Popular switches to Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 for latest Burton Snowboards film-“13”

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Imagine some of the world's most progressive snowboarders risking their lives to shoot in beautiful remote locations-all cut to great music. This year, Burton Snowboards chased winter to produce an original film to kick off the season, inspiring both core riders and newcomers to the sport. The creative production company behind this year's project is […]

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San Fran’s RayKo Gallery traditional ? media show

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Traditional wet photo media from a trio of artists at our favorite RayKo Gallery’s upcoming exhibition. Kirk Crippens, Maggie Preston and David Wolf are the featured artists. So few centers around the country have achieved RayKo Photo’s tenacity and command of exhibits that advance public appreciation of photography, provide facilities and technical assistance/training and also […]

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Videoguys Insider Update November 2012

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Long Island was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. Most of our staff lost power in their homes. Thankfully the damages were minimal, but here we are over a week later and still many of us are without power or heat.  Just when you think things can't get worse… A Nor'Easter hits Long Island. Dropping up […]

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Wipe the Slate Clean with All-New Subtle Animated Backgrounds

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Digital Juice® has announced the release of Animated Canvases™ Collection 11: Clean Slates, available as either an Instant Download or boxed DVD product. Animated Canvases are subtle background animations that are designed to be the foundation for any video or motion graphics project. In this new collection, video editors and motion graphics designers will find […]

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New Twist On Classic Christmas Carols In Latest Toxic Traxx™ Layered Music Release

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Digital Juice®, the highly acclaimed developer of digital content for video and motion graphics artists announced today that its is releasing Toxic Traxx™ Volume 3: Cinematic Christmas. The Toxic Traxx™ product line is a unique new compilation of layered production music like the music used in Digital Juice product promo videos. Toxic Traxx™ Volume 3: […]

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Adobe Goes with the Flow

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The Digital Process Workflow Lab is making its debut at Createasphere’s Entertainment Technology Expo today, so we asked Van Bedient, Senior Business Development Manager, Adobe Systems, to give us some insight about his company’s participation in the Lab. PVC: How did Adobe become involved in the Digital Process Workflow Lab? VB: We were invited by […]

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Canon Wins 2012 Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award

Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, announced today that Canon Inc. will be recognized at the 64th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards for “Improvements to Large Format CMOS Imagers for Use in High Definition Broadcast Video Cameras.” Presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS), the Technology & […]

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This Changes Everything

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For years facilities have relied on multiple servers to manage specific tasks in order to accomplish post production workflow. Today, everything changes. Meet Platform: It’s shared storage. It’s asset management. It’s a transcoding server. An all-in-one powerful unit that will bring simplicity and performance to any post production department. Platform is built to be modular, […]

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DSLR Audio: Do YOU know where YOUR sync is?

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Recently one of my L. A. buddies, photographer and director Ralf Strathmann (Flash-based website), shot a feature using Canon 5D Mk IIs. He found to his surprise that the audio and video recorded by the cameras weren’t in sync, with sound two frames ahead of picture. A discussion two weeks ago on the Cinematography Mailing […]

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FilmLight’s Baselight Used to Grade Sony’s “Hotel Transylvania”

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Hotel Transylvania, Sony Pictures Animation’s monster hit comedy that already broke records at the U.S. box office, went through final colour grading and stereo finishing in full 3D on Baselight. Completed at Colorworks, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s digital intermediate facility, DI Colourist John Persichetti used Baselight to apply the finishing touches to the film prior to […]

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