Autodesk Collaborates With DreamWorks and Imageworks on Mudbox for Linux Autodesk Consulting Provides Linux Pipeline Implementation for Mudbox Digital Sculpting and Texture Painting Software Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has announced that DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (NASDAQ: DWA) and Sony Pictures Imageworks are integrating Autodesk Mudbox software into their Linux-based production pipelines. Autodesk Consulting's custom development team worked collaboratively with teams at Imageworks and DreamWorks to port the digital sculpting and texture painting software to the Linux platform. Mudbox for Linux is available through Autodesk Consulting services. published 2 days agoread more
Bella Corporation Ships the HD Mouse 2.0 JSM 3.1 and Black Friday Specials Bella Corporation today announced they are shipping version 2.0 software for the HD Mouse and version 3.1 software drivers are now available for their award winning jog/shuttle keyboards. published 3 days agoread more
Cine-Tal Expands Film Profiling Services Film profiling services for cineSpace customers goes global with services offered in North America and Australia. Cine-tal Systems, a developer of image monitoring and color management solutions, announces the expansion of its cineSpace film profiling services. Cine-tal's cineSpace customers can now receive overnight film profiling services in North America as well as in the company's operations in Australia. published 4 days agoread more
Stephen Nakamura Adds Soft Touch to Hard-Edged Thriller "Law Abiding Citizen" Company 3 Colorist Stephen Nakamura fine-tuned the look of Overture Films' action thriller "Law Abiding Citizen", working closely with director F. Gary Gray and cinematographer Jonathan Sela to set the visuals for the feature starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. published 1 week agoread more
EditShare Partners With Dixon For Major League Baseball Collaborative shared storage and advanced logging systems deliver winning combination for Cincinnati Reds' HD workflow at the Great American Ball Park EditShare®, the technology leader in cross platform collaborative editing and shared media storage, and Dixon Sports Computing, the sports video management experts since 1992, have deployed a new HD production workflow at the Cincinnati Reds' Great American Ball Park. published 1 week agoread more
Noise Industries Releases Free Pan and Zoom Photo Animation Plug-in Flexible parameters of new Pan and Zoom 2 freebie enable the effortless creation of stunning photo animations inside both Apple and Adobe host applications Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced that it has released an update to its popular freebie generator plug-in, Pan and Zoom. published 1 week agoread more
"Where the Wild Things Are" Taps AJA KONA 3 for Digital Workflow AJA Video Systems, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, announced that its KONA 3 digital video I/O cards were used by the "Where the Wild Things Are" editorial team to build efficiencies into their digital production and post workflow. published 1 week agoread more
NewBlueFX Introduces “Video Essentials III” Effects Plugins The Video Editor’s Wish List of Tools & Techniques in One Package NewBlue, Inc. today launched Video Essentials III, the third and latest offering in its best-selling Video Essentials series of video effects and transitions plugins. NewBlue Video Essentials III provides highly-practical video tools designed to solve everyday production issues. published 1 week agoread more
Apple Motion Creating a 3D Text Fly In In this video tutorial series, Creative Cow leader Zak Peric demonstrates creating a 3D text fly in using Apple Motion. Tutorial, Video TutorialbyZak Peric on 09/17/2009
Apple Final Cut Pro Final Cut Studio 3 is here, and all is good! Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, likes to live for danger. He installed a major software upgrade mid-project, with virtually no preparation, just to see what would break. Lo and behold, it all worked! And the more Jiggy works with it, the better he's liking it. Join him in this Creative COW, Real-world, Real-time Report on Final Cut Studio 3. ReviewbyJiggy Gaton on 08/17/2009
Apple Final Cut Pro Trashing Preferences In this Final Cut Tutorial, Richard Harrington shows you how to clean up the Final Cut application when it starts acting up with bugs or other problems. Many times this can be caused by a corrupt preferences file or other user settings related to Final Cut Studio. These tips are also handy when performing an upgrade installation or reinstallation. Tutorial, Video TutorialbyRichard Harrington on 04/20/2009
Apple DVD Studio Pro Mac Subtitling Software Round-up: The COW's man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, gets asked all the time about subtitling DVDs -- and cringes every time: editing software suites just don't have that much to offer. However, Mac DVD authors have some standalone alternatives worth considering. Review, FeaturebyJiggy Gaton on 04/14/2009
Apple Final Cut Pro iChat Theater Review In this episode of Final Cut Help, Richard Harrington takes a look at video sharing via iChat Theater Review, a technique for online video review that allows you to quickly share video via iChat. This can be helpful for showing a preview of a video to a client or a project partner. Tutorial, Video TutorialbyRichard Harrington on 04/13/2009
Apple Final Cut Pro Get Your FCP Timelines in Motion with Final Cut Studio Having both FCP and Motion in Final Cut Studio means more options for effects creation with your video projects -- and FCS integration makes it easy to work with them together. Having Motion projects sitting on your FCP timeline even helps keep your projects organized! Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, shows just how easy it can be to take advantage of it all. TutorialbyJiggy Gaton on 04/07/2009
Apple Final Cut Pro Keyframing Color Correction In this episode of Final Cut Help, Richard Harrington takes a look at keyframing the three way color corrector in FCP. As details change in a movie clip you can have the filter adjust its values over time. This example uses a video of a bird starting in a bright sky and ending in water which is darker, the contrast transition is controlled by keyframing the saturation and color correction.
