A Little ATEM Magic: Live Broadcasting and Streaming at the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour

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The broadcast industry, like many other industries around the world, is experiencing an upward trend in freelance workers and independent contractors. For John Mortensen, being an independent producer and director means having the freedom to work on projects that excite him, and he uses Blackmagic Design’s ATEM Production Switcher line and HyperDeck Studio SSD broadcast […]

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New Documentary With Joey L Online

I'm a huge fan of the work of New York based photographer Joey L.  He's just released a new book about lighting and simultaneously a 45 minute documentary called Beyond on Vimeo.  The video contains footage of several of the images from his book and if you like his work and his style then it's […]

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Reinventing Video Creation with Adobe Creative Cloud

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Just like people are shifting from consuming books and video content as physical media to digital and online consumption, Adobe is evolving from shipping shrink-wrapped boxes to offering easily downloadable software through the Cloud. You may or may not have heard about Adobe Creative Cloud, but you’ve probably heard about Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, […]

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Color Correction Tips From Steve Hullfish

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Has a director ever asked you if you can fix a few bad shots? Have you struggled to make a final sequence look better? Pro Video Coalition's own Steve Hullfish brought the art of color correction from the dark arts to the light of day in 2002 with his book Color Correction for Digital Video: […]

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After Effects Lately Dec10.2012

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Here's another part of the last few weeks or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old. After Effects CS6 Studio Techniques by Mark Christiansen is latest edition of the book now in its 5th edition. It's available in print and as an e-book [$9.99 – Deal of the […]

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Flexible Connections in Final Cut Pro X

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This week Steve Martin from Ripple Training and I continue our discussion of the features introduced in the Final Cut Pro X 10.0.6 update (note that the 10.0.7 update released last week contained no additional new features, just fixes). This week, we talk about a great way to modify how connected clips work. […]

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Christmas Gift Ideas for the Editor – 2012 Edition

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Christmas is just a couple of weeks away (maybe less depending on when you read this). If you’ve got an editor in your life that you need to buy gifts for here’s a few things that he or she might appreciate. If you can’t find anything good here then check out some previous versions of […]

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