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November 7th, 2009
Apple : Motion Home
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| | | |  NEWS: | | | | |
| | | | Can Communicate undertakes all the Stereo3D for Channel 4's 3D week on Quantel Pablo
Four new one hour programs produced from scratch and three movies processed in just three weeks with Quantel Stereo3D technology
London-based Can Communicate is nearing completion of a challenging Stereo3D project for the UK's Channel 4 Television. The project involves the complete production of four one hour Stereo3D programs, and also the processing of three full length Stereo3D movies.
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| | | | GenArts, Inc. Acquires wondertouch
Acquisition Underscores Company’s Aggressive Growth Strategy and Broadens GenArts’ Product Offering to Include Particles Engine
GenArts Inc., the premier provider of specialized visual effects software for the film, television and video industries, announced today a definitive agreement to acquire particleIllusion™ and all related products and technologies from wondertouch LLC.
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| | | | Ones and Zeros Enters South American Restoration Market with Correct DRS™
Ones and Zeros has recently put Peru on the map as a center for film restoration, with the acquisition of the Correct DRS™ restoration system and plans to expand to a 10-seat facility. Founder Hugo Pallete wanted to move the company in this direction because he saw that libraries, archives and new productions throughout the Americas continue to look for low-cost, high-skilled workforces to complete large restoration products, but they had very few options in South America.
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| | | | AJA KONA and Mini-Converters Keep the Picture Moving for Aardman Animations
Production Facility Uses AJA Solutions for CBBC Series ‘Shaun the Sheep’ and Playhouse Disney’s ‘Timmy’
AJA Video Systems, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, announced today that 15 KONA video capture and playback cards are in use at the UK’s Aardman Animations, producers of the Academy Award-winning “Wallace and Gromit” films and television series. The KONA family is AJA’s line of 10-bit uncompressed capture and playback cards for video and audio input and output on the Mac platform, including KONA 3, AJA’s top-of-the-line video card for SD, HD, Dual Link 4:4:4 HD and 2K formats.
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| | | | CEO of Bitcentral, Inc. to Address Challenges of HD Newsgathering at SMPTE Conference
Fred Fourcher to discuss strategies for making a successful transition to HD-based field acquisition methods
Fred Fourcher, CEO of Bitcentral, Inc., will be part of a panel of broadcast technology thought-leaders addressing the complexities of High-Definition (HD) news production at the 2009 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Annual Tech Conference & Expo on Wednesday, October 28.
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| | | | Telestream ScreenFlow 2.0 Screencasting Software Now Available
Professional-quality screencasting toolkit adds direct publishing to YouTube, a full range of 2D and 3D transitions, clip speed adjustments, editing enhancements and more
Telestream today announced availability of a major 2.0 release for its award-winning ScreenFlow screencasting studio software for the Mac. ScreenFlow 2.0 customers can now export and upload SD and HD screencasts directly to YouTube. A full range of new 2D and 3D transitions allow users to add elegant effects to their video productions.
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| | | | iO Films Propel “Astro Boy”
Digital Vision Ensures Heroic Color
Breaking and reformulating the rules for color management, iO Film has successfully completed a wide range of services and deliveries for the October 23, 2009 Summit Entertainment release of Imagi Studios’ “Astro Boy,” the movie based on the beloved superhero from Japan.
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| | | | | TUTORIALS: | | | | |
| | | | 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 | | | | |
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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: Send (back) to FCP (wrong sequence)
by Noah Kadner in the Apple Color Forum
[David Cape] "Can I retrace my steps and present the original FCP sequence to Color after grading? Then Color would send it's color corrected sequence back to FCP (from color)." Nope- it doesn't work like that. Try reinstalling Final Cut Studio- that might fix your crashing. Noah Check out my...
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| | | |  | Re: creativity
by stephen pick in the Art of the Edit Forum
hi all, thank you all so much for your insightful replies. there are definitely some patterns here: 1. teach the basic tech and let them go out and learn from their experiences. 2. have lots of brainstorming/discussion sessions where we can all share our creative ideas. 3. analyse different productions...
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| | | |  | Re: Send (back) to FCP (wrong sequence)
by David Cape in the Apple Color Forum
Walter, Thank you for the comments. Color never got the chance to send a copy - it crashed first. What I think happened was that I edited in FCP and sent to Color. While in Color I tinkered around in FCP and created two copies of the FCP project. When...
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| | | |  | Re: Color/tangent Wave bug or oversite?
by walter biscardi in the Apple Color Forum
Why aren't you just using the "Play" button to toggle playback? Walter Biscardi, Jr. Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author. HD Post and Production Biscardi Creative Media "Foul Water, Fiery Serpent" now in Post. Creative Cow Forum Host: Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, Apple Color, AJA Kona, Business &...
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| | | | | Re: Send (back) to FCP (wrong sequence)
by walter biscardi in the Apple Color Forum
[David Cape] "I discovered that the a copy of the original sequence in FCP had somehow been substituted for the original sequence and that is probably why Color shut down on the command "send to FCP". " That's how the "Send to Color" command works. You get a duplicate copy...
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| | | | | Send (back) to FCP (wrong sequence)
by David Cape in the Apple Color Forum
Hi dear friends, I have color graded a sequence which originated in FCP. When color grading was completed I sent to FCP. Color shut down and the rendered files disappeared from the render queue and no green bands under the clips in the time line when Color was relaunched. This...
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| | | |  | Re: See yourself in this clip?
by Scott Sheriff in the Art of the Edit Forum
Mike, What about checkerboard auto assembles? Even harder to explain. I once had a producer insist that I didn't know what I was doing because (on 1", way before pre-read) he only had an A reel and wanted to dissolve from a shot we just laid (on the record machine)...
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| | | | | Re: Depth Mattes
by james gervais in the Apple Shake Forum
Les thank a whole lot. the script u did is awesome and is going to save my hide from the producers and director. there's nothing like jumping into a new software you've never really used right in the middle of project that has a crazy and almost impossible deadline. also...
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| | | |  | 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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| | | |  | Color/tangent Wave bug or oversite?
by Baz Leffler in the Apple Color Forum
I have mapped 'Toggle playback' to a function key. I use this in conjunction with 'Mark in' and 'Mark out' to 'loop playback' over a scene change. So when I have finished this 'loop playback' I need to go back to full timeline playback. But I have noticed that the...
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| | | |  | Re: Animating website screenshots
by Stephen Smith in the Apple Motion Forum
I use Snapz Pro to capture my screen and then animate it's 3D space. Here is an example in my Creating a Hologram tutorial. Hope this helps. 600 ? 600: true);" src="http://www.lonepeakproductions.com/img/cow/Steve_COW.jpg" align="right"> Stephen Smith Utah Video Productions Check out the Graphics Demo Reel I did. Check out my Motion...
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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.
