Adobe has announced their Creative Suite 4, in which they have aligned the schedules of virtually all of their products to be updated at the same time. One of these programs is, of course, After Effects, which we have based our business around since its release in 1992. As a result, we obviously go over […]
Month: September 2008
Photoshop CS4 – User Interface Changes
Learn about important changes to the Photoshop CS4 user interface. – Refined workspaces – Freely rotatable canvas – Greater zoom levels – Enhanced controls with panels – Tabbed documents Want the videos in HD? Then check out our iTunes version. […]
CS 4, A Lot Of Bang For The Buck
Adobe announced the release of CS 4 today. I had a chance to get a sneak preview a few months back and I can tell you it is worth the upgrade price. Just the inclusion of the Mocha Planar Tracker is worth the upgrade price alone. (Unless you already own it) There are too many […]
Adobe CS4 Press Release Goodness
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Sept. 23, 2008 – Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 product family, a milestone release of the industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. Delivering radical workflow breakthroughs that bring down the walls between designers and developers – and packed with hundreds of […]
Woah! Red Scarlet No More!
That’s right, with the introduction of cameras such as the new Canon 5D Mark II shooting HD (trying to order one for myself!), Jim Jannard, Red president, says the Scarlet 3K camera is all different because the “market has changed”. Given that Jim had also announced earlier in the month that RED was working on […]
Audio Peak vs Average Levels: How our ears perceive loudness
Recently I posted a link to TurnMeUp.org, a project that aims to restore the dynamics and range of sound in today’s audio production. The problem is that consumers are being fed increasingly over-compressed, over-produced music and audio, and it’s created a loudness war of sorts. What’s really interesting about all this, is that human ears […]
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Color Correction Video Tutorial
This is another in what will become a series of two dozen color correction tutorials that will be in the revised edition of Focal Press’ “Color Correction for Video.” This episode shows how to balance a severely mis-white balanced camera chart using the Advanced Tab in the Primary Room of Apple’s Color. Last week, I […]
How To Be a Motion Graphics Artist
Greetings, all. My name is Alan Shisko, and I’m a freelance motion graphics artist based out of Toronto, Canada. I’m pleased to have been asked to contribute to the ProVideo Coalition community, and I look forward to many and varied posts on the subject of motion graphics design. By way of introduction, I might first […]
Grain Matching
Hi everyone, I first wanted to say thank you to the PVC team for making me a part of their family. I feel honored to have been asked to be a part of the new Motion Graphics & Visual Effects channel. I have some informative tutorials planned for pro and amateur alike and hope that […]
Making information easier to find
How Semantic Tagging Increases Findabillity By Heather Hedden – October 2008 Issue, Posted Sep 22, 2008 Findability is about making information easier to find. After all, if it cannot be found, it may as well not exist. Leading information specialists have been saying this for years, and now with the increasing volume of content and […]