• The HPA Technology Retreat happens February 17-20 in Palm Springs, and there’s still time to register. It ain’t cheap, but it’s probably the most information-packed and thought-provoking TV-tech conference in the world. Links below for last year’s coverage. • NAB 2009 takes place April 18-23 in Las Vegas (of course). A nice lady in […]
Day: February 6, 2009
My Auxiliary Timecode tutorial is online
What if you could take any master clip or subclip in your editing project and assign it a brand new timecode that you could specify and use it for syncing clips. If that sounds too good to be true it isn’t. It’s Auxiliary Timecode and both Avid Media Composer and Apple Final Cut Pro have […]
Planning your Portfolio Catalog
This video shows you how to plan a catalog to best suit your needs for the Extensis Portfolio digital asset management solution. […]
FreshDV Reviews the Zacuto follow focus unit
In the fall of 2007, FreshDV released an extensive review series of 5 popular follow focus units. We’ve continued to update this video review series in the following months. To date we’ve tested units from Chrosziel, Cinetech, Redrock Micro, Petroff, Indifocus, Shoot35/SGPro, and ARRI. Today we’re adding another review video for the Zacuto Z-Focus flippable […]
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Font Corruption
When good fonts go bad: how font corruption can derail your workflow It starts off really innocently. “Oh this document looks a little off,” you think. “Maybe I just need to ratchet the point size down one. That’ll fix it.” Or a very generic looking error appears when you’re in the middle of something and […]
Social Libraries for rich knowledge networks
Inmagichas unveiled Presto for Social Libraries, which, Inmagic says, is the first solution to transform libraries from cost centers to productivity centers by leveraging both content and the user community to create rich knowledge networks. Presto for Social Libraries creates a Social Online Public Access Catalog (SOPAC) that provides a framework for managing and enhancing […]
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Reshaping the Way Organizations Think About DAM
What Digital Asset Management Can Do For YouMany organizations are integrating DAM as part of their business-critical strategy for managing digital assets. They need dedicated solutions to help overcome operational and organizational challenges unique to them. DAM provides much needed centralization, optimizing workflow, virtual collaboration and seamless integration with other digital media applications so that […]
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Choose Apple’s Spanish keyboard, even if you only type in English
Apple’s wonderful Spanish ISO keyboard is the absolute best tool, even if you write mainly or exclusively in English. It is truly a case where you get all of the advantages, with none of the often “perceived disadvantages”, as you are about to learn. Many people didn’t know that Apple offers the Spanish ISO keyboard […]
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Creative Desktops by Artesia
The Artesia DAM Creative Desktop provides a natural extension to the desktop experience, including an intuitive folder-based interface to the digital media repository within the native file system viewer and desktop plug-ins that add Artesia DAM-specific functions within desktop applications. All these tools are accessible with a web connection, but without the use of a […]
Redrock Micro Alters Indie Film Production Landscape with Blitz of New Product
February 2, 2009 Dallas, TX – Redrock Micro, the leading provider of cinema accessories for digital filmmakers, today announced seven new products that promise to change the face of indie filmmaking production equipment. Among these is the highly anticipated update to the award-winning M2 cinema lens adapter. The seven products announced today at Redrock’s website […]
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