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November 24th, 2009
Apple : Final Cut Server Home
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| | | | JPL Sees Huge Efficiencies in Productivity with Small Tree's Shared Storage
Integrated Communications Company Sees Workflow and Bottom Line Benefits
JPL, a Harrisburg-based integrated communications company working across a variety of media, recently made the switch from a growing pile of G RAID drives to a single, cost-effective Ethernet-based shared storage solution featuring Small Tree technology to streamline workflow.
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| | | | Softron Media Services Announces MovieRecorder 2.0
Mac Based Capture Application Supports Single File Reference Movies for Edit-During-Ingest
Pro Option Adds Proxy File Editing.
Softron Media Services® announced today that it will begin shipping MovieRecorder 2.0 at IBC in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. MovieRecorder 2.0 is a major upgrade to Softron’s existing MovieRecorder application that is in use at television stations and postproduction facilities throughout the world.
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| | | | Softron Media Services Updates MovieRecorder
Macintosh Based Video Ingest Application Supports Batch Capture and Metadata Capture with Final Cut Server Integration
Softron Media Services today announced the immediate availability of updated version of MovieRecorder that now allow users to batch capture from tape decks as well as to write metadata with the clips being captured.
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| | | | Softron Media Services Releases Update to OnTheAir Video
New Special Priced Bundle Provides Additional Capabilities for Broadcasters
Softron Media Services today announced immediate availability of an updated version of OnTheAir Video. This release of OnTheAir Video adds a new “Add Offline Clip” feature and adds Scheduling optimization with a new version of OnTheAir Tools.
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| | | | Telestream Announces Key Workflow Support in Episode 5.0 Release
Support expands for Web, DVD authoring, digital film/telecine workflows with latest Flash, Blu-ray and RED formats; plus support for Final Cut Server, encode while ingesting and a free SDK
Telestream today announced availability of Episode 5.0 encoding software which expands format support to a greater number of specific digital media workflows for Apple professionals.
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| | | | Telestream Brings Speed and Innovation to NAB2008
New workflow automation product for cable market, faster-than-real-time HD encoding on a single server, greater support for digital film/telecine workflows, network video capture and content repurposing solutions highlight company offerings
Telestream is featuring a new product for the cable industry, greater support for post-production workflows, lightning-fast HD workflows and new features for its compression and workflow automation products in Booth SL5405 at NAB2008.
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| | | | Telestream Introduces Support for Final Cut Server and ProRes
Pipeline now supports ingest into Final Cut Server and ProRes 422 format in SD; Episode provides multiformat encoding into Final Cut Server
Telestream today announced major additions to its Apple workflow solutions. With Pipeline, Telestream's award-winning network video capture family, it is now possible to ingest media from tape or live sources directly into Final Cut Server, Apple's powerful new media asset management and workflow automation software.
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| | | | HD High-End
Driving Toward Success
 No matter how unexpected and varied the routes, the roads to success are often marked by customer service, attention to detail, and the imagination to see that success is even possible.
Feature, People / Interview by Philip Garvin on 10/15/2009 | | | | |
| | | | HD High-End
HD Unleashed
 In this review from The Creative COW Magazine, Charles Papert, SOC, sets his Steadicam free with wireless, uncompressed HD using the IDX CAM~WAVE.
Review by Charles Papert on 08/19/2009 | | | | |
| | | | 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.
Review by Jiggy 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 Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 04/20/2009 | | | | |
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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 Tutorial by Richard 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.
Tutorial by Jiggy Gaton on 04/07/2009 | | | | |
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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 Tutorial by Richard 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.
Tutorial by Jiggy 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 Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 03/23/2009 | | | | |
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| | | |  | Re: Postcard look in Apple Color
by Jack Jones in the Apple Color Forum
It's a case of playing around with the footage. Set your black levels (probably not too dark in this case). Remove a lot of saturation and add a yellow/orange tinge to the highlights and shadows. Neutralise the midtones. Then I'd probably go for blowing out the whites. That's just a...
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| | | |  | Re: Motions library in AE
by zak peric in the Apple Motion Forum
no you can not. But you can always use rendered movies of particle systems inside After Effects. You can also navigate to motion library and use shapes for particle systems in AE. AE have good tools you only need images to make particle systems. I also suggest you get Trapcode...
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| | | | | Error Parsing Date
by Mark Underkofler in the CatDV - NEW ! Forum
I get the message when I try to save a catalog that says "Failed to Commit Change Error Parsing Date". Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Mac G-5 CatDV Standard 8.0...
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| | | |  | Re: Smoke coming to Mac
by nick hasson in the Apple Color Forum
It's hard to figure out where Smoke sits in a FCP based facility. One good workflow with FCP and smoke would be promo work. You can offline in FCP. Then xml it to smoke. At that point, you could re capture and start comping/tracking/keying and such. In a client based...
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| | | |  | Re: Smoke coming to Mac
by Noah Kadner in the Apple Color Forum
They could have dropped another zero off the price if they really wanted to crack the Mac market. It would make the leap a lot easier because almost everything you can accomplish in Smoke you can do a lot cheaper in FCS, albeit via different methods. And if you really...
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| | | | | Re: Smoke coming to Mac
by Rick Turners in the Apple Color Forum
It's hard to figure out where Smoke sits in a FCP based facility. Grading would be done with Color Online could be done with FCP Graphics in PS/AE Node based compositing in Nuke I can see it being really great for conforms in a DI environment. But in SD/HD editorial...
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| | | |  | Re: Smoke coming to Mac
by Alan Okey in the Apple Color Forum
[Michael Sandness] "Are we not serious colorists because we use Color? " I don't think that's what Peter was implying. As great as Color is, there are some tools and capabilities from the higher end systems I'd love to have added to it, including realtime playback and better selection/masking tools...
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| | | | | Re: Smoke coming to Mac
by Peter Wollsey in the Apple Color Forum
No......I grade broadcast shows on Color all the time...... But I guess you would need to be doing projects on a good professional budget to justify the presumed expense of the software.....someone working in their garage on low budget industrial videos or cheapie ads, $50,000 features etc would probably not...
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| | | |  | Re: HD downconverts softening
by Tim Kolb in the HD High-End Forum
[Mads Nybo Jørgensen] "Actually any XPRI with King Cobra board or if you use rendered FX on the time line or do a sound mix will be un-coding and re-encoding the HD-CAM signal" Hmmm... Thanks Mads. I did not know this. unfortunately this takes a large bite out of my...
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| | | |  | Re: Auto Creating folders
by Jeff Handy in the Apple Final Cut Server Forum
Sounds like, for a Final Cut Server workflow, you're making it do things using your old methodology. There is no need to have the files get moved. Using the FCS toolset, you would make a production and add your assets to that production - no need for a folder specific...
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In this article Walter Biscardi, Jr. takes an indepth look at the new Tangent Wave Control Panel.
