How to shoot car videos inside & out

There's tons of options and advice for mounting cameras for shooting inside and outside of cars. Here's a few inexpensive options, and some advice from around the web, on smaller setups that won't invite unnecessary concern. CNET has a nice discussion of how they shoot car videos for CNET on Cars. They tour many cameras […]

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Subframe Audio Editing in Final Cut Pro X

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This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin from Ripple Training shows us how to edit audio “within the frame” in Final Cut Pro X. In each second of video we normally see about 24, 30, or 60 individual still images – enough of them to create the illusion of movement thanks to a phenomena known […]

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Meet us at Next Week’s TransVergence Summit!

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It seems like every day there's a new announcement about an out-of-the-box transmedia, cross platform or immersive project being developed in the creative community. Film producers, network executives and game designers all know that in this disruptive environment you've got to go big or go home. That's why we're excited about the launch of the […]

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FNC Pro : Where film industry and media professionals converge

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Three days of activities focused on innovative projects and issues related to the ever-changing media landscape. Talks, round tables and cocktail parties give participants a chance to discuss what they’ve learned, share experiences and make connections with a view to new working relationships. Last two years, guests included founder of Kung Fu Numerik, Ghassan Fayad […]

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Ringier Axel Springer Media AG Selects WoodWing Elvis DAM

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As a pilot for the entire group, Swiss based Ringier Axel Springer Media AG implemented WoodWing's digital asset management solution Elvis DAM at its site in Serbia. The company, a joint venture founded by publishers Ringier AG and Axel Springer AG to bundle their international activities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), creates newspapers, magazines […]

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Adobe Cloud Creates Storm of Protests

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For years Adobe tried to gather all photographers under their banner. Now they've created two segments: the Creative Cloud users and the others, those that still use CS6 and previous versions. And caused a mess that will make them rethink their Cloud ideas and price structure. Here are some ideas that might help! It came […]

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I’ll See You at the Transvergence Summit

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At StoryCode we see 'Story as Software' which means we are interested in applying the principles of software development to creating stories in the ever-changing digital environment in which we live today. This means that our community is using concepts like MVP (Minimal Viable Product), rapid prototyping, failing quickly, and hacking to provide a framework […]

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Grass Valley Enhances K2 Architecture to Support Panasonic’s New AVC-LongG Recording

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Working with its longtime partner Panasonic®, Grass Valley® announces the newest upgrade to its K2® server products to include powerful compression support for Panasonic’s new AVC-LongG (Advanced Video Codec/Long Group Of Pictures) compression type, which the company announced at NAB 2013. Grass Valley’s K2 Summit® and K2 Solo® are the first broadcast servers on the […]

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The Mother of Invention of Videotape

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In our file based acquisition world of 2013 where the editing process can begin immediately right there on the set, it can be difficult to relate to a time when just getting the program recorded was a Herculean effort requiring considerable engineering manpower and over a ton of equipment. On November 30th, 1956, the first […]

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After Effects ExtendScript Training: Ep. 17 Part 1, 2, and 3

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Welcome to episode 17 of the After Effects ExtendScript Training series. This week we get to make our third full length script. Spread over three parts, this episode is focused on exporting property information to a text document file. What does this mean exactly? Well we will be creating custom functions that will allow us […]

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