Music Maker: free DAW reaches 100,000 downloads

Music Maker: free DAW reaches 100,000 downloads 1

Music Maker is not the most complete digital audio workstation or DAW, but it allows anyone to get started in digital music production for free. Audio is an important part of movie making, but for someone starting to explore the potential of animated images with a soundtrack, commercial and professional products may be out of […]

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Shutterstock: 4K submissions are growing

Shutterstock: 4K submissions are growing

The market for 4K video is growing and Shutterstock rapidly adapted to the needs of creators and clients. The agency is also looking at the potential of 360 video and other formats available today. The interview with Alex Renaud, Shutterstock’s General Manager of eCommerce Motion started as a conversation about the 4K market. The theme […]

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Adobe Premiere Pro: The Add Edit – Step Through technique for multicam editing

Adobe Premiere Pro: The Add Edit - Step Through technique for multicam editing 2

I’ve written about multi-camera editing in Adobe Premiere Pro a number of times over the years. The last time I wrote a big article on PPro multicam (back in CS6 days) there was a crucial feature that was missing in PPro’s multicam editing functionality: the ability to switch or step between camera angles with a […]

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Recording audio in Luc Besson’s Valerian

Recording audio in Luc Besson’s Valerian

In space no one can hear you scream… unless you’ve a microphone inside your spacesuit. That’s how the sound for the film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets was captured. The whole story revealed now. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, the Sci-Fi blockbuster based on the French comics from 1967 […]

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Atomos Sumo: sooner than you thought

Atomos Sumo: sooner that you thought

The first production monitor that also records 4K 12bit Raw, 10bit ProRes/DNxHR, plus 1080p60 live switching and recording, the Atomos Sumo, will cost you $2,495. Announced last April and on display at NAB 2017, the Sumo 19 inch monitor recorder was also present at Cine Gear Expo, where Atomos showed working prototypes of the monitor. […]

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Let’s Edit with Media Composer | First – Lesson 1 – Getting Started

Let's Edit with Media Composer | First - Lesson 1 - Getting Started 11

If you’re ready to take the plunge, and start working in Media Composer | First, we’re here to help get you up and running! […]

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Auphonic’s animated Audiogram for YouTube & Facebook

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Among many others, Auphonic offers a service called Audiogram which accepts an audio file —together with a user-supplied graphic and metadata— to create an animated video with audio waveform, and optionally have it post it for you to YouTube and/or Facebook, automatically. Auphonic’s animated Audiogram is the best way I currently know to syndicate or […]

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ART OF THE CUT with the editing team for Transformers: The Last Knight

ART OF THE CUT with the editing team for Transformers: The Last Knight 15

Art of the Cut takes a step into the epic – not just with the film we’re discussing – but because to cover the editing of Michael Bay’s Transformers: The Last Knight, we spoke to four editors in three separate interviews. The exciting thing for readers of Art of the Cut is that when you get […]

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Tamron’s new classic: SP 24-70mm f/2.8

Tamron’s new classic: SP 24-70mm f/2.8

The new Tamron SP 24-70mm F/2.8 Di VC USD G2, for full-frame DSLR cameras, is another sign of Tamron’s refreshing it’s line up, while competing with Canon and Nikon in terms of price. The Tamron SP 24-70mm G2 in Nikon mount will be available in August and the Canon mount in September at $1199, clearly […]

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VR Theater debuts at SIGGRAPH 2017

VR Theater debuts at SIGGRAPH 2017

Short films rendered in real time is one of the surprises for the 2017 edition of SIGGRAPH. It’s also the debut of its VR Theater for which 10 films have been accepted this year. On the computer animation front, Song of a Toad is the overall winner. The 44th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer […]

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