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by Torv Carlsen on May 29, 2008 at 2:00:15 am
in the Classifieds, For Sale Forum
than $6449, but I wouldn't buy it if I were you. In my case, I went to my local pro video dealer here in Northern California and bought it from them using the special video/film production sales tax rate of ... | | | | |
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Linux & Media
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A Talk with SpectSoft's Jason Howard about Linux & Film Production
Creative Cow's own Jason Howard, is helping bring Starship Troopers 2 to the big screen. His company, SpectSoft, has been working with the famed Tippett Studios to integrate SpectSoft's new RaveHD system into Tippett's workflow. Faced with creating a system that allowed customers like Tippett to work with many different formats and systems -- like accessing both Sony CineAlta's 1080p24 format and Panasonic VariCam's 720p60 -- and performing well with the very latest HD decks, etc. How well has RaveHD worked for Tippett over the last eight months of its use? Well, famed Tippett Studios used it for the HD editing workflow for Starship Troopers 2. Here's the story...
People / Interview
Author: Jason Howard |
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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.
Feature
Author: Gary Adcock |
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| | | | News: Globalstor Storage Technology Takes NAB 2008 By Storm
by Cow News Droid on Mar 25, 2008 at 6:48:20 pm
in the News & Press Releases Forum
2008) Globalstor Data Corporation, premier OEM Integrator of high performance RAID, SAN and storage/video servers, deals a full house at NAB 2008 with a series of leading film production distributors and manufacturers featuring Globalstor’s signature data storage servers ExtremeStor-DI servers, ... | | | | |
| | | | News: Version2 Takes On New Talent
by Cow News Droid on Mar 18, 2008 at 4:14:29 pm
in the News & Press Releases Forum
proudly welcomes the addition of Art Director/VFX Designer Niklaus Schlumpf. Niklaus Schlumpf is a visual artist and designer with many skills and an eclectic background in film production and drawing that has allowed him to produce a vast variety of ... | | | | |
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Indie Film & Documentary
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The Making of Kenya, the documentary film
In 2000, a team from Steven Galvano's organization (RCCM) traveled to Zambia and the over 20 hours of video he captured there turned into a short documentary film. Now, 6 years and three documentary films later, documenting these trips have become a central part of what he does. In this article, Steven describes his recent documentary: Kenya, The Documentary Film.
Tutorial, Feature
Author: Steven Galvano |
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HD High-End
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Dress for Success with RED
Not all production with the RED camera is Hollywood-scale. Craig Meadows is in a smaller market, doing mostly local and regional spots. Even though he's only had his RED for a short time, he tells you here about how it works, its workflow, and how it's already making a big difference for his clients.
Feature
Author: Craig Meadows |
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Business & Marketing
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Corporate Clients: What do they want?
Tim Kolb of Creative Cow gives some tips on how to really understand what your Corporate Client wants and how to deliver. He points out that: There are very few of us in this industry who can purchase a piece of equipment and have customers approaching us because of it. We must understand how to deliver a usable video/CD/etc., as most of us base our livelihood on our ability to provide a finished project that is successful. This is not a difficult premise, until you ask the question, What does the CLIENT see as being a successful project?
Tutorial, Feature, Business
Author: Tim Kolb |
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Art of the Edit
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Alan Levi: From Columbo to E.R. and Beyond
Tim Kolb explores the career of legendary director, Alan J. Levi. Spanning a career that began in the 1960's and still continues today, Tim discusses the life, work and accomplishments of a talented man whose body of work includes many of the most memorable shows in television history. He is also the inventor of ''video assist'' and is not only hands-on in the artistic side but in the technical side as well. Alan discusses the way that the new technology has changed the face of broadcast production and his own use of nonlinear editing tools. It's a great story and our thanks to Alan J. Levi for granting the interview and Tim Kolb for a great job in writing it.
Interview
Author: Tim Kolb |
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Ciprico storage solutions
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Joaquin Gil reviews the Huge-4110
CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Joaquin Gil shares his experience with storage needs during the creation of his last feature film. In this article, Kino discusses his success with the MediaVault 4110 from HUGE-Ciprico. He concludes with...''With the 4110, HUGE Ciprico addresses a market segment that needs large dataspaces in minimum physical space. A natural for the IT data center, the eCommerce nests, banking and legal data repositories and in general any data intensive application where reliability and speed are a must. This makes it very suitable also for animation and effects houses, middle sized to large editing and sound studios and the semi-nomad setups typical of reality shows, because of its sturdiness, practicality of the connectors and being a standard 19'' rack-mountable device.''
Review
Author: Joaquin Gil |
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Using Magic Bullet and Anamorphic in your DV project
For the past two years, Steven Galvano has been on a ''making video look like film'' quest. At first he'd come to the conclusion that if he wanted his projects to look like film, he'd have to shoot film. But recently, Steven's opinion has changed. Now, he believes that the science of cinematic video will be exacted in the near future and will be available to the average video producer.
Review, Tutorial
Author: Steven Galvano |
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Sony Vegas
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Glenn DeLaune takes a look at Vegas 4 Editing Workshop
Videographer Glenn DeLaune takes a look at Vegas 4 Editing Workshop by Douglas Spotted Eagle and concludes "...This book is a must have for anybody that owns Sony Vegas 4 editing software. From the beginner to the master, Douglas Spotted Eagle uncovers many secrets and tricks you can use on your next video editing job. Whether you are a video hobbyist or a full-time editor, if you are using Vegas 4, get this book. It will definitely be a good investment." This book is published by CMP Books and is part of their DV Expert Series.
Review
Author: Glenn DeLaune |
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