Ryan Hill
My name is Ryan and I am a video tech here at Lensrentals.com. In my free time, I mostly shoot documentary stuff, about food a lot of the time, as an excuse to go eat free food. If you need my qualifications, I have a B.A. in Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois University in beautiful downtown Carbondale, Illinois.
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Testing Davinci Resolve’s New AI Transcription
I’ve written before about how important interview transcription is to a documentary editing workflow, and, as an occasional documentary editor, I’ve tried countless different solutions in search of an option that works for me. In my film school days, I’d just open up an interview in Final Cut, play…
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Mobile Editing Using DaVinci Resolve & Premiere Rush
As a person who works remotely the majority of the time, I often need to leave home for my own sanity. Only interacting with a cat all day is NOT GOOD for the human brain, so I try to write my blog articles and send my emails from a coffee shop or library at least a couple of times a week if I can.…
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What Netflix’s Approved Camera Attributes Mean and Which of Our Cameras Qualify
As our video services have grown over the last few years, we’ve gotten more and more questions about which of our cameras are “Netflix-approved.” While plenty of companies might have unspoken preferences about the quality and format of media they produce, few have gone as far as Netflix in defining…
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Exploring Aputure Lighting and What’s Best For Your Shoot
Lensrentals carries a _lot_ of lights. In fact, if you combine strobe and continuous, lighting is our fastest-growing product category. And our fastest-growing manufacturer within that product category? That’d be Aputure. In just a few years we’ve gone from a single Aputure product to over two…
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Product Spotlight: Aputure Accent B7c
Lighting in the world of low-budget, small-crew filmmaking is always a balancing act. Whether shooting a narrative project or a documentary, you’ll rarely be providing all the light in a scene using your own gear. Far more often, you’ll be supplementing and modifying light sources that are already…
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The 2022 Guide to Video Batteries
Professional video batteries are a constant source of confusion for our customers. So constant, in fact, that this isn’t the first time we’ve written an article on this topic. First, Erik Morrison wrote a beginner guide in the bygone days of 2011. I then updated that article with some more…
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What Sensor Size is Best for You as a Videographer?
One of the most common questions our photo techs get is “What sensor size is best for me?” or some variation of that. “What does crop factor mean?” “What’s the equivalent focal length of that lens?” “Will I be able to get the look I’m going for with a smaller sensor?” And these questions totally…
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Production Services Series: Frame.io
_We cover gear a lot on the Lensrentals blog. Which lenses are the sharpest? Which camera has the most features?_ _What does the inside of a GFX100 look like__? What we rarely address, especially on the video side, is the equally important field of post-production. It won’t matter what codec you…
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Understanding the Differences in Video Camera Battery Systems
A curious reader recently asked for an explainer on the endlessly confusing world of professional video batteries. How is v-mount different from gold mount? What’s d-tap for? Are these things really worth the money? We don’t often get requests for video-related blog articles in the comments, so we…
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Production Services Series: Building Transcripts of your Work Using Descript
We cover gear a lot on the Lensrentals blog. Which lenses are sharpest? Which camera has the most features? What does the inside of a GFX100 look like? What we rarely address, especially on the video side, is the equally-important field of post-production. It won’t matter what codec you shot or…
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Product Spotlight: Tentacle Sync E
The quickest way to capture the hearts of techs at Lensrentals is to design your product to be easy to use. Multiple thousands of items per day pass through the tech room, and they’re each individually inspected by actual human beings. Often a tech will have to check a hundred or more things per…
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Product Spotlight: Blackmagic eGPU Pro
For the kind of stuff I do, a computer has to accomplish a type of balancing act. I need something portable if I’m traveling for work, shooting in the field, or just want to set up shop somewhere other than my office. But it also has to be powerful enough to handle occasional intense tasks like…
