FFmpeg Reaches Version 1.0

FFmpeg Reaches Version 1.0:
While we have been looking towards an FFmpeg 1.0 release for nearly one year, the version 1.0 release of the popular FFmpeg library was finally tagged after being in development for more than one decade.


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Download: F65RAW Plug-in for Avid

Sony Creative Software - Download: F65RAW Plug-in for Avid:
This AMA plug-in provides supporting F65RAW MXF files in Avid MediaComposer and Symphony products, allowing viewing and editing capability.

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An Exciting Post About File Management! (Seriously, This is For Your Own Good)

An Exciting Post About File Management! (Seriously, This is For Your Own Good) - NoFilmSchool:
Do you see the laptop graphic to the left here? This is is a dramatization of what you’ll want to do should you ever mis-manage your file naming or folder structure on a project. Luckily, there are several tips from around the web to help with file management. Let’s pick ourselves up by the bootstraps, and dig in with some helpful (and ultra exciting!) tips for file management.


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new updates for Adobe Media Encoder, Premiere Pro, and Prelude CS6 on Windows

new updates for Adobe Media Encoder, Premiere Pro, and Prelude CS6 on Windows « Premiere Pro work area:
Today, we released new updates for several of our CS6 applications on Windows, including Adobe Media Encoder, Premiere Pro, and Prelude. These updates are cumulative Windows-only updates that contain an important change to the code signing to address the issue described on the following pages:

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360,000 reasons why NLE manufacturers have to rethink their products and their pricing

360,000 reasons why NLE manufacturers have to rethink their products and their pricing - fcp.co:
A few people scoffed when we suggested that Lightworks would become a player again in the very competitive NLE market. Think again, 360,000 downloads on and a move onto Linux is real.

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Adobe to Integrate MPEG DASH Across Entire Lineup

Adobe to Integrate MPEG DASH Across Entire Lineup - Streaming Media Magazine:
MPEG DASH, the standardized format for adaptive video streaming over HTTP that will help broadcasters seamlessly move content to digital devices, will be part of the Adobe ecosystem from its player to its servers, says Arjun Saksena, senior project manager in this interview with Beet.TV

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Marco Solorio compares Blackmagic Cinema Camera with Canon 5D MKIII

Marco Solorio compares Blackmagic Cinema Camera with Canon 5D MKIII:

Blackmagic has said that they plan to send me an evaluation unit of their Cinema Camera for review. While I await it, Marco Solorio of One River Media has already received his unit and has a comparison video with the Canon 5D MKIII. Ahead is his video…

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Premiere Pro: Reference Monitor & Video Scopes

Premiere Pro: Reference Monitor & Video Scopes:
In this post we show you how to improve the look and consistency of your video editing footage using the Premiere Pro reference monitor. Also, we'll show you how to access the Premiere video scopes for most accurate color correction!

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Edit Original – a “long lost” feature for Premiere Pro / After Effects workflows

Edit Original – a “long lost” feature for Premiere Pro / After Effects workflows:
We have a tendency to talk a lot about the benefits of the Dynamic Link function between Premiere Pro and After Effects, and it is a crazy cool feature. The first time you drop a comp from AE right onto the Premiere Pro timeline, without rendering it – well, it’s awe-inspiring.

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Demystifying the After Effects CS6 Performance Cache

Demystifying the After Effects CS6 Performance Cache:
Adobe After Effects CS6 maximizes your system's performance. Rich Harrington teaches you how to take full advantage of this new capability for faster previews, less re-rendering and, yes, great performance.

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ProRes, DNxHD, and H.264 coming to RED EPIC and RED Scarlet!

ProRes, DNxHD, and H.264 coming to RED EPIC and RED Scarlet!: In mid-november RED will release a great module co-developed with 3ALITY TECHNICA, featuring wireless audio capture, wireless 1080p video transmission and a wireless timecode receiver for your EPIC or Scarlet brain. It comes at a price ($13,000 to be exact) but it brings so many great features (with ProRes, DNxHD, and H.264), that it is probably worth it! If you want to pre-order, make sure to visit RED's website (here).

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Maintaining Your Image Integrity: Master Class on Monitor Calibration

Maintaining Your Image Integrity: Master Class on Monitor Calibration | www.creativeplanetnetwork.com:
I’ve written before about the importance of having a professional calibrated monitor on set to maintain image integrity, and I can’t stress this enough. Without a professional-grade monitor that you can precisely calibrate, the image you’re looking at while shooting is at best a guess at what the image might look like.

