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November 22nd, 2009
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| | | | Hollywood Post Alliance Award Winners Announced
Kudos For Hollywood’s Post Production Community and Industry Innovators Bestowed At November 12th Gala
During a gala evening at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Post Alliance presented its Fourth Annual HPA Awards. The HPA Awards honor top behind-the-scenes talent working in motion pictures, television and commercials as well as handing out special awards for Engineering Excellence, Lifetime Achievement, and the Charles S. Swartz Award. The special awards were announced earlier.
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| | | | Toon Boom Compatible with Windows 7
Emmy Award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. today announced that its entire line of products is compatible with Windows 7, Microsoft’s latest operating system for PC. All software for kids, home users and professionals were thoroughly tested and proved to be running smoothly on the new operating system.
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| | | | Digital Vision Grows Roster of Top Sales and Technical Talent in Americas
Digital Vision, a global leader in picture enhancement products for film and television post-production, has announced key additions to their Los Angeles based operations. Suzette Ferguson has joined Digital Vision as Sales Manager for the Americas and Gary Jackemuk has taken the lead as Product Specialist.
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| | | | Toon Boom Releases Flip Boom All-Star for Teens
Emmy Award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. today announced the release of Flip Boom All-Star, an easy-to-use animation software for teens and up. Flip Boom All-Star offers exciting features that will engage users and allow them to use animation to communicate with their friends.
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| | | | Fast Forward Video's Elite HD Plays Starring Role on 'The Closer'
Compact Solid-State Digital Video Recorder Provides Rugged Solution for Capturing High-Action Scenes
Fast Forward Video's (FFV) Elite HD camera-mounted digital video recorder (DVR) is playing a critical behind-the-scenes role in capturing dramatic action sequences for TNT's "The Closer."
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| | | | Pegasys Sponsors 21-Day Filmmaking Competition and Philadelphia Filmathon
Winners Received Prizes Including the TMPGEnc Super Bundle Software
Pegasys, Inc., the company that makes digital video easy was a sponsor of ProjectTwenty1’s 21-day Filmmaking Competition and the Philadelphia Filmathon. The P21Fest, hosted by Project Twenty1, took place October 1-4, 2009 in University City, Philadelphia. Winners were announced on October 4 at the awards ceremony.
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| | | | 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 | | | | |
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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 | | | | |
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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 | | | | |
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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 | | | | |
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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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Correcting White Balance
 In this Final Cut tutorial, Richard Harrington discusses what to do to correct your film when you shoot footage with the wrong white balance setting. This is a common problem if you step outside after shooting inside and you forget to rewhite balance. Richard uses the three way color corrector to do a digital white balance on the clip inside of Final Cut Pro.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 03/16/2009 | | | | |
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Compression with Turbo
 In this Final Cut Pro tutorial, Richard Harrington take a look at the elgato turbo.264. This is a USB add on device that accelereates the h.264 encoding you can do on your Mac. The turbo.264 comes with its own compression software with presets for iPod, iPhone, Sony PSP, Apple TV and YouTube.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 03/09/2009 | | | | |
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| | | |  | Re: kernal panic
by Zane Barker in the Apple OS X Forum
Try doing a complete erase and install of the OS and FCS software. Many kernal panics are caused by the OS and other software getting jacked up somehow. There are no "technical solutions" to your "artistic problems". Don't let technology get in the way of your creativity!...
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| | | |  | Re: kernal panic
by Michael Harrington in the Apple OS X Forum
Yes, I'm using most current version DW, 4.2. Any insight to what's causing the problem? When I looked at the KP log it included FCP notes which is weird cause I hadn't launched FCP. I was getting ready to update my FCP 6 to 7 so once I got the...
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| | | |  | Re: Need advice on fixing up audio
by Peter Groom in the Audio Professionals Forum
Good point Ty. I think, just watching the cow audio forum over the past year or 2, that its apparent that a massive number of people end up with audio problems in their film making endevours. Which seems to prove or support 1 statement. They dont look at the cow...
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| | | | | Re: kernal panic
by Zane Barker in the Apple OS X Forum
[Michael Harrington] "After the first kernal panic earlier today I ran disc warrior" it is a absolute MUST to make sure that your version of Disk Warrior is up to date if you plan on using it with Snow Leopard. If you use an old version of DW on a...
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| | | | | Re: Audio scrubbing with the arrow keys
by Graham Hutchins in the Apple Soundtrack Forum
Hi Brad, Thanks for responding. This isn't exactly what I'm talking about. In FCP, you can move one frame forward or backward at a time with the arrow keys and one frame of audio will play back. This function can be toggled on and off with shift+s. I use this...
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| | | | | kernal panic
by Michael Harrington in the Apple OS X Forum
I guess I WAS one of the lucky ones, been using MAC since the days before my MAC SE20, more recently G4 then G5 and have never had a kernal panic till now. I'm now on a, see specs below, and have had 3 kernal panics, 2 just now as...
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| | | |  | Re: Need advice on fixing up audio
by Ty Ford in the Audio Professionals Forum
Peter, Sadly, this is very typical for a newbie or even semi-experienced film maker in the US. I go to meetings where shorts are played and am usually appalled at the sound. Somehow there is an expectation that because someone has a camera, he or she is capable of making...
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| | | | | Re: exporting on quicktime 10
by Zane Barker in the Apple OS X Forum
You can choose to install the old QT from your install disks. There are no "technical solutions" to your "artistic problems". Don't let technology get in the way of your creativity!...
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| | | | | Re: Need advice on fixing up audio
by Peter Groom in the Audio Professionals Forum
Hi Personally I rate izotope pretty highly. That said its not something that just magics away sound. It takes some time and effort to learn how to manipulate the audio and the software. id say you should look at it. There is a demo version and it works as a...
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| | | | | Re: Need advice on fixing up audio
by Jacob Kirby in the Audio Professionals Forum
Thanks for the help, For the record, we're not professionals and I wasn't even on set... If I was I would have definitely said something about it. It was a learning experience for everyone involved and I'm just trying to help them piece it together. I'm not looking for perfect...
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| | | | | Re: Measuring loudness?
by Stace Carter in the Apple Soundtrack Forum
I think this may be a question of language and translation but "loudness", as I understand it, really is talking about playback level. If you're talking about metered levels of the material in STP, I've found you can reliably use the built-in metering for professionally accurate results. However, the kind...
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| | | | | Re: Film Dialogue Levels
by Stace Carter in the Apple Soundtrack Forum
It really depends on your delivery medium; i.e. For DVD -12 to -6db, -20db and -12db for broadcast (approx), don't peak 0 ever, but you can get closer if delivering to YouTube. etc etc... Cheers, Stace Apple Certified Trainer...
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In this article Walter Biscardi, Jr. takes an indepth look at the new Tangent Wave Control Panel.
