DAM Talk: AIIM President and CEO John Mancini

Editor-in-Chief Paul Quigley interviewsAIIM President and CEOJohn Mancini , discussing key issues including the rampant oversight of effective electronic records management, the paper mountains that remain unsructured, as well as covering eDiscovery, compliance, the future of the media, and the priorities for organisations trying to monetise in a digitally asset rich environment. John Mancini AIIM […]

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Hitler upset about the Canon 7D? Or just jealous?

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Philip Bloom has really outdone him with this spoof on the feelings of owners and potential owners of the Panasonic Lumix GH1, Canon D7, and Canon 5D MK II hybrid cameras. This video contains so many inside jokes that I am not sure how many of our readers will get all of them, but if […]

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After Effects Apprentice Video Tutorial #10

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Earlier this year we released After Effects Apprentice (2nd Edition). The DVD-ROM that comes with the book includes an hour and a half of video tutorials that provide gentle introductions to major features inside After Effects. We’ve been releasing these videos one per month here on PVC; this is the last one in the series. […]

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Baseline is a very visual and very clever way to manage disk space

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As editors and media content creators we can often accumulate tons of large video and audio files as well as hundreds of thousands of tiny little (and sometimes not so tiny and little) supporting files. Be they QuickTime movies, graphics, audio files, render files, edit project files, autosaves … the list is pretty much endless. […]

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Speech Search Meets ScriptSync

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Anybody remember that classic commercial for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups? “Hey! You got peanut butter on my chocolate! No! You got chocolate in my peanut butter!” Then the two injured parties in the commercial realize that peanut butter and chocolate are really two great tastes that taste great together! They shouldn’t be kept apart. They […]

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Moving Footage From Final Cut Pro to After Effects

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Getting your footage from Final Cut Pro to After Effects is a very common workflow. In fact, so many people choose to work this way that there are several free and for sale workflow tools on the market. While the task may seem as easy as a batch export, there is often precious metadata and […]

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Online Post-Production Management with ShotRunner

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The days of cobbling together a database to track shots, assets and progress are numbered. Although nowadays it has become common for many post-production projects to be managed with Basecamp, it’s an application hardly specialized to our industry. Two web based tools currently in late beta anticipate the needs of post production more directly. Shotgun […]

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Greenscreen Primer Part 2

In the first installment, we looked at the basic set up for shooting Greenscreen. Most of what I covered is exactly what we see people skip everyday. What I’m going to talk about next is what everyone else ignores at their peril. We’re talking about capture systems and codecs. As with color correction, capturing greenscreen […]

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Grass Valley Unveils New Features and Functionality For Its Aurora Digital Production Platform

Grass Valley™ is unveiling the latest version (7.0) of its popular Aurora™ Digital Production platform, which brings new efficiencies in speed, media management, and third-party support to an already fully featured platform that streamlines file-based production workflows for the benefit of a wide variety of standard- and high-definition projects. Grass Valley Digital Production products span […]

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It’s Official – Avid Media Composer 4 – Shipping Worldwide

New! Avid Media Composer 4! Discover storytelling on the cutting edge. With the new Avid Media Composer 4non-linear editing software, you get the speed, flexibility, and confidence youneed to achieve your creative vision and deliver compelling content?”on timeand on budget. Having a rock-solid system that helps you quickly sort through your material andcut together the […]

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