After Effects Script of the Week: pt ExpressEdit

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Expressions are among the most powerful additions you can make to your After Effects game. They are also fragile; set up 4 dozen staggered dependency layers to create a pattern form and then somehow delete the layer they point to, even for a moment, and all of the expressions are reset. And making a fix […]

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Adobe Showcases Advances in Broadcast Workflows at IBC 2011

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SAN JOSE, Calif. and AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Sept. 8, 2011 – At the IBC 2011 Conference and Exhibition, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) is showcasing new video technologies and initiatives that are enabling media professionals to create, deliver and monetize premium video content across a myriad of platforms and devices. For content delivery, Adobe® is announcing […]

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Utah Scientific Introduces New Router Control Panels With User-Definable Interface

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Utah Scientific, a leading global provider of video signal routing systems, today announced a new family of menu-based router control panels at IBC2011. The new panels feature high-resolution, full-color LCD displays and buttons, offering a new level of user-friendly operation for today’s increasingly complex routing systems. The UCP-LC series panels offer 16 or 32 buttons […]

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NewTek Ships TriCaster™ 450, Making HD Portable Live Production More Accessible

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NewTek, worldwide leader in portable live production and 3D animation systems, today introduced TriCaster™ 450 EXTREME™ and TriCaster 450. The latest addition to the TriCaster line of portable live production systems, the TriCaster 450 series makes HD production available to more live video producers than ever, in an even more compact, cost-effective solution. TriCaster 450 […]

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Blackmagic breaks Thunderbolt price budget with US$299 Intensity Extreme

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At IBC in Amsterdam, Blackmagic has just announced its second Thunderbolt audio/video i/o interface, the US$299 Intensity Extreme. For about 70% less in price than Blackmagic’s first Thunderbolt product, the Intensity Extreme is also the first bus-powered a/v Thunderbolt interface, although not the first bus-powered device (since Matrox’s Thunderbolt adapter is bus-powered, but it is […]

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Becoming a Certified Professional Photographer

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The US Department of Labor says that there are over 150,000 professional photographers in the United States. Add to that thousands more that work part time as a professional photographer, the mom next door who picks up a few bucks shooting her friends and neighbors, and the numbers are never ending. But out of hundreds […]

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AJA announces Io XT interface with Thunderbolt at IBC in Amsterdam

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Today AJA announced and is showing its new Io XT audio/video interface with Thunderbolt at IBC stand 7.F11 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Unlike other Thunderbolt-capable professional i/o interfaces from other manufacturers which I have covered earlier this week here in ProVideo Coalition magazine, the Io XT from AJA is the first and only one so far […]

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Sony is Hosting 1-hour Open House Seminars on 3 Hot Topics Directly from Sony Booth #302

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Seats are first-come, first-served to registered attendees of the Expo. Educational and informative – guaranteed. 3D State of the Business (Sep 20th Tues 1:30-2:30pm, 4:30-5:30pm, Sep 21st Wed 11:30am-12:30pm) Robert Willox, Director of 3D Business Development for Sony Electronics Inc., will give an overview of the 3D landscape and offer you an insiders’ view of […]

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