With 2021 now in our rearview mirror, we wish to replicate on what was for sure probably the most thrilling 12 months in Body.io historical past.
Simply to name out a number of excessive factors, final 12 months we launched our groundbreaking Frame.io C2C expertise, turned the house of the highly-acclaimed Art of the Cut podcast, and joined forces with the brilliant team at Adobe.
2021 was additionally an distinctive 12 months for the Body.io Insider. We printed extra articles than ever earlier than to serve our viewers of tens of millions of filmmakers and video professionals from all over the world. However which tales did you, the Body.io Insider group, discover most informative, fascinating, and provoking?
Let’s have a look again on the 21 hottest articles of 2021.
To mark the one hundredth episode of Art of the Cut, we took the chance to have a good time probably the most essential roles in filmmaking: the assistant editor. Meet Ruth Antoine, the primary recipient of BFE’s Excellent Assistant Editor award, and be taught the must-have expertise each assistant editor wants.
Typically our workflows demand greater than our computer systems can ship. However changing your workstation isn’t all the time one of the best answer to this downside. Try these settings and workflow ideas that may assist you to work quicker in DaVinci Resolve, with out spending a dime.
This 12 months’s Oscar winner for Finest Enhancing, Sound of Metallic, was an interesting movie stuffed with intricate particulars and emotional nuance. We had been honored to not solely meet the staff, but additionally to find out how they used Body.io to craft their award-winning story.
We had been additionally proud to be a part of Michael Bay’s Songbird, the primary main characteristic movie shot in the course of the pandemic. Meet the good manufacturing staff behind this remote-first workflow, and find out how they used Frame.io C2C to restart manufacturing in Hollywood.
Talking of Digicam to Cloud, we simply introduced this game-changing expertise to market final spring, and already over 1300 productions around the world have started using C2C. We’re excited to see much more filmmakers embrace cloud manufacturing. To assist make that occur, our in-depth information explains all of the technical particulars about how Body.io C2C works, and explores all the things you have to transfer your video manufacturing workflow to the cloud.
Since C2C launched, we’ve gotten numerous questions on constructing sturdy and environment friendly cloud-based dailies workflows. To assist filmmakers make the leap, listed below are 3 ways you need to use Body.io C2C to streamline your dailies workflow, and immediately transfer your footage from set to editorial.
Lots of people within the movie and video trade are anxious about AI instruments taking their jobs. However instruments usually are not competitors. Be a part of trade skilled Philip Hodgetts to find out how AI and ML instruments take the drudgery out of artistic work, and make you quicker, smarter, and happier.
We’ve all heard the excitement round Unreal Engine and VFX. However online game expertise is having a a lot greater affect on filmmaking than you could understand. See how new instruments and applied sciences are altering how filmmakers inform tales, and may flip right now’s avid gamers into tomorrow’s Oscar-winners.
There’s no denying that constructing a correct color-managed workflow is sophisticated. However it doesn’t should be irritating (or costly). This tutorial walks you thru all the things you have to arrange an ACES workflow for After Results and Resolve.
Crafting a creative model takes time, and could be a bit scary. However with apply and just a little steerage, you may develop a signature look of your very personal. Listed below are 5 steps to get began.
Early this 12 months we met up with acclaimed movie author and director David Lowery to get an inside have a look at the really globe-spanning manufacturing for The Inexperienced Knight. And it’s an enlightening glimpse at what high-tech characteristic movie workflows can actually do.
Ah sure, the ever-divisive query “what number of Ks can we really want?” There’s been numerous dialogue on that subject for years now. To discover the reply, we spoke to a number of the prime cinematographers within the trade to learn the way greater seize resolutions profit video manufacturing workflows.
New options convey new artistic potentialities, and DaVinci Resolve’s highly effective AI instruments aren’t any exception. However understanding how and when to make use of them is essential. See them in motion, and find out how they will help you’re employed quicker and keep artistic.
We sat down with movie and TV editor Dana E. Glauberman, ACE to debate her work on The Mandalorian, and to listen to her recommendation for constructing profitable and deep collaborative relationships.
Need to get contained in the minds of the trade’s prime editors? Our digital roundtable with the 12 months’s Oscar-nominated editors dives deep into the artistic perception of those good artists.
By now you’ve most likely heard how digital manufacturing instruments are altering how we make motion pictures. However do you wish to truly begin utilizing them? Right here’s all the things you have to begin your subsequent manufacturing on a digital stage.
Much like digital manufacturing, there’s a brand new device on the town that’s gearing as much as radically redefine our workflows. Reducing-edge photogrammetry is pushing the boundaries of cinema expertise, and redefining what it means to seize a scene. Learn the way it’s going to change the way forward for filmmaking.
Should you’ve stepped foot on set within the final decade, then you definitely already understand how indispensable Digital Imaging Technicians are to trendy movie manufacturing. However do you know in addition they may simply be the important thing to cloud-based manufacturing?
Over the previous few years, we’ve realized that you just all love tremendous deep explorations of advanced technical matters. These articles all the time rank amongst our most learn (and requested) content material. Final 12 months it was our Workflow From Home series. The 12 months earlier than that it was our Ultimate Guide to ACES. And the 12 months earlier than that it was our Complete Guide to Premiere Pro Color Correction. So it comes as no shock that our third hottest article of 2021 was one other final information, this time for Premiere Professional’s export settings. On this article, we extensively examined each single setting within the export panel to seek out out precisely what they do. And we found a number of surprises alongside the best way.
Taking the quantity two spot, our unique video interview with award-winning editor Joe Walker, ACE was a significant milestone for Artwork of the Reduce, and one among our prime tales of all time. We went deep behind the scenes to discover the storytelling brilliance of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, and to uncover the secrets and techniques of the craft. So seize a snack, get snug, and settle in for 45 minutes of dazzling artistic perception from among the best storytellers in Hollywood.
And in first place, the 2021 Oscars Workflow Breakdown ran forward of the pack by leaps and bounds. It’s our privilege to focus on the unbelievable work of filmmakers from all over the world, and we’re thrilled that our annual Oscars articles have turn into a number of the most generally learn and extremely anticipated publications of the awards season. So in case you missed it, have a look again at 2021’s Finest Image nominees and discover out what makes these movies, and the artists behind them, Oscar-worthy.
Thanks
As all the time, we’re very grateful to you, the Body.io Insider group, for sharing your ardour and creativity with us. We’re delighted to serve so many filmmakers from all over the world, and to be taught out of your ability and expertise.
We additionally wish to thank the good filmmakers and artists who contribute their experience to make these articles come to life. Thanks Jason Bowdach, David Heuring, Jacob Vacation, Philip Hodgetts, Steve Hullfish, Noah Kadner, Cullen Kelly, Jarle Leirpoll, Bruno Munger, Chris Salters, Dan Swierenga, and Body.io’s very personal Emery Wells, Michael Cioni, Robert Loughlin, Jason Druss, Patrick Southern, Laurence Grayson, and Lisa McNamara for writing so many unbelievable articles. And particular because of the late Bryant Frazer, whose passionate and selfless service to the movie trade will probably be so sorely missed.
On behalf of the entire Body.io staff, thanks.