Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Codex Vault Series Brings Digital Lab Support Onset

Codex Vault Series Brings Digital Lab Support Onset: At IBC 2011 Codex will introduce the Vault series, an onset laboratory system for dailies Codex_vault review, deliverables production and archiving that supports RED, ARRI, Aaton, Sony and other digital cinema cameras.
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Red Giant Trapcode Suite 11 Enhances After Effects OBJ import and Colour FX

Red Giant Trapcode Suite 11 Enhances After Effects OBJ import and Colour FX: Red Giant has released Trapcode Suite 11 enabling artists to import OBJ files directly into After Red-Giant-Trapcode-11-2 Effects to improve 3D modeling and design. Also, Trapcode’s Lux 1.2 now has 32-bpc support for deeper colour effects in After Effects.
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Dolby PRM-4200 Monitor Calibrates for HD, 2K video content and DI

Dolby PRM-4200 Monitor Calibrates for HD, 2K video content and DI: The Dolby Professional Reference Monitor aims to display the full dynamic range, high contrast Dolby-PRM-4200-Monitor2 ratio and colour gamut of current digital cameras and film stocks.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Known Issues | Adobe products on Mac OS 10.7 Lion

Known Issues | Adobe products on Mac OS 10.7 Lion

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DVS Adds Mezzanine Mastering and RAW Support to its CLIPSTER DI Workstation

DVS Adds Mezzanine Mastering and RAW Support to its CLIPSTER DI Workstation: Right on time for IBC 2011, DVS presents its award-winning DI workstation CLIPSTER® with an extended feature set. Besides new DCI Mastering functions, CLIPSTER® now also offers Mezzanine Format Mastering for IMF with extended JPEG2000 support. At DVS booth 7.E25...



8bit v 10bit what does it all mean ?

8bit v 10bit what does it all mean ?: 8 or 10 bit it’s all hocus pocus to many of us so what do the figures mean in real life terms, I have trawled the internet to try and put this into plain man’s english. In a nutshell…To start, 8-bit means that for red(R), green(G), and blue(B), the values 0 to 255 can be...



Useful Tools for Editors or Shared Networks: DropCopy

Useful Tools for Editors or Shared Networks: DropCopy:
August 30, 2011
By Scott Simmons, Studio Daily

I was happily installing the Mac OS 10.7 Lion update on my Mac Pro at home (Avid recently blessed Media Composer to run on 10.7) only to become somewhat less happy when I realized AirDrop, one of the features I was most looking forward to, won’t work with my Mac Pro. It apparently uses the WiFi built into the computer and can’t work through a network, even when the machine is connected to an Apple router. A little search verified that my Mac Pro won’t work since it doesn’t have a WiFi card installed.


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Monday, August 29, 2011

DNxHD with Embedded Multichannel Audio

DNxHD with Embedded Multichannel Audio:

I am onlining a show that has a new delivery requirement…not tape, but rather a Quicktime file with embedded audio. OK, this isn’t new…this is new to Avid. This is something I have been doing for a while in FCP land. Delivering ProRes or HQ files with 8 to 12 channels of embedded audio. This is something FCP 7 does rather easily…it was designed to do this. I have a tutorial on how to do that here. But this is something Avid Media Composer doesn’t do at all. Sure, you can export a Quicktime file, but only with stereo audio. Avid MC was designed for many things…outputting to tape, spitting out EDLs for online, cut lists for film…but not Quicktime with embedded audio.

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Kineraw S35 Digital Cinema Camera - something RED should be afraid of?

Kineraw S35 Digital Cinema Camera - something RED should be afraid of?:
China has an answer to Arri Alexas and Red Epics - the Kinefinity KineRAW S35, a 2K digital cinema camera featuring a Super35 CMOS sensor. The producer plans to sell it for the price of... $8.000! Not bad for a device with such capabilities.


Blackmagic Design Announces UltraStudio 3D With Thunderbolt Technology™ Is Now Shipping

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World’s first video product with Thunderbolt™ technology allows portable capture and playback with dual link 3 Gb/s SDI, HDMI 1.4a and analog video, 10 bit video and dual stream 3D!




