AGENDA NEWS
CAN YOUR SHORT WIN AN OSCAR? If you think you have made a short film good enough to win an Academy Award, now’s your chance to get it to Tinseltown. Entries are being accepted for the 32nd Annual Florida Film Festival on 14-23 April. The festival is one of only a handful worldwide where the winners of the Grand Jury Award in all three shorts categories – live action, animation and documentary – automatically qualify to the Oscars. Filmmakers can submit entries at floridafilmfestival.com through Film Freeway. Categories include short films, documentary films, international films and narrative features. The regular deadline is 11 November 2022. floridafilmfestival.com
Wooden you know it - eco-friendly supports!
Discover Setgear, a British firm started by an experienced cameraman supplying a range of useful on-set tools made predominantly of wood. All are built from FSC-certified birch ply, hand built and finished with linseed oil. Setgear’s most popular product is the H-Plate – a modern remake of the old ‘top hat’, which serves as a solid base to build any camera up without it tipping over. It fits a Ronford-Baker quick-release plate, among others. It is designed to sit on a mag-liner trolley or any steady surface. The X-Stand quickly assembles to provide a rest for your camera to keep it off the floor in-between handheld filming. Strategically placed cut-outs enable cables or rods to fit through. Setgear also manufacturers apple boxes in UK and American sizes. As well as the timber kit, the company has a range of lav mic concealers in round
and teardrop shape, that are precision fit for various Sanken, Rode, Shure and Sony mics. Their low profile means they lie flat under clothing, are flexible, lightweight and durable. setgear.co.uk
TIFFEN HITS THE SMALL TIME! Tiffen is introducing 39mm round filters to fit the growing number of lenses from Leica and Fujifilm. The first in the line-up is Tiffen’s Black Pro-Mist, which gives delicate control of highlight flares. It comes in strengths of 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, one and two, for $65. Also available is a round 39mm UV Protector filter at $11 and a Circular Polariser for $20. No UK prices yet. Tiffen’s professional filters are made from optical glass, with water- and scratch-proof multi-coating. tiffen.com
FIRMWARE ROAD MAP FOR DJI RONIN 4D
The radical DJI Ronin 4D has recently benefitted from a free firmware upgrade, yet a second upgrade is said to be imminent. The latest firmware had a slew of improvements, including anamorphic de-squeeze, independent 1080p/60fps HDMI recording to the High-Bright monitor and three-channel follow focus. The forthcoming upgrade will add ProRes 422 LT codec, 3.5mm time code input, clean HDMI video output and support of third-party monitors for sync recording and timecode sync. dji.com
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