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Studio Binder – Call Sheets Simplified

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Studio Binder is a new cloud-based production tool that's looking to simplify the call time process for cast and crew.  The service lets you store projects and cast/crew information in the cloud, delivering a simple interface to schedule call times to all members of your team via text message or e-mail.  You can include […]

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The Evolution of Film Editing

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Originally posted to the Adobe Conversations Blog by Bill Roberts, Senior Director of Product Management, Creative Cloud Video segment In 1934 the Academy Awards introduced a new category: Film Editing, awarding an Oscar to Conrad A. Nervig for his work on the movie Eskimo. Often called “the invisible art,” editing has made movies possible since […]

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NAS: New Solutions for Creative Professionals

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Western Digital has expanded its suite of network attached storage (NAS) solutions with four new products that address the increasing demands for content storage, management, protection and streaming among prosumers, creative professionals and small businesses. Based on the popular WD Red Drives, the My Cloud Expert Series includes My Cloud EX2100 (two-bay) and My Cloud […]

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From Kubrick to Anderson: One-Point Perspective

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The recent film “The Great Budapest Hotel” is an example of symmetry in the work of Wes Anderson, a signature similar to the one in Stanley Kubrick’s films. Different authors will call it “one-point perspective”, “symmetrical composition” or “centered vision”, and many times aren’t agreeing on the definition and how it works to translate one […]

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Blackmagic URSA Used On Television Mini Series “Gallipoli”

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“Gallipoli” is one of Australia’s most anticipated television series inspired by the book “Gallipoli” by Les Carlyon.  The series follows the lives of World War I solders from the initial military landings to the troop withdrawals from the shores of Turkey in one of the most devastating battles of World War I.   Directed by […]

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Day 25 #28daysofquicktips – Consolidate Media Outside (Externally) of a Final Cut Pro X Library

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Final Cut Pro X has some rather intricate media management capabilities built into its Library functionality. The Library concept itself is loved by some, hated by others. I think if you understand how you can move media in and out of a Library it might embrace one the concept (thought you still might choose to […]

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Day 26 #28daysofquicktips – Make an Audio-only Dissolve in Final Cut Pro X

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For some reason, unbeknownst to us mortal editors, Final Cut Pro X doesn’t allow you do make an audio dissolve right out of the Transitions browser. Editors know how essential a 4, 5, 6 frame dissolve can be to smooth out a frankenbite or just how handy that can be when mixing audio in general. […]

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Understanding & using the breakthrough XAVC Long GOP códec/file format

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[UPDATED ARTICLE] Back in 2012, Sony deployed the first version of XAVC, one that can offer color depths of 8-bit, 10-bit, and 12-bit and chroma subsampling of 4:2:0, 4:2:2, or 4:4:4. That first version is i-frame and found on very high-end cameras. Then Sony released the consumer version, XAVS S, which is Long GOP up to […]

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