World’s first video product with Thunderbolt™ technology allows portable capture and playback with dual link 3 Gb/s SDI, HDMI 1.4a and analog video, 10 bit video and dual stream 3D!
Milpitas CA - August 29, 2011 - Blackmagic Design today announced the world’s first video product with Thunderbolt technology. UltraStudio 3D which allows portable capture and playback with full resolution dual stream 3D support, 10 bit hardware architecture, dual link 3 Gb/s SDI, support for up to 1080p60 in SDI and component analog and HDMI 1.4a connections, as well as full SD, HD and 2K support, is now shipping for only US$995.
UltraStudio 3D is a compact and portable solution that uses the new Thunderbolt™ interface for dual link 3 Gb/s SDI, HDMI 1.4a and analog component/s-video/composite, as well as balanced analog and AES/EBU digital audio capture and playback. UltraStudio 3D is perfect for 3D workflows as it features  interleaved, side by side, frame packed and dual stream capture and playback.
Dual stream 3D allows customers to use the UltraStudio 3D dual link SDI connections to capture and play back two streams, one for the left eye and one for the right eye. The two streams are recorded into two separate media files. Dual stream 3D is higher quality because each eye is full resolution video, but dual stream is less compatible with current editing software. To solve this problem, Blackmagic Design’s Media Express 3 has been upgraded to handle both interleaved and dual stream 3D for capture and playback of 3D media for a complete 3D solution.
With SDI, HDMI and analog video capture and playback, combined with balanced analog and AES/EBU digital audio, UltraStudio 3D lets customers connect to all decks, cameras and monitors! UltraStudio 3D instantly switches between SD, HD and 2K, so is the ideal solution for all post production and broadcast users when working on design, editing, paint and effects tasks.
UltraStudio 3D is also based on a new internal hardware design with support for 10 bit SDI video and full support for video rates up to 1080p60 via SDI, HDMI and analog component. Thunderbolt™ technology easily handles this quality, and allows high end post production quality and features in a portable design.
“We are so excited to release the world's first feature film quality Thunderbolt™ technology based capture and playback device. Working closely with Intel and Apple on this project,  I cannot believe how many advanced industry leading features are packed into this single product,” said Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design. "UltraStudio 3D has finally provided a real, portable high quality solution at a price anyone can afford!"
"Thunderbolt technology is a game changer for media creators,” says Jason Ziller, Intel’s director of Thunderbolt Marketing. “Enthusiasts can now work with multiple streams of full resolution video with extreme portability.”

UltraStudio 3D Key Features

  • Thunderbolt™ technology at 10 Gb/s data rate.
  • 3G SDI (3 Gb/s SDI) in and out, supports SD, HD up to 1080p60 and 2K.
  • SDI inputs include full SDI re-clocking for capture from poor quality SDI sources.
  • HDMI 1.4a in and out, supports SD and HD formats up to 1080p60 and frame packing 3D.
  • Hardware based 10 bit Up, Down and Cross Conversion.
  • Component analog in and out.
  • Component analog switches to s-video and composite.
  • 2 channel balanced analog audio in and out.
  • 2 channel AES/EBU unbalanced audio in and out.
  • Genlock/tri-sync input.
  • Sony™ compatible RS-422 deck control.
  • Supports uncompressed 8 and 10 bit and compressed video capture and playback.
  • Capture/playback of side by side, line by line, top and bottom and frame packing 3D via HDMI.
  • Capture/playback of side by side, line by line, top and bottom and dual stream 3D via SDI.
  • Includes hardware SD and HD keying.
  • Compatible with Mac OS X computers with a Thunderbolt™ port.
  • Supports Final Cut Studio, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve and more.
  • Includes free developer SDK.
  • Includes free Media Express 3 capture and playback software.

Availability and Price

UltraStudio 3D is available now for US$995 from Blackmagic Design resellers.

Press Photography

Product photos of the UltraStudio 3D, and all other Blackmagic Design products, are available at www.blackmagic-design.com/press/resources/images.

About Blackmagic Design

Blackmagic Design creates the world’s highest quality video editing products, color correctors, video converters, video monitoring, routers, live production switchers, waveform monitors and film restoration software for the feature film, post production and television broadcast industries. Blackmagic Design’s DeckLink capture cards  launched a revolution in quality and affordability, while the company’s DaVinci Emmy™ award winning color correction products have dominated the television and film industry since 1984. Blackmagic Design continues ground breaking innovations including stereoscopic 3D and 4K workflows. Founded by world leading post production editors and engineers, Blackmagic Design has offices in the USA, UK, Japan, Singapore, and Australia. For more information, please check www.blackmagic-design.com.
Thunderbolt and the Thunderbolt logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S.and/or other countries.







