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Film Editing Wisdom For Film Editors & Assistants
ArticleMay 25, 2013, 5:23 am
Learning more about the art and craft of film editing is essential for progressing in your career. This round up of insights and insider tales from feature film and TV editors will inspire you to get cutting.
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Freebies for FCPX Editors
ArticleMay 25, 2013, 3:53 am
Here's a quick round up of some of the best free filters, effects, transitions, titles and split screens for Final Cut Pro X.
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Review: Sorenson Squeeze 9
ArticleMay 24, 2013, 9:23 am
When it comes to managing and manipulating digital video, Sorenson Squeeze has been a reliable workhorse. That continues to be the case with the advent of Squeeze 9 Pro, the most significant revision to the transcoding tool since v6...
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Review: Autodesk Smoke on the Mac
ArticleMay 24, 2013, 9:20 am
At last year’s NAB, Smoke 2013 for Mac was announced with much fanfare. It really rocked the post community with its radical user interface (UI) redesign, the addition of node-based compositing with ConnectFX, and its much lower price point.
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Editor's Letter: Be better at being green
ArticleMay 24, 2013, 9:20 am
The production and post industries have slowly and steadily been adopting green practices while doing their business. Changes can be seen on sets, in studios and in company parking lots, where charging stations and bike racks are starting to appear.
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Post Script: Tech and creative collide in NYC
ArticleMay 24, 2013, 9:20 am
Next month, The Collider Digital Production Conference (www.colliderevents.com) will debut in New York City, giving attendees a chance to check out VFX-, animation- and digital production-themed presentations, panels, master classes and screenings, as well as a job fair. Collider’s organizer Stephen Price believes it’s time the East Coast, and New York in particular, had a production-themed event that balanced both technology and creativity.
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THE BROAD SHOULDERS OF THE 'SWAMP PEOPLE'
ArticleMay 24, 2013, 9:19 am
We salute the post-production crewmembers of Original Media’s docu-reality program Swamp People. Their example has taught us something new about the leverage we have in post, and has reminded us of old lessons about what makes our union strong.
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Movie editing techniques - With pretty pictures!
ArticleMay 24, 2013, 4:29 am
Essential movie editing principles - Includes animated GIF images to illustrate some important film editing techniques every filmmaker should know about.
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Creating Motion Vector Render Passes
ArticleMay 24, 2013, 4:29 am
Yazan walks through the process of creating a motion vector pass from modo 701 and provides some tips and things to consider when rendering out motion vector passes from modo 701 to get the best results in After Effects and NUKE, including a brief description of why you would want to render out without any antialiasing.
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Getting Started with X-Particles
ArticleMay 24, 2013, 4:28 am
X-Particles creator Mike Batchelor provides an overview for some of the new features in the new X-Particles 2 for Cinema 4D, showing the basis of using the Questions and Actions System as well as a general overview for getting started using X-Particles 2.
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