| | | | News: FilmLight Boosts Engineering Staff in Asia
by Cow News Droid on Aug 19, 2008 at 7:54:05 pm
in the News & Press Releases Forum
Richard Senior to Support Clients across the Asia Pacific Region (London--August 19, 2008) FilmLight, a leading provider of digital film and video technology, has appointed Richard Senior as Product Specialist. Senior will provide installation assistance, technical support and training for ... | | | | |
| | | | News: S.two first to support all ARRI D-20 features
by Cow News Droid on Sep 7, 2007 at 3:53:26 pm
in the News & Press Releases Forum
(IBC Amsterdam 7th September 2007) S.two Corporation of Reno, NV, USA has announced that a collaborative effort with ARRI was responsible for bringing digital film makers increased integration between the ARRIFLEX D-20 digital cinematic camera and S.two DFR2™ & Take2™ ... | | | | |
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Adobe After Effects
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Jerry Hofmann reviews Digital Film Tool's 55mm Plugin for NLEs
There's been a lot of 'hype' surrounding Digital Film Tools' new 55mm Plugins for NLE's. In this article Jerry Hofmann, one of CreativeCOW's Final Cut Pro forum leaders lets COW members know whether the description of the tools is hype or if this set of filters deliver on the promise.
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| | | | News: Autodesk Launches Toxik 2009 Visual Effects Software
by Cow News Droid on Aug 12, 2008 at 6:17:29 pm
in the News & Press Releases Forum
announced Autodesk Toxik 2009 procedural compositing software. Toxik 2009 offers high-performance compositing and visual effects capabilities, particularly for large-format digital film and television projects. When combined with the new Autodesk Maya 2009 modeling software, the two products provide an accelerated ... | | | | |
| | | | After Affects 6.5 compared to 7
by Jim Kanter on Mar 29, 2006 at 9:08:52 pm
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
You might even consider upgrading to the Production Studio Premium so you can get Dynamic Linking and the other tools (Audition, EncoreDVD, Photoshop, Illustrator). Jim Kanter, Digital Film Institute www.dfilminst.com | | | | |
| | | | basic text/path text
by Jim Kanter on Mar 29, 2006 at 9:05:22 pm
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
What do you mean by "the boundary?" Are you dragging out an area for wrapping text, or is it extending beyond the edge of the layer? Jim Kanter, Digital Film Institute www.dfilminst.com | | | | |
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Apple Color
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P2: The format. The trailer.
What do filmmakers do in their free time? They make films. The horror movie P2 has just been released on DVD, but when Doug Spice and team at Psychic Bunny saw the original trailer for the theatrical release, all they could think about was their cuddly little Panasonic HVX200. Heres a playful look at what happened when the two came together, with a few shooting and workflow tips for good measure.
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| | | | What book to buy first.
by Jim Kanter on Apr 1, 2006 at 8:07:30 pm
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
The latest CIB for AE7 is a good start. The ones from 5 through 6.5 were not. Chris and Trish's books are much more useful to people with a certain level of experience with AE already but can be overwhelming ... | | | | |
| | | | After effects can
by Jim Kanter on Mar 29, 2006 at 9:01:09 pm
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
Does this happen only when trying to open a specific project or any project? Have you tried trashing the preferences and starting AE again? Jim Kanter, Digital Film Institute www.dfilminst.com | | | | |
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Apple Color
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The Forbidden Kingdom: Jackie Chan. Jet Li. FCP.
A Creative Cow Exclusive! DigitalFilm Trees Zed Saeed has helped create pioneering digital workflows built around FCP, custom-designed for large-scale productions. Their biggest challenge so far has come on The Forbidden Kingdom, an epic film partnering Jackie Chan and Jet Li for the first time -- with production and post in China, Korea, Australia, and multiple locations in the US. Heres a look at how they put it all together with FCP, Xserve, XML, Color, file-based workflows...and hard, hard work.
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Apple Final Cut Pro
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Color Correction for Final Cut Pro
If anyone is familiar with Digital Film Tree, you'll know they accomplished quite a few tasks under their Sunset Boulevard compounds. DFT is also popular for their in-house training courses in Final Cut Pro and Cinema Tools. Combine this with their other assortment of training videos and you have a powerhouse of instructional know-how. In this article, Marco Solorio takes a look at
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Cinematography
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Shooting with RED: Testing, testing...
CreativeCOW leader Gary Adcock's experience shooting both film and HD gives him a unique perspective as he takes you along for thorough testing with the new RED camera. In part 1 of this series, he focuses on the camera's benefits and shortcomings of the camera itself, as well as some of the challenges shooting with it.
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Compression techniques
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A Review of Sorenson
Jerry Hofmann has been impressed before by Sorenson Media's efforts -- afterall, he reviewed Sorenson Media Squeeze for Quicktime. But with Sorenson's new Compression Suite, Jerry is totally blown away by the Suite's deceptively simple but incredibly powerful new interface. It just doesn't get any easier than thisif you want to compress video for the web, email or CD!
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Author: Jerry Hofmann |
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Adobe Premiere Pro
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Total Training's Adobe Premiere 6.5
Tim Kolb explores the new Canopus StormRack, the new dual Athlon-based turn-key DV editing system from Canopus Corporation. With the reputation of AMD's powerful Athlons married to the performance of Canopus's legendary DV keying and realtime powers -- it looks as if the new Rack series from Canopus is off to a good start. Based on his company's real world tests in an actual working situation, Emmy winner, Tim Kolb concludes it's a solid system and has scheduled it for nine more broadcast spots he's working on.
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AVID Editing
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3Prong - a review by Dennis Kutchera
Dennis Kutchera explores one of his favorite sets of AVX plug-ins from a joint Canadian-Swiss company called 3Prong. The set includes ColorFiX, DirtFiX, FlickerFiX, TwitterFix, WaveScope and SpeedRamP. Dennis finds these plug-ins essential to online editing.
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Author: Dennis Kutchera |
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Compression techniques
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Jerry Hofmann reviews Sorenson
Need to do quality compressions of QuickTime movies and don't know much about it? Jerry Hofmann takes a look at a new product called Sorenson Squeeze brought to us by a company long recognized for supplying the finest codecs used for QuickTime compressions, Sorenson.
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Author: Jerry Hofmann |
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Podcasts | | | | news round-up podcast
Episode #020 - February 02, 2006
Episode 020 - Producing Creative Media with Mark Val - markval.com, Shockwave 3D, Macromedia Director, Video Game Creation, Encore DVD 2.0, Flash Paper, Breaking into the Creative Industry, Digital Film Tools Snap, Adobe Flex 2.0 and Flash Player 8.5, Ambient Design ArtRage, Survivor for $1.99, Handbrake for Windows DVD/iPod ripper, Madonna and Gorillaz, Academy Awards Nominations for Animation and more creative tech news, interviews and reports - www.creativecow.net | | | | |
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