In this latest episode of “The Terence & Philip Show” we start by discussing the release of Final Cut Pro X 10.0.1. We know what features are in this release and what else is coming in “early 2012? but what will Apple do for Version 2? We also cover, Intelligent Assistance’s new release of Project […]
Month: November 2011
The Simplest, Fastest Interview Lighting Setup–Ever.
For a long time my primary source of employment was shooting corporate marketing communications videos. As these consist primarily of “talking head” interviews, I tried every lighting setup I could think of to make people look their best quickly, as many of these shoots have tight schedules and not much turnaround time between interviews. This […]
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Grass Valley Adds 3D Support Across Its EDIUS Editing Software and STORM 3G Editing Platform
Grass Valley™ has unveiled a powerful 3D toolset for its EDIUS® multiformat nonlinear editing software and has added 3D support for editing peripherals that provides users with a complete stereoscopic 3D postproduction workflow. The STORM™ 3G and STORM 3G Elite editing platforms -are both supported via the EDIUS timeline with stereoscopic 3D I/O through a […]
Snow in After Effects: an updated roundup
You can use dedicated snow filters or particle systems to create snow that can be stylized or realistic, or something less successful. There are filters built into After Effects like CC Snow, CC Particle World, and Particle Playground — or you can use 3rd-party filters like Trapcode Particular (which is AE 3D camera-aware), Boris FX […]
Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve Lite now Includes Unlimited Color Correction Nodes
Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve Lite 8.1, a new version of the free DaVinci Resolve that now includes unlimited color correction nodes. Unlimited color correction nodes allow customers to use multiple color correctors for more complex and creative grading and is a dramatic boost in power over the previous version of DaVinci Resolve Lite […]
Blackmagic Design adds Avid DNxHD Recording and Playback to HyperDeck Studio
Blackmagic Design today announced HyperDeck Software Update 2.0, a new software update for its popular HyperDeck Studio that adds broadcast quality compressed 10 bit recording and playback to the Avid® DNxHD® format. DNxHD is a broadcast industry standard for media files and adding native support for this compressed video format into HyperDeck Studio will allow […]
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GenArts Releases Sapphire v6 for Final Cut Pro 7 and OFX Systems
GenArts Inc., the global leader in specialized visual effects (VFX) software, today expanded the newest version of Sapphire to include support for Apple Final Cut Pro 7, The Foundry Nuke, Sony Vegas, and other Open Effects (OFX) systems. With this release, Sapphire v6 is available on all major editing systems to give editors, motion graphic […]
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Photo Mosaics & Card Dance in After Effects
The quick tip for making an animated photo mosaic in After Effects is to generate the mosaic externally and animate with the built-in Card Dance plug-in, which can be a little tricky. Useful as a launching point is Ayato Fujii's text tutorial, Example.50: Photo Mosaic (and Example 49 animating a mosaic of text). He showed how using software […]
Debut of Createasphere Digital Asset Management Conference in Europe
Createasphere’s Digital Asset Management Conference-Europe made its bow at The Hague last week to strong response and an engaging lineup of speakers and sponsors. Createasphere – a global community builder for the entertainment technology industry – launched its Digital Asset Management Conference (DAM) in Los Angeles in 2010. Since its launch, based on positive response […]
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PsF’s missing workflow, Part 6: Tépper asks the camera manufacturers…
In parts 1-3 of the PsF’s missing workflow series, we introduced the terms benign PsF & malignant PsF, and revealed the PsF status of several professional AVCHD cameras from 3 manufacturers (Canon, Panasonic, and Sony). In part 4, we did the same with several file-based HD video recorders from 6 different manufacturers. In part 5, […]
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