The education market in the United States has long been constrained by a combination of red tape and an almost complete absence of cohesive standards across the country. Producers of educational software and curricular content have had to deal with numerous guidelines across all 50 states and have therefore had to adjust their products to […]
UPDATED: 6/30/13 Welcome to episode 10 of the After Effects ExtendScript Training series. In this episode we will create a custom function that will allow us to easily retrieve specific types of project items like CompItems, FolderItems, or FootageItems. We will also get into setting arguments for our function, which will allow us to pass […]
Before I received the NVIDIA K5000, I read about it and was excited that it had H.264 encoding capability on the board. I tend to do a lot of H.264-encoded deliverables. Unfortunately my excitement was short lived when I found out that while NVIDIA had delivered on their end, nobody else had stepped up to […]
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PPC's Vince Gonzales talks about Chimera's OctaPlus Lightbank and other products with the company's Laura Plantell. PPC at Cinegear 2013: Chimera from Createasphere on Vimeo. […]
In my first book on color correction, “Color Correction for Video – 2nd Edition” there’s a great story about an early color grading pioneer. When they built his color correction suite, they made it like a “smoking room,” with warm, incandescent lighting and dark, rich woods. Just the kind of place you’d want to hang […]
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Production Introduction Blog 1 By: Antonio “T.J.” Doctor – Production Supervisor The Sundance Institute Directors Lab is a learning and discovery experience for emerging directors. The filmmaking tools and production process used at the Directors Lab have a direct impact on the creative decisions made during the entire production process of making a feature film. […]
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Fremont, CA – June 6, 2013 – Blackmagic Design today announced a new lower price on its popular UltraStudio 4K to US$995. UltraStudio 4K is the world’s most advanced Thunderbolt capture and playback solution that features 6G-SDI and HDMI 4K video connections so it can work in Ultra HD and 4K video formats. UltraStudio 4K […]
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How to produce new and vibrant work to sell larger orders that keep our cameras running, that’s the question behind the style and artistic genius for today's portrait studio. Not just the question, but the whole horizon of how to make a living in the do-it-yourself photo world that will never change back to professional […]
At this year's Cine Gear Expo, PPC's Vince Gonzales talked to Carl Zeiss marketing manager Nicole Balle about some of the company's new products. PPC at Cine Gear 2013: Carl Zeiss from Createasphere on Vimeo. […]
