DVS VENICE Integrates with Avid Isis and Interplay PAM

DVS VENICE Integrates with Avid Isis and Interplay PAM:

DVS has upgraded VENICE, its multi-channel video server, to implement workflows using Avid ISIS shared storage and Interplay Production Asset Management systems.

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NVIDIA Opens CUDA Source Code for Software R&D

NVIDIA Opens CUDA Source Code for Software R&D: NVIDIA will provide the source code for the new NVIDIA CUDA LLVM-based compiler to researchers and software vendors, making it easier to add support for new programming languages and processor architectures.

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PsF’s missing workflow, Part 9: Premiere Elements 10

PsF’s missing workflow, Part 9: Premiere Elements 10:

In parts 1-3 of the PsF’s missing workflow series, we introduced the terms benign PsF & malignant PsF, and revealed the PsF status of several AVCHD cameras from 3 manufacturers. In #4, we did the same with several HD recorders. In #5, we revealed how one recorder manufacturer is offering its own software to counteract the inappropriate signals offered over HDMI by many cameras. In #6, I published an open letter to all pro AVCHD manufacturers. In #7, I covered how to deal with PsF on a progressive sequence in Premiere Pro CS5.5. In #8, I showed how ClipWrap is an excellent solution for many Mac editors. Now in #9, I’ll discuss PsF with the sub US$100 Adobe Premiere Elements 10.

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Getting Ready for 2012: SpeedGrade Video Demo

Getting Ready for 2012: SpeedGrade Video Demo:

Late in 2011 Adobe announced it had acquired a number of assets from IRIDAS. One of those assets is the color grading application SpeedGrade. This is a good thing because, with the demise of Apple Color, that leaves Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve as pretty much the only affordable, powerful, standalone color-grading software. Since competition breeds innovation, it’s exciting to know that Adobe will be bringing SpeedGrade to the masses, presumably at some point in 2012. I had only seen a SpeedGrade demo at NAB and didn’t know much more about the application until I watched this Adobe TV episode: Introduction to SpeedGrade. If you’re interested in what should be a major new player in the color grading mass market check out this 20-minute SpeedGrade demo and get ready for the next set of workflow options in post in the coming year.

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Magic Lantern's new firmware for Canon's cameras is out!

Magic Lantern's new firmware for Canon's cameras is out!:

If you are a lucky owner of one of such Canon's cameras as the 550D, 60D, 600D, 500D or 50D, Magic Landern has a great gift for you! The firmware that brings the HDR feature is out!

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Conforming and Compositing 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'

Conforming and Compositing 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'
After having learned so much from our experimental workflow on The Social Network, we refined our pipeline for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...

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A brief history of film, video and data for colorists

A brief history of film, video and data for colorists

Coloring The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Coloring The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo:
This video by Dolby Laboratories gives you to the behind the scenes look at how Michael Cioni and the team at Light Iron Digital used Dolby Reference Monitors for Coloring “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”

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Pomfort LiveGrade Beta

Pomfort LiveGrade Beta:
You can download this for free and get involved in Pomfort's beta program for realtime color correction of video signals via a HDLink Pro ('ala LinkColor).
Here's the link



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Working with Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5 - Little Frog in High Def

Working with Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5 - Little Frog in High Def
OK, I’m not all about Avid now. I’m giving Adobe Premiere Pro some love too. With Apple no longer making a tool I can use, I’m exploring the other two main options for NLEs and seeing what they are capable of. Seeing how they might fit into my workflow needs. Now, while Avid does easily plug into my broadcast workflows, I do have other projects that would be cumbersome to work with in Avid Media Composer…even MC6. So those projects I used Premiere Pro to tackle.

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No Stupid Questions with Colin Smith - Introduction to SpeedGrade | Adobe TV

No Stupid Questions with Colin Smith - Introduction to SpeedGrade | Adobe TV

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Blackmagic Design Release AVID DNxHD Recording Update To Hyperdeck Studio

Blackmagic Design Release AVID DNxHD Recording Update To Hyperdeck Studio: BMD's Hyperdeck Studio can now record AVID's DNxHD codec from a free updateBlackmagic Design today announced the availability of a free HyperDeck Software Update 2.0 Public Beta, a new software update for its HyperDeck Studio product that adds broadcast quality compressed 10 bit recording and playback to the Avid DNxHD format.