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DiaQuest ProductionLink for Adobe Creative Suite Now Shipping

DiaQuest ProductionLink for Adobe Creative Suite Now Shipping:

DiaQuest Products, a software development firm with a focus on the video and film industries, today announced that ProductionLink for Adobe Creative Suite, a plug-in for Adobe® Creative Suite® that adds Avid® Interplay to its list of available render formats, is now shipping. Available for Windows and Mac systems, ProductionLink adds the file organization and metadata capabilities of the Interplay production asset management (PAM) system to established Adobe workflows automatically.

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Batch Encoding with Adobe Media Encoder

Batch Encoding with Adobe Media Encoder:
Harness Adobe Media Encoder's background encoding feature to speed up your post-production workflow! In this post, we'll discuss how to get your Premiere and After Effects projects into Encoder, as well as how to setup watch folders. A must read for Adobe users.

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Rough Guide to Color Grading with the new DSC Labs OneShot

CAMERAS: Rough Guide to Color Grading with the new DSC Labs OneShot:

In the old days we shot an 18% gray card to tell a film dailies timer where we wanted our exposure placed and what color we wanted dailies to be. Now that film is being replaced by HD a simple gray card is no longer enough, because while film colors are fixed by emulsion video colors are not. A gray card in video doesn’t communicate anything about accurate color. That’s why I designed the DSC Labs OneShot dailies reference chart.

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UltraStudio 4K announced by Blackmagic at IBC 2012

UltraStudio 4K announced by Blackmagic at IBC 2012:

At IBC 2012, Blackmagic announced the US$1295 UltraStudio 4k audio/video i/o, which now represents the top end Thunderbolt device from the Australian company, which is now known not only for its interfaces, but also for its DaVinci Resolve software, cameras, and other products. Unlike prior UltraStudio Thunderbolt interfaces from Blackmagic, this is the first to have a 19-inch rack form factor. It is an obvious step up from its sister, the US$995 UltraStudio 3D, whose name sometimes confuses people, since it also handles 2D… and of course the UltraStudio 4K can also do 3D, and features an LCD monitor and hardware buttons for source selection. As you can imagine, the first question I asked Blackmagic was: Does the UltraStudio 4K offer digital RGB-over-HDMI? I asked on behalf of DreamColor owners, because the total price of the UltraStudio 4K is lower then the sum of the UltraStudio 3D plus the “Band-Aid” (the HDLink Pro 3D DisplayPort). Of course, I know that the HP DreamColor is not a 4K monitor (at least not the current one).

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Lightworks Linux Alpha Planned For Next Month

Lightworks Linux Alpha Planned For Next Month: Lightworks, the professional non-linear video editor that was open-sourced in mid-2010, is finally about to see its long-awaited Linux release...


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‪Baselight For Avid - Overview Part 1‬‏ - YouTube

‪Baselight For Avid - Overview Part 1‬‏ - YouTube:
Overview of Baselight Editions software Baselight For Avid

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Questions Clients Ask Video Editors

Questions Clients Ask Video Editors | Podcasts | About Us | Crews Control:
If you are an editor you have heard one of these questions. Can you write 20 minutes of an uncompressed QuickTime video onto a data DVD? If you have 5 minutes of video can you compress it and email it? If you have an original program shot at 720p, 24fps can you master that program to D-5 tape? If you have a 4:2:2 master can you create a master that is 4:4:4? Can you put multiple frame rates on one tape? Rocky and the Accord Production Editors stage a satiric game show to answer all of your client’s questions.

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How to make 25 FPS SMPTE DCPs with Interop subtitles that can be used in Easydcp player

How to make 25 FPS SMPTE DCPs with Interop subtitles that can be used in Easydcp player:
Easydcp player does not support SMPTE MXF subitles yet, but it can use Interop XML subtitles. With 25 FPS SMPTE DCPs with interop subtitles you can test 25 FPS subtitles in Easydcp player. You can also use easydcp player to play 25 FPS films transferred from HDCAM with added subtitles and 5.1 sound. Doremi has supported 25 FPS DCPs with Interop subtitles in their mastering software and server, this may be reason these DCPs are playable. Doremi supports SMPTE MXF subtitles on their servers when you use the Doremi’s internal subtitle engine, but not all servers do. SMPTE DCPs with Interop subtitles seems to be compatible with more servers than SMPTE DCPs with MXF subtitles. You can’t make these non-standard DCPs directly in Easydcp, but with some tricks it is possible to make one.