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Sunday, August 28, 2011

5 best video editing apps for Android devices

5 best video editing apps for Android devices
When it comes to Android mobile editing, look no further. Here is a list of the 5 best Android video editing apps to choose from. Be a creative video editor wherever you are...

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Friday, August 26, 2011

Dupe Guru Finds Duplicate Files Even When File Names Do Not Match

Dupe Guru Finds Duplicate Files Even When File Names Do Not Match
Dupe Guru is a simple duplicate file remover which, unlike many other duplicate file removing tools, uses fuzzy matching algorithm to scan multiple locations for duplicate files. The algorithm is smart enough to find not only the files with same type and name but can identify duplicates with different file attributes. The file finding mechanism is totally customizable, you can change the way it searches for duplicate files. Furthermore, the built-in reference directory and grouping system will prevent you from deleting those files which should not be deleted from the system.


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What are the different types of metadata we can use in production and post production?

What are the different types of metadata we can use in production and post production?
I’ve been thinking a lot about metadata – data about the video and audio assets – particularly since we use metadata extensively in our Intelligent Assistance software products and for media items for sale in Open TV Network. And the new “Faces” and “Places” features in iPhoto ’09 show just how useful metadata can be.

Business Expansion and Server Solution // Dilemmas & Suggestions

Business Expansion and Server Solution // Dilemmas & Suggestions:
If you're not a business don't tune out just yet. There will be some valuable info for you too. Whether you're a blogging mom, music/movie junky, a small retail business or a larger production studio you've all probably felt the growing pains of digital storage. You're left with a few option, buy another external drive, try yourself or pay someone to install a larger internal drive, buy a new computer or maybe abandon technology and go back to sticks and stones.

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Xsan 2.2.2 Update for Snow Leopard

Xsan 2.2.2 Update for Snow Leopard:
By: ogminlo
Apple posted a minor update to Xsan for Snow Leopard today, version 2.2.2. From the release notes:
The Xsan 2.2.2 Filesystem Update is recommended for all Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard-based Xsan 2.2 systems. This update improves general file system reliability and


  • improves file system reliability when the filesystem is highly fragmented




  • improves file system reliability when unmounting a volume




  • improves file system reliability when running snfsdefrag




  • improves file system reliability when native extended attributes are enabled




  • improves Finder reliability when browsing a volume that is highly fragmented




  • allows Xsan Admin to create new volumes when more than 100 fsm processes are running



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    SONY UK deliver amazing news about the FS100 and NX70

    SONY UK deliver amazing news about the FS100 and NX70:
    I sent an email off to Sony Broadcast UK last week asking about the discrepancy between the FS100 specs in the US and the UK. In the US you can get 8bit 4:4:4 out of the HDMI socket while in the UK it was claimed to be 4:2:2, I decided this was nonsense and today [...]

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    או בקיצור. בתקן HDMI מוגדר תת דגימה של 4:2:0, 4:2:2 ו4:4:4. החישן של ה FS100 וה NX70 הוא 4:2:2.
    אפשר לתת לבקר HDMI "להעלות" ל4:4:4 או לעשות את זה בפוסט. מעניין איזה תהליך נותן תוצאה טובה יותר.

    Thursday, August 25, 2011

    Lucasfilm, Sony Pictures Imageworks Release Alembic 1.0

    Lucasfilm, Sony Pictures Imageworks Release Alembic 1.0
    Vancouver, BC - Alembic 1.0, the open-source project jointly developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Lucasfilm Ltd., made its debut at SIGGRAPH 2011.

    Create 3D models from photographs

    Create 3D models from photographs:
    Autodesk project Photofly allows anyone with a digital camera to create near accurate 3D models from photographs using the web.

    Useful Tools for Editors: DropCopy

    Useful Tools for Editors: DropCopy

    I was happily installing the Mac OS 10.7 Lion update on my Mac Pro at home (Avid recently blessed Media Composer to run on 10.7) only to become somewhat less happy when I realized AirDrop, one of the features I was most looking forward to, won’t work with my Mac Pro. It apparently uses the WiFi built into the computer and can’t work through a network, even when the machine is connected to an Apple router. A little search verified that my Mac Pro won’t work since it doesn’t have a WiFi card installed.

