Sony Creative Software Announces Availability of Production Music Catalog

Sony Creative Software, a leading global provider of professional editing and authoring applications, today released a new addition to its Sony Sound Series offerings: Production Music, which consists of a unique selection of royalty free music tracks for both personal and commercial use. The Production Music collection provides customers with immediate access to an extensive […]

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Blackmagic Design Releases Support for new Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion™

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Blackmagic Design today released a series of new software updates for its products that adds full support for Apple’s new Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion operating system. These software updates include support for Apple’s new Gatekeeper anti malware security protection for all products, including DaVinci Resolve 9, Desktop Video products including DeckLink, Intensity, UltraStudio, […]

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Facilis Rolls Out TerraBlock 5.6 with Support for 3TB Drives

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Facilis Technology, a leader in advanced shared storage solutions for post-production and content creation, today announced the release of TerraBlock version 5.6 with support for 3TB drives. The new version also includes enhanced Ethernet client performance for the DPX workflow and new administration features that make it easier for post production professionals and content creators […]

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Wise Choices: Selecting The Right Canon Camera for Your Film Project

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From location to lighting to audio and beyond, there’s plenty of decisions that need to be made on any production. Among the most critical decisions affecting the look of any production is what camera to use. Canon Live Learning presents an informative, demonstration heavy seminar aimed at helping you decide which Canon professional cameras are […]

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Big Data – What’s the Big Deal?

BIG DATA is more than just the fancy new buzzword, though the term has been around for a very long time. As a matter of fact, it’s been used in many different ways recently, creating a lot of confusion. Traditionally reserved for analytics applications, it now extends into other areas of extreme content growth. It […]

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Blackmagic Design Acquires Assets of Cintel International

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Blackmagic Design today announced the acquisition of the assets of Cintel International, one of the world’s leading researchers, designers and manufacturers of motion picture film scanners. Through this acquisition, following the liquidation of Cintel International earlier in 2012, Blackmagic Design has acquired the intellectual property and all aspects of Cintel’s entire portfolio of film scanning […]

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Quick Review: Canon C300 Super35mm LSS Cine Camera

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Canon C300 EF with Canon 24-105mm f/4 EF-L IS zoom. The US$16,000 Canon EOS C300 looks like nothing else, and works like it, too: its ergonomics, controls, and menus are rules unto themselves. It’s a fearless re-imagining of how a large-single-sensor camera should be designed, held, and operated, but it doesn’t hurt that the C300 […]

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ClipWrap version 2.5.2 adds conforming and other new features

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USA-based developer divergent media (which prefers that we write their name in all lower case) just released a update to their ClipWrap application, about which I published a complete review back in November 2011. The new palindromic version is 2.5.2 and includes conforming (i.e. to create natural 2.5x slow motion by conforming AVCHD 1080/59.94p to […]

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Volumetric light rays in After Effects

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Volumetric lighting, Crepuscular rays, God rays, and the like are visible rays or even globes of light. You can’t see lights themselves with the built-in lighting in After Effects (for background see Cameras, lights, and points of interest), so plug-ins are used to help make light visible. […]

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