Call for Entries: Toronto International SHORT Film Festival

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Toronto stands as the largest media market in Canada, it boasts the world-renowned Royal Ontario Museum, the massive Art Gallery of Ontario, the Soulpepper Theatre Company, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and now a premiere international short film festival. The inaugural Toronto International Short Film Festival, is held at the Carlton Cinema Theatres.   Toronto Shorts […]

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Videoguys.com Sponsors New Tutorial Video from Shawn Lam on Grass Valley ADVC-G1 Converter

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Grass Valley markets the ADVC-G1 converter as an any-source-to-3G SDI converter, but specifically they mean it's an HDMI input, DVI-I input, and analog video input converter. The “I” in DVI-I stands for integrated, and includes both analog and digital and both single- and dual-link DVI standards. Digital and Analog Inputs The DVI digital side isn't […]

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The Foundry Launches COLORWAY for MAXON Cinema 4D

Following the unveiling of COLORWAY in July, The Foundry has now launched the COLORWAY kit for MAXON Cinema 4D. COLORWAY accelerates the creative design process, giving users access to a simple environment where they can develop looks and lighting for 3D objects and scenes, then share a selection of iterations with clients, all in real-time, […]

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IBC 2014: What’s coming next to Creative Cloud for video

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This month at IBC 2014 in Amsterdam, Adobe will preview next updates coming soon to the Creative Cloud video applications. In a fast-moving industry, video pros need tools that keep them ahead of the curve, allowing them to work confidently with the latest hardware and camera formats. With regular updates, Creative Cloud meets that need, […]

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Living and Working Off-Site and Online

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Homer Simpson once described working from home as his dream, and it’s a sentiment shared by many professionals. How many people have dreamed of a morning commute lasting no longer than 30 seconds? A lunch break spent on the back porch? Or having the desire to do something at the end of the workday rather […]

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Sir Richard Branson Invests In 3D Robotics

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In a surprise posting on the Virgin website this weekend, Sir Richard Branson share about interest in this emerging technology and acknowledges his investment into the tech company founded by Chris Anderson. I've known about this bit of industry news for awhile now when I was speaking with representatives at 3D Robotics while getting materials […]

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ARRI Alexa Firmware To Enable 3.2K ProRes For Up-Scaling To 4K

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Not wanting to leave Alexa owners out in the cold after last week’s 4k Amira announcement, Arri have unveiled plans for an Alexa firmware update in early 2015 that will enable 3.2k ProRes recording. This 3.2k footage can then be easily upscaled to 4k using the same technology that was developed to work with the […]

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Rovio Animation simplifies complex animations

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Rovio Entertainment began as a mobile game developer in Helsinki, Finland in 2003. The company became a global phenomenon in 2009 by creating Angry Birds, the most downloaded paid mobile app of all time. Today, the company has expanded its international brand into an entertainment company that includes publishing, education, theme parks, and animation. Currently, […]

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RED Wants to be a DSLR: The Second Coming!

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In an exclusive story, published recently, the website fstoppers writes that “RED Has Big Plans To Be Your Still Camera Maker”. I somehow felt it like a déjà vu, and that I had been taken back in time. No, it was real, it is today, we’re in 2014. So, RED is at it again. Those […]

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Review: Tascam iXJ2 preamp/A>D enables dual-mic/2-channel opportunities for iOS mediography

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Although the Tascam iXJ2 preamp/A>D is officially discontinued, fortunately it is still available (for now). Ahead you’ll discover why the iXJ2 is a unique enabler for high-quality dual-mic/2-channel, 48 kHz/24-bit iOS recordings, including several use-cases: interviews, sportscasting, and even voiceover auditions; when it’s appropriate, and when it isn’t. In this article: Immediate precautions about the […]

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