Illya Friedman, the first to create an adapter to allow cinema lens on a HDSLR camera is featured in the Oct. 2011 issue of HD Video Pro.

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Vimeo's Music Store is a great way to support fellow artists - musicians, composers and song writers. Vimeo has started a music store to license music for your media work. It breaks down into basically two categories: Personal Use ($1.99) and Commercial Use ($98.00). This service will allow you to audition multiple selects and choose the right one for your project. When I produced the film, Midnight Movie, I used TAXI (a similar music service) except you had to individually negotiate with each band the deal terms and costs to license the music. I still recommend Taxi, but Vimeo's Music Store is the next logical step in the digital revolution of filmmaking.

Mosaic Engineering has developed an optical anti-moire/anti-aliasing filter for the Canon 5D Mark II. The filter is removable and easy to install with no modification to the camera needed. This will definitely extend the life of you 5D. Light loss is about 1/4 stop and the focal length on your lens will change, but it's a worthy trade off for $385.00.

Like Crazy, reignites the dwindling dream that you can sell a movie for big bucks at Sundance. Paramount has purchase the indie love story for four million dollars and plans to release it in the fall of 2011. We should all be so lucky as filmmakers to have our efforts rewarded with a huge profit and a theatrical release, but also to make a solid emotionally filled movie as this. Support indie filmmakers, go see Like Crazy.

Beautiful footage. Excellent work by Oton Bacar on Vimeo. See it here : http://vimeo.com/17439665

Rock Star Media on Vimeo has put up a test of the Magic Lantern firmware Canon 5DMKII bit rate hack by Tramm Hudson. It loads onto the CF card and you'll most likely need a card that writes faster than the bit rate to sustain it.

Video is only going to get better with this hack.

Amazon Studios offering substantial money to contest winners in their new venture to market test movies before they get made. Seems sensible to know in advance if a movie has an audience, much like the crowd funding philosophy.

Check it out at http://studios.amazon.com/