nanoFlash Enhanced with 280Mbps CODEC, 64GB Cards Convergent Design will release this week new firmware adding a 280 Mbps I-Frame-Only CODEC for their popular nanoFlash HD/SD recorder/player. Additionally, the company qualified three new 64GB Compact Flash cards, doubling the record/playback time. published 4 days agoread more
EditShare Partners With Dixon For Major League Baseball Collaborative shared storage and advanced logging systems deliver winning combination for Cincinnati Reds' HD workflow at the Great American Ball Park EditShare®, the technology leader in cross platform collaborative editing and shared media storage, and Dixon Sports Computing, the sports video management experts since 1992, have deployed a new HD production workflow at the Cincinnati Reds' Great American Ball Park. published 1 week agoread more
Noise Industries Releases Free Pan and Zoom Photo Animation Plug-in Flexible parameters of new Pan and Zoom 2 freebie enable the effortless creation of stunning photo animations inside both Apple and Adobe host applications Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced that it has released an update to its popular freebie generator plug-in, Pan and Zoom. published 1 week agoread more
Adobe Announces Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.2 Update Adobe today announced Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.2, a free update for existing customers of Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, and Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection software. The new version provides compatibility for Panasonic’s AVC-Intra format along with updates for leading post-production hardware, including IO support. published 1 week agoread more
"Where the Wild Things Are" Taps AJA KONA 3 for Digital Workflow AJA Video Systems, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, announced that its KONA 3 digital video I/O cards were used by the "Where the Wild Things Are" editorial team to build efficiencies into their digital production and post workflow. published 1 week agoread more
NewBlueFX Introduces “Video Essentials III” Effects Plugins The Video Editor’s Wish List of Tools & Techniques in One Package NewBlue, Inc. today launched Video Essentials III, the third and latest offering in its best-selling Video Essentials series of video effects and transitions plugins. NewBlue Video Essentials III provides highly-practical video tools designed to solve everyday production issues. published 1 week agoread more
Red Productions Eliminates Downtime with Small Tree’s Shared Storage and OS X Networking Capabilities Workflow Interruptions Cease at Full Service Script to Screen Company Frustrated by having projects continuously freeze up in the middle of editing sessions and having to rummage through multiple external drives to locate footage, Red Productions, a full service, script to screen video production and independent film development and production company, recently commissioned respected independent video engineer Bob Zelin to install a cost-effective Ethernet-based shared storage solution featuring Small Tree technology. published 2 weeks agoread more
Apple Motion Creating a 3D Text Fly In In this video tutorial series, Creative Cow leader Zak Peric demonstrates creating a 3D text fly in using Apple Motion. Tutorial, Video TutorialbyZak Peric on 09/17/2009
Apple Final Cut Pro Final Cut Studio 3 is here, and all is good! Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, likes to live for danger. He installed a major software upgrade mid-project, with virtually no preparation, just to see what would break. Lo and behold, it all worked! And the more Jiggy works with it, the better he's liking it. Join him in this Creative COW, Real-world, Real-time Report on Final Cut Studio 3. ReviewbyJiggy Gaton on 08/17/2009
Apple Final Cut Pro Trashing Preferences In this Final Cut Tutorial, Richard Harrington shows you how to clean up the Final Cut application when it starts acting up with bugs or other problems. Many times this can be caused by a corrupt preferences file or other user settings related to Final Cut Studio. These tips are also handy when performing an upgrade installation or reinstallation. Tutorial, Video TutorialbyRichard Harrington on 04/20/2009
Apple DVD Studio Pro Mac Subtitling Software Round-up: The COW's man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, gets asked all the time about subtitling DVDs -- and cringes every time: editing software suites just don't have that much to offer. However, Mac DVD authors have some standalone alternatives worth considering. Review, FeaturebyJiggy Gaton on 04/14/2009
Apple Final Cut Pro iChat Theater Review In this episode of Final Cut Help, Richard Harrington takes a look at video sharing via iChat Theater Review, a technique for online video review that allows you to quickly share video via iChat. This can be helpful for showing a preview of a video to a client or a project partner. Tutorial, Video TutorialbyRichard Harrington on 04/13/2009
Apple Final Cut Pro Get Your FCP Timelines in Motion with Final Cut Studio Having both FCP and Motion in Final Cut Studio means more options for effects creation with your video projects -- and FCS integration makes it easy to work with them together. Having Motion projects sitting on your FCP timeline even helps keep your projects organized! Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, shows just how easy it can be to take advantage of it all. TutorialbyJiggy Gaton on 04/07/2009
Apple Final Cut Pro Keyframing Color Correction In this episode of Final Cut Help, Richard Harrington takes a look at keyframing the three way color corrector in FCP. As details change in a movie clip you can have the filter adjust its values over time. This example uses a video of a bird starting in a bright sky and ending in water which is darker, the contrast transition is controlled by keyframing the saturation and color correction.
