Hold The Roll: Chapter Two, “A New Deal”

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For the average free-lancer on a film crew, it all starts with making the deal. Each and every film is a unique job and each film is staffed by a collection of workers who must first form an agreement with the producers who manage the film.  It begins as a verbal agreement—a simple phone call […]

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Hold The Roll: Chapter One, “Science & Art”

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Science and Art Motion picture production is not an exact science, if it be a science at all–not that it is devoid of science–but that is not the first thought that comes to mind when we see a movie. Nevertheless, even in the early days of the industry, there was an awareness of the nature […]

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DAM Conference Preview

As we lead up to the 4th Annual Digital Asset Management Conference in New York, we got some comments from Steve Cronan, CEO and Founder of 5th Kind, about the state of the industry, the value of attending the Createasphere Digital Asset Management Conference and winning a DAMMY.   5th Kind's Steve Cronan on Digital […]

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How to Prevent and Remedy Photo Infringements

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The wildlife shots in this article demonstrate how to include a watermark/CMI   The digital world has given photographers many advantages and disadvantages.  We don't have to change film after 36 exposures, use harmful chemicals to process prints, or provide our original negatives for others to reproduce our photos.  We also can more easily show […]

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Cutting‐edge post production house switches to Adobe Creative Cloud video workflow

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Josh Senior founded Senior Post in September of 2012 on the principle that at the heart of every project is great storytelling—that makes clients look good. That was nearly a year ago, and Josh still has the napkin he used to sketch out his initial ideas. He has lots of napkins, but that one is […]

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Shutter Tripping

It's in the detail – Italy is full of a myriad small details away from the obvious architectural and scenic imagery: drinking fountain spout (Norcia, Umbria); theater mask (Ostia Antica, Rome), door knocker (Orvieto, Umbria)   As a freelancer you learn, of necessity, to become a juggler able to keep seven balls aloft simultaneously. […]

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Cutting-edge post production house switches to Adobe Creative Cloud video workflow

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Josh Senior founded Senior Post in September of 2012 on the principle that at the heart of every project is great storytelling—that makes clients look good. That was nearly a year ago, and Josh still has the napkin he used to sketch out his initial ideas. He has lots of napkins, but that one is […]

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Adobe Launches Special Creative Cloud For Photographers

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Adobe has changed their policy regarding the Creative Cloud and seem to have read my recent article published here at PPC about the problem with the pricing. Now you can have Photoshop and Lightroom for $9.99 per month. But there's a catch. Adobe had a last date for people to sign for the Creative Cloud […]

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Premiere Pro News Notes #07 (more Audio)

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Here's part 2 of notes on recent news of assorted audio-related Adobe Premiere Pro tutorials and tips on noise removal, normalize, EQ, editing to sound, controlling audio in Clip Mixer and Timeline, voice overs, Adobe Audition and more. Eran Stern posted Auto Beat Edit, which shows how to auto-assemble a quick edit using Mamoworld Beat […]

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4K UHDTV – Opportunity or Hype?

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ProVideo Coalition is working with Studio Systems to bring our worldwide audience exclusive content. Studio Systems, the only dedicated publication serving the booming markets for broadcast, post production and animation technology in India, is today considered the information facilitator and knowledge catalyst by its readers. The article below is featured here with their permission.   […]

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