Random notes from my first “real world” Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 edit

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I was fortunate to get my hands on an early release of Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and an edit that came up last week seemed like the perfect place to test it out. It wasn’t an overly complex edit, a 3 minute piece shot on RED with interviews and b-roll. I cut the offline and […]

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After Effects Apprentice Free Video: Copying Paths from Illustrator to After Effects

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Buried in the shuffle over the announcement of After Effects CS6 is that we concluded the video training series for our book After Effects Apprentice 2nd Edition with a nearly 3.5 hour course dedicated to that book's Final Project. Several movies from this course are available for free preview from lynda.com; we'd like to share […]

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Codex and ARRI Continue Successful Partnership

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Codex, the leading developer of digital media recorders and media management systems for film and television production, and ARRI, the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of motion picture camera, digital intermediate and lighting equipment, have had an incredible year with the ARRI ALEXA camera and the Codex ARRIRAW recorder. Beginning with Extremely Loud and Incredibly […]

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Putting the After Effects CS6 3D Camera Tracker to the Test

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Since the announcement of the Adobe CS6 Production Premium was made, there are a lot of great tutorials and examples made with the product to show off the new features. Most use nicely shot footage with dolly shots or smooth steady-cam work with lots of great contrasting detail to track, which provide great results. Naturally […]

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NAB 2012: Canon C300 Image Processing

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Canon held a press dinner Monday night at NAB, where Larry Thorpe held forth on the Canon C300’s use of a quad-HD sensor (2x HD resolution in both H and V dimensions) and how Canon’s “super green” sampling boosts MTF and suppresses aliasing in the camera’s 1080p images. Despite a heavy infusion of exceedingly good […]

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Trimming in the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 timeline

The power really is in the trim for Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. See the whole brand new PP training course is live on Lynda.com. http://bit.ly/HJnIby If you aren’t a member, sign up for a free 7 day trial and watch the whole thing. www.lynda.com/trial/rharrington? ? Richard Harrington derives part of his income producing training materials. […]

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Blackmagic Steals NAB 2012 With Their New Cinema Camera

If you heard a collective gasp coming from about ninety thousand people in Las Vegas last week, it was most likely in reaction to Blackmagic’s ground breaking announcement that they are now officially a camera manufacturer. On April 16, 2012, Blackmagic Design unleashed the Blackmagic Cinema Camera on NAB and the world. It’s not clear whether this […]

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OpenText Reveals New Products and Innovations at NAB 2012

John Price, Product Marketing Manager at OpenText, tells us about their Manage File Transfer and also talks about the people, problems and trends they have seen and discussed about at NAB 2012. Listen as he talks about the various issues OpenText is dealing with and working through in 2012 and beyond. OpenText, an enterprise software […]

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