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Filmmaking tutorials covering VFX, color grading, camera reviews, and behind-the-scenes production breakdowns.

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Capture36Sound4Light11Editing and post56Desk5Everything else1

Capture

Cameras11

Lenses9

Camera equipment16

Sound

Microphones4

Light

Lighting11

  • Govee Outdoor UpDown Wall Light

    $229.99cited in 3 videosfirst cited October 2025positive about it

    “But then I do have some shots like this here where I'm leveraging that wall light to hit her with some interesting looks as well.”
    View source at 8:12from October 2025+ 2 more sources
  • Govee Permanent Outdoor Lights Prism

    $859.99cited in 3 videosfirst cited October 2025speaks highly of it

    “For this moment specifically, I have these GOI permanent outdoor lights prism. We had two options that we could have gone with, but these are great because they have these three independently controlled color zones in each of the heads that run around the house, so I can get a ton of different looks out of them.”
    View source at 2:26from October 2025+ 2 more sources
  • Govee LED Smart Light Bulbs, 1000LM RGBWW A19 75W E26 Base

    $49.99cited in 2 videosfirst cited October 2025speaks highly of it

    “So, we grabbed that old light bar that we built in 2014 and tossed in eight go bulbs. Then I can get all of these connected in the app and control each individually.”
    View source at 3:37from October 2025+ 1 more source
  • Govee decorative projector lights

    $85.99first cited October 2025mixed views on it

    “And these decorative projector lights, one on either side of the door. These are great because you can swap out the sides to get different images projected onto your house depending on the season.”
    View source at 3:06from October 2025

Editing and post

Editing software25

  • Adobe After Effects

    cited in 8 videos

    “So now with everything shot, we brought that into After Effects, then created a null and camera.”
    View source at 1:06from April 2025+ 7 more sources
  • Element 3D

    cited in 6 videos

    “For the foreground, we're going to add a solid layer with Element 3D using a ground model, then duplicate to cover a large area, and then some rock models duplicated and placed throughout the scene to have that same sort of destroyed rubble look of the original.”
    View source at 1:57from April 2026+ 5 more sources
  • Filmbox

    cited in 5 videosfirst cited November 2025speaks highly of it

    “I'm also using my recent secret weapon for all of these shots, and that's this new plugin called Filmbox. The film aesthetic that this brings, and as easily as it brings, it is my current favorite thing.”
    View source at 5:53from November 2025+ 4 more sources
  • Blender

    cited in 4 videos

    “Using simple sculpting tools in Blender, mostly the grab and crease brushes, Mattis manually pushed and pulled the shape until we had the stylized blocky version that still felt like the absolute smoke show that is Ryan Connelly.”
    View source at 4:16from June 2025+ 3 more sources

Recording software1

AI software2

  • Generative Extend
    “In this episode, we test out Generative Extend inside Premiere Pro – and do our best to break it.”
    View sourcefrom April 2025
  • Runway ML

    first cited August 2025mixed views on it

    “So instead, I tossed the shot into Runway ML and used their AI roto to get a quick result. And this is impressively fast, but the results aren't production ready. So this will only be good enough for our test.”
    View source at 1:25from August 2025

Productivity software1

Creator tools27

Desk

Computers1

  • iPhone 17

    $814.97first cited November 2025

    “#FilmRiot #iPhone17 #Anamorphic”
    View sourcefrom November 2025

Peripherals1

  • TourBox

    cited in 3 videosfirst cited October 2025speaks highly of it

    “This is the tour box. I've been using it for almost a year now, and thanks to it, I basically don't touch my keyboard while editing.”
    View source at 0:04from June 2026+ 2 more sources

Storage3

  • WD Gold

    first cited April 2026speaks highly of it

    “But, inside Carry 2, I have my WD Gold drives. These are enterprise class drives built for the kind of sustained workload we put our storage through.”
    View source at 3:04from April 2026
  • Crucial 1TB External SSD

    first cited November 2025speaks highly of it

    “I've been using this one, a little 1 TBTE SSD from Crucial that has worked great and I got it for 90 bucks.”
    View source at 0:49from November 2025
  • Dropbox

    first cited April 2026has reservations

    “Right now for Film Riot, we're all remote, so I'm using Dropbox and paying 10 times that.”
    View source at 2:09from April 2026

Everything else

Other1

  • iPhone 17 Pro Max

    $1,154.38first cited November 2025speaks highly of it

    “We have two things today. The iPhone 17 Pro Max and this new lens for it.”
    View source at 0:17from November 2025

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