Here's some of the last few weeks or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old. Rocket Randee Downloadable After Effects Rig Overview from Daniel Gies and friends is the reboot of the Rocket Randee character tutorial series for After Effects (an older set was done about 11 months […]
Createasphere is pleased to announce Tad Scripter, Engineer in Charge for the Academy Awards® broadcast, as its keynote speaker on Day Two of its Digital Asset Management Conference, February 28, 2013, in Beverly Hills. Scripter has been an engineering manager in live entertainment television for over 30 years, working with producers and production facilities to […]
I was recently shooting skiers, and as often happens, the weather got nasty. No splitter skies this time, but instead horizontal snow. Sometimes blowing snow can create really interesting images, the trick is just trying to shoot during the snowstorm. I had a lot of practice shooting in blowing snow living in Alaska, here are […]
Tuesday, we had the privilege of attending a demo of Smoke 2013 at the Autodesk offices in San Francisco. There, we were treated to a “meet and greet” with some life long Smoke users including Robert Bonstin of Industrial Light & Magic and Adam Berk and Javier León of post production boutique CT-SF. Look for […]
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This is the second part of a series and focuses on filenaming for DAM systems. What’s in a Name? With modern Digital Asset Management systems, file names need only serve a singular purpose — providing uniqueness. By that , I mean that each asset should have a file name that is distinct from any other […]
Thunderbolt was the new, high-speed, dual-protocol I/O technology designed by Intel and introduced by Apple a couple of years ago that was supposed to set the world on fire. So far it hasn't. Thunderbolt adoption has been slower then anticipated and while we finally have a wide range of Thunderbolt devices available, they still carry […]
At the January 23 Los Angeles Creative Pro User Group meeting Dan Lebental was on hand to show off his iPad editing app TouchEdit. We talked about TouchEdit a couple of weeks ago and got some interesting comments over from Dan himself. I think this will be an incredibly interesting app for editors and despite […]
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[Warning: crass commercial message follows.] So, it's finally done and dusted: Cine Meter for iOS has shipped. It actually went live last Thursday, but one of my beta testers immediately told Jon Fauer about it. Jon posted a quick review on Film and Digital Times less than four hours afterwards, and I've been playing catch-up […]
On this week's MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin from Ripple Training shows me how you can customize the keyboard in Final Cut Pro X to set up keyboard commands for color-correction tasks. […]
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There comes a time in any relationship to know when it isn't working out. In business, it is essential to be able to assess yours and get rid of the clients that drag you down. They all abuse you in some way. Some always beat you up on price or terms, some pay you very […]