Tutorial, Video TutorialbyRichard Harrington on 04/06/2009
Apple iPhone iPhone, iTouch, and Playing for Keeps In this article from The Creative COW Magazine, Bob Stevenson, Chief Creative Officer for ngmoco (Next Generation MObile COmpany), imagines what's possible when iPhone and iTouch are seen, above all, as very advanced game devices. Editorial, People / InterviewbyBob Stevenson on 04/01/2009
Apple Final Cut Pro Make Your FCP Timelines Sing By Roundtripping to Soundtrack Pro The COW's Jiggy Gaton owns an audio studio -- but has created a tutorial for those of us who don't have an audio studio within earshot when editing video in Final Cut Pro. He's not sure if he's being lazy, or just efficient, to use an integrated Soundtrack Pro project inside FCP. Either way, read on to learn how to do it yourself. TutorialbyJiggy Gaton on 03/30/2009
Color Grade - Loss for Creativity - Any help/ideas? by Martin Reed in the Apple Color Forum Hey guys, Just working on colour grading this shot: http://www.easy-share.com/1908492590/GradeFrame.tif I'm trying to loosely "match" it to nightclub footage with a similar lighting scheme to this: http://www.dailyiowan.com/UniversityEdition/Photo/10008.jpg But I've hit a creative wall and am a little stuck for ideas on how to treat the shot, match it to the... 10 minutes agoread more
Re: Capture Question by Shane Ross in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Mike Wilson] "So, if I capture in Offline RT NTSC, approximately how big would you estimate that the file size of 1 hour of video be? " Approximately 40 minutes of Offline RT footage requires only 1 GB of storage space. [Mike Wilson] "Also, would I notice any depreciation in... 26 minutes agoread more
Re: Mixed media and music by Shane Ross in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Atticus Brady] "First, I'm having difficulty importing music into FCP from iTunes." Because music bought on iTunes is not importable into FCP. Copy protected due to the fact that FCP is a professional editing application and you need the rights to music before you can use it in professional productions.... 1 hour agoread more
Re: Capture Question by Shane Ross in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Mike Wilson] "There has got to be a way to capture in a compressed format. " There is. Offline RT. But then that isn't the DVD format either. It is a data file that you can put onto a disk, but then you need a computer with QT to see... 1 hour agoread more
Re: Title Question by Arnie Schlissel in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum You need to rotoscope the truck out of the background and place the title between the layers. Arnie Post production is not an afterthought! http://www.arniepix.com/... 1 hour agoread more
Re: Capture Question by Arnie Schlissel in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Mike Wilson] "How do these retail stores manage to capture footage all day long and store it? They are recording from dozens of cameras for 14 hours a day and usually keep the data stored for at least 30 days." They use special security video systems that are purpose built... 2 hours agoread more
Mixed media and music by Atticus Brady in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Hello everyone, I have two questions. First, I'm having difficulty importing music into FCP from iTunes. I'll navigate for the song, choose it to import and I get the following error message: "File Error: 1 file(s) recognized, 0 access denied, 1 unknown." Anyone have any idea what this means? It... 2 hours agoread more
Re: Los Angeles based monitor calibration engineer by Robbie Carman in the Apple Color Forum [walter biscardi] "In the case of FSI, if you go that route, you won't need one. It will come fully calibrated and it has a self calibration tool using an FSI supplied probe that you can rent." True individual monitors can have dedicated probe systems, but when you're trying to... 2 hours agoread more
Re: Disenaging the track pad? by Brad Phillips in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum Walter, There is nothing in here in the system preferences that indicates disengaging the track pad from what I can tell. It gives the option to slow things down but not disengage the pad all together...this is driving me nutty.... 3 hours agoread more
