CUDA, Mercury Playback Engine, and Adobe Premiere Pro

A few weeks ago, I wrote a forum post to try to clarify some things about CUDA, the Mercury Playback Engine, and what it all means for Adobe Premiere Pro. I wrote this as a forum post because I wanted to invite questions and conversation. But, as forum threads do, it got a little messy, […]

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Quicktips 2011 Day 30 follow-up for the Day 27 Speed up FCP’s XDCAM export

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This original Reader Quicktip about speeding up the FCP XDCAM export that came to us from James Stuckey Weber really showed he was having some very dramatic speed increases just by closing the FCP Canvas and Timeline. It seems after a bit more of James testing and discussing this with some fellow editors there’s a […]

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A Rubik’s Cube structure for the marketing department

A Rubik’s Cube structure for the marketing department – Chief Marketing Technologist. In case you haven’t seen it yet, Chris Kuenne wrote a terrific guest editorial in Ad Age a couple of weeks ago: Four Talent Categories You Need to Win in a Connected World. This is one of the best articles I’ve read yet […]

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3 Most Useful Discovery Engines: Find Similar Pages

3 Most Useful Discovery Engines: Find Similar Pages. We all know how the Web search works: all you need is to provide relevant terms that describe the concept or the topic you are interested in, click “Search” and the search engine will generate the list of results ranked by popularity. But what if you don’t […]

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How should I cover NAB this year?

How should I cover NAB this year? 4

I’m starting to think about NAB 2011, and I’m curious what you thought of my 2010 coverage. Got a minute to let me know? Last year, I put together both traditional, dead-pixels, text-and-pictures reports, and a series of short video clips (all of them listed here). After all, it’s ProVideoCoalition, not freakin’ ProTextAndPicturesCoalition. But, did […]

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It’s Official: Avid Media Composer 5.5 is coming March 8th!

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Last week Avid announced that they would be releasing and shipping the newest version of Media Composer on March 8th – a full month before NAB! This is very exciting news and it created a flury of tweets, blog posts and discussions in user groups and forums. At last years NAB, Avid announced Media Composer […]

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After Effects Apprentice Free Video: Auto Bezier Keyframes

After Effects Apprentice Free Video: Auto Bezier Keyframes 6

As we mentioned earlier, we're creating a video training series based on our popular beginner's book After Effects Apprentice, which progresses from “I haven't used it before” through core skills including keyframing, masking, text animation, and 3D space to advanced techniques such as motion tracking, green screen, and expressions. The third course is based on […]

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