Tutorial, Video TutorialbyRichard Harrington on 04/06/2009
Apple Final Cut Pro Make Your FCP Timelines Sing By Roundtripping to Soundtrack Pro The COW's Jiggy Gaton owns an audio studio -- but has created a tutorial for those of us who don't have an audio studio within earshot when editing video in Final Cut Pro. He's not sure if he's being lazy, or just efficient, to use an integrated Soundtrack Pro project inside FCP. Either way, read on to learn how to do it yourself. TutorialbyJiggy Gaton on 03/30/2009
Apple Final Cut Pro Fixing Exposure In this Final Cut tutorial, Richard Harrington discusses the common problem of backlighting, exposure and what can happen when shooting video outdoors. Proper exposure of all elements in a shoot can be a pain to achieve with a bright sun and blue sky but using the three way color corrector in Final Cut Pro, Richard is able to make all the elements pop. Tutorial, Video TutorialbyRichard Harrington on 03/23/2009
Re: Creating an own Alpha Channel Transition for DVDSP by Raymond Tuquero in the Apple DVD Studio Pro Forum Sorry the Transitions folder is under Library > Application Support I also remembered that you have to render it out with a Black BG ... not a Transparent BG ... DVDSP makes alpha channels with Black and White settings ... I don't remember the terminology of how that works right... 30 minutes agoread more
Re: Burning sd dvd correctly by Raymond Tuquero in the Apple DVD Studio Pro Forum What are your settings in DVDSP? ? Look under your Preferences and see what you have for encoding SD DVDs. And how did you export your video from FCP? My workflow is export of out FCP through Compressor then in DVDSP make sure it does 2 passes instead of one.... 39 minutes agoread more
Re: Buttons DVD Studio Pro by Raymond Tuquero in the Apple DVD Studio Pro Forum Twisted somewhat 3D-ish ?? as if it was in a tornado? Or just canted? I would recommend building custom buttons like that in Photoshop and then importing them in. You really don't have a whole lot of control for DSP buttons. -Raymond Tuquero- Houston Based Freelancer www.rtuqvidere.com... 41 minutes agoread more
Re: Seeing Through Layers in 3D by Jim Johnson in the Apple Motion Forum Howdy, It sounds like the 3D group that you probably have your cube walls in is getting rasterized. This means that it's forced to comp into the scene in layer order (i.e. the order in the Layers List). It will still respect the camera and be depth-sorted unto itself, but... 1 hour agoread more
Re: Motion Tracking with Moving camera vs. object by Jim Johnson in the Apple Motion Forum Howdy, What you're asking to do has 3 solutions: 1. Hand animate the corner-points that move out of frame, because they can't be tracked when the feature (i.e. object being tracked) is no longer visible. This can work fine, depending on the length of the shot and how prominent (or... 1 hour agoread more
Re: The right thing? by walter biscardi in the Apple Color Forum [Miguel Mendoza] "I would like to know if I do get the 1770W, also getting Matrox MXO2 to plug it with my Imac, will it make a difference with the quality of my work for this SD project??" As I've posted in another thread, the issue isn't your monitoring, it's... 2 hours agoread more
Re: Motion Tracking with Moving camera vs. object by Stephen Smith in the Apple Motion Forum If I could see the clip I could give you a better description on how to do this. It sounds like you may not need to do a 4 corner pin. You may be able to get away with just doing a one or two point track. Just track the... 3 hours agoread more
Re: Motion Tracking with Moving camera vs. object by Erik Boles in the Apple Motion Forum Jim, I appreciate the input, but this isn't something that complex, and I have seen it done in motion many times, so this is just something I am doing wrong, not something that is going to be solved by another $100 worth of software after spending $1,200 on FC Studio.... 3 hours agoread more
Re: Motion Tracking with Moving camera vs. object by Erik Boles in the Apple Motion Forum Mikey, Thanks for the quick reply. i am not using the cameras in motion at all, the raw footage was the camera itself moving to another object in the room, away from the TV. when doing motion tracking (and pinning the movie to the television), should i have it set... 3 hours agoread more
Re: Motion Tracking with Moving camera vs. object by Jim Johnson in the Apple Motion Forum Howdy, This is the kind of situation where a good 3D track makes the shot a no-brainer, rather than a potentially-tweaky 2D four-corner pin. PFHoe, which is a "lite" version of Pixel Farm's 3D tracker, is cheap and can export 3D matchmove for Motion (as well as a bunch of... 4 hours agoread more
Re: Workflow workflow by Arnie Schlissel in the Apple Color Forum We had to test to find out. The original was P2 DVCPro HD, but cut on Avid. Who knows, if it had originated on tape & had been digitized to an 8 bit Avid codec, it might have been fine. Or not. Arnie Post production is not an afterthought! http://www.arniepix.com/... 4 hours agoread more
Re: Workflow workflow by Joseph Owens in the Apple Color Forum Looks like I lucked-out on the 10-bit thing, but who would work with anything else? jPo This IS my blog!... 4 hours agoread more
Re: Workflow workflow by Arnie Schlissel in the Apple Color Forum [Joseph Owens] "all the AVID codecs are available for use with FCP, and I recently made the trip and it seemed to work fine. " My experience was that the 10 bit Avid codec worked well, the other options gave us a raised pedestal. [Joseph Owens] "A baked, textless QT... 5 hours agoread more
In this article Walter Biscardi, Jr. takes an indepth look at the new Tangent Wave Control Panel.
In this video tutorial series, Creative Cow leader Zak Peric demonstrates creating a 3D text fly in using Apple Motion.
Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, likes to live for danger. He installed a major software upgrade mid-project, with virtually no preparation, just to see what would break. Lo and behold, it all worked! And the more Jiggy works with it, the better he's liking it. Join him in this Creative COW, Real-world, Real-time Report on Final Cut Studio 3.
In this Final Cut Tutorial, Richard Harrington shows you how to clean up the Final Cut application when it starts acting up with bugs or other problems. Many times this can be caused by a corrupt preferences file or other user settings related to Final Cut Studio. These tips are also handy when performing an upgrade installation or reinstallation.
The COW's man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, gets asked all the time about subtitling DVDs -- and cringes every time: editing software suites just don't have that much to offer. However, Mac DVD authors have some standalone alternatives worth considering.
In this episode of Final Cut Help, Richard Harrington takes a look at video sharing via iChat Theater Review, a technique for online video review that allows you to quickly share video via iChat. This can be helpful for showing a preview of a video to a client or a project partner.
Having both FCP and Motion in Final Cut Studio means more options for effects creation with your video projects -- and FCS integration makes it easy to work with them together. Having Motion projects sitting on your FCP timeline even helps keep your projects organized! Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, shows just how easy it can be to take advantage of it all.
In this episode of Final Cut Help, Richard Harrington takes a look at keyframing the three way color corrector in FCP. As details change in a movie clip you can have the filter adjust its values over time. This example uses a video of a bird starting in a bright sky and ending in water which is darker, the contrast transition is controlled by keyframing the saturation and color correction.
The COW's Jiggy Gaton owns an audio studio -- but has created a tutorial for those of us who don't have an audio studio within earshot when editing video in Final Cut Pro. He's not sure if he's being lazy, or just efficient, to use an integrated Soundtrack Pro project inside FCP. Either way, read on to learn how to do it yourself.
In this Final Cut tutorial, Richard Harrington discusses the common problem of backlighting, exposure and what can happen when shooting video outdoors. Proper exposure of all elements in a shoot can be a pain to achieve with a bright sun and blue sky but using the three way color corrector in Final Cut Pro, Richard is able to make all the elements pop.
