Active Storage, the leader in high-performance storage solutions for media and creative professionals, today announced the mMedia platform, a complete end-to-end workflow storage solution for post and broadcast production. The mMedia platform centers around an enhanced ActiveSAN high performance metadata controller appliance, and adds two exciting new products, mRAID and mVault (also announced today, see […]
Monday, February 13th marked the world premiere of feature film Act of Valor at the legendary Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard in the heart of Hollywood. Produced by the Bandito Brothers, Act of Valor is inspired by real-life events and, for the first time ever, stars active duty United States Navy SEALs. Among the premiere […]
In Preferences, you can choose if your clips are saved with History automatically or on-demand. You can also choose if you want to keep your intermediate renders, or have Smoke just remember the setup data and delete the intermediate frames after it processes them. Keep Sources can free up space on your framestore. When […]
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Blackmagic Design today released Videohub 4.9 a major new software update that adds new Macro support as well as advanced network based configuration of control panels for its range of Videohub SDI routers and Smart Control panels. Videohub 4.9 for Mac OS X and Windows is available for download now and is free of charge […]
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Here’s another summary of the last week or so of news on After Effects — assorted tutorials and tools with Xbox Kinect mocap, text, 3D, expressions, and more. Victoria Nece has 2 tutorials on Kinect MoCap Animation in After Effects, Part 1: Getting Started and Part 2: Motion Capture with KinectToPin, on using the free Processing app KinectToPin […]
Premiering yesterday, CareyDissmore.com and SteveOakley.net announced the release of “In Production” a new webisodic series that brings together film & video industry veterans Carey Dissmore and Steve Oakley. Targeted at working video production professionals, “In Production” is a brand new video chat program where hosts Dissmore and Oakley discuss tools and topics related to video […]
At the 11th Annual San Francisco SuperMeet, Justin Russo of Drobo, showed off the new Drobo B800i, 8 Bay, iSCSI SAN storage. This unit is optimized for small businesses to provide reliable and high-performance storage to servers running applications like file services, data protection, email, and server virtualization. According to Russo, Drobo has taken RAID […]
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The HP Z1 combines a sleek industrial design with accelerated performance featuring Intel® Xeon® processors, NVIDIA Quadro graphics, support for more than 1 billion colors and HP’s world-class reliability. Built for computer-aided design, digital media and entertainment professionals, the HP Z1 provides blazingly fast rendering and performance. It offers a full range of workstation-class graphics […]
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Welcome to Indian Wells, an offshoot of Palm Springs, CA. So why is the first day’s “Super Session” titled “Snowflakes with an Increasing Chance of Clouds“? As moderator Leon Silverman said, modern post workflows are like snowflakes because no two are alike, and they change as soon as they hit the ground. Starting out with […]
So at the end of the day when your spot is being reviewed, and changes are needed, Smoke can handle that with ease. The processing of effects is very fast on Smoke with its combination of CPU and GPU rendering. Adjustments to even the most complex of effects will render in the single digits of […]
