Outside Hollywood has an excellent post on Color Theory for Cinematographers. In the article, the author breaks down the film Blackhawk Down scene-by-scene, showing the consistent and effective color themes used throughout. In the film, Ridley Scott and DP Slawomir Idziak chose to buck the standard color theory trends… …instead of the standard warm=friendly and […]
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Cloud Computing’s Three-Horse Race Cloud Computing has hit the main stage, solidly capturing the minds of both the technology and business communities. But while three distinct deployment models have emerged, it’s far from certain which of them will go on to prosper. The three models are: 1. Renting raw hardware: compute processing, data storage and […]
Good Digital Asset Management interview over at Extensis blog snip: What is the most common digital asset management issue reported to you by your clients? Most of the customers I meetare looking for a single solution, which, through speed, ease of use, cost efficiency, flexibility, scalability and long term viability, can resolve the following issues: […]
It seems like only a year ago that doing post-production on the RED ONE camera was a confusing imbroglio of what to do and what tools to use to do it. There where a lot of options for posting early RED footage as long as you wanted to use Final Cut Pro and/or Assimilate Scratch. […]
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With version 10, Roxio (now a division of Sonic Solutions) offers a Pro bundle of Toast, which includes a total of 12 applications, most of which are multilingual. As many veteran Mac users know, the Toast application was born way before MacOS X (10.0). Back then, Toast was necessary to do something as simple as […]
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Last Tuesday Apple announced new Mac Pro models based on Intel’s Nehalem architecture (at long last!). We got some things we’d been hoping for (Nehalem architecture, improved memory handing, MUCH faster GPUs, cleaner internal layout), and not some others some of us had been hoping for (Blu-ray burners, 10GigE networking, cookie dispenser). Read on for […]
