MAXON announces new release of Cinema 4D

MAXON announces new release of Cinema 4D

New features and enhancements streamline motion graphics, VFX and VR content creation workflows in Cinema 4D, a creative tool for both individual artists and large studio environments. The next generation of MAXON’s professional 3D application delivers both great tools and enhancements artists can put to use immediately and provides a peek into the foundations for […]

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Review + comparison: iRig Pro I/O cross platform audio interface

Review + comparison: iRig Pro I/O cross platform audio interface 1

In this article, I’ll review the new <US$150 iRig Pro I/O cross platform audio interface, with preamp and A-to-D converter. SPOILER: It sounds as clean as a whistle, even with a dynamic microphone, cranked up to near max. When I say “multi-platform”, I mean direct connections for Apple’s Lightning connector (used on all current iOS […]

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AMD: new Radeon professional cards

AMD: new Radeon professional cards

Based on AMD’s next-generation “Vega” GPU architecture, the Radeon Pro WX 9100 and Radeon Pro SSG professional graphics cards introduce advanced technology never before seen in the professional space, claims AMD. Radeon’s new professional graphics  are, “designed to dramatically accelerate the pace of professional content creation today” while enabling creators to take bold new steps […]

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Real-time face and body mocap at Siggraph 2017

Real-time face and body mocap at Siggraph 2017

The innovations in iClone 7 are being showcased at Siggraph 2017, in Los Angeles. The software now works with the mocap-ready plugins for Xsens, Faceware, improving productivity. Following the recent launch of iClone 7, Reallusion now announces iClone 7 real-time face and body motion capture featuring partnerships with Faceware and Xsens.  iClone 7 simplifies mocap […]

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PREVAILPRO: first four 4K display and VR mobile workstations

PREVAILPRO, a four 4K display and VR mobile workstations

Imagine a mobile workstation in a thin and light body but still powerful to offer unprecedented graphics and compute capabilities and versatility to creative road warriors. It’s name? PREVAILPRO. NVIDIA introduced at SIGGRAPH 2017 their new external GPU for notebooks, giving creative professionals with underpowered graphics  a way to harness the power of NVIDIA TITAN […]

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Video editing with a notebook, and a NVIDIA external GPU

Video editing with a notebook, and a NVIDIA eGPU

Bring more creative power to millions of artists and designers is the aim of NVIDIA, introducing its external GPU (eGPU) chassis to dramatically boost the performance of their applications. The solution, already adopted for gaming in some configurations, is now offered, announced NVIDIA, to 25 million artists and designers who can easily upgrade the capability […]

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Sigma’s ‘blur’ selected for LA Shorts Festival

Sigma’s ‘blur’ selected for LA Shorts Festival

LA Shorts International Film Festival ranks among the most prestigious and largest international short film festivals in the world. The short film ‘blur’ to be screened there is the first short film shot with Sigma’s cinema lenses. Recently mentioned here at PVC, in one article about Sigma’s suggestion that the company may develop anamorphic lenses, […]

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DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel Used to Grade Sharon Stone’s Latest Film

Mini Panel

Blackmagic Design’s new DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel is already making an impact with pro colorists. Recently, Mark Todd Osborne, founder and senior digital colorist of MTO Color Inc., conformed, graded, and finished the independent film “A Little Something for Your Birthday” using a DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel alongside DaVinci Resolve Studio. “A Little Something for Your […]

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Classic Course: Fields & Interlacing

Classic Course: Fields & Interlacing 9

Some of our older video & motion graphics courses are being retired from the Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning catalog. However, a few of them still contain useful, “evergreen” advice and content – so we’re re-releasing them for free through ProVideo Coalition. The first one we’re reposting is a course from 2007 (when we were still known as CyberMotion) […]

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ART OF THE CUT with Atomic Blonde editor Elisabet Ronaldsdottir

ART OF THE CUT with Atomic Blonde editor Elisabet Ronaldsdottir 10

Elisabet Ronaldsdottir was born and raised in Reykjavik, Iceland and has been editing film at home and across Europe and America since the days of editing on celluloid. Her films include Contraband, The Deep, John Wick, and her latest work with director David Leitch on the film Atomic Blonde. She has won several Edda Awards for Best Editing […]

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