A series of press releases from The Foundry since NAB have marked major steps forward for Nuke as the emerging software leader for visual effects compositing. The latest of these is this morning’s news that Weta Digital has invested in a Nuke site license, less than a month after ILM announced the same. During that […]
Day: July 6, 2009
Shooting Tornados and Hurricanes with the Petrol Raincover
When it comes to camcorder rain cover users, there are those who shoot in the rain and then there’s Richard Campbell, who has shot video in 25 named hurricanes and spent five weeks on assignment for “The Weather Channel” with a tornado researching crew. A freelance news photographer, Campbell’s assignment had him embedded with a […]
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Boris Continuum Complete 6 AVX for Avid DS Now Available
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that Boris Continuum Complete 6 AVX for Avid DS (BCC 6 AVX for DS) is now available. Based on Avid’s AVX 1 plug-in architecture, BCC 6 AVX for DS brings nearly 180 filters to 64-bit versions of Avid DS. The release […]
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Solving today's challenge of integrating complex 3D files into DAM and Workflow.
Handling complex 3D files in a standard DAM and workflow environment faces huge problems. 3D-files are mostly very bulky files: up to gigabytes To view these files, every polygon needs to be rendered. Simple 3D files contain thousands of polygons, complex files contain hundreds of millions of polygons If rendering on client, whole file needs […]
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VFM Leonardo to power visual content management and distribution for IHG's hotel brands
InterContinental Hotels Group integrates VScape digital asset management and distribution functionality into its Hotel Content Management (HCM) system to ensure accurate, consistent hotel visual content online. ATLANTA, GA and TORONTO, ON (July 2, 2009) – VFM Leonardo, the leader in online visual content distribution for hotels and IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), [LON: IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)], […]
Video-8 builds NRL digital library
When the Rugby League decided to build a digital library they turned to digital media migration specialists Video-8 to help them with the process. Shane Mattiske, NRL Director of Strategy and Special Projects explained, “We made a strategic decision to compile and digitise all available masters of footage ahead of our centenary year. This footage […]
RDFa, Drupal and a Practical Semantic Web
Image via Wikipedia In the march towardcreating the semantic web, web content management systems such as Drupal (news,site) and many proprietary vendors struggle with the goal of emitting structured information that other sites and tools can usefully consume. There’s a balance to be struck between human and machine utility, not to mention simplicity of instrumentation. […]
Report from Digital Asset Management (DAM) Conference – London, 1 July
I spent Wednesday 1st July at theHenry Stewart DAM Conference in London. In my slot I talked about,“Tagging Images for Findability – Making Your DAM System Work for You.” I used my 30 minutes to raise the issue of organising images using metadata and controlled vocabulary to connect the images to the people who want […]
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Universal Format Converter
I wanted to share a little work in progress file. I find After Effects tremendously useful for resizing video. In fact I use it often to pre-process footage before applying additional codecs. What I’ve put together here is a Resizer project. It allows you to quickly convert an HD file (720 or 1080) to 50 […]
Music Video shot on iPhone 3GS
The other day I wrote a short post about a new product from the prolific gearheads at Zacuto…they had just announced their latest product, a support rig for the iPhone 3GS and it’s new 30fps video mode. I wondered at the time if people would take the iPhone’s video mode seriously enough to drop $295 […]
