I GIVE UP! Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Transmedia

As many have written before, ‘transmedia’ is a divisive term, laden with all manner of conflicting ideas and sometimes wielded as a political weapon by people with differing business and personal agendas. transmedia adj.             : delivered through more than one medium    As many have written before, ‘transmedia’ is a divisive term, laden with […]

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Blackmagic Design Releases RAW Recording for Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

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Blackmagic Design today released Blackmagic Camera 1.5 software which adds new 12-bit Log CinemaDNG RAW recording to the popular Pocket Cinema Camera. Blackmagic Camera 1.5 update is available now free of charge from the Blackmagic Design website. Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera can be seen at the Blackmagic Design InterBEE 2013 booth, Hall 7-7105. The new […]

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Blackmagic Pocket Camera’s RAW Potential Released

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November 12th 2013, Blackmagic Design released their Blackmagic Camera 1.5 software adding 12-bit log CinemaDNG raw recording to the Pocket Cinema Camera.  From Grant Petty “Adding CinemaDNG RAW recording to the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera is incredible.  It’s amazing that we are now able to record the highest quality RAW images on such small SD […]

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North Plains Extends Global Partner Network with Nine New Integrator and Solution Partners

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North Plains Systems,the leader in helping companies effectively connect with and engage their customers through visual media, today announced the addition of several global integrators and solutions providers to its partner network. Joining recently announced partners, Equilibrium, Filemobile and iBrams, the new alliances enable North Plains to expand its delivery and technology capabilities, and offer […]

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Why Manuela returned to FCP after loving Premiere Pro CS6?

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A year ago, professional editor Manuela Santana abandoned FCP X and migrated to Premiere Pro CS6, but has just returned to FCP. This article will explain why an unusual discovery about footage shot with FiLMiC Pro made Manuela go back to FCP. What is FiLMiC Pro? For those who don’t know, FiLMiC Pro is a […]

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Quick Takes: Phase-detect AF coming to Canon C100; DaVinci Resolve 10 released

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Two stories of note from this past week: Canon's C100 Large-Single-Sensor AVCHD Cine Camera will be upgradable to dual-pixel phase-detection autofocus, similar to that used on the EOS 70D DSLR… but better. Canon's update should improve AF considerably. Note that in real life, the whole dual-laser-beam thing, with the glowing sensor, the see-through camera body, […]

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Creative Uses of the Range Tool in Final Cut Pro X

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This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin from Ripple Training explores the Range tool in Final Cut Pro X. The Range tool – found in the Tools menu or invoked with the keyboard shortcut “R” – has a surprisingly large number of uses throughout the editing of a project. For editorial, it allows you to set […]

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