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November 7th, 2009
Apple : Logic Home
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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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| | | | Islam Channel Goes Vectorbox For Broadcast Automation
London-based operation puts Vectorbox at the core of their multi-channel playout operation
Vector 3™, a pioneer in graphics and playout solutions, announced that Islam Channel has installed 2 Vectorbox 8000 HD systems and Vector configured NAS system to manage automated, multi-channel playout and production storage of three Islam Channel signature channels; Islam Channel, Islam Channel Urdu, and Noor TV.
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| | | | Vicon Launches Bonita
New generation Bonita camera is small, powerful and cost-effective
Vicon, developer of motion capture products, today launched Bonita, a small, affordable optical capture camera for tracking and analyzing motion. Bonita is capable of capturing 240FPS while being small enough to fit in the palm of your hand.
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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 | | | | |
| | | | 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 | | | | |
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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 | | | | |
| | | | Apple Final Cut Pro
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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| | | | THREADS: | | | | |
| | | |  | Re: Ever get this error message?
by Sharon Knight in the Apple Soundtrack Forum
Hi All - I just logged in to say THANK YOU!! to a fellow named Charles Manson for solving a problem that I could not figure out for days and had given up out of sheer exhaustion. Apparently Charles' post got deactivated for some reason so I am reposting his...
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| | | |  | Re: lav mic help
by Jordan Wolf in the Audio Professionals Forum
Not unless you have a sound mixer (on location) who is controlling the levels of each microphone as they are recorded. If you do, then they should be able to monitor the feeds and do their job. If not, then yes, you will definitely get bleed from the other voice(s)...
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| | | |  | Re: Sound Level Issues
by Peter Groom in the Audio Professionals Forum
I dont understand how come your ears cant tell you if youve sufficiently closely matched the 2 level types with the fcp mixer (NB I wouldnt be using a compressor at all, this will only make loudness issues worse. ) Just use the FCP faders in the audio tool There...
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| | | | | Re: Voiceover clean-up
by Peter Groom in the Audio Professionals Forum
1) id never gate a recording ever. Infact Id NEVER process a recording ever no compression, gate reverb eq. That is something that is exclusive to the final mixdown, where it can always be un picked and more importantly processed with all of the final mix elements in mind so...
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| | | |  | Re: lav mic help
by Ty Ford in the Audio Professionals Forum
Jen, After the fact it's very tough. During a shoot, actors are usually directed not to "cross each others lines" to keep this form happening. So how about this. Look at the overlapped sections of the two tracks. Zoom way in. Cut the overlapped section of the off mic so...
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| | | |  | Voiceover clean-up
by Tony Ostrovsky in the Audio Professionals Forum
Hello, Is there any way of getting rid of those gulping(?)/lip sounds? I've tried to search the forums (I'm probably not the only person facing this problem), but I don't know how do you call them :) Here is a sample: http://www.mediafire.com/file/tvdz05dyznc/voice.mp3 I've tried manually cutting out the 'lip' sounds,...
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| | | | | Re: lav mic help
by Ty Ford in the Audio Professionals Forum
Hello Jenny and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum. The conventional approach is to "checkerboard" the dialog from multiple lav; .turning off any mics that aren't being spoken into with the mix automation of the editing software. If the mics in question have significantly different ambiences or noises, you will...
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In this article Walter Biscardi, Jr. takes an indepth look at the new Tangent Wave Control Panel.
