North Plains Acquires VYRE

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North Plains, the leader in helping companies leverage their visual media assets, announced today it has acquired VYRE, a UK-based leading provider of marketing resource management (MRM) and brand asset management (BAM) software. This acquisition will enable North Plains and VYRE customers to optimize the entire creative marketing lifecycle to more effectively create, manage and share rich […]

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After Effects Apprentice Free Video: Introduction to Variable Mask Feathering

As we mentioned recently, we've been updating our After Effects Apprentice video courses to reflect changes in the third edition of the book, and in particular new and enhanced features introduced in recent versions such as After Effects CS6. In this movie, we give a quick start on using the new Mask Feather tool added […]

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Welcome to the New ProVideo Coalition

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After successful development and testing phases, Createasphere is proud to announce the relaunch of its highly successful online communities ProVideoCoalition.com, ProPhotoCoalition.com and DAMCoalition.com. Now, the more than 170,000 monthly unique visitors to the Createasphere Pro Coalition sites will enjoy a fresh look, enhanced features and new ways to connect to great news and information impacting the content […]

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Content Strategies Delivering Business Results

This session will share insights from senior executives from different industries – all facing the challenge to develop content strategies delivering business results. The panelists discuss their use of multi-channel marketing, business process alignment, integrated workflows, content creation and more. The goal is to uncover the similarities or the differences in how they establish a […]

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Welcome to the New DAM Coalition

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After successful development and testing phases, Createasphere is proud to announce the relaunch of its highly successful online communities ProVideoCoalition.com, ProPhotoCoalition.com and DAMCoalition.com. Now, the more than 170,000 monthly unique visitors to the Createasphere Pro Coalition sites will enjoy a fresh look, enhanced features and new ways to connect to great news and information […]

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First Look: Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH3 DSLM hybrid still/video camera

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I’ve had my new GH3 for a couple of days now; long enough to work my way through the manuals and answer my burning questions about how it compares to the GH2 as a video camera, and time enough to learn some interesting things about its stills capabilities. I’m not going to do a full […]

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Why you should use Japanese NTSC with a TriCaster 40 if you use SD cameras

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Whether or not you enjoy Sushi or other Japanese food (as I do), you are best served by using Japanese NTSC if you use a TriCaster 40 with SD NTSC cameras, even if you live in the Americas. The reasons for this go back to a topic I first covered a decade ago in the […]

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Sony & Avid Presents Thierry Humeau

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Washington DC Dec 11, 2012 Tuesday Chicago Dec 13, 2012 Thursday Here is a rare opportunity to meet award-winning documentarian, DP, and owner of Télécam Films, Thierry Humeau. At this special event sponsored by Sony and Avid, Thierry will share insights into making his latest PBS documentary, “Heart of the Civil War,” and will explain […]

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Sony OLED Professional Monitoring Technology Honored with Technical Emmy Award

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Sony was recently honored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences with a Technical Emmy for its Trimaster EL™ OLED monitor technology. This award is the latest addition to Sony's already extensive list of professional honors and industry acclaim, and recognizes one of the company's cornerstone technologies – OLED monitoring technology. “This industry recognition […]

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Working with Dual Viewers in Final Cut Pro X

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What’s that you say? Dual viewers? In Final Cut Pro X? Yes, it’s true – this week I show Steve Martin from Ripple Training how to enable the “Event Viewer” and I walk through a couple of examples demonstrating how you may want to use it.     […]

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