    Wednesday, August 24, 2011

    CF or SD corrupted?

    CF or SD corrupted?

    So the worst case scenario has happened and after a day’s worth of filming for an all important client, you come back to the edit suite, connect your CF/SD card to your computer and then…. nothing happens. Your computer doesn’t detech your card or the video files have mysteriously disappeared. Your stomach takes a sky-dive and thoughts of the end of your career go through your head.

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    Quick Avid Tip: Display your UNC File Path in the bin!

    Quick Avid Tip: Display your UNC File Path in the bin!

    Okay, just a quick tip I worked out yesterday while I was trying to organize dailies for a documentary I am working on. The producer/directors had organized everything I needed to build out the Avid project on a hard drive: hours and hours of Quicktimes, all sorted out by subject or location. I was going to import them in one fell swoop, but I needed some way to organize the media once it came into the Avid. As it was, all the media arrived in one big bin. This is where the UNC File Path comes in.

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    Tuesday, August 23, 2011

    Free Render Farm for all :)

    Free Render Farm for all :):

    What is Renderfarm.fi? feat. Big Buck Bunny Studio Lumikuu – YouTube.

    I am very proud of how far Blender has gone. At this speed I can only imagine how much further they can go.

    Blender 3D is a free 3D app to create animations, compositing, games and modeling. It is an amazing tool! And it is FREE! :)

    Check it out and let me know what you think.

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    Monday, August 22, 2011

    JMR’s SAS Expander is NOW Avid Certified!

    JMR’s SAS Expander is NOW Avid Certified!
    By Matt Meeker
    JMR Electronics, a Los Angeles-based manufacturer of data storage products since 1982, is pleased to offer the Avid® Certified Model AVID-JS-3-16T rack mount RAID storage system as the perfect companion for Avid users.

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    Camp RED


    Camp RED Interview from Camp RED on Vimeo.


    וואלה הילדים האמריקאים חיים טוב...

    5DtoRGB Update v1.53

    5DtoRGB Update v1.53
    Thanks to all for the support from the first article about this software. In this update I’ll show you what has changed and how the Technicolor LUT is applied. Does it matter if you bake it in with 5DtoRGB or use it in an editor? Check out the video above to find out. Cheers!

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    Sunday, August 21, 2011

    Movies blue | Exported through Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5 | Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5



    Issue
    When you export a movie from Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 using the Adobe Media Encoder encoding queue, the movie has a strong blue tint.

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    Saturday, August 20, 2011

    Simple Workflow for Removing 2:3 Pull Down

    Simple Workflow for Removing 2:3 Pull Down:

    This is an old topic of discussion, but it always seems to come up again and again. Some cameras, such as Sony’s FS100, will record in 1080 24p, but output only 1080 60i over HDMI. The FS100 does this to make its output compatible with monitors and other devices. The internal video recording is true 24p, but the output has gone through a 2:3 pull down process, whereby the 24p is converted into 60i. Because 24 frames do not evenly split into 60 interlaced fields, this process stretches 24p into 60i which does result in some obvious interlacing artifacts. Here is a quick illustration showing how four frames (from 24p) split into interlaced fields.

    For anyone wishing to record the HDMI signal coming out of the FS100, this can be a major headache. Recorders such as the Ki Pro Mini or the HyperDeck Shuttle can easily record the video coming out, but unfortunately they cannot remove the 2:3 pull down to convert the video back into 24p. Here are a couple quick examples of how to remove the pull down and get good results.


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    Using Carbon Copy Cloner to copy camera original footage

    Using Carbon Copy Cloner to copy camera original footage:
    At Post Producers Digital we've been using this great Mac OSX shareware application to help safely copy large files from one drive to another. Using 'Carbon Copy Cloner' is proving to be faster than copying via the Finder, it can be stopped and started, and it'll verify the integrity of the copied files.

    Free Alexa Metadata Viewer

    Free Alexa Metadata Viewer:
    Clip-MetaView
    Clip View is a free Metadata Viewer for Mac. View all metadata from a Alexa ProRes Quicktime file in a easy and searchable list. All loaded metadata is stored in a database and can be accessed later without the need to read the clips again or even have them present on the database computer.

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    Friday, August 19, 2011

    Autodesk 123DSculpt

    Autodesk 123DSculpt:
    Autodesk 123D Sculpt lets you push, pull, and pinch 3D models on your iPad. Free for a limited time.

