Anybody remember that classic commercial for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups? “Hey! You got peanut butter on my chocolate! No! You got chocolate in my peanut butter!” Then the two injured parties in the commercial realize that peanut butter and chocolate are really two great tastes that taste great together! They shouldn’t be kept apart. They […]
Getting your footage from Final Cut Pro to After Effects is a very common workflow. In fact, so many people choose to work this way that there are several free and for sale workflow tools on the market. While the task may seem as easy as a batch export, there is often precious metadata and […]
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The days of cobbling together a database to track shots, assets and progress are numbered. Although nowadays it has become common for many post-production projects to be managed with Basecamp, it’s an application hardly specialized to our industry. Two web based tools currently in late beta anticipate the needs of post production more directly. Shotgun […]
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In the first installment, we looked at the basic set up for shooting Greenscreen. Most of what I covered is exactly what we see people skip everyday. What I’m going to talk about next is what everyone else ignores at their peril. We’re talking about capture systems and codecs. As with color correction, capturing greenscreen […]
Grass Valley™ is unveiling the latest version (7.0) of its popular Aurora™ Digital Production platform, which brings new efficiencies in speed, media management, and third-party support to an already fully featured platform that streamlines file-based production workflows for the benefit of a wide variety of standard- and high-definition projects. Grass Valley Digital Production products span […]
New! Avid Media Composer 4! Discover storytelling on the cutting edge. With the new Avid Media Composer 4non-linear editing software, you get the speed, flexibility, and confidence youneed to achieve your creative vision and deliver compelling content?”on timeand on budget. Having a rock-solid system that helps you quickly sort through your material andcut together the […]
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