In this three-part series of shorts, the film vs. digital argument is presented as a married couple in counseling sessions. Simply brilliant, and perfectly played! Enjoy. Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Related: You may also be interested in the following FreshDV articles dealing with new digital tech in the filmmaking space. * Can Ikonoskop’s […]
Month: October 2008
Don’t Forget Apple
Apple has recently revised the entire Final Cut Studio section of their website, adding a large amount of descriptions, images, and video training on Motion. You can see some short videos on key Motion features here. Longer video tutorials on specific features at the following links: Interface Overview Working in 3D Particles, Behaviors, Filters & […]
Color Correction Video Tutorial
Another in a series of color correction tutorials from the upcoming revised edition of “Color Correction for Video” coming out in December from Focal Press. In this installment, I show you how to sample colors on the screen in Apple Color to get numeric readouts of specific pixels in your image. (These same methods can […]
Marketing Amplified
MuseWorx… enterprise level solutions for all business Imagine a world where most of the functions of our marketing – finding ideas, creating ads, building accountability, managing assets, tapping into resources, and even buying media — do not take place in traditional ways, but rather through massive computer server farms located remotely, and connected to global […]
Be like water, knowledge is love
Stuff or love? How metaphors direct our efforts to manage knowledge in organisations Daniel GAndriessen Abstract This position paper addresses the way knowledge is conceptualised in knowledge management (KM) literature and practice. Using the work of Lakoff and Johnson on metaphors it will show how people use metaphors to think and talk about knowledge. In […]
Anything Worth Backing Up…
Recently, there was a good discussion on the MediaMotion After Effects list about archiving projects. Some use RAIDs and shared network storage devices; some use tape drives such as the Quantum LTO-3; some use stacks of DVDs; some use raw hard disks with adaptors like the Wiebetech ComboDock (which Art Adams wrote about a few […]
HD Expo Kicks Off
October 16, 2008 (Burbank, CA) HD EXPO returns to its Burbank roots for the second year in a row with two full days of world-class panels, exhibitions and education on October 29-30, 2008. Over the course of the two day event, HD EXPO will present panels featuring the world’s leading 3D experts, view 3D screenings, […]
Building Good Hardware (is Harder Than it Looks)
Building good hardware is not a trivial undertaking. We’ve all seen it time and time again as new companies go through the throes of taking a great concept all the way through the many layers of design and development, to a final shipping product (unfortunately, not always in quantity). We saw this play out for […]
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CRAM for Apple Compressor takes the guesswork out of encoding presets
RobotHand Software is proud to announce CRAM for Compressor. CRAM is an add-on for Apple’s Compressor software. CRAM for Compressor includes a variety of presets for handling HD, RED, NTSC and PAL footage. Presets include High Quality DVDs from HD and RED footage, Playstation 3 movies, suberb quality H264 for the web, Apple Trailer like […]
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After Effects CS4 is Shipping
For those who might have missed the news, Adobe Creative Suite 4 started shipping this past Wednesday. Users are already receiving their pre-orders. After Effects users looking to upgrade need to be mindful of two issues: As reported earlier, AE CS4 will not run on pre-Intel Macs. Not all CS3-compatible plug-ins are compatible with AE […]