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    Side by Side Comparison: FCP7 vs FCPX

    Side by Side Comparison: FCP7 vs FCPX:
    Alan asks: I’ve learned to use and love FCP7 and thinking of upgrading over to FCPX… or is it an upgrade? Does it have all of the same features? is it faster? effects are all there? I would like to see a side by side comparison. Thanks!
    Answer: Two guys from Clearhead Media took the time to do a non-scientific comparison of the two and came up with some very interesting results:

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    מבצע טרייד אין לאולפני פוסט של איידיגיטל

    טכנולוגיה חדשה לשמירה על תכנים

    טכנולוגיה חדשה לשמירה על תכנים:
    הטכנולוגיה מאפשרת גיבוי לתקופות ארוכות

    Worldwide 3D Box-Office Cracks $6 Billion, So Where’s All the Money?

    Worldwide 3D Box-Office Cracks $6 Billion, So Where’s All the Money?:

    The Global Market for 3D Movies: 2010

    Global box-office revenue from 3D movie screens more than doubled in 2010, reaching a total of $6.1 billion, compared to just $2.5 billion in 2009, according to a new IHS Screen Digest Cinema Intelligence report. North America accounted for 36.1 percent of the total, and 32.8 percent — $2.0 billion — came from the United States.

    Sony FS100 HDMI is RGB 4:4:4 in the US and 4:2:2 in the UK

    Sony FS100 HDMI is RGB 4:4:4 in the US and 4:2:2 in the UK: As you can see for yourself the WORKFLOW part of the USA Sony FS100 brochure states RGB 4:4:4 from the HDMI socket while the UK version states 4:2:2. This is causing a great debate and confusion amongst my readership who surprisingly come from all parts of the globe and the US chaps are telling me...

    Thursday, August 18, 2011

    NVIDIA Improves Interactive Rendering for Adobe and Autodesk

    NVIDIA Improves Interactive Rendering for Adobe and Autodesk: NVIDIA ran some interesting demonstrations at SIGGRAPH involving real time interactivity for Nvidia-siggraph-1 motion graphics artists using Adobe software, and for 3D artists using 3ds Max and Maya for animation and simulations.
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    Sunday, August 14, 2011

    The Basics of Shooting Stereoscopic 3D – Part 1

    The Basics of Shooting Stereoscopic 3D – Part 1:
    By Steve Shaw, Light Illusion As an industry veteran with experience in all aspects of digital image technology, including hands-on creative post-production operation, production supervision and support, and equipment development and manufacture, I have been involved with stereoscopic 3D for

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    Saturday, August 13, 2011

    ProApps QuickTime Codecs

    שוחררה חבילת המקודדים של אפל להתקנה על מחשבי מק, ללא חבילת פיינל קאט.
    בעזרת החבילה ניתן לקודד קבצי וידאו לProRes דרך תוכנות צד שלישי.

    לינק להורדה

    Friday, August 12, 2011

    Using QubeMaster Xport with Apple Compressor 4 | The Briefing Room

    Using QubeMaster Xport with Apple Compressor 4 | The Briefing Room
    “Our goal is to empower the small post houses or independent filmmaker and provide them with the tools to distribute their stories,” he added. “The Digital Cinema Package format is quickly becoming the standard for exhibition and film festivals. With Compressor 4 and QubeMaster Xport, production companies, documentary makers, postproduction facilities and even film students can now master their own DCP’s for the cost of a couple of film prints.”

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    Coming Soon to After Effects?

    Coming Soon to After Effects?:
    Adobe and NVIDIA preview a GPU-accelerated set of tools inside After Effects that could end up in the next version of After Effects....

    Thursday, August 11, 2011

    In case you missed it: 5DtoRGB v1.5

    In case you missed it: 5DtoRGB v1.5:
    I believe it was about a year ago when the developers at Rarevision came out with their way of prepping HDSLR media for post, 5DtoRGB. If you have been on a Mac workflow and transcoding to ProRes either via MPEGStreamClip, Magic Bullet Grinder, a variation of a Compressor droplet, or using the Canon E1 Log & Transfer plugin in Final Cut Pro 7, you know the woes of the wicked Quicktime gamma shift. Since most if not all HDSLRs that record video are recorded in a compressed format either H.264 or some form of AVCHD, at an 8bit color depth and also have a heavy amount of chroma subsampling; post production with these cameras can be an experience that is less than desirable. I wont go into the specifics about what this all means but if you want to read more into the alchemy of HD formats check out this blog post by Andy Shipsides of Abel Cine Tech about HD formats.
    Okay. So we know that we are starting with a compressed codec in a limited color space and bit depth. This is where 5DtoRGB comes in to play. See below:

    After Effects Script of the Week: Immigration

    After Effects Script of the Week: Immigration:
    Ask any veteran After Effects artist who uses scripts which ones should really be built right into the application and among the top handful for most artists will be Immigration. It provides an interface to work with image sequences, something that the file system (Finder or Windows Explorer) and Adobe applications which rely on it (all of them) doesn’t do well.

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    Calculating Timecode in Excel

    Calculating Timecode in Excel:
    Today I was contacted by a filmmaker friend that wanted to work out a way to calculate timecode within an Excel spreadsheet. Fortunately there are some great Macro’s out there that allow you to do just that, however the one I recommended is not terribly well documented, so I thought I would jot down some notes here.

    Wednesday, August 10, 2011

    Streamlining Color Correction in Premiere Pro

    Streamlining Color Correction in Premiere Pro:
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    Premiere Pro has a full complement of tonality and color correction tools including about 40 tonality and color correction video effects and four vector and waveform scopes. Most video editors gaze upon all those possibilities and end up choosing the path of least resistance: automated effects. As for scopes…forget about it. Who can make heads or tails of them? Turns out, the dark art of color correction is not all that opaque.

    Autodesk announces interoperability between After Effects and 3DSMax

    Autodesk announces interoperability between After Effects and 3DSMax:
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    AE product manager Steve Forde notes an Autodesk announcement of some cool interoperability between AfterEffects and 3DSMax. Here’s some quotes from Autodesk and two video demos:

    בפוסט המקורי יש וידאו שמראה את התהליך. החלק המעניין (לקומפוזיטינג) מתחיל בדקה 12 של הוידאו.


    AJA Strengthens Ki Pro Mini Workflow for Canon and RED

    AJA Strengthens Ki Pro Mini Workflow for Canon and RED: "Updated AJA firmware for the Ki Pro Mini digital recorder enables the RED Epic, RED One and AJA-RED-epic some Canon XF cameras to pass metadata directly to the recorder via a single SDI cable.
    AJA-RED-epicAJA-ki-pro-mini

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    The Camera That Goes to ONE MILLION FPS [Video]

    The Camera That Goes to ONE MILLION FPS [Video]:
    Vision Research, with their Phantom line of high-speed video cameras, has kind of outdone themselves this time with the Phantom v1610. A MILLION FPS. Imagine what people getting punched in the face would look like slowed down that much!

    Tuesday, August 9, 2011

    Avid unveils a prototype user interface for Media Composer!

    Avid unveils a prototype user interface for Media Composer!: "
    Avid presented a new user interface for Media Composer during a customer event in Los Angeles. You can view the video below. The new interface looks a little bit like a mix of Autodesk Smoke, Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro 7 put into one. The company also unvealed a plan for the future - that includes a 64-bit architecture, 4K, DNxHD in 4:4:4 colour space, increased support for colour correction within the editing system, and of course a prototype of a new user interface.

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    Friday, August 5, 2011

    Canon DSLRs Can Be Controlled Using This Handy Android App [Video]

    Canon DSLRs Can Be Controlled Using This Handy Android App [Video]:
    At $8.50 this isn't just another novelty app to throw into your phone, but owners of a Canon EOS DSLR and Honeycomb tablet, or Samsung Galaxy S2 phone could find the remote (over USB) shooting feature very useful.

    Village Instruments CEO Promises Graphics Card Enclosure for Thunderbolt

    Village Instruments CEO Promises Graphics Card Enclosure for Thunderbolt

    Village Instruments currently makes the ViDock, a graphics enclosure that uses the ExpressCard interface - the new Thunderbolt ViDock will probably be similar in construction to the current model. Performance of the new Thunderbolt device should improve considerably, since Thunderbolt gives devices 10 Gb/s of bandwidth to work with, while ExpressCard devices can only use about a quarter of that.