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Standard data transmission speeds

Standard data transmission speeds:
The following table shows the data transmission speeds of common interfaces.
Note that you should always use the slowest interface for reference. So for example, if you copy a file across a gigabit ethernet to a drive connected via USB 2, you should refer to the USB 2 speed only.
Also bear in mind these are theoretical maximums, and real-world speeds will vary greatly. For example, although 802.11g has the same theoretical speed as 802.11g, the latter is far more stable in the real-world.

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The Many Problems with Prelude

The Many Problems with Prelude:
I was initially very excited by the promise of Adobe Prelude (replacing Adobe OnLocation as of version CS6). The idea that it can streamline (even automate) the Digital Image Technician’s workflow of copying and checking digitally-sourced footage on-set and making proxies, thus freeing up the DIT to focus on more useful tasks, such as logging information into the footage’s metadata.


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IBC: storage, archiving, asset management

IBC: storage, archiving, asset management:
AMSTERDAM - Video capture, production, distribution and archiving require significant investments in equipment and software.  As a consequence significant media industry events include a lot of digital storage and stored content management booths on the exhibit floor and some sessions focusing on storage, archiving and asset management topics.  This piece looks at some of the many products and services on display at the 2013 IBC in Amsterdam.


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How Hard Drives Affect Video Transfer Time

How Hard Drives Affect Video Transfer Time | Blog Central | Crews Control:
From a producer’s perspective, you know your technical specs, you may know exactly what camera you want, you know what you are shooting (interview, documentary, b-roll, green screen, etc) and how it will be shown, but you are generally not concerned with how your material gets from the camera to editor.

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Adding a 3D LUT or colour lookup table for toning to your image.

Adding a 3D LUT or colour lookup table for toning to your image. No 2 « Richard Curtis's Blog:
Photoshop CS6 introduced a new adjustment layer called Colour Lookup. This new adjustment layer will allow you to add a 3D LUT to your Colour or Black and White image. Before we get into the how, let’s explain the what, you are probably asking “What’s a 3D LUT”.

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24fps film master to 25fps DigiBeta tape master

24fps film master to 25fps DigiBeta tape master:

In a film 24fps project, one often has to make PAL outputs, at 25fps.
Here we refer to 24fps as 'true 24 fps' not like 23.976fps which is called 24fps in NTSC countries.

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Video Backup and Archiving With Amazon Glacier

Video Backup and Archiving With Amazon Glacier:
Amazon recently introduced an online data backup and archiving service called Amazon Glacier. For just $0.01 per GB / month, you can upload and securely store as much data as you want, with 99.999999999% durability.

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SSDs Looking To Displace Spinning Discs

SSDs Looking To Displace Spinning Discs:
The Mini Space SSD from GB Labs (LTO version pictured) has been designed for 2K and 4K editing and DITsGB Labs new SSD packages offer 4K record/playback of DPX faster than hard drives.

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Workflows for working with Arri & RED Raw footage

Workflows for working with Arri & RED Raw footage:
Richard Harrington demonstrates in this short tutorial how to work with Raw footage in Premiere Pro.

If you’re looking to do an offline-online workflow with your RED Raw footage, to cut in something like FCP7, then check out Oliver Peter’s detailed article on doing just that. Oliver creates QT Proxy files with the free Red Cine-X Pro, edits in FCP and then conforms back to the Raw footage to grade with using Red Cine-x Pro again.

For even more workflow tips, tricks and tutorials check out some of these previous posts:

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EchoStar HDX-410 set-top box runs native ICS, supports terrestrial broadcasts

EchoStar HDX-410 set-top box runs native ICS, supports terrestrial broadcasts (hands-on video):

You may be familiar with EchoStar's satellite-based (Dish Network) and Sling Media (Slingbox) products, but the company also manufactures set-top boxes for third-party providers, as well as free-to-air services in the UK.

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SIM2's $158k CinemaQuattro 4K DLP projector is for hundred seat home theaters

SIM2's $158k CinemaQuattro 4K DLP projector is for hundred seat home theaters:

Even in the land of the outrageous home theater equipment that is CEDIA, SIM2's new CinemaQuattro projector sticks out. The company's first model capable of 4K (4,096 x 2,160) resolution, it's nearly as large as the Italian scooter that also resided in its booth and comes with a price tag of $158,000 -- the old 1080p $58K Grand Cinema seems almost cheap in comparison. While that may be mild overkill for most, if you're Will Smith and need something to screen flicks on for your personal home theater (emphasis on theater), we'd imagine this fits the bill. SIM2 licensed TI's technology from cinema projector maker Christie in order to develop the three chip 4K DLP monster capable of 20,000 ANSI lumens. According to President and CEO Maurizio Cini this gives its dealers access to "the best" technology, and at that price, it just ought to.

