NewBlueFX Introduces “Video Essentials III” Effects Plugins

NewBlue, Inc. today launched Video Essentials III, the third and latest offering in its best-selling Video Essentials series of video effects and transitions plugins. NewBlue Video Essentials III provides highly-practical video tools designed to solve everyday production issues. The collection includes Rolling Shutter, Image Mapper, Edge Smoother, Split Screen, Gradient Tint, Spotlight and three additional […]

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HaiVision’s New MAKITO™ HD H.264 Video Encoding, With Component and DVI Input for up to 1080p60 Re

HaiVision Network Video today announced the immediate availability of the latest MAKITO™, a high performance HD H.264 encoder that now supports both component analog and DVI inputs. The MAKITO delivers low latency, full frame rate H.264 encoding of high definition video up to 1080p60, or computer graphics resolutions up to 1280×1024 60Hz (SXGA). The new […]

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Noise Industries Releases Free Pan and Zoom Photo Animation Plug-in

Flexible parameters of new Pan and Zoom 2 freebie enable the effortless creation of stunning photo animations inside both Apple and Adobe host applications Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced that it has released an update to its popular freebie generator plug-in, Pan and Zoom. The intuitive […]

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Calrec Omega Audio Console Swells to 240 Channels

Calrec Audio today announced a significant upgrade to its Omega with Bluefin console — a 50 percent expansion of digital signal processing (DSP) capacity — raising it from the previous 160 to a full 240 paths. Since its launch at NAB2007, the Omega console, which uses Calrec’s award-winning Bluefin high density signal processing, has proved […]

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New Viz Video Hub™ Version 2.0

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Vizrt announces the introduction of the upgraded Version 2.0 of its Viz Video Hub plug-and-play asset management (MAM) system. Among other significant enhancements, Version 2.0 provides extended support for archiving through a Tape Robot feature. The Tape Robot support enables broadcasters to archive huge amounts of video assets directly within Viz Video Hub. And it […]

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Artbeats Celebrates Launch of FootageHub with $40,000 Scavenger Giveaway

Finding the perfect clip now comes with an added benefit. Artbeats, the industry’s leading creative royalty-free stock footage resource, has introduced an online scavenger hunt in celebration of the industry’s newest all-inclusive stock footage service, Artbeats FootageHub. Taking place now through Jan. 31, 2010, the Artbeats $40,000 Scavenger Giveaway provides participants weekly opportunities to win […]

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How Ideas Spread: Three Conditions for a Viral Idea

How Ideas Spread | Digital Tonto. by Greg Satell Ideas That Spread Themselves It has long been known that people are influenced by others around them.Solomon Aschconductedexperiments in the 1950’s that showed that people will give answers that they know to be false if every other person in their group gives the wrong answer.The majority […]

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Digital Rebellion’s Footage Calculator adds more codecs

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A while I back I posted a round-up of various footage calculators around the Internet. The one from Digital Rebellion had the most supported codecs but was lacking some new ones like ProRes Proxy and ProRes 4444. Well Digital Rebellion has updated the Footage Calculator with … well, pretty much all of them. This latest […]

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World’s Only “Death Oompah” Band Gets Virtual Reality Music Video

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[TB] An accordion-playing lead singer; a drummer who occasionally uses a doll instead of drumsticks; and a song based on the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Just another day on set with one of the most macabre bands in existence: the Tiger Lillies. The email’s subject line read “A Beg, Borrow or Steal Production.” One […]

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Did you plan your career in DAM?

Some people plan their career in a particular field. If you work/worked in the field of Digital Asset Management (DAM), did you plan on a career in DAM? Please vote. Posted by Henrik de Gyor on November 10, 2009 Some people plan their career in a particular field. If you work/worked in the field of […]

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