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News: Hollywood's Need to Eliminate Piracy During Production Answered by New Technology Partnership HEURIS and Verimatrix team-up to deliver greater security, including a private “cable channel” for dailies and rough cuts.
Acting on a request from the Hollywood production community, two of the entertainment industry's foremost technology providers are now working together to curb content piracy while improving production and post-production workflow.
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News: Imagine Products Releases New Macintosh Video Loggers And Web Database Applications
Imagine Products, Inc. announces the release and general availability of the MAC DIGITAL CLIP LIBRARY, "Built for Mac OS X", and HD LOG V3.0 with new, "VIDEO ASSIST" mode that auto-digitizes preview or edit quality, timecode accurate clips from CamCorders on the fly.
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News: Electric Rain Announces Swift 3D v4.5 Leading 3D animation software for Macromedia® Flash™ adds FLV, QuickTime and AVI video formats, expanding its entry-level appeal to video design and production markets
Today Electric Rain, Inc.® announced the release of Swift 3D® version 4.5, a standalone application allowing designers to build and export vector and raster-based 3D animations for Macromedia Flash, as well as FLV , QuickTime, AVI and other popular formats.
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News: JVC Professional Products Company Wins NAB Award For Innovation In Media For GY-HD100U Pro HD Camcorder
JVC Professional Products Company today announced that it received an NAB Award for Innovation in Media at the NAB2005 Conference & Exhibition. As one of the five companies receiving the highest number of attendee votes in the Content Creation category, JVC received AIM recognition for its GY-HD100U 3-CCD HD camera recorder at the NAB Technology Luncheon held at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Wednesday, April 20.
"As the professionals using broadcasting technologies day in and day out, NAB attendees are in a unique position to recognize the hottest products emerging into the marketplace. The NAB would like to extend its congratulations to all of the 2005 AIM winners who received this esteemed recognition," said NAB President and CEO Edward O. Fritts.
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News: Cinema 4D And Cinebench Available In 64-Bit CINEMA 4D R9 64-Bit final release version for the Windows 64 operating system
MAXON Computer today released its software in a 64-Bit final release version for the Windows 64 operating system. Being the first 3D animation software developer to release a 64-Bit version, MAXON once again demonstrates its technological advancement and forward-looking development. Users will benefit from increased available memory and improved speed thanks to optimized performance for 64-Bit processors.
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News: Sony Unveils New HDV Camcorder For Professional Videographers New Model Features First Professional HD Application of Sony's CMOS-based Enhanced Imaging Processor Technology
Sony is expanding its lineup of HDV™ products for professionals with the new HVR-A1U model, based on a 1/3-inch, 3-megapixel Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor imager.
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News: New Alias Learning Tools Help 3D Professionals, Students and Enthusiasts Master Maya and Alias MotionBuilder Two new editions now available for purchase from the Alias e-store
Alias announced today two new Learning Tools available for purchase from www.alias.com/learningtools. Pipeline Techniques | Maya® and Alias MotionBuilder® and Maya Techniques™ | Maya Fluid Effects™ examine areas of Maya relatively unexplored by Learning Tool authors prior to now. Both tools further complete a full range of Learning Tools that offer 3D professionals, students and enthusiasts a collection of books and DVDs for self-paced learning.
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HD Expo 2005 News: Telecast Demonstrates New CopperHead™ JT, Transforming Sony’s HDC-F950 4:4:4 HD Camera Into a Compact, Lightweight System CopperHead JT Connects Separated Camera Optical Block to the Camera Body via Fiber Optics, Reducing Size and Weight to Increase Flexibility in HD Acquisition
Telecast Fiber Systems today previewed a new high definition fiber optic transport system that promises to give camera operators unprecedented flexibility in high-quality acquisition, whether for film sets, television and video production, or sports coverage. The CopperHead™ JT is being developed as a kit that allows the optical block of the Sony HDC-F950 camera to be connected to the camera body via a lightweight tactical fiber optic cable over distances up to 15 kilometers. With this configuration, camera operators have much greater freedom to focus on creativity, while all engineering control and recording of the full-bandwidth 4:4:4 HD signals are handled from a distance.
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News: Savannah College Of Art And Design Integrates Sapphire Plug-Ins Into Curriculum Premier college includes Sapphire on 118 workstations to train 2,000 students a year
GenArts, Inc., a leading provider of digital visual effects plug-ins for the film, broadcast and video industry, today announced that the renowned Savannah College of Art and Design has chosen Sapphire Plug-ins as its primary plug-in package, and is integrating them into all the editing and effects workstations of its digital media departments.
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News: HomeRun Media, Newest Avid Gold Premier Reseller HomeRun Media's Professional System Integration Now Spans Entire Avid Product Line, Including Avid® Media Composer® Adrenaline™, Avid Symphony™ Nitris™, Avid Unity™ and More
HomeRun Media, a leading integrator of video and audio solutions, announced today that it is the newest Avid Gold Premier Reseller servicing the Los Angeles area. HomeRun Media has been one of LA's leading integration solution providers for over four years, meeting the demanding needs of the entertainment and post-production community.
