I just bought a 50mm lens. Certainly not my first one, I’ve owned many primes, and this is my 5th 50mm Nikkor. I’ve upgraded for various reasons. Here’s why I bought the Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G Lens over the 1.4 version. My first 50mm lens was a 1.4 non-AI that I used on my […]
Month: August 2012
Multipurpose Looks In All-New Final Cut Pro & Motion Animation Templates
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
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 […]
HP DreamColor versus its closest alternative
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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Light-Speed Organization in FCP X
In this week’s show, Steve Martin from Ripple Training shows me how he used Final Cut Pro X’s keywording and favorites to quickly organize and select footage he shot during his vacation with a Go Pro camera. […]
Shining a little light on Adobe’s CS6 Education pricing
Software piracy. Nobody likes to talk about it, but let’s be frank; it’s a thing. And when a company like Adobe comes out with an all-encompassing software package like Creative Suite 6, which can cost several thousand dollars (Creative Suite 6 Master Collection is about $2500, and Creative Suite 6 Production Premium is about $1800 […]
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Storytelling of the 21st Century at Siggraph 2012
Steve Cooper from Smith Micro Software talks with Brian Haberlin about his original graphic novel, Anomaly, which was created used Poser. He shows us the augmented reality app that comes with the novel which allows the user to literally interact with the characters and give them a life that goes beyond the pages of the […]
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NAB Show Returns to Sponsor The HPA Engineering Excellence Award
The Hollywood Post Alliance – the trade association for the post production community – has announced that the NAB Show will once again sponsor the HPA Engineering Excellence Award. NAB Show, held annually in Las Vegas, is the world’s largest electronic media show covering filmed entertainment and the development, management and delivery of content across […]
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Siggraph 2012: Autodesk Working to Develop the Next Generation of Virtual Production Technology
Robert Hoffman talks to us about the news that Autodesk has formed a relationship with Lightstorm Entertainment and Weta Digital to build the next generation of virtual production tool sets. He explains how and why this development will change and improve the techniques artists use and the way projects are developed. Siggraph 2012 – Autodesk […]
CANON CELEBRATES PRODUCTION OF 80 MILLION EF LENSES
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., August 21, 2012 – Canon Inc. today announced the achievement of a new EF lens-manufacturing milestone with the production of the company's 80-millionth EF lens on August 3, 2012. Production of EF lenses surpassed the 10-million mark in 1995, doubling to 20 million units in 2001. After reaching the 30 million unit […]
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