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February 8th, 2012
Apple : Motion Home
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| | | |  NEWS: | | | | |
| | | | Neat Video Announces Neat Video Pro Noise Filter for ASSIMILATE SCRATCH and SCRATCH Lab
Announcement Delivers Dynamic New Tools To The Creative Arsenal of SCRATCH and Lab Artists
The Neat Video team announced that they have delivered the Neat Video Pro video noise reduction filter as an OpenFX plug-in for ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH® and SCRATCH Lab™ digital workflow tools. Previously only available for video editing and compositing applications, this new version of Neat Video brings its industry-leading grain and noise reduction technology to Digital Intermediate (DI), Finishing, Production Dailies and Visual Effects Dailies workflows.
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| | | | Weta Digital's Groundbreaking Animation on Tintin Movie Powered by Autodesk Technology
Oscar-Winning Studio's Pioneering Virtual Production Technology Built With Autodesk Software
Virtual production, driven in a large part by real-time Digital Entertainment Creation (DEC) software from Autodesk Inc.(NASDAQ: ADSK), has evolved significantly since the process was used for the landmark release of "Avatar" in 2009. Peter Jackson's New Zealand-based Weta Digital studio, long known for its technological innovation, used Autodesk software to take the virtual production process to new levels of real-time performance capture for the animated feature film "The Adventures of Tintin."
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| | | | MTI Puts Third Nucoda Film Master into the Equation
Top Hollywood Facility Relies on Nucoda for Versatile Workflow
Image Systems - the leading manufacturer of image enhancement and mastering systems for post production - has announced that MTI Film in Hollywood, California, has installed its third Nucoda Film Master into its state-of-the-art facility. Opened in 2010, MTI Film is a full service post production facility providing high quality dailies, editorial, visual effects, color correction and assembly for film, television and commercial projects. MTI is currently at work on a number of projects, including AMC's Hell on Wheels, CW's Ringer, Good Christian Belles on ABC, and for TNT The Closer, Dallas, and Rizzoli & Isles, as well as a number of feature and restoration projects.
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| | | | Bemis Balkind Expands Digital Team
Creative agency Bemis Balkind’s Digital Team has added fresh expertise to its growing personnel roster by naming Elisabeth Lucas as Creative Director, Digital, and Adele Martin as Senior Project Manager, Digital. Both Lucas and Martin will report to Curt Doty, Bemis Balkind’s GM Digital/Executive Creative Director. The announcement was made today by agency partners Peter Bemis and Aubrey Balkind.
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| | | | Digital Domain’s Neil Huxley Directs Epic Show Open for UFC®
New Sequence Retells the Rise of the Sport from Humble Beginnings to Mainstream with Score from 14th St. Music, LLC, a Hans Zimmer Company
Zuffa, LLC, owner of the Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®) brand, turned to Digital Domain to create a new show open for its legendary matches, set for debut at UFC® 143: DIAZ vs. CONDIT live on Pay-Per-View at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT on Saturday, February 4.
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| | | | | TUTORIALS: | | | | |
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Lite Bite for Apple Motion: The Tilt Shift Effect
 The "Tilt Shift Effect" or "Toy Town Look" is fantastic fun to play with. Using Final Cut and Motion you can quickly create the effect and give an amazing intro to any promotion. The tutorial requires no additional Plug-ins.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Martin Ainsworth on 01/20/2012 | | | | |
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On the Fast Track with Apple's Motion 5 Chapter 2 Lesson 1: The Replicator - Part 1
 In the next Chapter of our ongoing "On the Fast Track with Apple's Motion 5" tutorial series, we are going to look at what goes into creating a 3D extruded animation in Motion 5 using only built in tools to create it. Kevin P McAuliffe will look at using the Replicator for creating the extrusions, he will also look at everything that goes into working with Cameras and Lights, as well as Behaviors that control them. In Lesson 1, part 1, we take a look at the basics of the Replicator, and how this fantastic tool (unique to Apple's Motion) is going to be one you will go back to over and over again.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Kevin P. McAuliffe on 12/06/2011 | | | | |
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On the Fast Track with Apple's Motion 5 Chapter 1 Lesson 7: Sharing
 In our wrap up of Chapter 1, we learn that "Exporting" is a way of the past in Motion 5. Now, it's all about Sharing. Users of FCP7 will be familiar with Sharing, a great way to not only export your work, but do it in the background, so you can keep working. In this tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how to "Share" your final product not only with FCP 7 and FCP X, but also with other NLE's as well.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Kevin P. McAuliffe on 11/28/2011 | | | | |
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On the Fast Track with Apple's Motion: 5 Chapter 1 Lesson 3: The HUD, Generators and Masking
 In the next part at our introductory look at Apple's Motion 5, we take a look at a great "not so hidden" feature in Motion 5, and that's the Heads Up Display (HUD). We'll also talk about how Generators are going to help us create our Lower Third; then look at all the Masking options, and how we can mask our Generator to create our Lower Third. Again, Motion 4 users will get a great deal out of this training series as well.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Kevin P. McAuliffe on 09/27/2011 | | | | |
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| | | |  | Re: Length of shots in trailers
by Anthony Atkielski in the Art of the Edit Forum
Thank you all for the replies. I think I'll continue to work on a single trailer over and over until it looks right. There's no urgency so I have time to practice. I'll try to incorporate all your suggestions....
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In this tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe answers a viewer's question about masking in Apple's Motion, and shows that sometimes the best way to mask something, is not to mask it at all!
In our next lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how to create not only 3D extruded text using the replicator, but also gives you a sneak peak at how to extrude and animate logos to add to your productions.
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe goes through all the techniques taught so far to show you how to create a basic lower third.
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe looks at the Layout tab in the text tool, and shows you why this tab will be an integral part of your text workflow from creating text on a path to scrolling and crawling text.
In part one of the two part look at Text, Kevin P McAuliffe gives you an overview of all the great things that you can do with Text inside of Apple's Motion, as well as how to throw a few cool behaviors into the mix, to keep the "WOW" factor up, and the time it takes to create your animations down.
In the next lesson in our introductory look at Apple's Motion 5, Kevin P McAuliffe goes through how to keyframe, and then shows you how Behaviors will make your animating life a lot easier.
