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November 7th, 2009
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| | | | NCIS, CSI: NY, House, True Blood, The Good Wife: Autodesk Software Fills the Air
Many of This Season's Most-Watched Programs Feature Autodesk Technology
Post-production houses regularly turn to digital entertainment creation software from Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), to help bring movie-like visual effects into millions of homes in this season's most-watched television programs. Highlights include a 3D video game universe in "House," the evocative color finishing of "Mad Men" and the UEFA Europa League rebrand.
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| | | | COLLECTIVE Production Honored with Silver Creativity Annual Award for 'Robin Hood Responds'
NY Production House Honored for Excellence in the Category of Consumer TV, Campaign
The 39th Creativity Annual Awards (CAA) recently recognized COLLECTIVE with Silver honors for the production company's powerful integrated PSA campaign Robin Hood Responds, which broke summer 2009. Among a field of entries from 37 countries and 37 U.S. states, COLLECTIVE was recognized in the category of Consumer TV, Campaign.
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| | | | Focus Enhancements Announces Focus MediaShare
New Web-Based Video Content Management Service for Video Professionals using Focus FS DTE Recorders
Today, Focus Enhancements Inc.—a worldwide leader in video recording, media management, and digital audio technology—announced MediaShare, a new subscription-based content management service for video producers, studios, and departments.
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| | | | JMR Electronics Appoints Chuck McMakin Vice President of Business Development and Sales
Company continues market expansion and hires digital entertainment veteran to take industry-leadership role
JMR Electronics, Inc., the leading value provider of scalable storage systems for video and data intensive applications, has appointed Chuck McMakin Vice President of Business Development and Sales. Mr. McMakin, formerly the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for CommandSoft Inc., adds to the company's executive team as it continues its growth and expansion in the US and abroad.
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| | | | Digital Vision Grows Roster of Top Sales and Technical Talent in Americas
Digital Vision, a global leader in picture enhancement products for film and television post-production, has announced key additions to their Los Angeles based operations. Suzette Ferguson has joined Digital Vision as Sales Manager for the Americas and Gary Jackemuk has taken the lead as Product Specialist.
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| | | | PBS Station Selects Three Hitachi HD Cameras for Studio Production
Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd., a leading provider of affordable, high performance cameras, today announced that KSMQ—a PBS station in Austin, MN—has outfitted its main studio with three new Hitachi SK-HD1000 multi-standard, multi-format cameras to produce public interest programming for viewers in its Southern Minnesota-Northern Iowa coverage area.
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| | | | HD EXPO – Createasphere’s 3D Day Shows Full 3D Spectrum
Panels Highlighting Creativity and Execution Mark Third Annual 3D Day
An engaging combination of directors, cinematographers, expert technologists, illuminating the spectrum of creativity and reality, have been set for HD EXPO-Createasphere’s Third Annual 3D Day next week at the Burbank Marriott Convention Center in Burbank, California.
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| | | | | TUTORIALS: | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Encore DVD
Encore: Frameserving From Adobe Premiere Pro
 In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Jeff Bellune guides you on a trip from Adobe Premiere Pro to Adobe Encore using the Debugmode Frameserver plug-in. Adobe Encore CS4 added a new feature that allowed a live Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 sequence to be added to an Encore DVD or Blu-ray project. But what about Encore version CS3 or earlier? The Debugmode Frameserver lets you send a Premiere sequence to older versions of Encore without having to first render an intermediate file from Premiere.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Jeff Bellune on 10/22/2009 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Photoshop
Patch and Heal Tools
 In this tutorial, Richard Harrington uses the patch tool and healing brush tools to teach patching, healing and the vanishing point in Adobe Photoshop.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 05/18/2009 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Photoshop
Masks Panel
 In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at how to use the masks panel in Photoshop CS4. This is a new feature in CS4 that can speed up your workflow by allowing you to quickly manage the masks on a layer.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 04/27/2009 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Photoshop
Adding Depth of Field
 In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington shows how to perform depth of field blurring techniques using the lens blur feature in Adobe Photoshop CS4.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 04/20/2009 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Photoshop
Content Aware Scaling
 In this episode of Photoshop for Video, Richard Harrington takes a look at a new feature in Adobe Photoshop CS4 called content aware scaling. This feature allows a user to define a region or a graphic to scale or not to scale when the image is resized, giving tremendous flexibility to not have certain parts of a photo distorted when other parts are stretched.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 04/13/2009 | | | | |
| | | | Motion Graphics
Media Management Nightmares? Game On!
