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November 20th, 2009
Apple : Motion Home
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| | | | Prime Focus VFX Adds Sparkle to 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon'
Contributes 175 Shots to Chris Weitz-Directed Follow-Up to Hugely Successful 'Twilight' Film
Prime Focus VFX, formerly Frantic Films VFX, has completed 175 visual effects shots for the Summit Entertainment release, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" directed by Chris Weitz.
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| | | | BBC Motion Gallery Illuminates Top Fall Film Releases
Clips licensed to The Twilight Saga: New Moon--Men Who Stare at Goats and Capitalism: A Love Story
BBC Motion Gallery, the international clip licensing arm of BBC Worldwide, has once again been a resource for Hollywood filmmakers with the license of various clips for major fall theatrical releases.
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| | | | Troika Design Group Shines a Spotlight on Polsky Films
One of Hollywood's hottest producing duos turns to Troika to rock its theatrical debut
Troika Design Group, a strategic branding and design agency for media and entertainment companies, has been tapped by Polsky Films, an independent feature film production company, to produce its signature logo animation.
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| | | | Matrox Announces Windows 7 Support for the Matrox MXO2 Family of Professional I/O Devices
Also available with Matrox MAX technology for lightning fast H.264 HD encoding
Matrox® Video Products Group today announced Windows 7 support for Matrox MXO2 LE, MXO2 and MXO2 Rack. The Matrox MXO2 family of I/O devices streamlines editing with Adobe CS4 Production Premium. These devices provide all the features of an I/O card in a sturdy breakout box with professional audio and video connectivity. The Matrox MXO2 devices are also available with Matrox MAX technology for accelerated H.264 file creation using Adobe Media Encoder.
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| | | | Sony Pictures Entertainment Selects FilmLight's Baselight for New Post Facility
Installation includes three Baselight EIGHT systems for new 4K DI grading theatres
FilmLight today announces delivery of seven Baselight colour grading systems to Sony Pictures Entertainment. The systems will be installed at its newly-built digital intermediate facilities on the Sony Studios lot in Culver City, California, and connected to the studio's Digital Backbone.
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| | | | Apple Motion
Creating a 3D Text Fly In
 In this video tutorial series, Creative Cow leader Zak Peric demonstrates creating a 3D text fly in using Apple Motion.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Zak Peric on 09/17/2009 | | | | |
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Motion Templates 101
 Motion templates are a great feature that can get you great results in no time. This video tutorial from CreativeCOW leader, Stephen Smith will go over the fundamentals so working with templates is easy.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Stephen Smith on 12/24/2008 | | | | |
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Creating a Hologram
 Looking to create your own holographic effect? Let CreativeCOW.net Contributing Editor Stephen Smith show you how. This Apple Motion video tutorial will teach you what you need to know to create a hologram effect.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Stephen Smith on 08/18/2008 | | | | |
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Apple Motion - TV Screen Part 4
 In this Apple Motion tutorial Ben Scott shows you how to create a TV screen effect inside Apple Motion. This is part four of a series that can be found in the Creative COW Final Cut Studio Tutorials Podcast.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Ben Scott on 03/24/2008 | | | | |
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Creating Customized Motion Templates
 If you thought the pre-built templates that came with Motion were cool, how about building your own? This Apple Motion video tutorial by CreativeCow.net Contributing Editor Stephen Smith will show you what you need to know to create your own custom Motion templates.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Stephen Smith on 03/04/2008 | | | | |
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Painting with Apple Motion
 Painting in Final Cut can be a lot of fun without the mess. This tutorial by Contributing Editor Stephen Smith showcases the new paint feature of Apple Motion. Learn how it can be used to create a brush stroke across your video. So enjoy the great tips in this video tutorial, Painting with Motion.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Stephen Smith on 10/17/2007 | | | | |
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Making 3D Text
 When Motion3 was released and after the initial excitement had died down, it became obvious that there were a few features that hadn't made the release. One of the first to be highlighted by the many forum posts was the lack of 3D text. In this short tutorial, CreativeCOW leader, Peter Wiggins gives you some help in building 3D text in Motion.
Tutorial by Peter Wiggins on 08/04/2007 | | | | |
| | | | Apple Motion
wondertouch Particle Emitters for Motion
 wondertouch's Particle Emitters for Motion, is a high-performance emitter package based upon the company's particleIllusion software technology. In this article, David Saraceno reviews the product for CreativeCOW.
Review by David Saraceno on 05/05/2005 | | | | |
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| | | |  | 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: 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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| | | | | 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: XSAN, SANTech, and Shane Sokolosky
by Shane Sokolosky in the Apple Xsan Forum
Thanks Bob! It was a pleasure working with you and all of Disney World! You were awesome to work with and know your stuff, and I gotta say sweet job on the the video equipment and the overall configuration of everything they were involved in, it really looks and works...
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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: Burning sd dvd correctly
by Raymond Tuquero in the Apple DVD Studio Pro Forum
What are your settings in DVDSP? ? Look under your Preferences and see what you have for encoding SD DVDs. And how did you export your video from FCP? My workflow is export of out FCP through Compressor then in DVDSP make sure it does 2 passes instead of one....
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| | | | | Re: Buttons DVD Studio Pro
by Raymond Tuquero in the Apple DVD Studio Pro Forum
Twisted somewhat 3D-ish ?? as if it was in a tornado? Or just canted? I would recommend building custom buttons like that in Photoshop and then importing them in. You really don't have a whole lot of control for DSP buttons. -Raymond Tuquero- Houston Based Freelancer www.rtuqvidere.com...
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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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| | | |  | 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: 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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Peter Wiggins takes a thorough look at the new Motion from Apple. Never before has there been such interest and anticipation over a piece of software and Peter Wiggins hopes that this article gives an insight into the creative capabilities, workflow and SPEED of Motion.
