HPA Tech Retreat 2015 – Final Thoughts

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[Updated 10:53 PST 18 Feb: Quiz 5 winner] The HPA Tech Retreat is an annual gathering of some of the sharpest minds in post, production, broadcast, and distribution – and the 2015 Retreat is now over. As Leon Silverman and Jerry Pierce like to ask, what just happened? If there was one theme that stood out for […]

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Day 16 #28daysofquicktips – Talk with your producer about that script

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Today’s Quicktip is a user quicktip that comes to us from Jay Doyle. It’s not a tech tip but rather a suggestion and a bit of advice about that script you may have just gotten in your edit suite. I’m sure many editors would agree that a script if often a luxury. We are all […]

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Davinci Resolve: Roundtripping with Final Cut Pro X

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In this Under 5 episode, Alexis Van Hurkman from Ripple Training shows you how to export a project out of Final Cut Pro X as an XML, import it into DaVinci Resolve while maintaining the effects and assets of the Final Cut Project, and then send the final result back to Final Cut Pro X. […]

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Tokina: the New 50-135mm Cinema Lens

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Kenko Tokina USA, Inc. announced their new lens for the Tokina Cinema ATX line. The Tokina Cinema AT-X 50-135mm T3.0 lens created by the engineers from the company offers a highly versatile zoom range in a compact design that is 4K ready. According to the information available, the new lens, that is parfocal (that means […]

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Join Hitachi at the Mobile World Congress 2015

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You’ve already seen that increasing demand for voice, data and video communications can quickly outstrip the capacity of mobile networks. The result? You risk jeopardizing your customer relationships. But you can meet your mobile customers’ demands for high availability and personalized, secure, high-speed delivery of services and data. And you can do it while controlling […]

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Blackmagic Design Announce New Intensity Pro 4K Capture Card

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The Intensity Pro 4K is a new super fast PCIe card that allows you to capture and playback SD, HD and Ultra HD video on Windows, Mac and Linux PCI Express computers Are you a gamer who wants to record high quality UHD video of their game as they’re playing it?  Or, are you someone […]

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Day 15 #28daysofquicktips – Sync Folders on a Mac

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If there’s one thing that any seasoned post-production professional has on their editing system it’s a lot folders full of files. An essential Macintosh utility is a way to compare folders and, if necessary, update one or the other. This tip might cost you $40. I’ve long loved and championed the Mac Finder-replacement tool Path […]

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Accelerated File Uploads for Production & Post

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As production and post workflows become increasingly distributed, the ability to send large source files quickly and reliably is becoming more important. Unfortunately, upload speeds can be a huge bottleneck for people that want to move source files from one place to another over the Internet. Upload speeds aren’t increasing nearly as fast as file […]

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Day 14 #28daysofquicktips – The Find in Timeline command in Adobe Premiere Pro

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Adobe Premiere Pro CC  recently added a very handy option to the Find command. That option is Find In Timeline and it will let you quickly and easily search out and (more importantly select) many clips at once in the timeline. Oh what a timesaver this can be. When you have the timeline panel active […]

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