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    A ProRes workflow end-to-end

    A ProRes workflow end-to-end:

    With the radical change going on right now in the world of Final Cut Pro, I’ve had some FCP7 users ask me about maintaining an end-to-end ProRes workflow in Premiere Pro. There are questions whether it’s even possible. Well, I’m here to show you it IS possible, and how to make it go.

    S-Log and the Sony F3 – Part 1: On the Charts

    S-Log and the Sony F3 – Part 1: On the Charts:

    Sony’s RGB and S-Log upgrade option for the F3 is now shipping. At AbelCine, we’ve had the upgrade for some time; you may remember the video that we helped produce at NAB that showed off the camera’s S-Log capabilities. I get many questions about this new option and what exactly it changes in the camera, so I am putting together a three-part video series on the topic.

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    ProRes Workflow in Premiere: Advanced Options

    ProRes Workflow in Premiere: Advanced Options:

    I’ve already seen some great questions out there regarding my last tutorial. There are a couple of advanced options that I skipped over in order to get the basics out there for everyone.

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    Thursday, August 4, 2011

    Jon Chappell of Digital Rebellion shows off the must have "Pro Media Tools"!

    Jon Chappell of Digital Rebellion shows off the must have "Pro Media Tools"!: "

    Below you will find a nice video with Jon Chappell of Digital Rebellion who shows off the must have "Pro Media Tools" for Final Cut Pro and FCPX. It is a suite of applications that help you work more efficiently, and more importanly, get you out of trouble. The video has been taped during the July meeting of LFCPUG, hosted by Michael Horton.

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    Scripting Video Changes in Lion: avconvert, pcastaction & podcast | Krypted.com

    Scripting Video Changes in Lion: avconvert, pcastaction & podcast | Krypted.com
    via @aPostEngineer

    The avconvert command is a new addition in OS X Lion that allows administrators to quickly and easily convert video from one format to another using presets for video conversion. The presets are mostly common Apple formats tuned to specific devices.
    In its simplest form, avconvert uses a preset, a source and then an output to convert the source to the output using the preset to define the format to use for conversion. A useful preset is the 640×480 one. To convert this using this idea:
    /usr/bin/avconvert --preset Preset640x480 --source /Convert/test.mov --output Converted/test.mov
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    "Captain America: The First Avenger" Action Shots Captured With Canon EOS 5D Mark II Digital SLR Cameras

    Captain America: The First Avenger" Action Shots Captured With Canon EOS 5D Mark II Digital SLR Cameras:
    Full 1080P HD Capture, 24p Frame Rate and Canon EF Lenses Provide Compatibility and Creative Options for Movie Production (Lake Success, New York--August 2, 2011) Canon U.S.A., a leader in digital imaging, announced today that the highly anticipated feature film, 'Captain America: The First Avenger', used Canon EOS 5D Mark II Digital SLR cameras to capture many of the movie's action shots. Throughout the super hero action picture, the 5D Mark II was used to shoot motion sequences that were seamlessly integrated with the production's 35mm film footage.

    The Sony A77 DSLR with 1080 50p Full HD

    The Sony A77 DSLR with 1080 50p Full HD:
    This is an interesting move by Sony as this DSLR is clearly directed at the video marketplace even although Sony have all angles covered with their VG10, FS100 and the F3. The A77 DSLR sports a brand new sensor as yet we don’t know if it’s full frame or APS. A 3 million dot OLED LCD [...]

    Wednesday, August 3, 2011

    3D Mic Pro and immersive audio

    3D Mic Pro and immersive audio: "

    I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU WEAR HEADPHONES WHEN LISTENING TO THE VIDEO BELOW.

    The basic thing you need to know about this microphone, is that it has two high quality mics that are spaced apart roughly the same distance as your ears are from one another. It also utilizes a sound modifier technology which captures immersive sound just like we hear it. Most, if not all mics out there are mono mics – and a normal stereo microphone cannot record the same information in the same manner. The beauty of this system is that you can handhold the Mitra mic or put it on a small tripod and let it roll. Just monitor your levels and you can have this incredibly immersive sound out of the box. You can then mix it into 5.1 if you want as well.

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    Monday, August 1, 2011

    AVID MC TIP – Separating Media by Project

    AVID MC TIP – Separating Media by Project:

    OK, to most of you from FCP land, keeping media separate by project is a no-brainer. Because FCP did that for you. In your Capture Scratch drive you had a Capture Scratch folder, and render folders, and in there you’d have different folders for different projects: