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| | | | 2011 Hollywood Post Alliance Awards Winners Unveiled
The Post Production Community and Industry Innovators Receive Honors in Gala Evening
Tonight, during a gala evening of celebration at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Post Alliance® – the professional organization for the post production community - presented the Sixth Annual HPA Awards to a sold out audience of industry insiders and luminaries. Individuals were honored in 12 creative categories as well as a number of special awards for Engineering Excellence, Lifetime Achievement and Creativity and Innovation, which had been announced earlier. The HPA Awards honor the best of the best talent working behind the scenes in motion pictures, television and commercials as well as the most innovative technologies in post.
published 3 months ago read more | | | | |
| | | | Beast Edits Concert Footage for Andrew Bird Documentary
Beast Chicago staff contributes its time to edit Xan Aranda’s new concert doc, “Andrew Bird: Fever Year.”
Beast, one of the nation’s top editorial houses, recently completed work on director Xan Aranda’s documentary "Andrew Bird: Fever Year", which is a portrait of an indie musician in today’s music climate and what one has to do to survive. The film made its world premiere at the New York Film Festival earlier this month and its Mediwest, Illinois and Chicago premiere took place at the Chicago International Film Festival this past weekend.
published 4 months ago read more | | | | |
| | | | Top British Television Network ITV Adopts Adobe Story for Scriptwriting
Adobe Story Turns Script Content into Relevant Metadata, Streamlining Production
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced at the IBC 2011 Conference and Exhibition that leading U.K. broadcaster ITV has selected Adobe® Story®, an online and offline collaborative script development tool, to manage pre-production of over 500 episodes per year of ITV’s popular programs Coronation Street and Emmerdale.
published 5 months ago read more | | | | |
| | | | DigitalFilm Tree Puts Xytech's MediaPulse in Place
Post Production Innovator Also Extends Platform with Encore
Xytech, the leading global provider of facility management software to the broadcast and media services industries, announced today that Hollywood-based post production company DigitalFilm Tree has selected the MediaPulse platform and its innovative new extension, Encore, to manage its full-service production, post and consulting operation.
published 10 months ago read more | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Unveils Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium
Sweeping Productivity Enhancements and New Creative Innovations Boost End-to-End Workflows for Audio and Video Professionals
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 Production Premium, the complete software solution for video and post-production that helps deliver content to virtually any screen.
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| | | | Grass Valley Unveils New Innovations for Channel Branding and 3 Gb/s Facility Infrastructures
(National Association of Broadcasters Convention – Booth# SL106) -- Today, Grass Valley™ showcased a number of new features and functionality for its Maestro™ Master Control and Channel Branding system as well as its Concerto™ Series of SD/ HD/3G video routing switchers. The Maestro master control innovation is designed to help broadcasters comply with government regulations regarding the distribution of Emergency Alert System (EAS) messaging while the latter enables customers to upgrade their baseband infrastructures to accommodate higher SDI data rates up to 3 Gb/s.
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| | | | | TUTORIALS: | | | | |
| | | | DVD Authoring
THX Media Director for a multi-platform media world
 Starting with Star Wars: The Complete Saga, THX Media Director takes steps to solve the problem of translating color space, bit depth, and resolution from the reference monitor to the motion picture, TV, computer and iPad screen -- automatically.
Feature by Debra Kaufman on 10/13/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Encore DVD
Adobe Encore Basics 9: Creating Slide-shows Part 3
 Putting it all together! In this final installment in the Getting Going with Encore -- Creating Slide-Shows' series, Andrew Devis shows how to create a second slide-show and 'wire-up' your final project ready for Disc or Web DVD production.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 05/12/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Encore DVD
Adobe Encore Basics 8: Creating Slide-shows Part 2
 This is one for photography enthusiasts and anyone who wants to add stills to their DVD/Blu-ray and Web DVD productions - a MUST for wedding videotographers!
Learn how to use Adobe Encore to produce a DVD of all your wonderful pictures while taking advantage of the powerful features that quickly and simply add transitions, pan & zoom etc., to give that professional edge to your work and in so doing setting it apart from the rest.
In this next installment in the 'Getting Going with Encore' series, Andrew Devis continues to show how to create powerful slide-shows by adding audio under your slides, making the slide-show fit the length of the audio file you have, as well as showing how to make custom settings for individual slides.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 05/05/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Encore DVD
Adobe Encore Basics 7: Creating Slide-shows Part 1
 This is one for photography enthusiast and anyone who wants to add stills to their DVD/Blu-ray and Web DVD productions - a MUST for wedding videotographers!
Learn how to use Adobe Encore to produce a DVD of all your wonderful pictures while taking advantage of the powerful features that quickly and simply add transitions, pan & zoom etc., to give that professional edge to your work and in so doing setting it apart from the rest.
In this first part of 'Creating Slide-Shows with Adobe Encore', Andrew Devis demonstrates how to bring your pictures into Encore, how to add them to a slide-show and how to quickly and easily animate and crop your images for excellent results with very little work!
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 04/28/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Encore DVD
Adobe Encore Basics 6: Creating Motion Menus
 In this tutorial on getting started with Adobe Encore, Andrew Devis demonstrates the important option of bringing in a video for your menu and bringing in a suitable audio soundtrack for your menu. Although a fairly simple process, there are a couple of things that you need to know so that you don't end up pulling your hair out because you didn't realise a button needed to be pushed!
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 04/21/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Encore DVD
Adobe Encore Basics 5: Creating a Web DVD
 So, you've made your DVD or Blu-ray but have also noticed that there is a 'Flash' option from the drop-down. In this fifth tutorial in the 'getting started with Adobe Encore' series, Andrew Devis shows how to set this up so that you can create a menu driven web-based DVD based on your original project. Not only is this great as a way of producing on-line samples for your customers, menu based Flash content can also be a great way to create simple and quick knowledge based games for you website.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 04/14/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Encore DVD
Adobe Encore Basics 4: Checking & Building our Project
 In part four of his tutorial series on getting going with Adobe Encore, Andrew Devis demonstrates the tools within Encore to check and preview your project, as well as going through the setting needed to create (or build) a disc.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 04/07/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Encore DVD
Adobe Encore Basics 3: Buttons & Wiring up our Project
 In his third tutorial on getting started with Adobe Encore, Andrew Devis demonstrates how to select different types of buttons, how to add them to your menu and then how to wire up the buttons to create your project. Andrew demonstrates this using the flowchart window, which is a simple and intuitive way of editing your project, giving powerful and clear visual feedback.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 03/31/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Encore DVD
Adobe Encore Basics 2: Creating Menus
 In this second tutorial on Adobe Encore, Andrew Devis shows how to create both a standard menu from templates that ship with Encore as well as how to create a menu background based on your own image from a sequence in Premiere Pro.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 03/24/2011 | | | | |
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Sony Creative Software has recently acquired NetBlender, which offers the DoStudio product line of Blu-ray Disc creation tools. With this purchase, Sony Creative Software now offers three solutions for Blu-ray Disc authoring, including its existing products DVD Architect and Blu-print.
