Backcountry Pictures’ Award-Winning Film California Forever Set For PBS

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Award-winning production company Backcountry Pictures’ latest project, California Forever, will air nationally on PBS stations throughout fall 2012, beginning in California in September. California Forever is a two-part television special that eloquently tells the moving story of California’s magnificent state parks from 1864 until present day. The program has won a number of regional and […]

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The Art of Creating Awe

Rob Legato took the TED stage earlier this year to talk about a few things he learned working on Titanic, Hugo, and Apollo 13. What I find useful for filmmakers, is that he learned the audience didn’t necessarily respond well to realistic or accurate visuals, but to how they remember the visuals. It’s a subtle, […]

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DAM Promising: Collaborative Innovation Meets Digital Asset Management

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Innovation architect Doug Collins talks about the merging of collaborative innovation and digital asset management. In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores possibilities for digital asset managers to apply the practice of collaborative innovation to help them do their own work more effectively. Collins is one of the keynoters at Createasphere’s Digital Asset Management […]

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Is A New Era Of Camera Design Upon Us ? Nikon Launches First Android Based Camera

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Point and shoot cameras typically don't receive a lot of coverage here but every once in a while a manufacturer will spring a new feature that surely gives a glimpse into the future of the pro market. Today Nikon have launched such a camera and it's called the S800c. The first camera to be based […]

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Camera Files, New Forum and DaVinci Resolve 9 Update

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Blackmagic have announced they have created the Blackmagic Forum and have posted some shots from the Blackmagic Cinema Camera for download. The DaVinci Resolve 9 Beta 3 is also now available for download. Blackmagic Forum A new Blackmagic Forum has been created on the web site which allow people to help each other and share […]

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DAM 101: Understanding the Technology

Join Real Story Group’s Senior Analyst, Irina Guseva, on September 5th at 12:00 pm EDT (16:00 UTC) for this exclusive webinar, “Digital Asset Management 101.” Based on rigorous methodology employed in Real Story Group’s Brand & Digital Asset Management research, this webinar will provide you with a thorough grounding in digital and media asset management […]

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Multipurpose Looks In All-New Final Cut Pro & Motion Animation Templates

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Digital Juice® announced today that it is releasing ready2go™ Projects & Templates for Apple Final Cut Pro® and Motion® Collection 08. The ready2go projects are graphical animated templates that provide Final Cut Pro editors and Motion artists with a variety of professional finished looks and feature expertly design “drop zones” for text and video. Editors […]

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On Taxonomy and Rocket Science

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In preparation for the upcoming Createasphere Digital Asset Management Conference NYC, I asked Sarah Berndt, NASA Johnson Space Center Taxonomist & DB Consulting Group, Inc., to share more about her role at NASA and why taxonomy is so important. How did you get into the taxonomy space?My training and education are in the academic library […]

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HP DreamColor versus its closest alternative

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Many people appreciate the HP DreamColor monitor’s multiple virtues enough to tolerate its complex integration issues for pro video systems, which are so severe that they have merited over ten articles in the past few years. However, some readers (and some of my consulting clients) sometimes become so frustrated with the complexity and frequent need […]

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