MXF Support in Final Cut Pro 10.1.4

Final Cut Pro X version 10.1.4 is out today. In the above Final Cut Pro in Under 5 Minutes video, Steve Martin from Ripple Training explores one specific new feature: how to import and export MXF files.  Before getting into the workflow, it’s important to define what MXF is – mainly because many cameras from […]

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Video Copilot Element 3D version 2 released

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Video Copilot released Element 3D v2 today. E3D v2 is $199 or a $99 upgrade, with more bundle upgrade discounts. The plug-in is compatible with After Effects CS5 + above. ◊ Element 3D is an After Effects plug-in that lets you import and animate 3D models, even as a particle array, and extrude text and mask shapes in real […]

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Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera Goes To Space

A Japanese scientist takes the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera to new heights capturing footage of the stratosphere and eventually space.  See how the Pocket Camera survived its flight Keisuke Iwaya is a young astrophysicist who has a personal mission to send cameras into space with meteorological balloons. It just so happens Iwaya sent up a […]

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Eliminating Banding and Color Shift Issues in Your After Effects Renders

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Compression Preview, announced today by ZERO VFX, is the company’s first new software plug-in for the post production marketplace. It enables After Effects artists to preview sequences prior to rendering, check for unwanted artifacts, banding and color shifts and make tweaks and changes to the compression parameters to ensure the best possible end product. The […]

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Panasonic Varicam 35mm New Low-light King?

Should you shoot at 800ISO or the blindly sensitive 5000ISO, your choice.  Digital Cinema Society shares their examples of Panasonic's Varicam 35 unique dual native ISOs.   Dual ISOs.  It's so simple yet so complex at the same time.  It's one of those advances in cinematography where we instantaneously ask “why hasn't this been implemented […]

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