An Animation Editorial Workflow

September 2, 2015, 09:22 AM

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I put this together pretty quickly for the internal project wiki at work as a basic overview of what goes in and out of my remit as editor on a 52 x 11 min animated series, where within the process sequence reviews typically happen, and where things come from/ go to. It's not as entirely linear as this in practice (locks happen before all of the animation is done, for example - so that any extensions can be accommodated), a lot of things end up happening as simultaneously, and I'm typic...

Tech Giants Team Up on Royalty-Free Web Video Code

September 2, 2015, 09:21 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2015/09/tech-giants-tea...

Some of the biggest technology companies in the world are collaborating on a new series of media codecs and formats that they hope will constitute an "open standard" for video content on the web. The first task of the newly … more » The post Tech Giants Team Up on Royalty-Free Web Video Codec appeared first on Studio Daily.

Tracking color corrections in Final Cut Pro X

September 2, 2015, 09:21 AM

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Deluxe Unit at Sony Voting in Union Drive

September 2, 2015, 09:21 AM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/del...

Seven months after Sony sold its Colorworks 4K post house to Deluxe Entertainment, workers at the unit, still based on the lot, are set to vote Wednesday on whether to unionize with IATSE’s Local 700, the Motion Picture Editors Guild.

REVIEW: MacBook Pro Pro 2015 con gráfica AMD

September 2, 2015, 04:36 AM

http://www.finalcutpro.es/2015/09/review-macbook-p...

Tradicionalmente, los portátiles profesionales de Apple han estado presentes en todos los ámbitos del mundo de la posproducción, por ser máquinas potentes y fiables. En los últimos tiempos la mayoría de los equipos de la manzana han dejado de disponer de tarjetas gráficas dedicadas, con la excusa de aumentar la duración de la batería y evitar [...] La entrada REVIEW: MacBook Pro Pro 2015 con gráfica AMD aparece primero en finalcutpro.es.

Explainer videos: how best to use them.

September 2, 2015, 04:36 AM

http://www.stadamedia.co.uk/explainer-videos-how-b...

The description “explainer video” is a nice, simple catch-all term to use for the visual format, but the approaches they can take are far from uniform. With explainers, it’s extremely...

Baselight and ColorFinale: Two approaches to Final

September 2, 2015, 04:35 AM

http://alex4d.com/notes/item/colorfinale-baselight...

Today FilmLight announced that they will soon offer free plugins for editors to see and render Baselight colour grades in their NLE made on other full-price Baselight systems: The forthcoming version 4.4m1 release of Baselight Editions will make it free to view – or to render – grades passed between departments, or even to non-Baselight facilities. The new version will be released following IBC2015. “Our aim is to make it even easier to pass around and refine the creative intent us...

Silicon Corps Partner To Create Next-Gen Video For

September 2, 2015, 04:31 AM

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/01/amazon-netflix-go...

Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix today announced that they have formed a new open source alliance — the Alliance for Open Media — with the goal of developing the next generation of royalty-free video formats, codecs and other related technologies.

Special characters in DaVinci Resolve bin names ca

September 1, 2015, 06:35 PM

http://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/posts/special...

There's a bug in the DaVinci Resolve 12 beta that can cause the contents of a bin to disappear if certain characters are used in the bin name. What makes it particularly concerning is that there is no indication that anything is amiss until the project is loaded again, so it is easy to lose hours of work this way. And because the bug only occurs when a project is reloaded, you cannot load up an autosave to get the clips back either. Here's how to reproduce it: 1. Create a new bin with...

One video format to rule them all

September 1, 2015, 06:33 PM

http://www.slashgear.com/google-netflix-amazon-tea...

This week the Alliance for Open Media was launched in hopes of bringing a single open format to video streaming services worldwide. This single format would be adoptable by all, and given the members of the alliance that've announced their allegiance so far, this Alliance is going to be adopted by the biggest of the big.