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PipelineFX Qube! Accelerates Original Force’s Animation Renders

PipelineFX Qube! Accelerates Original Force’s Animation Renders: Chinese 3D animation coutsourcing company Original Force recently chose to use a render farm management firm, PipelineFX, to organize and optimize their render pipeline.

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Take Smoke for a Fully Supported Test Drive

Take Smoke for a Fully Supported Test Drive:

A lot of people are surprised when they hear that the Smoke 30-day trial includes free technical support. But at Autodesk, we think that support is just as important as creative tools.

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DaVinci Resolve 8.2 for Microsoft Windows Enters Public Beta

DaVinci Resolve 8.2 for Microsoft Windows Enters Public Beta: Microsoft Windows-based creative shops can now take advantage of DaVinci Resolve 8.2, via a public beta now available for download from Blackmagic Design, and is available both in the full-featured DaVinci Resolve 8.2 and free DaVinci Resolve Lite versions.

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Blackmagic Releases DaVinci Resolve 8.2 for Windows Beta

Blackmagic Releases DaVinci Resolve 8.2 for Windows Beta: Delivering on a promise made in September during IBC, Blackmagic Design has opened up the DaVinci Resolve ecosystem to a wider range of hardware with the release of the Resolve 8.2 for Windows public beta.

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Nucoda 2011.2 released

Nucoda 2011.2 released:

Image Systems continues to move its color grading software technology forward increasing creativity and productivity in DI by delivering a flexible file-based workflow. Nucoda 2011.2 is now a 64-bit only application giving greatly increased performance particularly when using memory intensive tools such as the industry standard DVO image processing toolset.

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Canon C300 C-Log and Sony F3 S-Log comparison

Canon C300 C-Log and Sony F3 S-Log comparison:

I’ve just got the Canon C300 for one week and I want to share my thoughts with you. Lots of people asked me if I can do a comparison between Canon C300 C-Log Picture Profile and Sony F3 S-Log.


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"התוכנה הראשונה בעולם הכוללת waveform, vectorscope, histogram ומוניטור באיכות 4k"

התוכנה הראשונה בעולם הכוללת waveform, vectorscope, histogram ומוניטור באיכות 4k

Drastic משיקים את 4KScope

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Sony PVM OLED. The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly. - Part 2

Sony PVM OLED. The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly. - Part 2:
Part 2 - The Bad.
As stated earlier, testing using 10-bit uncompressed quicktime material out of a Blackmagic Decklink Extreme*, the PVM suffers with interlacing issues with upper and lower field material. Like most broadcast LCD off the shelf monitors the PVM cannot handle true interlacing and suffers with minor moire and aliasing. Take fields off and the problem is resolved. This is also true for HD interlaced material, as acquisition is usually shot progressive this isn’t an issue. Though when it comes to broadcast majority of houses will ask for 50i which could make QC a little interesting if using the PVM.

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ProVideo Coalition.com: Production Values by Mark Christiansen | Founder | Visual Effects

ProVideo Coalition.com: Production Values by Mark Christiansen | Founder | Visual Effects
You already own an amazing tool to optimize all kinds of video output and streamline your workflow.

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ProVideo Coalition.com: Adobe Beyond Adobe by Adobe | Vendor Blog

ProVideo Coalition.com: Adobe Beyond Adobe by Adobe | Vendor Blog
With the advent of version 5.52 of Premiere Pro, Adobe offered support for what NVIDIA calls Maximus on the PC platform. Maximus in essence is a Quadro card combined with a Tesla card. Okay, what’s a Tesla card? Basically, it’s a Quadro card without the display outputs – essentially, a headless GPU processing powerhouse.

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MacVideo - Editing - Features - Simon Walker presents Grading in Premiere Pro

MacVideo - Editing - Features - Simon Walker presents Grading in Premiere Pro
Using the tools in Adobe's Production Premium to colour correct and grade footage

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Rethinking NLE design

Rethinking NLE design:
The launch of Apple Final Cut Pro X stood the editing industry on its collective ear. It also sparked some very interesting – and occasionally heated – discussions about what the design of a modern, nonlinear editing application really should be. NLEs that we all use today are a collection of terminology, tools, designs and...