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Adobe Premiere Pro Plug-in for ARRI RAW Preview Released to Labs

Adobe Premiere Pro Plug-in for ARRI RAW Preview Released to Labs « Adobe Labs:
The Adobe Premiere Pro plug in for ARRI RAW enhances the ARRI RAW support in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.0.2  for managing color space, exposure, and white balance with ARRI RAW footage. The preview release currently available on Adobe Labs includes the Adobe Premiere Pro plug in for ARRI RAW.

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H.264: How would you like that wrapped?

H.264: How would you like that wrapped?:

Now that we’re all up to speed, let’s turn our attention to one of my favorite topics: codecs. More specifically our good and faithful friend, H.264. H.264 is one of the most common codecs for distribution worldwide in, well, anything. It’s compression allows a very acceptable amount of quality to be preserved when exported. It’s used for clients, general viewing, even DVDs occasionally. And of course, it’s most common use because of it’s file size and compression technique is internet distribution.

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Digital Vision and MTI Film form Strategic Partnership

Digital Vision and MTI Film form Strategic Partnership:

Digital Vision and MTI Film have formed a strategic technology partnership to develop a new digital dailies software solution, built upon Digital Vision’s Nucoda colour grading system and the MTI’s Cortex::ControlDailies solution. Introduced this morning at IBC in Amsterdam, the announcement marks the development of a previously unavailable dailies product in the marketplace, built upon two powerful technologies.

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The Foundry Announces NUKE 7.0 at IBC 2012

The Foundry Announces NUKE 7.0 at IBC 2012:

Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry is pleased to announce NUKE 7.0, a revolutionary version of its industry leading compositor.

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Blackmagic Adds 4K Capability to UltraStudio and DeckLink

Blackmagic Adds 4K Capability to UltraStudio and DeckLink:

IBC Blackmagic has new 4K products for capture and playback, recording and
monitoring and video processing, including UltraStudio 4K with Thunderbolt
and DeckLink 4K Extreme.

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ASSIMILATE and DiaQuest Turbocharge SCRATCH Integration with Avid Interplay

ASSIMILATE and DiaQuest Turbocharge SCRATCH Integration with Avid Interplay: ProductionLink plug-in creates seamless, and user-friendly link between ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH and Avid Interplay (Amsterdam IBC, Netherlands--September 8, 2012) ASSIMILATE, makers of the powerful, real-time SCRATCH® and SCRATCH Lab® digital intermediate and dailies workflow software for the production and post-production of feature film, episodic television, commercials and spots, and DiaQuest Products, the world's leading supplier of connectivity middleware for media production workflows, today announced the availability of ProductionLink™, a plug-in for connectivity between the recently announced ASSIMILATE SCRATCH v7 and SCRATCH Lab v7 and the Avid® Interplay™ production asset management (PAM) system.

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NVIDIA and VMware Enhance Virtual Desktop Potential

NVIDIA and VMware Enhance Virtual Desktop Potential:

VMware vSphere 5.1 has a new virtual machine format supporting virtual shared graphics acceleration and virtual desktop storage, using NVIDIA’S Quadro and VGX graphics adapters.

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"משפחה לא בוחרים" על קבצים בלבד

"משפחה לא בוחרים" על קבצים בלבד

כך התמודדה ברודקאסט בהצלחה עם ההפקה הראשונה בארץ של צילום מבוסס קבצים של קומדיית-מצבים (סיטקום)

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CAMERAS: A New Chart for Film-Style Production—The DSC OneShot

CAMERAS: A New Chart for Film-Style Production—The DSC OneShot:

In the old days of video, what we saw was what we got. Now, with log and raw, the possibilities are infinite. Only one of those possibilities, though, is what YOU want. Here’s how to make sure your vision is the one everyone else sees.

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Using Adobe Prelude to Manage Media

Using Adobe Prelude to Manage Media:
Adobe Prelude CS6 offers a variety of new media management features. Rich Harrington will show you the best ways to import footage, set it to automatically copy to a new dimension, and powerful new transcoding options.

