Autodesk to bring Toxik, Mudbox and ImageModeler to Mac

It is now official – from the website: “To coincide with the annual Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Autodesk, Inc. announced today that it has expanded its portfolio of Macintosh 2D and 3D software tools for entertainment, multimedia and design professionals. The three new 2009 products for Mac OS X are Autodesk Toxik […]

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Hyperlinking the Real World

Hyperlinking the Real World Written by Sarah Perez / European researchers working on the MOBVIS project have developed a new system that will allow camera phone users to hyperlink the real world. After taking a picture of a streetscape in an urban area, the MOBVIS technology identifies objects like buildings, infrastructure, monuments, cars, and even […]

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Internet TV: Yahoo and Intel Try Again

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Many companies have made numerous attempts to make the computer the center of our leisure-time activities, often based around trying to introduce computers into the living room. For the most part, they haven’t succeeded; many people still spend a lot more time in front of their TV sets than they do their computers. So instead, […]

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Cool After Effects Tutorial – Rhythmic Motion Typography

As a video editor, I posses a very basic working knowledge of Adobe After Effects. I can zing around in Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro, but my grasp of AE is still a work in progress. So when I happen across a tutorial that I’m able to quickly grasp, you know I have to […]

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Why capture HDV via HDMI?

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For many reasons explained in my recent article, it makes a lot of sense to capture your HDV footage directly to an editing i-frame códec like ProRes422. One of the best way to do that nowadays from HDV is via HDMI. Editing directly from ProRes422 files (as opposed to hybrid editing or native editing, as […]

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