Re: Transition Plug-ins by Steve Eisen in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum CGM, CHV and one you should not overlook is Noise Industry's FX Factory Pro. Digital Juice Swipes You want cheezy, check out Discreet FX. They are bringing Toaster FX back to the Mac (FCP). That is if you have FCP 7 which added the new feature of Alpha Transitions. Steve... 3 hours agoread more
Re: Auto-Cropping? by Andy Mees in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum That's pretty unusual behavior Michael and its certainly not how FCP usually works. FCP allows the option to control the automatic scaling up (to fit) behaviour, but there is no control over scaling down (to fit) control ... it always scales down to fit, yet you're saying that your system... 3 hours agoread more
Re: Motion Tracking with Moving camera vs. object by Stephen Smith in the Apple Motion Forum Sounds good. 600 ? 600: true);" src="http://www.lonepeakproductions.com/img/cow/Steve_COW.jpg" align="right"> Stephen Smith Utah Video Productions Check out my Motion Training DVD Check out my Motion Tutorials... 4 hours agoread more
Re: Capture Question by Shane Ross in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Mike Wilson] "The problem I have is that about 3 hours of video ends up being about 40GB. Im hoping someone could tell me how I would go about reducing the file size to something more reasonable (4GB or so, enough to fit onto a DVD)? " There is nothing... 4 hours agoread more
In this article Walter Biscardi, Jr. takes an indepth look at the new Tangent Wave Control Panel.
In this video tutorial series, Creative Cow leader Zak Peric demonstrates creating a 3D text fly in using Apple Motion.
Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, likes to live for danger. He installed a major software upgrade mid-project, with virtually no preparation, just to see what would break. Lo and behold, it all worked! And the more Jiggy works with it, the better he's liking it. Join him in this Creative COW, Real-world, Real-time Report on Final Cut Studio 3.
In this Final Cut Tutorial, Richard Harrington shows you how to clean up the Final Cut application when it starts acting up with bugs or other problems. Many times this can be caused by a corrupt preferences file or other user settings related to Final Cut Studio. These tips are also handy when performing an upgrade installation or reinstallation.
The COW's man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, gets asked all the time about subtitling DVDs -- and cringes every time: editing software suites just don't have that much to offer. However, Mac DVD authors have some standalone alternatives worth considering.
In this episode of Final Cut Help, Richard Harrington takes a look at video sharing via iChat Theater Review, a technique for online video review that allows you to quickly share video via iChat. This can be helpful for showing a preview of a video to a client or a project partner.
Having both FCP and Motion in Final Cut Studio means more options for effects creation with your video projects -- and FCS integration makes it easy to work with them together. Having Motion projects sitting on your FCP timeline even helps keep your projects organized! Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, shows just how easy it can be to take advantage of it all.
In this episode of Final Cut Help, Richard Harrington takes a look at keyframing the three way color corrector in FCP. As details change in a movie clip you can have the filter adjust its values over time. This example uses a video of a bird starting in a bright sky and ending in water which is darker, the contrast transition is controlled by keyframing the saturation and color correction.
In this article from The Creative COW Magazine, Bob Stevenson, Chief Creative Officer for ngmoco (Next Generation MObile COmpany), imagines what's possible when iPhone and iTouch are seen, above all, as very advanced game devices.
The COW's Jiggy Gaton owns an audio studio -- but has created a tutorial for those of us who don't have an audio studio within earshot when editing video in Final Cut Pro. He's not sure if he's being lazy, or just efficient, to use an integrated Soundtrack Pro project inside FCP. Either way, read on to learn how to do it yourself.