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Avid Dramatically Improves Workflow Speed and Openness with Media Composer 6.5 Family of Products

Avid |News Room:
Avid today announced the latest release of its industry-leading video editing tools, Media Composer® 6.5, Symphony® 6.5, and NewsCutter® 10.5, providing fast, open workflows that greatly advance editing efficiency. The new releases of Media Composer and NewsCutter are also the first work in conjunction with Avid Interplay® Sphere to support universal connectivity and collaborative production, giving contributors the freedom to work in a distributed environment that spans multiple locations and time zones. With support for new standards that help streamline media mastering and archiving, plus new audio features and relink capabilities, these latest releases enable customers to further enhance their creativity and productivity.

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Mastering Levels Adjustments

Mastering Levels Adjustments:
The Levels command corrects tonal ranges and color balance issues. With this command you can fix poor exposure. Additionally, you can perform color correction by manually identifying a white point and black point in the image. Nearly every image can benefit from making a Levels adjustment.

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MXF ImEx Suite lets you import or export MXF in every QuickTime Application

MXF ImEx Suite lets you import or export MXF in every QuickTime Application - fcp.co:
Well almost every app as we're sure there will be some exceptions. Never the less, Hamburg Pro Media's new MXF ImEx Suite might be the answer if you have multiple QuickTime based applications that need to work with MXF media.

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RAW Formats, Shooting, Workflow & Post with Geoff Boyle

RAW Formats, Shooting, Workflow & Post with Geoff Boyle – New York: As part of the Working Professional series, AbelCine has partnered with Geoff Boyle to present, RAW Formats, Shooting, Workflow and Post. From acquisition to on-set media management to post processes, this two-day workshop is for anyone interested in RAW workflow. We will cover all RAW camera systems on the market today, including but not limited to, Arri ALEXA, Canon C500, Sony F65, RED Epic, and the Blackmagic Cinema Camera. Post systems include SpeedGrade, Resolve, RedCineX and more.

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Resolve > Adobe Premiere CS6 Round Trip for the Cinema Camera

Resolve > Adobe Premiere CS6 Round Trip for the Cinema Camera

Jesse Borkowski gives you a quick workflow tutorial covering the use of cinemaDNG files from the Cinema Camera with Resolve and Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. The workflow is simplified to focus on the round trip aspects of the process and not specific video format encoding or output settings.

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Camera Raw 7.2, DNG Converter available on Labs

Camera Raw 7.2, DNG Converter available on Labs:
Alongside Lightroom 4.2, release candidate builds of Camera Raw (for CS6) & the DNG Converter (used to make images from newer cameras available with numerous DNG-reading apps, including older versions of Lightroom & Photoshop) are now available on Adobe Labs.

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Coming soon from Flanders Scientific: 12bit & XYZ Signal Support

Coming soon from Flanders Scientific: 12bit & XYZ Signal Support
Flanders Scientific is now showcasing a beta version of new firmware at IBC in Amsterdam that will soon be available to all FSI customers. This new firmware adds both 12 bit signal support and XYZ signal support to all Flanders Scientific monitors ensuring compatibility with some of the industry's most advanced 12bit serial digital input/output interfaces.

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High Frame Rate Video Playback

High Frame Rate Video Playback:
The advent of digital cinematography has opened up new creative possibilities for how motion is captured. This article explores the influence of high frame rate (HFR) video playback, along with the associated motivations and controversy, with an eye for what this might hold for the future of cinema.

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A Complete Guide to Setting Up a Home Color Grading Suite

A Complete Guide to Setting Up a Home Color Grading Suite - NoFilmSchool:
As Moore’s Law continues to make technology more accessible to the masses, it is time to start exploring what it takes to build your own grading suite at home or in your office. Before reading the rest of this post, I recommend that you check out How To Get The Most Out Of CS6, DaVinci, & Your Mac Pro, as this article continues to build on what I’ve outlined. So let’s get started shall we?

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In the RAW

In the RAW | johnbrawley:
The Blackmagic Cinema camera has focussed all of us back to just what it means to have a RAW camera to shoot with.  I guess till now it wasn’t really like there was a RAW shooting video camera for the film-making masses. Really they are true pioneers for offering this kind of image making pipeline for such a crazy low cost of entry for the camera.

