Imagineer contest winner takes home $10K worth of software

GUILDFORD, UK (September 9, 2008) Imagineer Systems (www.imagineersystems.com), creators of next-generation VFX tools, today announced the winner of its 2008 Video Tutorial Development Contest: Ben Heusner of Curious Turtle (www.curiousturtle.com). The Company also announced the 2nd Place Winner of its contest, Elad Menashe, a software engineer and freelance VFX artist. Last month, Imagineer Systems announced […]

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I have been looking for a complete (DAM) tool

http://blogs.oreilly.com By Michael Clark With the release of Lightroom 2.0, Adobe has created the ultimate raw processing workflow tool in my opinion. It isn’t often, well never really, that I have gotten this excited about a piece of software but Lightroom 2.0 has streamlined my workflow like never before. There are a few features aside […]

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Why Digital Asset Management?

All organizations have a stake in managing their digital files. Critical to the process is the ability to maintain an efficient system for finding, using and sharing media files such as photos, logos, PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, layout documents from Adobe and Quark, and, increasingly, video and Flash. Together, these resources are known as “digital assets,” […]

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Turn Me Up! Audio Mixing and the Loudness war

Turn Me Up! is a site that aims to bring back the full range of sound and dynamics in popular music. You can learn more about the issue of excessive loudness and find out what you can do to help at www.turnmeup.org. The main aim of the organization is primarily the music industry, but I […]

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Color Primary video tutorial

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This is the first of 24 weekly color correction video tutorials from the revised edition (due in December) of “Color Correction for Video” which was the first color correction book ever published at the time. This tutorial is pretty basic and others are quite advanced. I’ll try to release them in an order that builds […]

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Zylight Z50 and Z90 First Impressions

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I first read about Zylight LED lighting systems in the summer of 2007. At NAB 2008 FreshDV made a point to stop by their booth and get a demo of the lighting technology, and we were duly impressed. You can view that video at the end of this article. Shortly after returning from NAB, a […]

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On Set with FreshDV: An AJA IoHD Case Study

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In late February 2008, FreshDV conducted a series of HD camera tests in Chicago. Cameras tested included the Panasonic Varicam, Panasonic HPX-3000, Panasonic HVX-200, Sony F900, Sony XDCAM PDW-350, Sony XDCAM PMW-EX1, Red One, and an Arri film camera for a baseline comparison to 35mm. In addition to shooting test charts and noting comparative data […]

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