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November 20th, 2009
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| | | | Softron Media Services Announces OnTheAir Video Express
Mac Based Entry Level Professional Playout Application Supports All QuickTime Movie Formats including Reference Movies, Key Channel and HDV/H.264 Clips
Softron Media Services® will demonstrate OnTheAir Video Express® at its booth (SL08928) during NAB 2009 in Las Vegas, NV, USA on April 20, 2009. It will be available for purchase online or from authorized Softron resellers on the same day.
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| | | | Softron Media Services Releases OnTheAir CG
Softron Media Services today announced immediate availability of OnTheAir CG to compliment its palette of professional broadcast applications. OnTheAir CG is a standalone application that is used for overlaying text, graphics, animated logos and bugs, clocks and crawls over live video.
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| | | | Apple Releases Final Cut Express 4
Apple® today released Final Cut® Express 4, a significant upgrade to its powerful video editing software based on Apple’s award-winning Final Cut Pro 6, with a new low price of $199. Final Cut Express 4 adds support for the latest AVCHD cameras, allows mixing of standard and high definition content on a single timeline, includes the ability to import iMovie® ‘08 projects, and gives users access to hundreds of sophisticated FxPlug cinematic effects and filters.
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| | | | News: Apple Releases Final Cut Express HD 3.5
Universal Upgrade Delivers Powerful New Features & More Real-Time Effects
Apple® today released Final Cut® Express HD 3.5, a significant upgrade to its award-winning software solution for video enthusiasts, schools and small businesses that runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs. New in Final Cut Express HD 3.5 is Dynamic RT for real-time playback of multi-stream effects, Soundtrack® 1.5 with a complete suite of professional level audio production tools and LiveType 2.1 with even more exciting animated text and titles.
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| | | | News: AJA and 12 Inch Design Help Post-Production Professionals Tap into High-Quality, Royalty-Free Motion Graphics
Limited-Time Promotion for AJA Customers Offers 12 Inch Design's PowerBlox, ThemeBlox and ProductionBlox Graphics Libraries at 75% Off
AJA Video, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, announced today a special discount for new AJA KONA, Io or XENA customers for the purchase of high-quality motion graphics collections from 12 Inch Design. 12 Inch Design offers a wide range of animated background and elements that are royalty free and ready to be dropped into a project to save time and enhance the overall look of a production.
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| | | | News: Intelligent Assistance releases two collections of Pro Apps Tips
Two new collections of tips for Apple's Pro Apps Users collected from the Pro Apps Hub
Intelligent Assistance today released the first two collections of Pro Apps Tips. Each collection contains 101 Tips originally published in the Pro Apps Hub software. Pro Apps Tips #1 and #2 are guaranteed to improve the productivity of users of Apple's professional video and audio applications. Each collection is provided as a printable pdf.
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| | | | News: The East Coast Final Cut Pro User Groups Premieres at DV Expo East
Technology showcase will feature latest digital innovations and noted industry leaders
The East Coast Final Cut Pro User Groups, today announced that their first ever meeting will take place at the Digital Video Expo East exhibition. This July 19 event offers industry professionals the opportunity to see the latest innovations from the Apple Pro Applications. Attendees will have a chance to learn about the powerful new features Final Cut Pro HD, Motion, DVD Studio Pro, Soundtrack Pro, and Livetype.
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| | | | | TUTORIALS: | | | | |
| | | | Broadcast Video
Bessie's New Tool Round-up
 There are a lot of new products designed with your heavy lifting needs in mind. Here are a few that have recently managed to catch our eyes.
Review by Cowdog 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 | | | | |
| | | | 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 Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 04/13/2009 | | | | |
| | | | Broadcast Video
Broadcast Quality at Bargain Prices
 Brand new to the market and loaded with high-end features, Flanders Scientific has introduced four high definition LCD panels specifically developed for the pro market. With the help of the COW's Walter Biscardi, Jr. and senior telecine colorist Ron Anderson, Nick Griffin offers a first look at these high definition broadcast monitors from FSI.
Review, Feature by Nick Griffin on 04/10/2009 | | | | |
| | | | 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 | | | | |
| | | | 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 Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 04/06/2009 | | | | |
| | | | 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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| | | | THREADS: | | | | |
| | | |  | Re: The right thing?
by Shane Ross in the Apple Color Forum
The MXO2 cannot connect to an iMac, only the original MXO can. Shane GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD ...don't miss it. Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def...
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| | | |  | Re: Los Angeles based monitor calibration engineer
by Robbie Carman in the Apple Color Forum
Ok so he's not LA based but he does travel all over the country. I can not recommend enough Gregg Loewen from Lion Audio Visual http://www.lionav.com/ . Gregg is a master ISF and THX calibration engineer and knows just about ever spec out there. He uses the latest in test...
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| | | |  | Re: Workflow workflow
by Craig Mieritz in the Apple Color Forum
Ok. Thanks. But I will do a test first, of course. Editor also offered to output DPX files, but from what I am reading that maybe isn't the easiest solution in Color....
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| | | |  | Re: Workflow workflow
by Arnie Schlissel in the Apple Color Forum
[Craig Mieritz] "if I am able to Automatic Duck the Avid offline project to Final Cut Pro and can then digitize from the HDCAM tape directly into FCP (10 bit uncompressed), would I be ok? I wouldn't have to do anything special other than a normal online capture?" You should...
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| | | | | Re: The right thing?
by rene hazekamp in the Apple Color Forum
More important is that it's quite difficult to connect a MXO to an imac, cause an Imac doesn't have a pci , nor pci express slot. To be more accurate , it is impossible, only a macpro and the older 15and 17 inch macbookpro's will work, and off course the...
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| | | | | Re: Workflow workflow
by Craig Mieritz in the Apple Color Forum
Thank you for the replies. I know it's a little convoluted but as you've said previously Arnie (I'm paraphrasing), sometimes you just try to do what the client needs. And the editor is going to edit it in Avid. I agree that testing the workflow is essential. It's a talented...
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| | | | | 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...
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| | | | | 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...
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| | | |  | 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...
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| | | | | 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....
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| | | | | 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...
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| | | | | 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/...
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In this article Walter Biscardi, Jr. takes an indepth look at the new Tangent Wave Control Panel.
