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ARCHIVE NEWS: Wednesday, April 27, 2005
News: Birns & Sawyer Purchases 25 Panasonic AG-HVX200 Camcorders
Birns & Sawyer, Inc. , a premiere rental and sales firm serving the motion picture industry, has placed an initial order for 25 AG-HVX200 DVCPRO HD P2 hand-held cameras, the world’s first 1080i/720p/480i multi-format camcorder.
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News: Abel Cine Tech to Host Panasonic Post NAB Open House in New York City
Spotlight on Show Hit, AG-HVX200 DVCPRO HD P2 Handheld Camcorder
Prominent film, HD and digital camera equipment supplier Abel Cine Tech Inc. will present a Panasonic “Post NAB” open house Wednesday, May 11, at its New York City location, 609 Greenwich Street, 5th floor , noon – 6 pm.
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Siggraph 2005
News: SIGGRAPH 2005 Announces Best of Show Award and Jury Honors for the Computer Animation Festival
ACM SIGGRAPH today announced the Computer Animation Festival's Best of Show Award and Jury Honors winners for SIGGRAPH 2005, the 32nd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, being held 31 July through 4 August 2005 in Los Angeles, California.
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News: Digital River Provides E-Commerce Infrastructure for Adobe Stock Photos
New Adobe Service Enables Creative Professionals to Purchase Royalty-Free Images Through Adobe Creative Suite 2
Digital River, Inc. , a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, today announced it is providing the e-commerce infrastructure for the new Adobe® Stock Photos service. Working with Adobe Systems Incorporated, Digital River built the international e-commerce infrastructure for the new stock photography service available in Adobe Creative Suite 2 applications. Digital River is processing the online orders from the new Adobe Stock Photos service where consumers can purchase more than 230,000 royalty-free images from well-known stock photo companies.
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News: PD Pro Digital Painter Demo version 3.1 and new Plugin doggybag #3
Spherize plugin released for free version, PD Help documentation updated
Dan Ritchie, author of PD Pro Digital Painter, today announced the availability of the demo version for version 3.1.
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News: Fujinon Announces New Optical Stablizer For Company’s Entire Range Of HD And SD ENG-Style Telephoto Lenses
New TS-P58A Eliminates Unwanted Vibration and Image Shifting When Shooting with High-Magnification Lenses
At NAB 2005, Fujinon introduced its latest external optical stabilization system, the TS-P58A. Providing an anti-vibration range of up to 20% of picture height, the TS-P58A utilizes the company’s renowned OS-TECH image stabilization technology to deliver steady shots and keep after-shaking to a minimum when shooting with high-magnification lenses. It is designed for the full range of Fujinon’s HD and SD ENG telephoto lenses.
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News: Telestream Introduces FlipFactory HD to Automate Conversion to Broadcasters On-air HD Standard
Exclusive MotionResolve™ technology provides superior HD picture quality
Telestream, the leading provider of workflow automation solutions for the broadcast industry, unveiled FlipFactory HD, the newest product to emerge from its world-renowned FlipFactory family. FlipFactory HD simplifies conversion of multiformat source media to the new HD standard for broadcasters and other content owners.
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News: Telestream Streamlines News Workflows
Launch™ media delivery application for Mac and PC tops list of new Telestream products and partnerships which play key roles in end-to-end delivery of news production workflows
Telestream, a company that has built a stellar reputation with the world’s leading broadcast and cable companies for products that encode and move media across IP networks, today announced multiple new product offerings and enhancements that further extend the ease of digital news submission, automated station ingest and digital newscast review. Telestream’s workflow automation solutions play a key role in replacing manual tape-based processes with faster, more efficient, digital delivery and reliable network access to media.
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News: Sorenson Media Chooses Telestream Flip4Mac for Windows Media Support
Flip4Mac import and export components to provide optional Windows Media encoding and import for Sorenson Squeeze 4.1 Compression Suite for Macintosh users
Telestream, the leading provider of media encoding and delivery solutions, today announced that Sorenson Media® has selected its highly recognized Flip4Mac™ digital media tools for the Macintosh to provide optional Windows Media encoding and import support for the new Sorenson Squeeze® 4.1 Compression Suite Macintosh version.
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News: Telestream Enables Automated File-based Ingest of Pathfire-delivered Ad Content for Broadcasters
Advertising content follows companies’ successes in providing all-digital transfer of news and syndicated content to stations’ production and on-air systems
Pathfire, Inc., the leading provider of digital content distribution and management solutions for the broadcast industry, and Telestream, the leading provider of broadcast workflow automation solutions, today announced technology integration to enable all-digital file transfer of Pathfire-delivered advertising content to broadcasters’ on-air servers. The announcement follows Pathfire’s recent partnership with Media DVX, which created the industry’s largest electronic ad delivery network.
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News: New Petrol HDV Camera Bags
Petrol, producer of professional bags and protection for production equipment, introduces the HDV WingBag and WingRoll: two lightweight, versatile camera bags tailored especially for the new Sony HVR-Z1U and HDR-FX1 camcorders.
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Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2005
News: Avid to Preview 64-bit SOFTIMAGE|XSI Software at Microsoft Conference
Avid Technology, Inc. today announced that it will be demonstrating a technology preview of a native 64-bit version of SOFTIMAGE®|XSI® 3-D animation software during WinHEC – Microsoft’s annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference – from April 25-27.
