FX Guide: URSA Cine Immersive brings Apple Vision Pro to life
FXguide offers the first downloadable Apple Immersive Video test footage shot on the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive, complete with spatial audio.
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Sony Releases BURANO Test Files for Download
Test Sony’s BURANO camera with free downloadable footage for workflow evaluation.
HumbleBundle Blender Collection
New asset collection for Blender offers tools and resources.
PureRef, the new version
Pureref is a tool for artists to organise and view reference images. Version 2.0 has a new user interface, a new drawing tool and support for animated GIFs. There are also playback controls for scrolling through individual frames.
A new element is here!
Element, our favourite 3D asset manager, is entering its second version - now with infinite scroll, duplicate detector and the long-awaited assignment of textures and maps to geometry within the manager!
New in the toolbox
Standing around the DP stand at FMX and (as so often) looking stupid, various people came by and wanted to know something special. "Do you know anything for..." - and we were able to answer almost everything, and one of them (Hello Ralf!) said we should put the list in the magazine. Okay, here you go - the best tools we've recommended to people directly. You might find them helpful too!
Digital Production Camera Comparison and Test Files
Uli Plank compared cameras from Canon, Nikon, GoPro, Blackmagic Design and Sony, with archived articles and downloadable test files.
Layama 1.22 Improves 360-Degree Tour Creation
Layama 1.22 improves navigation and image quality, adds Unreal Engine 4.26 and V-Ray 5 support, and introduces a free Lite edition.
Insta360 ONE X2 Brings 360-Degree Capture to a Pocket Camera
The Insta360 ONE X2 combines 5.7K 360-degree capture, stabilised single-lens video, panoramas, MultiView and AI-powered subject tracking.
Blake Kathryn Builds a 360° Dreamscape
Visual artist Blake Kathryn demonstrates a 360-degree dreamscape workflow using Cinema 4D and Redshift.
DP Collection: Free Assets for Everyone
A production-focused archive of free 3D assets, meshes, materials, HDRIs, VFX footage, textures and sound resources.
New NVMe SSD with 6500 MB/s
New NVMe SSD from with significantly higher speed: Samsung promises up to 6.5 GB/s read speed with the 980 PRO.
Download | 40 Free Blood Textures
For anyone entering a blood frenzy at the start of the contemplative Christmas season: here are 40 free blood textures!
Kandao QooCam
Kandao has already picked up more than one award with its innovative VR technology.
Pond5 and DJI Shake Hands
When a global content marketplace joins forces with the world's leading civilian drone manufacturer, that sounds like a strong, large project.
VLC 3.0 Media Player: With 8K, HDR and Chromecast support
Folks! The new VLC 3.0 Media Player version is now available for free. With the release, VideoLan adds Chromecast, HDR, 360° videos and more!
Update for Nuke and Cara VR 2.0
In addition to Nuke 11.1, the Cara VR plug-in has also been updated with new stichting tools, Match Move and new Ocula tools for customising stereo projects.
Free Explosions: SFX and VFX
There is free footage once again: Over 40 explosion elements with 15 video clips and 25 explosion sound effects.
Free Textures: 15 Burn Marks
New free content from ActionVFX: 15 fresh burn-mark textures as PNGs with alpha channels that you can use for your projects.
Bloody and Free: 15 Blood Effects
ActionVFX serves another little dessert: 15 free stock shots of blood effects at 2K resolution and 60 fps.
Explosions, Fire & Smoke: ActionVFX
The stock-footage marketplace ActionVFX specializes in ready-made effects for action sequences. A few of them are also free.
3 Free HDRI Skies in 16K
The footage platform HDRI-Skies offers three skies (dusk, midday and sunset) as a free download.
25 Free Architecture Models
CG Trader offers a range of free 3D architecture assets, from buildings to furnishings. That makes building a digital home affordable.
Free 3D Models
CGTrader has made 30 high-quality 3D models available free of charge. They include characters, architectural details, weapons and, yes, an eyeball.
Free Fujifilm XT2 F-Log 4K Footage
Emmanuel Pampuri is offering his Fujifilm XT2 camera Flog / Atomos Shogun Flame Ungraded 4K Footage as a free download.
Simulation References for Architects and Sci-Fi Filmmakers
We all need reference photos. Here is the best kind: (controlled) demolitions, explosions, ka-booms and booms. Awaken the Michael Bay in you.
Free Photogrammetry Textures
David Chumilla Liccioli has created tree-bark textures based on photogrammetry meshes and is offering them as a free download.
Free “Star Wars” 3D model pack!
Andrew Kramer is deeply connected to "Star Wars" - both professionally and as a fan of the film series. To celebrate "Star Wars" Day on 4 May, Video Copilot has therefore published a 3D model collection in HD quality with 4K textures, which can be downloaded free of charge.
KineMAX 6K Camera Test Footage
Ciro Ascione tested the Kinefinity KineMAX 6K with colour grading in Davinci Resolve. Here is the footage video. In case you are considering a camera. But only in case.
