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Whether you’re spending a few weeks away at Camp Know Where or working at the Starcourt Mall, nothing makes summer better than a Stranger Things tutorial from Seth Worley. In this short, fun video, Seth shows you how to recreate the iconic Mind Flayer shot from the end of Stranger Things season 2. So get your shoulder pads on, pause your VCR (you can always come back to watching Alex P. Keaton travel through time later), and get ready to learn a ton.

Caldwell Photographic Inc. and Metabones are pleased to announce a new series of Speed Booster for Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 4K (BMPCC4K).

The BMPCC4K Speed Booster ULTRA 0.71x and XL 0.64x are similar to the standard m43 Speed Booster adapters, but the optics have been re-designed to optimize for the filter stack thickness of the Blackmagic cameras, which is substantially thinner than that of standard m43 cameras.

The thickness of the camera’s filter stack is an important component of the overall optical design, and the re-designed optics ensure that both versions can achieve the same high performance as the Speed Booster versions for standard m43. This is especially critical at the extremely large apertures made possible by Speed Booster technology.

In addition to the new optical designs, the new series of Speed Boosters also features a longer tripod mount to perfectly match the height of the BMPCC4K camera body. This way the camera and the Speed Booster can be mounted firmly on the same quick release plate.

Both versions – the Speed Booster ULTRA 0.71x and XL 0.64x – are available with Nikon G lens mount, with Canon EF lens mount and with Canon EF CINE lens mount. The ARRI PL lens mount is available in ULTRA 0.71x version only. The Canon EF CINE lens mount creates a positive lock for a secure electronic connection, and together with the matching length of new the tripod mount, allows for a rock-solid mechanical setup, which is important when using follow focus attachments.

This new series of Metabones Speed Booster adapters is designed exclusively for Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 4K (BMPCC4K). They cannot be attached to any other m43 cameras such as JVC, Olympus or Panasonic cameras.

At this year’s trade show “Digitalschnittmesse 2019” in Munich, Grass Valley gave an outlook on the new Audio Sync feature in EDIUS. This feature will be available with the next EDIUS 9.50 update. The coming update will also include other additional features and is expected to be released in September 2019. In the following report from the trade show the Audio Sync function is explained in more detail:

DaVinci Resolve Studio 16 Public Beta 7 improves playback performance on the edit and cut pages when using DeckLink and UltraStudio capture and playback devices, makes multicam angle syncing via audio waveform more reliable and improves the behavior of grabbing stills and working with color qualifiers on clips that have OpenFX or ResolveFX. In addition, this release also adds support for decoding embedded AIFF content in AAF timelines, now recognizes the correct order of channels in AAC and QuickTime clips, and renders IMF packages with the correct audio metadata.