On Artbeats.com: Reusing Colors

On Artbeats.com: Reusing Colors 1

Over on Artbeats.com, they recently published the third of a trio of articles we wrote on the use of color. In this final installment, we discuss a few approaches for sharing a color palette across shots, compositions, and even projects using the swatch storage in the system color pickers (particularly in OS-X), Adobe’s kuler and […]

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After FCP7/FCS3… we still need DVKitchen!

After FCP7/FCS3... we still need DVKitchen! 3

Final Cut Pro 7 fortunately now offers many inboard “sharing” features which were very weak or non-existent before. Now FCP7 allows us to export to multiple formats and destinations in a single job (called “Back-End Batch Capability” in my DVKitchen review of March 2009). FCP7 even allows us to export “in the background”, so we […]

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DGA Digital Day 2009 Conference Notes

This will be looooooong – these are my raw notes, as taken, of sitting in on the panels at the DGA Digital Day today. I saw almost everything, but skipped out on some VFX stuff to go see the footage demos, which I found a bit disappointing due to incompleteness – no D21 or Sony […]

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Notes from DGA Digital Day 2009 vendor area & camera footage demos

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OK, here’s a two parter – went to the DGA Digital Day (that’s the Directors Guild of America to you) and it was basically in two parts – sit down presentations, and a vendor area to wander. Here’s my notes from the vendor area, after the jump. EDIT – and I put my notes from […]

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MacWorldSF 2010 Free Expo Registration

MacWorldSF 2010 Free Expo Registration 8

The annual MacWorld Expo show soldiers on next February, despite the lack of Apple itself (so far, Apple isn’t exhibiting at CES or NAB either; apparently Apple means it when they say “we don’t need shows”). MWSF is still the best place to see new iPod—erm, Mac and other Apple-related—products all gathered in one place, […]

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