Video Marketing Tips From SES London

Video Marketing Tips From SES London – Online Marketing Blog. The first session of the day for me here at SES London is a topic I’ve been interested in for a very long time: video marketing and optimization. It’s a great panel featuringJonathan Allen from Incisive Media,Paul Carff from Google andWill Critchlow from Distilled. All […]

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Quicktips 2011 Day 25: Two Avid tips for Friday

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Today we have two Avid Media Composer Quicktips that come to us from Ra-ey Saleh, a Symphony Online Editor working in Sydney. There’s two tips here, one for the ever popular Avid Paint effect and one great tip for playing back the edit while in Color Correction mode. Here’s Ra-ey’s tips: 1) PAINT EFFECT: Erase […]

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The existence of a new FCP is confirmed. The world rejoices.

Thunderbolt in action with the old Final Cut Pro By now everyone who’s ever edited a frame of video and has a web connection knows that Apple recently held an small, secret, invitation-only meeting at their headquarters in Cupertino where they previewed the next version of Final Cut Pro. This was an extremely unusual move […]

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SOUND DEVICES INTRODUCES THE CL-WIFI FOR THE 788T DIGITAL RECORDER AT NAB 2011

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Sound Devices will introduce the latest hardware accessory for its best-selling 788T Digital Recorders, the new CL-WIFI, at NAB 2011 (Booth C2946). The CL-WIFI allows users to control the already powerful 788T from anywhere on set. The CL-WIFI works together with its companion iOS software app to allow iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches to control […]

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How to fix an ugly exposure mistake!

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Everybody knows you can’t fix everything in post, but I had to try. Not an absolutely must-have shot, because I had four other good ones from different distances and angles. Most people would cIassify this one unrecoverable. I probably should have just tossed the image. But call it pride or embarrassment, I wasn’t going to […]

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Quicktips 2011 Day 24: Access FCP’s timeline keyframe editor

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Everyone who edits with Final Cut Pro knows that you have full access to animating and keyframing parameters via the Viewer. Double-click a clip in the timeline and it loads in the Viewer. There you can keyframe parameters in the Motion tab or parameters of any filter that might be applied. But you can also […]

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After Effects Apprentice: Layer Control

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As we mentioned earlier, we're creating a video training series from our book After Effects Apprentice and distributing it through lynda.com. They just released the next installment today: Layer Control. Some of the subjects this course covers includes: editing and sequencing layers looping, time-stretching, and frame blending footage (including importing image sequences, and a trick […]

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LOG rolling with the Sony F3

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The S-LOG Gamma curve of the Sony PMW-F3 (blue) maintains camera highlights up to 800% of nominal peak white. This is far beyond the capability of conventional Rec.709 gamma encoding (red). As the much-talked-about PMW-F3 handheld Super 35mm camcorder hits the streets this month, it comes with the promise of S-LOG Gamma, which will be […]

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