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| | | | MPC LA Goes to Battle for DIRECTV
When MJZ Director Rupert Sanders and Grey New York needed high-end VFX to bring a World War II epic, a medieval fantasy battle, and a bit of science fiction together in a new spot for DIRECTV, they turned to the team at MPC. The spot is a showcase of MPC’s impressive skillset and resources. The LA office led a team that included artists across MPC’s global family of studios, taking the project from rough concept design to photo-real rendering to flawless compositing.
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| | | | thenewBlank’s Branding Package for FOX’s “So You Think You Can Dance” Leaps Onto Screens With Style
Fox Broadcasting and design-driven production company thenewBlank paired on the dynamic branding campaign for the 10th anniversary season of the hit competition show “So You Think You Can Dance.” The expansive promotional campaign captures the power and beauty of dance, and features All Star dancers from the beloved series. The signature branding appears across all media from television broadcast to social media channels.
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| | | | Geomerics to Bring Next-Generation Lighting to Xbox One
Enlighten to drive visual quality on Xbox One with real-time global illumination
Geomerics, the leading lighting technology company in the video game industry, today announced its support for Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft. Enlighten is now available to developers working on Xbox One titles, bringing real-time global illumination to the next generation of games.
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| | | | Omega Broadcast Invests In Five Fujinon Cabrio Series PL Mount Telephoto Zoom Lenses
Austin-based rental house lens inventory now includes four FUJINON 19-90mm and one 85-300mm Premier PL Mount lenses for Super 35mm and digital cinematography
FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Optical Devices Division is announcing that Omega Broadcast Group—a premiere video rental house in Austin, Texas—acquired five new FUJINON Cabrio PL Mount telephoto zoom lenses including four 19-90mm (ZK4.7x19) and one 85-300mm (ZK3.5x85) for 35mm and digital cinematography.
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| | | | Storytelling Director Greg Kohs Joins Backyard
Backyard adds ten-time Emmy®-winning filmmaker Greg Kohs to the roster for U.S. commercial representation. Kohs’ affecting, decidedly human brand of filmmaking can be seen in spots and web films for the likes of Google, Apple, MasterCard, Tostitos, Titleist, EA Sports and more, and documentaries including his award-winning "Song Sung Blue," a film Roger Ebert called “Superb." The director was previously represented for spots by @radical.media.
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| | | | Directorz’ Jeff Bednarz & Lucky Post’s Logan Hefflefinger Unite For The Home Depot “Thank You”
The Home Depot "Thank You” film honors employees; everyday heroes who help build things, open doors, and bring out the good in people as told through the eyes of their biggest fans: their children. The project was Directed by Jeff Bednarz for agency The Richards Group, interviewing children of employees from all over the country including those from tornado-torn Joplin and communities affected by Hurricane Sandy.
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| | | | | TUTORIALS: | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Premiere Pro
Premiere Pro CC: 108 Multi-Cam Synched by Audio
 In this tutorial, Andrew Devis looks at the next version of Premiere Pro and shows how it can now automatically synchronise footage in a bin by various options including timecode and AUDIO!
Andrew uses multiple clips and allows Premiere Pro to synchronise these clips using audio and shows us in real time how long this process takes based on a 48 min talk and 11 clips!
Andrew also goes on to show some of the changes that have taken place in the headers for video and audio tracks as well as a change in how to make multi-cam edits in the up-coming next version of Premiere Pro - valuable information for anyone working with multiple cameras.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 04/13/2013 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Premiere Pro
RE:Match Non-matching Cameras in Premiere Pro
 In this tutorial Andrew Devis demonstrates a relatively new plug-in by RE:Vision Effects called RE:Match and how it can very quickly and accurately deal with the very common problem of non-matching cameras in Premiere Pro.
A typical approach to dealing with say a white balance issue would be to apply the fast color corrector and use the white balance picker, but this can be very hit and miss, while RE:Match deals with the whole image using another image or clip as the reference to match too.
This very powerful effect can save a great deal of time for an everyday problem and so earn its cost back very quickly as well as giving excellent and fast results.
There is another tutorial showing how this effect works in After Effects as there is a slightly different way the two applications deal with reference images.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 04/13/2013 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects Techniques
IK Character Animation: Walk to the Beat 2: The Walk Cycle
 In this second tutorial on animating an IK character Andrew Devis shows us how to create and refine a walk cycle with our IK controlled character such that it walks in time with the music we had set up in the previous tutorial.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 03/15/2013 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Flash
Adobe Edge Animate/The Missing Manual Software/Book Review
 Increasingly, web developers are being asked to create sites that are viewable on tablets and mobile devices, as well as desktops and laptops running Windows, OS X or Linux. One of the challenges in creating a site like that is animation. Flash, for many years the preferred cross-platform animation solution, is no longer supported on many tablets and mobile devices. Michael looks for - and finds - answers within Adobe's Edge Animate.
Review, Editorial by Michael Hurwicz on 01/16/2013 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Premiere Pro
Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 107 Rolling Shutter Repair
 In this final tutorial in this Premiere Pro Basics (CS6 & above) series, Andrew Devis shows how to use the Rolling Shutter Repair effects which deals with the problem of footage from a camera phone or a DSLR (CMOS sensors) which look wobbly or jelly-like when panned quickly. The obvious solution is to avoid fast pans with this type of camera, if possible. However, sometimes you have no choice and then need to clean up the end result to stop your audience from feeling sea-sick! The Rolling Shutter Repair is a very powerful tool to deal with this issue and make sure your footage looks more like you originally intended it to look.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 12/20/2012 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Premiere Pro
Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 106 Multi-Camera Work-flow
 In this tutorial, Andrew Devis goes through the new and improved multi-camera work-flow in Premiere Pro CS6, which includes the option to use as many cameras as your system can cope with! Andrew shows how to use three clips in this tutorial, how to set them up with a synchronizing point and then how to trim footage back into the multi-camera sequence if the synchronizing points weren't in a good place. He then shows how to change between cameras and how to modify the edits created.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 12/20/2012 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Premiere Pro
Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 105 Warp Stabilizer
 In this tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to use the 'Warp Stabilizer' effect in Premiere Pro. This powerful effect can be used to stabilize hand help or shaky footage so that the end result will be smooth motion or even no motion for the clip it is applied to. While being very powerful, the warp stabilizer works best with a good CUDA graphics card so that clips can be played back with the effect applied without the need to render the clips to see updates to any changes made.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 12/20/2012 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Premiere Pro
Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 104 Speech Analysis
 In this tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to use the Speech Analysis function inside of Premiere Pro. Andrew starts by showing how to find and download speech modules for languages other than English US and then goes on to analyze two clips, one with stylized English and one with normal English to show how well Premiere Pro copes. Andrew also shows how you would attach an Adobe Story Script for greater accuracy and also how to use some of the tools to change text once created and then how Premiere Pro is frame perfect for each spoken word in the Source monitor.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 12/20/2012 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Premiere Pro
Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 103 Analyze Content: Find Faces
 In this tutorial, Andrew Devis explains how to use the 'Find Faces' function in Premiere Pro which can be a useful function to search/filter in the project panel to display only clips showing people. Although a useful function, it does take a while to analyze the clips, so it isn't always a fast solution.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 12/20/2012 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Premiere Pro
Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 102 Video Transitions
 Video Transitions vs Video Effects Transitions: In this tutorial, Andrew Devis explains the difference between 'video transitions' and the 'video transitions' category in 'video effects'. Andrew shows how the two work and some of the advantages of using the 'video effects' as opposed to the transitions to create more organic transitions.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 12/20/2012 | | | | |
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