“Herb was all about a slick, slippery silvery image,” says art director Marc Balet, as quoted in Churchward’s luscious reportage of the the man, his method and madcap life. No I haven’t read all of this book. I’m just 2/3 the way through at page 207 of 315. But this biographical picture book is so […]
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Here’s a short video tutorial on the topic of Shutter Speed, which is at times confused with Frames Per Second. The tutorial is from a DSLR shooting series by the University of Waterloo, and it’s a good primer on the topic. You can watch it below. What this tutorial only briefly touches on is the […]
In one of the earlier Quicktips I showed scrubbing through clips in a Final Cut Pro bin via the Thumbnail bin column. In Avid Media Composer there’s a tab at the top of the bin marked Frame. That’s a quick way to view Avid clip thumbnails in a bin. Plus you can playback and JKL […]
Read More… from Quicktips 2011 Day 28: Playback Media Composer clips via thumbnails
Open Source, my aaS ?. On February 23rd, Infoworld blogger and cloud expert David Linthicum posted an article that, until today, I had been studiously trying to prevent from playing over and over like the proverbial stuck record in my rather inquisitive mind. My inquisition, and subsequently my inability to let this escape my attention, […]
Advanced analytical capabilities? Enhanced business intelligence? Superior decision support abilities? The ability to turn data into money? Nope. While all those are good things and very worthwhile pursuits, they are not the reasons our industry is so enamored with the construct of big data. The reason we love big data is far less complex. There […]
A couple weeks ago FreshDV linked to a C47 video where Jem Schofield discussed seeing the PMW-F3 in use in a high-ISO test. At that time, Jem indicated he thought the native sensitivity rating of the camera was 800 ISO and that it offered a 6400 ISO equivalent with 18dB of gain engaged. He also […]
This Reader Quicktip comes to us from James Stuckey Weber and it’s a tip to speed up the exporting process of the XDCAM format in Final Cut Pro. I don’t do a lot of XDCAM export from FCP so I can’t confirm the rather dramatic speed-up this tip claims but I can’t deny it either. […]
Read More… from Quicktips 2011 Day 27: Speed up FCP’s XDCAMexport
As we have amply covered in multiple articles in ProVideo Coalition magazine, demanding online editing of multiple realtime HD video layers requires a high bandwidth connection to an external disk array, especially in the tapeless acquisition era, when it is even more desirable to use RAID5 (or equivalent). In many cases, it is also extremely […]
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As you are aware by now, we’re going through our book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects 5th Edition (“CMG5” for short) and pulling out a few “hidden gems” from each chapter. These will include both essential tips for new users, as well as timesaving gems that experienced users may not be aware existed. Chapter […]
Today’s Quicktip almost seems like a no-brainer but I’m surprised that I still see projects come in the door where items have been numbered in a bin 1, 2, 3 — 10, 11, 12 instead of 01, 02, 03 — 10, 11, 12. Why add the zero? So when you sort the items by name […]
Read More… from Quicktips 2011 Day 26: Use a zero in front of a number for better sorting
