Shutterstock Footage Aids the Winning Team at TransVergence Summit

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Marching Penguins Team: Stan Dyro (from PK4 Media), Cassandra Nguyen, Andrew Promey, and Jordi Matsumoto.   Shutterstock, a leading provider of high-quality stock footage, announces that Marching Penguin has won the first West Coast Story Hackathon for their entry HeartBreak Dating Insurance. Shutterstock co-sponsored the event. The Hackathon competition, held at Createasphere’s TransVergence Summit on […]

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HDR: when is it too much?

Don’t get me wrong. Extreme HDR has many legit uses; you the artist have to decide your message and work toward the subtleties of what you want to convey. This recent example set is from our workshop in Guatemala during the pre-Easter festivals in Antigua. Readers please weigh in with your opinions and perhaps examples […]

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Make Dual Mono work between FiLMiC Pro and FCP X 10.0.8 & 10.0.9

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As I have covered in several recent articles and videos, it is now possible to record “stereo” 48 kHz audio using FiLMiC Pro on an iPad. However, most often pro video producers need to use that “stereo” recording as Dual Mono. Among those cases, sometimes we need to deactivate one of the two channels completely, […]

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TransVergence Summit – Adam Besserman Keynote

Adam Besserman, Director of West Coast Development for Yahoo!, gave an informative and engaging keynote presentation at the TransVergence Summit. He delineates what Yahoo! looks for when developing and buying original content, previews Yahoo!'s fall comedy line-up and describe some of the lessons learned during the development and production process.  He also offers his thoughts […]

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Scruffy.TV transforms workflow with Adobe Creative Cloud

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Ambitiously aiming to lead the media revolution, Scruffy.TV creates custom content and is building a full, online network that is hosting all-original content. Kanen Flowers is the creative director behind the initiative, which includes That Post Show, Scruffy Thinking, Scruffy Shows, and HERO PUNK. Other team members include Kristin Martin, Ryan Jacobi, and Weston Woodbury. […]

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Creating a watercolour wipe in After Effects – Part 2

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Over 3 years ago, in a rare moment when I had some spare time, I attempted to create an After Effects project that revealed an image as if it were a watercolour painting.  I posted the result on my website and since then it has proved immensley popular, and I’ve always been meaning to clean […]

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Creating a watercolour wipe in After Effects – Part 1

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Over 3 years ago, in a rare moment when I had some spare time, I attempted to create an After Effects project that revealed an image as if it were a watercolour painting.  I posted the result on my website and since then it has proved immensley popular, and I’ve always been meaning to clean […]

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