New Panelists and Events Announced for Createasphere’s 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 new participants and events at its TransVergence Summit, taking place August 7-8, 2013, at the W Hotel in Hollywood. Complete information can be found at www.transvergencesummit.com.  The TransVergence Summit is […]

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The 2013 Fletcher Digital Camera Comparison Chart

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It's often quite difficult to keep camera specifics straight from one manufacturer to another, much less incorporating new or updated info when they release a new version. Details like frame rates, recorded bit depths, weight and base ISO's often blur into one another and you're not even sure what model you're looking at. Luckily Fletcher […]

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Call for Entries: Los Angeles International Short Film Festival

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Deadline: July 3, 2013 Final Deadline: July 31, 2013 The 17th LA Shorts Fest is accepting film submissions. Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences accredited. We are the only film festival with seven award categories recognized by the Academy. In the past, 44 films have received Oscar nominations with 13 winning the coveted Oscar […]

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A Revolution in Asset Versioning and Workflow

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We had an opportunity to talk with Brian Ahearn, CEO of evolphin Software, so that we could discuss some of the challenges the company is finding in the DAM space and how its solution is able to help people work through and solve those problems.  We asked him how the DAM space is changing for […]

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Jeff Foster’s New Channel: The PixelPainter

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I've been contributing to various production/post-production channels here on PVC for years but created my own channel with the re-launch of the new PVC website format, titled “the PixelPainter”. Here's where you can find more about my channel, my interests and of course, links to all my previous articles & reviews. About Jeff Foster – […]

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DeckLink Quad: the little PCIe card that could?

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The DeckLink Quad card from Blackmagic reminds me of two pop culture titles: The Little Engine that could and Rebel without a cause. In this case, the adjusted titles would be The little DeckLink PCIe that could and Rebel PCIe card without an app. Of course, it is not that the DeckLink Quad card doesn’t […]

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2013 HPA Awards Extends Key Category Deadlines

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The Hollywood Post Alliance is extending deadlines for the Engineering Excellence Award and the HPA Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation. The HPA will now accept entries in these categories until July 3rd, 2013. Since 2006, The HPA Awards have recognized excellence in post production, consistently growing in attendance and entries. The awards are the […]

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Tiffen Turns Up Control For Cinematographers; Introduces New Integrated “Film Looks” MPTV Filters

The Tiffen Company, a leading manufacturer of award-winning accessories for the still imaging, video, motion picture and broadcast markets, has begun shipping the new Tiffen Satin™ and Tiffen Black Satin™ MPTV Filters in 4 x 4, 4 x 5.65 and 6.6 x 6.6 sizes. “Optical filter development is the cornerstone of the Tiffen Company, and […]

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Lumu, the iPhone Light Meter

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They are Lumu Labs. And call themselves “inventors of Lumu, 21th century light meter made for smartphones.” Lumu is, one can read on the page for their kickstarter campaign, the light meter for the iPhone. Made to unleash the creativity in photographers. First things first. The kickstarter campaign launched recently by Lumu Labs seems to […]

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After Effects – Leftover Plugins (part 2)

In amongst the 400+ plugins that come with a native installation of After Effects are a few rough gems.  These are plugins that are useful and valueable tools but are too often neglected, or forgotten completely. In part 2 we examine the following plugins: remove colour matting channel combiner linear colour key CC glass caustics […]

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