From Sony: Blu-code encoder, Blu-print, and on-Q Create for Blu-ray Java are the most powerful applications available for Blu-ray disk production. Special pricing is available on these applications through December 31, 2009. To help you get started with Blu-ray production, Sony’s offering three FREE Blu-ray titles to qualified trials. Visit http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/bluoffer to find out if […]
Day: September 30, 2009
Boris FX Updates Boris Continuum Complete Product Line to Version 6.0.4
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced that its flagship Boris Continuum Complete product line has been updated to Version 6.0.4. The Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) product line includes BCC AE for Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro, BCC FxPlug for Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple […]
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New Litepanels’ 1×1 Long-Throw SuperSpot”
Litepanels’ 1×1 LED (light emitting diode) slimline fixtures have gained universal acceptance in the production community. The popular 1×1 Spot fixtures, focus the 5600°K beam to 30 degrees. Now the new 1×1 SuperSpot” further focuses the output to a 15-degree beam, which concentrates the light in a smaller area, to provide a longer throw. Like […]
CMIS one year on – soon in public review
CMIS: I was recently reminded that I wrote about thepublic introduction of CMIS around the same time last year. This was the time that IBM, Microsoft and EMC decided it was time to announce the Content Management Interoperability Services that they started October 2006 and release it to OASIS to become an official standard. At […]
License Powerful Imagery For Your Social Media Campaigns
Social media has upended the traditional promotional methods of engaging with customers, leaving you left to explore which of the social media channels are best for your marketing and communications plans. Do you engage through a branded Facebook group? A Twitter feed? Or do you create customer awareness through a viral YouTube video or design […]
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Prime Focus rebranding globally
LONDON — Visual entertainment services group Prime Focus is rebranding its outposts, prepping a proprietary 2D-to-3D conversion process and pushing a Web-based media asset management service to help film studios, broadcasters and advertisers more efficiently manage their content and workflows. The company is embarking on a global rebrand after a three-year period of acquisition of […]
Welcome to the Hybrid Artist
Seeking to Understand I – Chris Meyer, 2009 “That's a photograph?!?” This is the usual response I get when I explain that the underlying image in one of my mixed media works is actually a photo of the real world. And I consider it to be a compliment. Ever since I was a kid […]
Metropia
Unlike Mike Curtis, I’m not at FantasticFest, but I still heard about an interesting (to After Effects artists) screening there – an animated movie called Metropia. According to Brian Behm (who did attend), the entire movie was done in After Effects: “Talking to the director afterwards, he had upwards of 40 layers in the eyes […]
Videoguys’ Thoughts on Microsoft Windows 7 (Pre-Release)
We have been getting a ton of emails and phone calls asking us about Windows 7 and compatibility with our latest DIY7 build and all our products. We are going to wait until after Windows 7 ships on October 22nd to officially recommend it, but we are very excited about it. Let’s face it, the […]
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Vinten Supports Tom Burstyn’s Labor of Love – This Way of Life
Cinematographer Tom Burstyn CSC credits his “trusty” Vinten Vision 3 pan and tilt head and carbon fiber legs as a key to completing his four-year labor of love – This Way of Life – that recently opened at the prestigious Vancouver Film Festival. The documentary tracks the story of a wild family that spends much […]
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