150 Free 4K HDRI Skies
The free HDR files are available at 4,096 x 2,048 pixels and may also be used for commercial projects.
180,000 Copyright-Free NYPL Images
High-resolution public-domain photos, prints, maps, manuscripts and videos from the New York Public Library can be freely reused.
Animator Starter Pack V2
Freelancer Shaun Keenan from Pittsburgh is making 17 fully modelled 3D scenes available free of charge in one package.
Generous 4K Footage Donation
Mitch Martinez is making masses of footage material in 4K freely available on his website. Hollywood is also said to have already helped itself to the collection ...
Sharp Images from Outa Space
Trailer for NASA’s new Ultra HD videos – or what do you test 4K video on?
Pond5 Has 8K Backslots
You want 8K but do not have the camera? Since NAB, Pond5 has also had 8K backlots in its programme.
Adobe Stock Has Launched
Adobe’s stock platform is online. Forty million royalty-free images are available.
First Footage from Blackmagic’s URSA Camera
We will test Blackmagic Design's URSA camera in detail in DP issue 02/15. Until then, there is some first footage and pregrade video material to watch.
4K Footage from the AJA CION Camera
At the IBC, the company AJA showed completely unprocessed material from the AJA CION for the first time, which can also be downloaded from Vimeo.
Make Some Sound!
Video Copilot has released MotionPulse, a sound-design tool package that can be used to create sound effects for motion-design projects.
Pond5 Plug-in for Premiere Pro CC
With the Pond5 plug-in for Premiere Pro CC, editors have direct and continuous access to the Media Marketplace's offering.
Free Future City Pack
Just in time for Christmas, thanks to the release of the Future City Pack for Element 3D from Video Copilot, you can think about the future in CG form.
Falalalala 4K
If there were only socks under the tree this year, Blackmagic Design has added something to play with—10 GB of 4K data from the new Production Camera.
So Many Airplanes!
At Video Copilot, from today there are no Disney airplanes with amusing googly eyes, but realistic-looking 3D models—the Jetstrike model pack has been released.
Feels Like Heaven
So much sky! And completely free, too. HDRMaps is now making 100 different backplates of a wide variety of sky situations available to artists.
Improved Website at Pond5
Footage provider Pond5 has brought its website up to date with new features.
Christmas at Pond5
Pond5 is thinking of its customers and is giving away 50 free stock media items during Advent, available to download free of charge until December 31.
Free Stereo 3D HD Material
The Australian university RMIT, in collaboration with Alex and Jono Films, created an archive named RMIT3DV from which free Stereo 3D HD reference footage can be downloaded.
New Blackmagic Test Footage
John Brawley shows new test footage recorded with a Blackmagic Cinema Camera that makes video DSLR filmmakers sweat.
Free Plug-in for Premiere Pro CS6
The Pond5 plug-in is intended to enable users of Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 to access video, music, and sound footage without interrupting the workflow.
Footage for Free
The expanding footage portal Pond5 is offering German users free data until the end of the month – so download and save it!
Framepool Customers Can Now Also Obtain Selected ORF Archive Footage
Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) is making selected material available for ongoing online marketing through Framepool.de. The footage portal by and for filmmakers now enables its customers to quickly research, license and reuse existing and future ORF clips online.
Framepool Opens Offices in New York and Chicago
One offers a 360-degree view of the New York skyline, while the other is a true retreat in the Windy City: Framepool is proud of its new offices and delighted to introduce its unique collection to creatives and filmmakers in New York and Chicago.
Framepool’s Disco Dance Instructor Wins in a Pair of DIESEL Shoes
The use of Framepool footage was honored last Wednesday evening at the fifth FOCAL International Awards in London.
Framepool Works for Spielberg
For three new Hollywood productions, Framepool licensed various landscape and aerial shots as well as documentary footage: director Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” “The Pink Panther 2,” and “Anaconda 3” with David Hasselhoff.
Framepool Markets Thierry Donard Footage
Framepool has taken over worldwide marketing of Thierry Donard’s existing and future “Nuit de la Glisse – Perfect Moment” films.
iStock video completes its first year
iStock records 155,478 stock-video downloads during its first year, with German members among its leading buyers.
Getty Images Expands Film Collections Through Three New Partnerships
Rights-managed material from Dick Clark Productions, Discovery Communications and AP Archive on offer
New Media: Plazamedia Expands Football Content Production for International Markets
The full-service provider is producing video streams and mobile video clips for the Japanese and US markets
Ottonia Media Launches More WMV HD DVDs
Videos in 1,920 x 1,080 pixels expand the "Colourful Planet" series
Film Clips in HD Quality
framepool now offers HD film clips from the people and lifestyle fields.
Artbeats Digital Film Library – Selection of professional film clips expanded
It keeps growing and growing and growing: the Artbeats Digital Film Library has added several hundred new clips in the last 6 months alone.