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| | | | Neat Video Announces Neat Video Pro Noise Filter for ASSIMILATE SCRATCH and SCRATCH Lab
Announcement Delivers Dynamic New Tools To The Creative Arsenal of SCRATCH and Lab Artists
The Neat Video team announced that they have delivered the Neat Video Pro video noise reduction filter as an OpenFX plug-in for ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH® and SCRATCH Lab™ digital workflow tools. Previously only available for video editing and compositing applications, this new version of Neat Video brings its industry-leading grain and noise reduction technology to Digital Intermediate (DI), Finishing, Production Dailies and Visual Effects Dailies workflows.
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| | | | Company 3 Scores at Super Bowl XLVI
Post house contributes color grading on 24 spots for 20 brands
Award-winning post house Company 3, a subsidiary of Deluxe® Entertainment Services Group, worked on 24 ads that aired during last Sunday's Super Bowl XLVI, which amassed a record-breaking 111.3 million viewers. Company 3 co-founder/colorist Stefan Sonnenfeld and fellow colorists Dave Hussey, Siggy Ferstl, Tim Masick, Mike Pethel and Tom Poole performed color grading on commercials for 20 brands: Acura, AT&T, belVita, Best Buy, BMW, Bridgestone, Bud Light Platinum, Chevy, Chrysler, Downy, Hulu, Hyundai, Kia, M&M, NBC, Pepsi, Samsung, Time Warner, Toyota and Volkswagen.
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| | | | MTI Puts Third Nucoda Film Master into the Equation
Top Hollywood Facility Relies on Nucoda for Versatile Workflow
Image Systems - the leading manufacturer of image enhancement and mastering systems for post production - has announced that MTI Film in Hollywood, California, has installed its third Nucoda Film Master into its state-of-the-art facility. Opened in 2010, MTI Film is a full service post production facility providing high quality dailies, editorial, visual effects, color correction and assembly for film, television and commercial projects. MTI is currently at work on a number of projects, including AMC's Hell on Wheels, CW's Ringer, Good Christian Belles on ABC, and for TNT The Closer, Dallas, and Rizzoli & Isles, as well as a number of feature and restoration projects.
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| | | | Method Studios Provides VFX Expertise To Noam Murro-Directed Super Bowl Spots
Method Studios Provides VFX Expertise To Noam Murro-Directed Super Bowl Spots
Method Studios, a Deluxe Entertainment Services Group company, was thrilled to collaborate on a record seven Super Bowl commercials this year. Among the projects keeping the Method Studios teams in Los Angeles, New York and Australia busy, were three especially VFX-heavy ads directed by the 2012 DGA award-winning director, Noam Murro. Dan Glass, Method's EVP and Senior VFX Supervisor notes, "This is our strongest Super Bowl yet and has resulted in successful collaboration throughout our multiple Method sites."
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| | | | Bemis Balkind Expands Digital Team
Creative agency Bemis Balkind’s Digital Team has added fresh expertise to its growing personnel roster by naming Elisabeth Lucas as Creative Director, Digital, and Adele Martin as Senior Project Manager, Digital. Both Lucas and Martin will report to Curt Doty, Bemis Balkind’s GM Digital/Executive Creative Director. The announcement was made today by agency partners Peter Bemis and Aubrey Balkind.
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| | | | Seven Network Queensland chooses Quantel for news
Australian regional broadcaster selects Enterprise sQ for speed, ease of use and flexibility
Australia's leading free to air broadcaster, Seven Network, has invested in an Enterprise sQ news production system for its Queensland regional operation. The main system will be installed at Seven Queensland headquarters in Maroochydore, with Quantel editors in the regional bureaus in Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Hervey Bay, Rockhampton, Bundaberg and Gladstone, producing localized content.
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| | | | Spy Opens Doors On New Creative Studio In Santa Monica
Emmy Award-winning Artist Scott Rader Joins Team
SPY, a FotoKem company offering creative finishing services for commercials and feature films, has opened a new studio in Santa Monica, Calif. SPY: LA extends the capabilities of its main facility in San Francisco, and will specialize in VFX based commercial productions. SPY: LA began work in December on a number of visually compelling spots for such clients as UPS, Asics, THQ/UFC, Hillshire Farm and Canon. The new West Coast locale is within FotoKem's award-winning sound studio Margarita Mix.
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| | | | Technicolor Acquires the Activities of Digital Post-production Specialist Duboi
The purchase completes the takeover of several Quinta group activitiesas announced January 20, 2012
Following the Jan. 20, 2012 ruling by the Tribunal de Commerce in Nanterre, France, Technicolor (Euronext Paris: TCH) today announced its acquisition of the activities and skills in visual post-production, color and colorization of the French company Duboi.
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| | | | Apple Color
Tracking Vignettes
 In this Apple Color tutorial, Richard Harrington along with color expert Robbie Carman teaches how to use tracking to have vignettes follow a person around the screen to simulate a spotlight effect.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 02/23/2009 | | | | |
| | | | Apple Color
Saturation Curves in Color
 In this Apple Color tutorial, Richard Harrington along with color expert Robbie Carman create the Pleasantville effect in Apple Color. Using the secondary curves, specifically the saturation curve, to isolate just the yellow in a taxi cab everything else in the video clip can then be desaturated to create this popular effect.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 02/16/2009 | | | | |
| | | | Apple Color
Custom Shapes in Color - Final Cut Help
 In this Apple Color tutorial Richard Harrington and guest Robbie Carman will use user defined shapes to form vinettes to perform a secondary color correction. Learn about where primary and secondary color correction really occurs in Apple Color and other tips and tricks.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 01/19/2009 | | | | |
| | | | Apple Color
One Team. Three Network Shows. Every Week.
