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Cadrage Studio Combines a Bunch of Pre-Production Filmmaking Tools In One App

Cadrage has launched Cadrage Studio, a new preproduction platform designed to bring together many of the tools filmmakers use before production into a single application. Built by the team behind the Cadrage director's viewfinder app, the new software combines shot lists, storyboards, camera diagrams, mood boards, script management, and location planning within one collaborative workspace.

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Things Go From Bad to Worse for GoPro

GoPro just released a fantastic new action camera, the Mission 1 Pro, but somehow that is not even close to the biggest news surrounding GoPro in recent months. The company, mired in financial difficulties, is now noncompliant with NASDAQ listing requirements.

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The Best Wireless Microphones in 2026

I have been using the Rode Wireless Pro for a few years now, because it was the first of its kind to offer 32-bit internal recording back in 2023. But now, we have a bunch of new contenders entering the market, and it’s starting to feel like an arms race of who can create the most compact, long-lasting, internal-recording, noise-cancelling, all-in-one wireless kit.

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Red Bull Used a Vintage Camera to Film a 68-Year-Old Plane’s Historic Return to American Skies

For the first time since it was manufactured in Santa Monica, California, in 1958, the historic DC-6B aircraft from Red Bull’s aviation collection returned to the skies over the United States for a series of flights, with New York City serving as its first stop. To capture the significance of the aircraft’s return, the production team chose an equally historic approach: filming the aircraft using vintage Bolex motion picture cameras from the same era.

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50 Years Later: The First Photo Ever Taken on Mars

This week marked the 50th anniversary of the NASA Viking 1 spacecraft landing safely on Mars, spearheading a new era of space exploration. Just minutes after Viking 1 landed on the Red Planet, it captured a photo, the first ever taken on the surface of Mars and the first time any human had ever seen a photo from another planet.