At NAB 2011 FilmLight surprised most everyone with a preview of their Baselight for Final Cut Pro plugin. It was surprising because I think many people expected them to release a lower cost, Mac-based version of their flagship Baselight color grading tool. Instead they showed a different strategy that looks to revolve around very powerful […]
A brand new pipeline in a box from The Foundry tackling shot management, conform and review for visual effects. HIERO 1.0 makes it easy to conform edit decision lists, parcel out VFX shots to NUKE and review multiple versions within the context of the edit. HIERO is the timeline NUKE has been waiting for, but […]
Createasphere is looking for engaging presenters for their upcoming Digital Asset Management Events in New York and Den Haag, NL-Europe. If you have some DAM education you would like to share, be sure to submit your white paper: http://provideocoalitionexpo.com/En/speaker-proposals.html […]
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated VFX and workflow technology for video and film, today announced that Boris Continuum Complete 8 for Sony Vegas™ Pro (BCC 8 for Vegas Pro) is now available. Based on the Open Effects Association (OFX) platform, BCC 8 for Vegas Pro delivers over 175 comprehensive VFX and compositing filters […]
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Smoke is known as a finishing system, but it’s a great editor in it’s own right. Many people are looking for options with their editing tool of choice and I think that Autodesk Smoke needs to be looked at as one of those choices. It is just as powerful and editor as FCP 7. Adobe […]
Ever have the need to have a layer stay exactly at the midpoint between two other moving layers? Sometimes your layers have to move erratically, or even linear, but you just want your midpoint layer to just stay in the middle without doing math and hand keyframing it the whole way. Well this expression should […]
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These portraits, she recounted, were exchanged between bride and groom sometime near the turn of the 20th century. I’ve never seen this framing shown in any photo history book. But I do know that because tintypes were made with very thin plates, they were creatively cut to fit the covers of albums, or inset into […]
Maxon released it’s latest version of the Cinema 4D (C4D) late in 2011. The R13 Studio version is their flagship product and it’s loaded with a ton of new stuff. C4D has been a popular platform for Motion Graphics artists for a while now, probably due to it’s ease-of-use, plug-and-play capabilities. Motion Graphics folks could […]
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Future Media Concepts (FMC) and NAB today announced they will co-host this year’s NAB Show keynote presentation, a panel discussion featuring Fusion-io chief scientist and Apple® co-founder Steve Wozniak, and visual effects supervisor Rob Legato, who just won his second Oscar® for his work on the 2011 film “Hugo.” Joining them in the discussion will […]
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Litepanels®, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, will debut a variety of new LED lighting products at the NAB Convention and Exhibition in Las Vegas on April 16-19, 2012 in booth C6025. The professional lighting pioneer is making big news with LED Fresnel fixtures by introducing a new member of its daylight balance […]
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