This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin from Ripple Training and I go a little “behavior crazy” as we animate a photo to look like it's been thrown onto a desk. In Motion, almost any animation task can be accomplished in two different ways: either using traditional keyframe methods, or by applying some combination of […]
You bought the BMCC… You’ve been shooting ProRes or DNxHD… and now you want to harness the full potential of the camera. 2.5K… raw. The problem… you’re computer isn’t exactly up to the suggested specs to run DaVinci Resolve. MY HARDWARE I have the exact same problem. My computer is a 2011 MacBook Pro. It […]
Today FilmConvert releases a major update to it's Film Emulation plugins for Adobe After Effects and Premiere. Included in the release is an upgrade of the rendering engine, which can now utilize hardware acceleration on the video card GPU. This is a major speed improvement and allows the FilmConvert plugin to run realtime in Adobe […]
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ftrack AB, a leading developer of production tracking and asset management tools has announced the release of ftrack 2.0. The latest version of its out-‐of-‐the-‐box platform brings numerous updates including an entirely updated user interface, new planning and review tools, workflow updates and much more. What is ftrack? ftrack allows users to easily track their […]
Kip Haynes is one of the most highly sought-after consultants for design and development of training applications for commercial and military users. He spent the early part of his career developing high performance parallel distributed rendering applications for large scale data visualization. He joined USC’s ICT in 2003 leading a research effort investigating parallel and […]
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At the 2013 TransVergence Summit, we were able to visit a bit with Josh Sawyer, project director at Obsidian Entertainment. If you're not familiar with Josh or with Obsidian, you're probably familiar with Obsidian's “Baldur's Gate” or “Star Wars: Knight's of the Old Republic”. Sawyer has been in the industry since 1999 when he […]
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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, announces that Ad-ID and IDEAlliance are scheduled to introduce two major industry initiatives at the Digital Asset Management Conference in New York on October 7 and 8, 2013. Ad-ID, the recognized industry standard for […]
With the Digital Asset Management Conference just a couple of weeks away, we're speaking with Dan McGraw, Founder and President of Seven Dials Media, and a participant at the conference. Here, he discusses the current DAM environment, makes his predictions about how it will grow and transform, and gives a preview of the sessions he's […]
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The International Cinematographers Guild proudly presents the 17th Annual Emerging Cinematographer Awards on Sunday, September 29, 2013, at the Directors Guild of America Los Angeles, starting at 5:00 PM, followed by a cocktail reception. Join us for an evening of short films, shot by the best of ICG’s emerging Cinematographers! This event is complimentary to […]
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Panasonic today announced availability and pricing for the new AJ-PX5000G 2/3”, 2.2M 3-MOS shoulder-mount, the company’s first P2 HD camcorder with native AVC-ULTRA recording and built-in microP2 card slots. The PX5000G features 720p* and 1080p/i recording, and is also the first P2 HD camera that will record in full-resolution, 10-bit 1080/60p (in AVC-Intra100).The PX5000G will […]
