The 66th Primetime Emmys are Monday, August 25th and it’s exciting to see Stargate Studios nominated for two awards in the Outstanding Special And Visual Effects In A Supporting Role category. The studio is at the top of the VFX field, and we’ve spoken with Founder and CEO Sam Nicholson in the past about how […]
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In addition to the free Moviola webinar on creativity Chris is presenting next week, we’re both speaking at the upcoming After Effects World and Adobe MAX conferences: After Effects World – Seattle, September 26-28 – is a relatively intimate conference (100-200 attendees) devoted to the program we’ve based our careers around the past 20+ years. Seattle […]
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For Cinema Camera and Pocket Camera users this is the big firmware everyone has been hoping to be announced. First they gave users different flavors of ProRes. Then they updated the 4K Production Camera. Now, we finally have the features we all have been asking to be added to the cameras. FIRMWARE v1.9.03 Cinema Camera […]
Back in December 2013, I published my “first look” article about the then just-announced Switch application for Mac OS from Telestream, which in many ways has already gone way beyond what the QuickTime Pro app ever did. Now that Switch is shipping, I was able to get a review license from the company and ahead […]
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Final Cut Pro X or Motion? Both FCP X and Motion allow you to perform compositing and animation. How do you decide which to use? This week on MacBreak Studio, I show Steve Martin from Ripple Training how to approach the same task in both applications. According to Wikipedia, “Cinemagraphs are still photographs in which […]
MaskTracker+, a new AE script from Mamoworld, expands the Rigid Mask Tracker in After Effects, opening up planar tracking capabilities that allow you to do much more than just moving masks. MaskTracker+ includes these features, which are rundown in the MaskTracker+ demo below: Transform layers based on a mask track Create a Corner Pin based […]
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A recent survey of PVC readers really underlined just how many of you are freelancers, so I thought it would be a great time to kick off a series of articles that tackle some of the business aspects of freelance creative work. We’re going to start today with a very dirty word for many of […]
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If you want to get Chris upset, come up to him and profess that you’re not creative. Despite his background as an engineer, we’ve had a very nice 20+ year career as graphic designers, and we’ve both started fine art careers. As a result, Chris agreed to create a webinar for Moviola – From Still […]
IBC will be taking place in early September, and just like the previous six years, the Creative Pro User Group Network (CPUG Network) are set to put on a SuperMeet. The event is happening on Sunday, Sept 14, 2014 at the Hotel Krasnapolsky in the heart of Amsterdam. Our very own Kevin P. McAuliffe stopped […]
Here they are! 4K monitors for everybody on a tight budget, already under the $1000 many potential users define as the right price point to start looking for a new monitor. 2014 is the – first – year for cheap 4K monitors. And new models are announced each new week. For this rundown we've settled […]
