My Adventure in Indie VFX + a Review of Cinema 4D R13

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Maxon released it’s latest version of the Cinema 4D (C4D) late in 2011. The R13 Studio version is their flagship product and it’s loaded with a ton of new stuff. C4D has been a popular platform for Motion Graphics artists for a while now, probably due to it’s ease-of-use, plug-and-play capabilities. Motion Graphics folks could […]

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Steve Wozniak and Others to Present at NAB Show Post|Production World Keynote

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Future Media Concepts (FMC) and NAB today announced they will co-host this year’s NAB Show keynote presentation, a panel discussion featuring Fusion-io chief scientist and Apple® co-founder Steve Wozniak, and visual effects supervisor Rob Legato, who just won his second Oscar® for his work on the 2011 film “Hugo.” Joining them in the discussion will […]

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Litepanels® Expands LED Fresnel line and On-camera Fixtures at NAB

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Litepanels®, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, will debut a variety of new LED lighting products at the NAB Convention and Exhibition in Las Vegas on April 16-19, 2012 in booth C6025. The professional lighting pioneer is making big news with LED Fresnel fixtures by introducing a new member of its daylight balance […]

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Autodesk Offers All-In-One Solution with NLE Suites Part II

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Basic TrainingNow that I steeled myself to learn Smoke, I was ready and determined to get down to business. Fortunately, Autodesk has provided several step by step tutorials which through the most basic aspects of her in the software which helped me on my way. Again, Smoke doesn’t look or feel like any other OS […]

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Autodesk Offers All-In-One Solution with NLE Suites Part I

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Recently I’ve had a chance to visit with some of the brightest minds in post production today. These gentlemen arrived at this point in their careers from various paths, but they all arrived at the same place, which was at the door of Autodesk’s Smoke. Because NLE’s and effects software have become more economically accessible […]

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ARRI’s DNxHD Alexa update, Sorenson Squeeze Pro and OP this, OP that

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ARRI has begun to ship its DNxHD update for their Alexa camera. This announcement that the Alexa would get DNxHD as an onboard recording option (besides ProRes) was welcome news to post-production people like myself who use Avid Media Composer. While ProRes is supported in Avid both by AMA linking and direct MXF creation (in […]

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Conan’s Post-Production Crew previews Premiere CS6

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The editors and motion graphics guys behind the scenes of the late-night show Conan have released an awesome Premiere CS6 preview video. It nicely sums up some of the reasons why Premiere is fast becoming the standard in post facilities that were previously FCP-based, and it offers a glimpse at what the latest CS6 version […]

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