“Ditch Your DAM” Program Offered by Canto at Createasphere

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Canto, maker of Canto Cumulus digital asset management (DAM) software, will offer 20% off the purchase of a new Canto Cumulus system to eligible attendees of the Createasphere 2012 Los Angeles DAM Conference whose organizations use a competing DAM system. In contrast to traditional competitive upgrades, the “Ditch Your DAM” program is open to individuals, […]

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Customizing Lens Flares Inside Smoke Part I

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Lens flares are the new lens flares. Lens flares have made a comeback of late, largely due to recent developments in software that allows lens flares to behave in a more realistic manner with border adjustments and occlusions. Long are the days when all we had was a stock 35mm default flare. Now there are […]

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HP and Intel To Unveil a Revolutionary New Product at Createasphere’s Entertainment Technology Expo

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Createasphere’s Spring Entertainment Technology Expo – the top gathering of entertainment and media professionals, technical innovators, and content creators on the West Coast showcasing emerging media trends in production, post, animation, VFX, advertising, and streaming content – has announced its full schedule for the March 1st Spring Expo. The tightly packed, informative day will feature […]

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Tip Tuesday: Disable a clip in the Avid Media Composer timeline

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In honor of TipTuesday over on Twitter I thought I’d share this simple Avid Media Composer tip that I use to counter the lack of a clip enable / disable feature in Media Composer. It’s all about saving an effect and getting easy access to that saved effect. There’s actually several tips in here that […]

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2011 Scientific and Technical Awards

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The following Academy Awards for scientific and technical achievements were presented on Saturday, February 11, at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, CA: Gordon E. Sawyer Award The Board of Governors of the Academy has voted the Gordon E. Sawyer Award to Douglas Trumbull, a visionary filmmaker who has worked as a designer, director, […]

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