Keynotes Announced for TransVergence Summit

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Createasphere, the leading community builder uniting business leaders, content creators, emerging technology providers and thought leaders working in entertainment and media, is pleased to announce two important keynotes set for its first TransVergence Summit, taking place March 19-20, 2013, at the W Hollywood.  The TransVergence Summit will explore the convergence of media, brands, intellectual property, […]

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axle Video introduces axle 2012 – 2nd generation of radically simple media management tool

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axle Video, a startup focused on making media management simple and cost effective for small-to-midsize production teams, today introduced axle™ 2012, the next generation of its award winning media management solution. axle lets video producers, small postproduction teams and owners of media libraries organize, search and comment on their media through a simple web interface, […]

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Vimeo to offer pay-per-view service in 2013

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In early 2013, Vimeo will open its new pay-per-view service to all Vimeo Pro members. The company recently launched a public preview of the pay-per-view service, including six movies. This add-on service to Vimeo Pro will offer content creators like us a channel to sell our “movies” directly to audiences worldwide, giving us control over […]

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After Effects Lately Dec8.2012

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Here's another part of the last few weeks or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old. A few months ago, Chris and Trish Meyer released After Effects Apprentice, 3rd Edition, along with some free excerpts. Now, they've updated the companion videos for CS6, as noted in Updates to […]

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Early Media Composer and Final Cut Pro promo videos

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I got taken down into one of those You Tube time sucks the other day. It came courtesy of a couple of tweets by Rob G Wilson that pointed to some very old Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro promo videos. If you want to realize just how far your NLE software has advanced […]

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rd: Studio Techniques available free at AEscripts.com

This week, Jeff Almasol (redefinery) released the set of After Effects Scripts that were previously available only as part of the content that ships with After Effects Studio Techniques. This was done not only with the author's blessing, but at my explicit suggestion. If theses scripts are valuable enough to generate sales of the book, […]

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Lightning strikes with new Danny Way documentary created by Jacob Rosenberg

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Danny Way is among the world’s most visionary skateboarders. During his 20+ year career as a professional skateboarder, he has attempted to jump the Great Wall of China, broken the land speed record on a skateboard (an incredible 74.5 mph), and won numerous Big Air Gold Medals at the X Games. He’s now the focus […]

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Pablo Picasso Joke Explaining Why Your Work Is Worth It

There's a great story, I don't know if it's true, but I'd love to think it is. It goes like this: A woman is walking through the streets of Paris when she spots Picasso sitting at a cafe drinking coffee. She is overcome with the urge to approach him. “Oh, Monsieur Picasso! I'm such a […]

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Timecode calculators in the Mac App store, free but not great

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I've recently moved back into good old Final Cut Pro 7 for an lengthy edit and I've found myself missing a handy dandy timecode calculator. The timecode calculator has long been a part of Avid Media Composer and it's useful to have around. Where's the first place you think to look for a Mac app […]

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