack to get raw video out of the Canon 5D Mark III.

They say, "The quality is really amazing in this raw video. I would compare it to shooting 1080p moving cr2 files which is the file type that you get with doing raw photography in the Canon cameras. So just having this option in the Canon 5D Mark III and other Canon cameras is just huge. Even if you're only going to use it twice a year to shoot greenscreen work, having the option in the camera instantly bumps up its worth at least a few thousand dollars."

Watch below. (via Cinescopophilia)

Watch New Test Footage from the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

Matrox Releases Support for Adobe Creative Cloud and Avid Media Composer 7 on Mac and PC

Matrox® Video  announced the immediate availability of full support for the latest releases of the Adobe® Creative Cloud™ and Avid® Media Composer® 7 families of professional video editing and content creation tools with the Matrox MXO2™ family of I/O devices and the Matrox Mojito™ MAX I/O card. The award-winning Matrox I/O products provide broadcast-quality video and audio input, output and monitoring to enable traditional tape-based workflows including deck control for frame-accurate batch capture and print-to-tape. They are also the only I/O solutions on the market that let users encode H.264 files for delivery to the web, iPad® and iPhone® up to five times faster than software alone without sacrificing quality. In addition, MXO2 devices provide cross-platform Mac® and Windows® support and are still the only solutions that connect anywhere, Mac and PC, via Thunderbolt™, PCIe® or ExpressCard/34® — with the same versatile unit.

Grass Valley has released EDIUS 7

Grass Valley has released EDIUS 7, the latest version of its nonlinear video application. EDIUS 7 is now a native 64-bit application for Windows 7 and Windows 8 64-bit operating systems, taking full advantage of up to 512GB (dependent on Windows version) of installed memory for super-intensive media operations, such as multilayer 4K and 3-D editing.