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News: Editshare Debuts Sweeping Advancements In Collaborative Editing And Shared Media Storage Workflow At NAB 2005
Support for Avid Systems on the Mac, Cross Platform Workflow Enhancements, Support for 10 GBit Ethernet Top List of Innovations on Display at NAB 2005
EditShare LLC , the pioneers of cross platform collaborative editing and shared media storage systems, announced the culmination of an intensive research and development phase with the debut of several groundbreaking advancements.
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News: Editshare Opens European Headquarters In Response To Surging Demand For Collaborative Editing, Shared Media Storage Systems
EditShare Europe to Serve Growing Customer Base throughout Rapidly Growing EMEA Region; Names Tara Montford as Operations Manager
EditShare LLC , the pioneers of cross platform collaborative editing and shared media storage systems, today announced it has formally launched EditShare Europe in its efforts to serve the rapidly growing Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. As part of this launch, EditShare has opened its European office in the heart of London’s West End, a burgeoning design and creative community near Soho.
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News: Sky NZ Chooses TANDBERG Television for US$4M+ Pay-TV Satellite Network Upgrade
Increased efficiency with TANDBERG MPEG-2 video compression will free up bandwidth for launch of new interactive and PVR services
TANDBERG Television has been selected by New Zealand's SKY Network Television Limited to upgrade the pay-TV satellite broadcaster's MPEG-2 video delivery network. In a deal worth over US$4M, TANDBERG Television will support SKY's system upgrade with an 80 channel compression system built on its low bit-rate MPEG-2 encoding engine, the TANDBERG E577O. The contract includes a state-of the art video head end system, local integration and a five year support agreement.
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Illustrator CS 2 Overview
 | Inside Illustrator CS2: New Features
Creative Cow Leader Franklin McMahon examines some of the new features in Adobe Illustrator CS 2 including the control palette, underline links, custom work spaces and exports such as SWF, SVG and PDF.
Adobe Illustrator CS, Product Overview |
Illustrator CS 2 Overview
 | Inside Illustrator CS2: Live Trace
Creative Cow Leader Franklin McMahon goes over the new Live Trace feature in Adobe Illustrator CS 2.0 that helps create bitmap images to vector illustrations.
Adobe Illustrator CS, Product Overview |
Flash
 | Flash Video Basics: Part Four
Creative COW leader Lee Brimelow moves on to implementing a scrubber and progress bar in this fourth installment of his series on Flash video basics.
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Photoshop CS2 Overview
 | Inside Photoshop CS2: New Tools
Creative Cow leader Franklin McMahon goes over some of the new features and tools in the brand Photoshop CS2 including type previews, spot healing, red eye removal, creating menu sets, video output and web galleries.
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Photoshop CS2 Overview
 | Inside Photoshop CS2: Adobe Bridge
Creative Cow Leader Franklin McMahon shows the new Adobe Bridge, the file browser that works between Photoshop and the rest of the Creative Suite 2 Programs.
Adobe Photoshop CS, Product Overview |
Photoshop CS2 Overview
 | Inside Photoshop CS2: Vanishing Point
Creative Cow leader Franklin McMahon examines the new Vanishing Point tool in Photoshop CS2 for mapping images in 3 dimensions.
Adobe Photoshop CS, Product Overview |
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NAB 2005 Report
 | NewTek's TriCaster™
CreativeCOW leader, Robert Wilson says of NewTek's TriCaster™: Smothering Doubts with Awards, "This years NAB delivered on the promises of bigger, better and cooler. NewTek's TriCaster™ came away as the coolest of them all and for good reason: it's insanely fantastic."
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NAB Preview
 | NAB Preview: What to See, Where to Go, How to Survive!
NAB 2005 shows every sign of being, once again, in the boom years. Every indication from accommodation bookings to event attendance suggests that this will be the year that NAB comes back from the doldrums. People are ready to talk business and spend money again. In this article, Philip Hodgetts tells us where to go, what to see and how to survive.
NAB 2005 |
Combustion
|  | Runaway Training: Combustion Underground Training DVDs
In this article, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Jim Harvey reviews Combustion Underground Training DVDs by Lee 'Rod' Roderick from Runaway Training. Read the review to find out why Jim gave this training 5 COWs.
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Premiere Pro
|  | Premiere Pro 1.5 Studio Techniques
CreativeCOW.net leader and contributing editor Tim Kurkoski gives rave reviews to Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 Studio Techniques by Jacob Rosenberg and published by Adobe Press, 504 pages, June 28, 2004, ISBN: 0321220528. Tim says, "If you use Premiere Pro, and your name isn't Jacob Rosenberg (or possibly Tim Kolb), you should look at this book. In fact, you should probably buy it. Jacob, well known for his in-depth Total Training videos, has written the most comprehensive book about Premiere Pro available. From top to bottom, almost everything about Premiere Pro 1.5 is covered in this book and the accompanying DVD, from setting up a computer for editing to exporting for DVD."
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Maya
|  | Xfrog 4 for Maya
Kino Gil, noted film effects artist and host team leader of Creative Cow's Maya forum, gives his impressions of one "the best kept secrets" in Computer Graphics Imagery. He gives an honest view of some of the strengths and weaknesses of the system and concludes that Xfrog 4 for Maya 6one of the best and most powerful 'plugins' for Maya I have found yet.''
Alias Maya, Product Reviews |
Studio Design
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 | TBC Crossfire X-K3 Non-Linear Editing Console
With people continually asking, "what edit desk do you use?" here at the COW forums, Creative Cow forum leader, Marco Solorio hopes to settle this question once and for all with his in-depth review of TBC's Crossfire X-K3 edit console. If you're in the market for a new editor's console or are just curious to know what's "out there", this should give you all the information you need to base your own judgment.
Studio Furniture, Studio Design, Product Reviews |
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