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Clean those Adobe Media Cache Files

Clean those Adobe Media Cache Files:

I learned something today about Adobe Premiere Pro that I was unaware of. The application creates a media cache when it imports media and that media cache seems to default to the system drive in the user Library folder. This cache can balloon in size over a period of time as I found out when cleaning up a drive. But it can be easily cleaned and relocated.

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Colorgrader Network - DaVinci Resolve 8.2 Beta 1 for Mac, Linux and Windows

Colorgrader Network - DaVinci Resolve 8.2 Beta 1 for Mac, Linux and Windows
Black Magic Design is releasing a beta of DaVinci Resolve, for Mac, Linux and Windows. This is the first Windows release and offers everything the Mac and Linux version have.

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Digital Cinema Passes a Milestone

Digital Cinema Passes a Milestone: Texas Instruments announced that more than 50,000 movie screens around the world have been converted to DLP digital cinema, crossing a threshold of over 50 percent of the estimated worldwide commercial cinema screens. According to some estimates, the conversion to digital will near completion by the end of 2015. Texas Instruments first introduced its proprietary DLP Cinema system in 1999, and has licensed the technology to three manufacturers – Barco, Christie and NEC.

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Knowing the Concepts Around the Technology of Plasma Television

Knowing the Concepts Around the Technology of Plasma Television:
When discussing about high-definition television system (HDTV), plasma tv is usually among the list of alternatives. It is an option to the LCD tv sets or the best LED tv being sold in the market currently. One of the notable characteristics of a plasma tv is that it gives razor-sharp visuals together with vibrant colors. This is particularly true when utilized along with high definition broadcast. One of the best things regarding a plasma tv is that it could be wall mounted without making use of a lot of clearance.

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A Hint at the Next After Effects, CS6

A Hint at the Next After Effects, CS6:

We all know that with Adobe’s new release schedule a major upgrade to Adobe After Effects CS6 is in the works and will be released at some point in 2012, most likely around NAB. You may or may not like Adobe’s new upgrade policy (some definitely don’t like it). Regardless, we all want to know what Adobe has in store for the next version of After Effects. A good hint went up over the weekend on Adobe’s After Effects region of interest blog in a post called “Top After Effects feature requests for the past year or so.”

By Scott Simmons, Studio Daily

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Blackmagic Design Acquires Teranex Systems Inc.

Blackmagic Design Acquires Teranex Systems Inc.:
Blackmagic Design today announced its acquisition of Teranex Systems Inc., a leading manufacturer of high performance video processing products for the post production and broadcast industries. Teranex, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackmagic Design.

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Adobe CS5.5 Max Render Quality & NVIDIA GPU acceleration

Adobe CS5.5 Max Render Quality & NVIDIA GPU acceleration:
GPU acceleration gives the same level of render quality as Maximum Render Quality, even if you don’t check the Maximum Render Quality box.
But instead of a performance hit, you gain a 6-7x performance boost.
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Results: Will You Be Getting Media Composer 6

Results: Will You Be Getting Media Composer 6:
About one month ago, Avid released the sixth version of Media Composer. I decided to ask you, the reader, what you plan on doing? Are you sticking with Final Cut Pro (X) or are you jumping ship to MC6? Here are the results:

Media Composer 6 poll results. Click to enlarge.

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Mastering Film » Cutting in the Third Dimension

Mastering Film » Cutting in the Third Dimension
This article is an exploration of 3D techniques and ideas. I have spent two years gathering blogs, videos, looking for articles on a new visual language for film editors and meeting with 3D post specialists. There are several things that need to be addressed prior to the reader proceeding. First, this is not a technical guide to editing 3D, however, when my journey began it quickly became obvious that knowledge of the technical aspects of 3D is necessary to execute new ideas and that a lack of knowledge in this area would lead to a subpar article on the ideas of 3D editing.

