Mystery Box has been dreaming up the perfect DIT station for years now. There may not be one setup that checks ALL the boxes, but we’ve...

“We believe that when it comes to sound, Atmos is the future of media consumption. Object-based mixing in Atmos makes content...

Technology plays an exciting role in our line of work. On one hand, we couldn’t capture, edit, or deliver any of our 8K 60p HDR content...

In 2011, when Apple officially released Final Cut Pro X, the reception was less than stellar. Many industry pros who had, for years,...

Jacob Schwarz and Samuel Bilodeau of Mystery Box will be presenting on grading in HDR and using Dolby Vision at the Dolby Booth at NAB...

Of the many joys a DIT has on-set, waiting for a file transfer is not one of them. After a long day of shooting when the crew starts...

Mystery Box was in the market for a new dedicated editing machine. To be honest, when Apple announced the 2018 Mac Mini, it wasn’t on our...

Never in my life have I been able to have a film vs. digital cinema experience akin to the one I was able to have this past weekend in...

For the last couple of months, we’ve been working with Panasonic to create HDR10 content for the release of their new micro four-thirds...

Our first major blog posts here on the Mystery Box Blog was a five-part series on HDR video - how it works, and how to work with it in...

Our last technical blog post talked about color management, including considerations for maintaining color accuracy through the post...

First off huge thanks to everyone at Red for getting me this camera so quickly. Like many of you, we’ve been holding out and waiting for...

There are many different ways for consumers to experience your content today - so many that it’s often difficult to predict exactly where...

Pre-Production: It’s no secret, we (here at Mystery Box Video Production) love filming in high frame rates. We get so enthralled with the...

There’s a common idiom that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Hopefully even if you use the metric system you can...

In Part 1 we looked at the strategies your computer and other hardware use to prevent data corruption when the data’s being copied or...

The switch from film and analog video into digital video technologies has had a great freeing effect in every area of motion content...

Our first challenging 8K project involved color grading and mastering footage from our trip to Peru. Prior to that trip, we’d done some...

It’s no secret among those we work with that we love RED. The first digital cinema camera we used on a regular basis was the RED ONE,...

After a 2 year break from posting YouTube videos and solely focusing on our commercial careers, we decided to pack our bags with the...