Get Started Fast with Avid for Final Cut Pro 7 Editors : Lesson 5

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If you've just made the switch from FCP7 to Media Composer 7, than the last lesson in this five part tutorial series will help you make the transition as smooth as possible!   The purpose of Avid’s Get Started Fast tutorials series is, of course, to get you up and running with Media Composer 7 […]

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Take Better Photographs With Your Smartphone

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Learning to use a smartphone to take photographs has been, I must say, a slow process, as I am a DSLR user, was a SLR user before that, and also a medium-format photographer, for many years, while using film. I used Bronicas for much of the commercial work I did. I've played with compact cameras […]

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Blackmagic Design Announces Blackmagic MultiDock with Thunderbolt 2™ Technology

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Blackmagic Design today announced a new model of the Blackmagic MultiDock with super fast Thunderbolt 2 technology. The new Blackmagic MultiDock replaces the previous model and is available now from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide for only US$595. Blackmagic MultiDock is a 4 disk docking solution and high speed disk array featuring an attractive machined metal […]

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ScreenLight Review and Approval For Video Pros Comes to PVC

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Think back to the last project where you shared media for a production with your team, clients, or other stakeholders. If you are like most people, it was probably a pretty fragmented process. Project media tends to get distributed among a wide variety of different tools. Scripts, storyboards, call sheets, releases, client assets, audio, and […]

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The Art of the Cut: “12 Years a Slave” Editor, Joe Walker

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It’s not often that Hollywood’s stars publicly recognize the great stewardship that an editor of a film has of their performance. But it’s a long journey between what an actor emotes in front of a camera and the reception of that performance by an audience. The director certainly has a strong influence on that performance, […]

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Autodesk Announces 2015 3D Animation Software

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Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) unveiled the 2015 versions of its popular 3D animations tools: Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya, MotionBuilder, Mudbox, Softimage, and the newest addition to the lineup, Maya LT, a 3D animation and modeling tool for professional indie game makers. Autodesk also announced the availability of the 2015 Entertainment Creation Suite for 3D animation and […]

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Matrox Announces Low-Profile, Multi-Channel SDI Card with High-Performance Hardware Processing

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Matrox® Video today announced the Matrox X.mio3 LP SDI video card, part of the next generation of Matrox DSX Developer Products. X.mio3 LP is a low-profile, half-length PCIe card that offers up to eight reconfigurable I/Os, from SD to 4K. Multi-channel hardware processing accelerates compute-intensive operations including motion-adaptive de-interlacing, up/down/cross scaling and mixing/compositing for all […]

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Fujifilm Introduces New IS-Tower Imaging System at NAB 2014

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Adding to its acclaimed Image Processing System line up, FUJIFILM North America Corporation’s Imaging Division will demonstrate prototypes of its IS-Tower Imaging System at the National Association of Broadcasters show at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Booth #C7025 Center Hall, from April 7-10, 2014.  The system includes the FUJIFILM IS-Tower Software, which, […]

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ARRI Releases Software Update Packet (SUP) 9.1 and ARRIRAW Converter 3.0

As technology evolves, ARRI continues to sustain and improve the performance of the ALEXA family of cameras with the release of ALEXA Software Update Packet (SUP) 9.1 and the ARRIRAW Converter (ARC) 3.0. The ARRIRAW Converter is ARRI´s free reference tool for processing ARRIRAW files in the optimal quality. A new, exciting feature includes the […]

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ASSIMILATE Announces Powerful SCRATCH and SCRATCH Lab v8

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ASSIMILATE, the industry’s leading provider of DI and dailies digital workflow tools, today announced SCRATCH® and SCRATCH Lab® v8. These new versions offer unprecedented Apple® ProRes encoding capabilities on Windows, multi-GPU Debayering of RED media and support for Blackmagic Decklink cards. Windows users now have full ProRes encoding parity with Mac users. No more slow, […]

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