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ACES vs YRGB using RED camera

ACES vs YRGB using RED camera:

When I heard about ACES a few month ago I was very interested in what it could do. Now I have done a couple of tests with some RED footage. The same footage was imported into one YRGB and one ACES project using DaVinci Resolve and then I tried to adjust the luminance and not care about the color. The color in all cases feels green and faded in the ACES version, but that can of course be adjusted. The detail is better when using ACES, but it's harder to get some punch in the image.

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More than Finishing

More than Finishing:

Autodesk application specialist Paul Andrews recently put together a great webcast showing just how flexible Smoke can be. It covers on-set workflows using a laptop, shows start-to-finish timeline editing using GoPro HD footage, and demonstrates how to set up an accelerated RED Rocket workflow. You can view the free 60-minute video by registering here.

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3:2 pulldown properly

3:2 pulldown properly:

This is a fairly specific tutorial for a not unheard-of situation. Say you have material that is 23.98 and 59.94 and you need to finish in one format or another. By default Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro will import your mixed frame rate material and playback with 4:1 pulldown.

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Sony will release a 4K home cinema projector. Coming in January... for $28,000!

Sony will release a 4K home cinema projector. Coming in January... for $28,000!:

If Full HD is not enough for you, Sony can resolve this problem. The company, in advance of the 2011 CEDIA Expo, unveiled a variety of products designed to deliver an integrated and immersive home entertainment experience. One of the new products is Sony's home theater front projector capable of displaying stunning 4K images. The VPL-VW1000ES 4K projector is specifically designed to meet the needs of custom installers, and its capabilities should deliver entertainment enthusiasts a more immersive, engaging visual experience with over four times the resolution of HDTV.

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Preference Manager 3.1 released with Adobe After Effects and Avid Media Composer 6 support - Digital Rebellion Blog

Preference Manager 3.1 released with Adobe After Effects and Avid Media Composer 6 support - Digital Rebellion Blog





Earlier this week we released Preference Manager 3.1, which adds some exciting and long-requested features to the application.


After Effects support
We've had a lot of requests for this. You can now trash and lock After Effects preferences and backup and restore AE preferences and workspaces.

Improved Avid support
Preference Manager 3.1 supports Avid Media Composer 6 and you can now trash Avid preferences for a particular user instead of having to trash them for all users at the same time.

We've also improved the stability and speed of the software. You should notice a speed boost when trashing and restoring preferences. The full changelog is here.

Preference Manager is an essential tool for managing the preferences of your editing software. To find out more, see our video overview and download Preference Manager free of charge.

DV101: The 411 on 4:4:4, 4:2:2 and 4:2:0: Understanding Digital Cameras and Color DisseminationJay Holben, Jay Holben, Jay Holben

DV101: The 411 on 4:4:4, 4:2:2 and 4:2:0: Understanding Digital Cameras and Color DisseminationJay Holben, Jay Holben, Jay Holben
Many people get confused when it comes to discussing how digital cameras capture and record color information—as the two are mutually exclusive. As I covered in November's column, color information can be captured via three discrete sensors in the camera (one sensitive to red, one blue and one green light), or it can be captured via a single sensor with a color filter array. This color information is then processed and quite often compressed or altered before recording.

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PsF’s missing workflow, Part 8: ClipWrap to the rescue

PsF’s missing workflow, Part 8: ClipWrap to the rescue:

In parts 1-3 of the PsF’s missing workflow series, we introduced the terms benign PsF & malignant PsF, and revealed the PsF status of several professional AVCHD cameras from 3 manufacturers (Canon, Panasonic, and Sony). In #4, we did the same with several HD video recorders from 6 different manufacturers. In #5, we revealed how one recorder manufacturer is offering its own “Band-Aid” software to counteract the inappropriate signals offered over HDMI by many camera manufacturers. In #6, I published an open letter to all pro AVCHD manufacturers. In #7, I covered how to deal with PsF on a progressive sequence in Premiere Pro CS5.5. Now in #8, I’ll reveal how the US$49.99 middleware known as ClipWrap will be the cure-all for all of AVCHD’s multiple weaknesses, including both types of PsF, at least in the short term.

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