 Creative Cow Contributing Editor Zed Saeed has helped create pioneering Final Cut Pro workflows for major feature films and episodic TV production. This year, he and the team at DigitalFilm Tree faced their biggest challenge yet: posting 3 major shows, for 3 different networks, every week -- with the same small team that used to do just one. How do they do it? World-class workflow management.
Feature by Zed Saeed on 12/23/2008 | | | | |
| | | | Apple Color
Introducing: Stop Staring and Start Grading with Apple Color
 Allow us to introduce one of the most eagerly anticipated DVDs in Creative Cow Master Series history, Walter Biscardi's overview of Apple Color. Building on nearly 20 years of professional editing experience, as well as years of experience with Apple Color (and FInal Touch HD before it), he's got the perfect perspective to make working in Color easier than you imagined. It's the disk he wished he had when he started using Color.
Feature by Walter Biscardi on 10/10/2007 | | | | |
| | | | Apple Color
Apple Color: Building Vignettes in the ColorFX Room
 Apple Color offers a variety of tools for custom effects, each with different features. Answering a commonly asked question, broadcast editor and Creative Cow leader Walter Biscardi shows you how to take advantage Colors node-based compositing to create a vignette in the ColorFX room.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Walter Biscardi on 09/24/2007 | | | | |
| | | | Apple Color
Should you use Final Cut Pro or Color?
 Should you use Final Cut Pro or Color? In this short video tutorial, Walter Biscardi demonstrates some of the differences and why you might use one program over the other. This is a basic level tutorial.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Walter Biscardi on 06/25/2007 | | | | |
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| | | |  | Re: New Beta out Today?
by Mike Most in the DaVinci Forum
It shouldn't be and probably isn't either/or. Adding ProRes on Windows was probably somewhat straightforward, particularly if they're using the ffmpeg open source version (which is probably the case, given that it doesn't write 4444 at this point). Fixing the auto replace behavior is a change in the internal code....
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by Gabriele Turchi in the DaVinci Forum
i agree , i am pretty sure that track down the wrong behavior is a mess , but add a setting in the config page the BLOCK the auto replace is a CONCERN that should be addressed before add ProRes on Windows ...we are all loosing hours (but mainly grades...
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| | | | | Re: New Beta out Today?
by Mike Most in the DaVinci Forum
The auto replace behavior is driving me nuts, too. I've probably lost at least 2 hours on a major network television series because of it. It's especially annoying because you can't have two sessions open at the same time. In my case, the show in question is supplied as an...
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| | | | | Re: New Beta out Today?
by Gabriele Turchi in the DaVinci Forum
maybe BMD should set it up and invite Us in (or we can ask them to be invited ) so they can monitor what we are talking about without having hundreds of thread about asking ""what cheap mac is necessary to run Lite"" or ""when the tangent element will be...
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by Gabriele Turchi in the DaVinci Forum
i am on it for the new forum , but how we setup a pro forum without having accessional user jumping In ? maybe the user have to be accepted and monitored by the administrator ? i rally wish that the Dav team could understand how this Lite thing is...
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by Vladimir Kucherov in the DaVinci Forum
Around 8 fps was what I was getting but I wasn't sure if this was because I was reading/writing media on the same drive, as opposed to a RAID. So the slow render is just a pro-res on windows issue it seems?...
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by Adam Hendershot in the DaVinci Forum
I'm getting the same 7-8fps that others seem to be getting with pro-res HQ output. This is with a Mac pro 2.66ghz 12-core with Windows under bootcamp. Source footage is uncompressed QuickTime 1080/23.98. Osx on the same machine is around 25fps. Just for comparison, the other format we export to...
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by Rohit Gupta in the DaVinci Forum
>>Also the selection of a channel to use as matte. You can already do that - it's been there for a while since V8 or V8.1 - can't remember....
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by Sascha Haber in the DaVinci Forum
I couldn't agree more :) Maybe its time for a new Forum. Its getting a little out of hand how many different configuration people have and most of the problems are related to if they are able to run it. I would suggest we are have a Pro-User Forum where...
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| | | | | Re: Jpeg sequence
by Sascha Haber in the DaVinci Forum
I totally agree on the need of JPG sequences as matte inputs. Thats kinda mandatory for VFX work. Also the selection of a channel to use as matte. 3D people love to render out a 3 color JPG sequence. And I love 3D people :) A slice of color... DaVinci...
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| | | | | Re: New Beta out Today?
by Gustavo Bermudas in the DaVinci Forum
ps: for what is worth i still vote for an "expensive" (certainly more than 1K) PRO version of resolve , that have more support etc... Totally agree with you on the price point, but I would love even more for that DaVinci Lite nonsense to end. It doesn't work well,...
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| | | |  | Powerwindows/wipes stopped working in Resolve!
by Chris Tomkins in the DaVinci Forum
Hi I think I've pressed a random key that has disabled my powerwindow handles/wipes in Resolve. If I create a powerwindow, the circles/handles appear, but if I click and drag on them, they don't move. Similarly if I click on a wipe it won't move either. I've tried in another...
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In this article Walter Biscardi, Jr. tries out the new MC Color controller from Euphonix.
In this article Walter Biscardi, Jr. takes an in depth look at the new Tangent Wave Control Panel.
In this short Apple Color video tutorial, Walter Biscardi demonstrates the auto balance feature in color. This is a basic level tutorial.