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Vizrt Enhances Viz Media Engine, Integrates with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6

Vizrt Enhances Viz Media Engine, Integrates with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 | Studio Daily:
At IBC 2012, Vizrt Ltd., Hall 7 Booth A10, will display new tools to show the integration between Viz Media Engine and Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS6 software. At NAB, earlier this year, Vizrt announced a new integration that gives editors more efficient productivity by allowing them to search and select source material from Viz Media Engine within Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. This integration has been further enhanced to allow Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 access to EDLs in Viz Media Engine as well as the capability to stage offline media.

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FilmLight Releases Baselight for Avid

FilmLight Releases Baselight for Avid:

FilmLight announces the release of the latest product in its Baselight Editions line, Baselight for Avid (Mac). This colour grading toolset, developed in association with Avid, is available within Avid Media Composer or Symphony.
A built-in GPU renderer provides real-time performance. Colour decisions made in Baselight for Avid can be exchanged with full Baselight systems, and vice versa, achieving a seamless workflow between editorial and colour grading operations.

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Colorgrader Network - ircp-tools, workflow tools for SpeedGrade

Colorgrader Network - ircp-tools, workflow tools for SpeedGrade:
You've color corrected a whole project in SpeedGrade, but now there were changes to the edit. The editor gives you a new EDL, but there's no way to combine all your work with the new edit version. You either have to start from scratch or transfer each grade manually.

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Harmonic and Nagra Team to Power the World's First Commercial MPEG-DASH OTT Multiscreen Service

Harmonic and Nagra Team to Power the World's First Commercial MPEG-DASH OTT Multiscreen Service:
Deployed Jointly by Abertis Telecom and Nagra, the Live and VOD Multiscreen Cloud Service Leverages Harmonic ProMedia(TM) Suite and Nagra MediaLive Multiscreen.

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Color Correction Basics – Working with the Waveform

Color Correction Basics – Working with the Waveform « Moving Colors: Most color grading workflows include two types of tasks: color correction and look design. Look design is what you do to give your story its individual character: it’s the visual style that communicates mood and place.

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ATTO Technology Introduces 16Gb Family of Fibre Channel Solutions | Digital Production BuZZ

ATTO Technology Introduces 16Gb Family of Fibre Channel Solutions | Digital Production BuZZ: ATTO Technology Inc. has announced the launch of the industry’s broadest portfolio of 16Gb/s Fibre Channel solutions consisting of Celerity Host Bus Adapters (HBAs), FibreConnect switches and FastStream RAID storage controllers. These new products provide users the ability to create an entire Fibre Channel infrastructure that delivers high-speed, high-capacity storage on multiple platforms. The 16Gb/s family, along with ATTO’s entire portfolio of network and storage connectivity products, will be showcased at IBC 2012 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, September 7 through September 11. ATTO products are also featured in over 45 partner demonstrations throughout the show.

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Introducing Adobe Anywhere: Badass video collaboration

Introducing Adobe Anywhere: Badass video collaboration:
I’m delighted that Adobe has officially unveiled Adobe Anywhere, our collaborative workflow platform for video. You can use After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Prelude to manipulate assets on a server, letting people team up across locations, devices, and networks.

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File Naming for Video Editors, Designers & Photographers

File Naming for Video Editors, Designers & Photographers | Premiumbeat.com:
Avoid a media management meltdown by following these tips on file naming – especially applicable for video editors, graphic designers and photographers!

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EXPORTING LOW RES QT FROM AVID…FAST. - Little Frog in High Def

EXPORTING LOW RES QT FROM AVID…FAST. - Little Frog in High Def:
One thing I find myself doing very often while editing remotely…me in L.A., the production company in Virginia…is exporting Quicktime files of my project for my producers at “home base” to watch.  I will do this on an Act by Act basis…when I finish an act, I’ll export it, upload to their FTP.

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Avid AMA Best Practices

Avid AMA Best Practices:
Avid Media Composer traditionally required all media files to be converted to its DNxHD Op-Atom MXF format but recent versions have allowed you to skip this process and import tapeless media instantly. This feature is called Avid Media Access (AMA). Media Composer ships with very few AMA plugins so to support additional camera formats you may need to download and install extra AMA plugins.

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Premiere Pro 6.0.2 Update Live Today

Premiere Pro 6.0.2 Update Live Today:
Premiere Pro CS6.0.2 is now live. Highlights include : Windows 8 certification updates for HiDPI display, which improves appearance on computers that use Retina Display, such as MacBook Pro computers added GPUs to the list of those that Premiere...

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