Seeking a Semantic Web Sweet Spot AI3:::Adaptive Information. Reference Structures Provide a Third Way Since the first days of the Web there has been an ideal that its content could extend beyond documents and become a global, interoperating storehouse of data. This ideal has become what is known as the “semantic Web“. And within this […]
Day: February 22, 2011
Quicktips 2011 Day22: Add Virtual Cuts to Avid Clip Based on Tracks Beneath
Here’s a really cool Avid Media Composer Reader Quicktip that comes from Evan Schiff. It’s quite clever and I didn’t have a clue you could do this. It can come in handy if you ever have a piece of media that is a self-contained edit and you need to add edit points to that self-contained […]
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Using Photoshop’s View > Proof Colors to Head Off Problems Before Printing
Literally the evening after I posted my Digital Printing 101 article, my sister came over to print out some mandala/spirograph-like iStock images to decorate her office with. I opened the images, loaded the correct printer/paper profile (HP Z3100 onto Breathing Color Vibrance Luster photo paper, with gloss enhancer enabled – helps prevent “bronzing” when there's […]
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Roland Systems Group VR-5 AV Mixer & Recorder with Output for Live Streaming Now Shipping!
The VR-5’s “all-in-one” solution greatly simplifies production, recording and streaming of any live event. This unique product combines the power of Roland’s audio and video technology into one unit. Typical live events today, whether large or small, all require a wide variety of equipment in order to produce. There are audio inputs from mics, audio […]
Tribute to Michael Kahn, A.C.E.
Tribute to Michael Kahn, A.C.E. from Carsten Kurpanek on Vimeo. If you haven’t heard, the American Cinema Editors held their 2011 Eddie Awards last Saturday night, February 19. Along with the list of winners was the Lifetime Achievement Award handed out to Michael Kahn. Often you’ll heard him credited as Steven Speilberg’s longtime editor and […]
Interview: Wayne Belger’s “Untouchable” camera with HIV positive blood coursing through it’s veins
I read a lot of articles about all kinds of interesting things. Sometimes these things are the springboard to something else entirely. I was reading a story in the British Journal of Photography on do-it-yourself photographers who build their own equipment for their specific needs. That’s awfully familiar, I’ve done quite a bit of that […]
After Effects Apprentice Free Video: Arranging Layers
As we mentioned earlier, we're creating a video training series based on our popular beginner's book After Effects Apprentice, which progresses from “I haven't used it before” through core skills including keyframing, masking, text animation, and 3D space to advanced techniques such as motion tracking, green screen, and expressions. The second course is based on […]
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Which ProRes quality level is Good Enough when editing DSLR footage?
So I wanted to share some personal findings after working heavily with DSLRs for about a year and a half now. I’ve been converting most of my DSLR footage to ProRes LT for post-production, and have found it to be a good size-to-quality happy medium. In most cases, my projects will end up on DVD, […]
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Rethinking the Technology & IT Analyst Industry
Rethinking the Technology & IT Analyst Industry. (Guest post by Zia Yusuf, CEO, Streetline, formerly Executive Vice President, SAP) Over my last twelve years working as a senior executive in the technology industry I have had an opportunity to engage with a broad section of technology and IT analysts and researchers – both from established […]
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