In honor of TipTuesday over on Twitter I thought I’d share this simple Avid Media Composer tip that I use to counter the lack of a clip enable / disable feature in Media Composer. It’s all about saving an effect and getting easy access to that saved effect. There’s actually several tips in here that […]
Read More… from Tip Tuesday: Disable a clip in the Avid Media Composer timeline
The following Academy Awards for scientific and technical achievements were presented on Saturday, February 11, at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, CA: Gordon E. Sawyer Award The Board of Governors of the Academy has voted the Gordon E. Sawyer Award to Douglas Trumbull, a visionary filmmaker who has worked as a designer, director, […]
Here’s another summary of the last week or so of news on After Effects-assorted tutorials and tools, animation aids, CC Hair, son of Ken Burns, expressions, and more. Create Your Own Little Fuzzy Friends by Ran Ben Avraham leverages the rarely used CC Hair plug-in, as well as iExpressions by Mamoworld for animation. Harry Frank used […]
We’re excited to show you the new mMedia Platform at Createasphere’s upcoming conference in Los Angeles – the Digital Asset Management Conference on February 22nd and 23rd. The mMedia platform centers around an enhanced ActiveSAN high-performance metadata controller appliance, and adds two exciting new products: mRAID and mVault, matched with optimized management software for a […]
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On Thursday’s MacBreak Studio: Live show we discussed the Final Cut Pro 10.0.3 update, diving in deep on features big and small. We got so many questions we couldn’t answer them all during the show (which ran almost 2 hours) – so you can find those questions and our answers on the next page. By […]
NewTek is now shipping LightWave™ 11, the latest version of its Emmy® award-winning, professional 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software that lets artists broaden their creative exploration. LightWave 11 incorporates many new features, such as instancing, flocking and fracturing tools, flexible Bullet Dynamics, Pixologic™ Zbrush® support, and much more. With its innovative tools and unlimited […]
In this episode we look at how how fast a layer is moving by using the property expression, “speed” and then use that information to trigger an event on another layer. The code we use in this setup is gonna open up a lot of new animation possibilities for you. While speed is the primary […]
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Blackmagic Design today announced the release of HyperDeck 2.5 public beta, a new software update that adds embedded timecode support, DNxHD recording to QuickTime and SDI camera record triggering to its HyperDeck SSD recorders. HyperDeck 2.5 public beta for Mac OS X and Windows is available for download now and is free of charge for […]
The script for Man on a Ledge called for protagonist Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) to spend the bulk of the tale perched 21 stories above a Manhattan intersection. An escaped convict trying to prove his innocence, Nick captures the city’s attention and distracts authorities while his brother conducts a daring heist across the street. Visual […]
History is a feature in Smoke that keeps track of the operations that you perform on a clip, so that it can be recalled and revised later. It not only keeps track of the setups and keyframing, but also the clips used in making the final result. This is what I find really special. […]
Read More… from The Metadata Magic of Smoke’s Clip History Part I
