X2O Media Offers Digital Signage Users a Wide Variety of Live Data Feeds With X2O’s New Data Service

MONTREAL – Feb. 23, 2009 – X2O Media, a leading provider of digital signage technology, network management, and content services, introduces the X2O Data Service in its continued effort to provide customers with end-to-end digital signage solutions. The new service offering provides digital signage users with a wide variety of live feeds, including convenient bundles […]

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Craft Animations Welcomes USC School of Cinematic Arts to New Academic Partner Program

Craft Animations™ AB, leading developer of professional real-time 3D animation technology, today announced its new Academic Partner Program, which offers leading colleges, universities and 3D animation schools subsidized access to Craft Director Tools™ . The company has additionally announced the University Of Southern California (USC) School of Cinematic Arts as the latest adopter of this […]

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Fake Tilt-Shift Cinematography

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Traditionally used to create the illusion of impossibly deep focus, tilt-shift effects are now being used to do the exact opposite–with surprising results. I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis, and my geeky friends do as well. Somehow, somewhere, someone stumbled across this little gem of a web site. Rather than using […]

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Quicktip Day 22: slate buttons to increment numbers

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Quicktip #22 (February 22, 2009) slate buttons to increment numbers Clicking the little slate buttons in Final Cut Pro’s Log and Capture tool will increment the clip information in their respective rows. Keep the check boxes checked and FCP will automatically increment the last number or letter for each new clip. […]

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Taxonomy and Glossaries for Enterprise Search Terminology

Two years ago when I began blogging for the Gilbane Group onenterprise search, the extent of my vision was reflected in the blogcategoriesI defined and expected to populate with content over time. They represented my personal “top terms” that were expected to each have meaningful entries to educate and illuminate what readers might want to […]

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HPA Technology Retreat 2009

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How is the Tech Retreat like (and unlike) a location shoot? Why does New York’s Metropolitan Opera put ten minutes of solid white at the tail end of each live HD cinemacast? The Hollywood Post Alliance 2009 Tech Retreat commenced at 2pm on 17 February 2009, the USA’s analog shutoff day—whoops, its former analog shutoff […]

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Photography – How Hard Can It Be?

If you’re good at what you do, you make it look easy. I’ve been shooting for 20+ years, and have gotten really good at creating good images even with extreme time crunches, and sometimes tight budgets, too. But it leads to clients, and especially their accounting departments, thinking they might be paying you too much. […]

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Fresh Media Group chooses Xinet DAM

The award-winning Fresh Media Group has become a leading force in the UK for design, conception, production and delivery of online and offline media. Subsidiary companies within Fresh Media Group include Ceros Media, the UK’s most popular online magazine format; Size Creative, a specialist retouching and photography studio; BigKid, a cross-platform digital and video production […]

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