 Here's how one team turns 14 hours of raw footage on the latest games into a 30-minute TV show every week, 40 times a season. In this Creative COW Magazine article Dustin Lau discusses some tricks for high end digital media management.
Editorial by Dustin Lau on 03/31/2009 | | | | |
| | | | Motion Graphics
Creating Interactive Games - Cine Bingo
 The team at Psychic Bunny worked on whatever interested them - perfect preparation for a job that even the client couldn't describe. In this Creative COW Magazine article Rick Castañeda gives you a behind the scenes tour of how they made cine bingo and teaches a few tips on interactive game making.
Editorial, Feature by Rick Castañeda on 03/31/2009 | | | | |
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| | | |  | Lost Menus
by Robert Shank in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum
I am building a DVD in Encore and I accidentally erased just the folder for the project; however, I checked the trash and the folder was there. I reinserted it back into its respective place AND NOW, when I load up my project in Encore, none of the menus I...
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| | | |  | Re: Encore CS3 Help Photo Gallery
by John Rich in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum
Andy, I've never used Premiere for this. When you said picture gallery, I assumed you meant a slide show type thing. Since you have hundreds of images, it just seemed a lot of work to set it up in Premiere. While you can set a single transition for each one...
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| | | | | Button Highlights Missing?
by Kevin Sio in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum
Suddenly I do not have hightlights on buttons. Is this a problem with CS3? I am not completely at ease with this program and cannot figure out how to activate them. I am using a menu created by the software that I used a month ago. I am very reluctuant...
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| | | | | Menu navigation for blind people
by Pawel Lygan in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum
Hi guys I need make menu for the blind. And i have problem with navigation with lector. Is it possible to play sound (lector) when someone choose option in menu ? For exemple when menu starts 1st option will be highlight and sample for 1st option will be OPTION ONE...
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| | | |  | Re: DDP Error
by eric pautsch in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum
Sounds like you did everything correctly. Still best to send a small USB drive instead of a recordable disc. Here's a good article: http://www.dvdverification.com/public/92.cfm...
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| | | | | Re: DDP Error
by Michael D. Brown in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum
Thanks, Eric for your reply. To be clear, the dual-layer DVD was simply for client review, and not intended to be used as a master. The DDP discs, 1 each for layer 0 & layer 1, were DVD-R; Taiyo-Yuden is our standard disc brand. I'm surprised, as you are, our...
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| | | | | Re: Encore CS3 Help Photo Gallery
by John Rich in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum
What I'd consider, since you are only doing a slide show is using ProShow Gold instead of Encore. You could try a free trial. They also have tutorials, and sort of "Presets" which are interesting, but I don't think there are trials of the presets or tuts. John Rich JOHNR...
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| | | | | Re: DDP Error
by eric pautsch in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum
It most likely an error on the discs you wrote them on. Did you deliver on DVD-R? Best to deliver on HDD, DLT or perhaps send them 2 different data disc with your DDP images on good media. DL should NEVER be used as a replication delivery master for various...
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| | | | | DDP Error
by Michael D. Brown in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum
Running Encore CS3... output a DVD-9 project to a standard folder. Burning a DVD+R DL works just fine. Next, I created DDP 2.0 layer 0 & layer 1 discs using Gear Pro. Our replicator indicates the DDP 2.0 discs I submitted for a DVD-9 project aren't usable. Their lengthy reply...
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In Part 3 of this 3 part Adobe Illustrator tutorial series, Vincent Rosati shows you how to perform flat shading on the helix created in the previous tutorials.
In Part 2 of this 3 part Adobe Illustrator tutorial series, Vincent Rosati uses the pen tool to draw the helix structure.
In Part 1 of this 3 part Adobe Illustrator tutorial series, Vincent Rosati explains how to use the free transform tool to take the first step in creating a helix with AI.