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Electronic Entertainment Expo 2005 News: Alias to Join the Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s Tools & Middleware Program for "PLAYSTATION®3" Maya, Alias MotionBuilder and Alias|HumanIK middleware to support development of "PLAYSTATION®3" games titles
Alias announced today its intention to join the Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s Tools and Middleware Program for "PLAYSTATION®3" when it launches. This will enable Alias to tailor the roadmap for software products such as Maya®, Alias MotionBuilder® and Alias|HumanIK® middleware to the needs of developers working on SCEI's "PLAYSTATION®3". These three Alias products are development musts for the leading current-generation console titles.
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Electronic Entertainment Expo 2005 News: Autodesk Showcases 3D Animation Leadership at Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2005 for Next Generation Game Titles Hottest Games Premiering at E3 Exemplify Ideas Realized by Game Developers Who Rely on 3ds Max Professional Animation Software
Autodesk Inc. today announced its attendance at E3 in Los Angeles to demonstrate 3ds Max 7.5--its professional 3D animation software--a preferred solution chosen by game developers worldwide to realize ideas--and deliver new, high definition game titles to market on time.
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News: Autodesk Announces Midway to Use 3ds Max Software for its Next-Generation Titles
Autodesk Inc. , today announced that leading game developer and publisher Midway has adopted Autodesk 3ds Max® animation software for use in its next-generation games production. Midway will be using 3ds Max 7.5 to bring game players titles with new levels of dimensionality, artistic quality and fun.
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News: Optibase Media 100 SW Drives On-Location Edit For New Chevrolet Spot Software-only Version of Popular Media 100 HD System Provides Easy-to-Use, Cost-Effective Professional Remote Editing Solution
Media 100, a unit of Optibase, Ltd. , debuted its software-only editing package, Media 100 sw, just last month; the application has already been used by Velocite Editorial to cut a television commercial for Chevrolet via advertising agency McCann Erickson Shanghai.
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Creative COW leader Lee Brimelow shows you how create a custom context menu for the video player that replaces the deafult Flash menu. This is part 7 in the Flash Video Basics series.
In this tutorial, Abdel-Basset demonstrates how to use the new Diamond of combustion 4 and Color Correction operator to change selected color of the footage. Autodesk Combustion
Depth of field refers to the distance from camera where things will be in focus.This tutorial from Bill O'Neil offers tips for assembling 2D flat objects in 3D space with the most realism using depth of field in After Effects.
Text that seemingly writes itself on is a cool effect and one of those techniques that a motion graphics artist just has to know. But just how do you do it? Well there are a number of ways to create this effect in After Effects, you could use the Write On effect, Vector Paint or masks for example, but in this tutorial John Dickinson demonstrates his favourite technique using After Effects' Brush tool.
Creative COW leader Lee Brimelow shows you how to add a buffering video message to your video player that displays when the video buffer is empty. This is part 6 in the Flash Video Basics series.
In this article, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Jim Harvey reviews Vortex Media Warm Cards and states, "You know you do it. We all do it. It’s not something that we brag about. It’s not even something that we think about too much. White Balancing. Sure some guys carry a worn out piece of white paper, or they use the foamcore to set the camera. We’ve balanced on walls, notepaper, even the fat guy’s t-shirt. It gets us by and we get on with the show. But as we are all professionals, shouldn’t we have a professional system to white balance out gear and do it consistently? Well, we do and we can." Read on to discover an effective answer to your white balancing dilemmas.
CreativeCOW leader John David Hutton shows us why Directory Opus 8.1 for Windows "is an outstanding workflow addition at a great price... What is it? Some would say it's a windows explorer replacement and while this is technically true it also offers multitudes of capabilities normally included in many other apps, namely ftp, image conversion, complex file searches including metadata searches, image and file viewer, zip capabilities, folder synchronization, slideshows, etc. It also supports easy access to common utilities like Nero burning software and Google Desktop Search (GDS) software, freely downloadable from Google."
CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Jim Harvey just made the leap to HDV by acquiring one of SONY's new HDV Cameras the HVR-Z1U. Then he was faced with learning his new camera. In this article, Jim takes a look at HandsOnHDV and has determined that they have put together the definitive training DVD for Sony's New HDV Cameras.
wondertouch’s Particle Emitters for Motion, is a high-performance emitter package based upon the company’s particleIllusion software technology. In this article, David Saraceno reviews the product for CreativeCOW and concludes, "This particle system constitutes an exceptional, sophisticated native enhancement package for Motion that provides a plethora of creative alternatives for any motion graphics designer --- all within the context of the new paradigm in motion graphics workflow established by Motion..."
In this article, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Jim Harvey reviews AE Pro Series BROADCAST GEMS Volume 01 and states, "BROADCAST GEMS is a package of Royalty Free animated backgrounds that you can import into your work. But more than just a bunch of animated backgrounds, BROADCAST GEMS is more of a compendium of elements, expressions, and comps that allow you to customize the project in an infinite number of ways. This is a lot different than just a couple of moving backdrops that you plunk into your project."
Michael Hurwicz looks at 3ds Max 7 Courseware and Training DVDs from Autodesk Media and Entertainment. These include 3ds Max 7 New Features and Production Workflow, Fundamentals and Beyond Courseware, and the 3ds Max Master Class Series Training DVDs.
3ds Max, Training Product Reviews
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