Createasphere Wraps Four Days of Connection, Information and Community Building

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Createasphere – a global community builder for the entertainment technology industry – wrapped four days of education, connection, and exhibition last week in Burbank during two events focused on a wide array of topics addressing content creation in a transmedia world. Createasphere kicked off its flagship event of the year, the Entertainment Technology Expo, with […]

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Seamless edits for jump cuts

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Adobe research scientist Wil Li has a demo of an experimental technology for creating seamless edits in interview footage that could make working with jump cuts easier. Hopefully, this technology with Content Aware seam-carving goodness will be integrated into Premiere. Some of this seems to have been developed a little further and later presented as […]

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ARRI Alexa In-Camera Recording Using Avid’s DnxHD MXF File Format

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ARRI announces a major new recording feature for its ALEXA camera range, offering in-camera support for Avid®’s open standard and widely adopted Avid DNxHD® codec. The ability to record native Avid DNxHD, as MXF files in-camera, creates a unique proposition for the 35 mm digital capture industry and is another first for the ALEXA camera […]

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The Adobe Premiere Pro timeline for Final Cut Pro users

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When working in a non-linear editing application the editor spends many, many hours working in the timeline. Boy do we spend a lot of hours working in the timeline. If you’re moving from Final Cut Pro 7 to Adobe Premiere Pro 5.5 then you won’t be totally lost as there are a lot of similarities […]

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The Economic Advantage of Outsourcing Photo Retouch Services

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Photographers both make money and save money by paying someone else to do a significant part of their image retouching and enhancement needs. Second in a series of conversations with Neale Narang of ReadyRetouch.com. Neale:You do the math. However you add up the hours in your business week, photographers need to be doing more of […]

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Motion Tracking and Green Screen with After Effects & Mocha AE

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Amazingly, a lot of people don’t even know that they already OWN Mocha AE… it ships along with After Effects CS4 and higher and is a stand-alone application for providing planar motion tracking. You’ve probably already seen the trick of using Mocha AE to track and insert an image or a video clip inside an […]

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Video insider look at the Sony PMW 500 camera with Curt Pair

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Sony guru and production magician at Picture this Productions, Inc. explains the PMW 500 camera system. From the small corporate and web film production viewpoint, Sony has been aggressively claiming the market ascendency, just as Canon has done with their high end still camera lines. Curt Pair has researched the marketplace of new video gear […]

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Adobe really is open

Last month, it was announced that Automatic Duck, makers of popular plug-ins for exchanging timelines between After Effects, Avid, Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools, and more, had partnered with Adobe to bring best-of-class interchange technology to Adobe Premiere Pro and Production Premium. As the President and co-founder of Automatic Duck, Inc., I was invited to […]

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Blackmagic Design Announces Avid Media Composer 6 Support

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Milpitas CA – November 3, 2011 – Blackmagic Design today announced Desktop Video 9.0, a major new software update with advanced capture and playback for the Avid® Media Composer® 6 family of software including Avid Symphony® and Avid NewsCutter™, for both Windows 7™ and Mac OS X™. Desktop Video 9.0 is available for download now […]

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Canon Makes Hollywood Debut with Launch of Cinema EOS System

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Canon Inc. today announced Canon’s full-fledged entry into the motion picture production industry with the launch of the Cinema EOS System. Canon’s new professional digital cinematography system spans the lens, digital video camcorder and digital SLR camera product categories. The Cinema EOS System targets a new area of imaging expression for Canon, building on the […]

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