August 2012 LAFCPUG Event

August 6, 2012, 02:08 PM

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Join us for a special Summer night of learning, networking and good times. Autodesk's Marc-Andre Ferguson will make the trip from Autodesk Headquarters in Montreal to show off the all new Smoke 2013.

Nimble Storage Announces Scale-to-Fit Cache

August 6, 2012, 09:06 AM

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Nimble Storage has announced its forthcoming Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout Architecture (CASL), an enterprise storage architecture that independently scales controller performance, cache capacity, and storage capacity of storage arrays. Nimble Storage is targeting clients that start with a small footprint and leverage CASL to incrementally scale up or scale out their infrastructure as new storage requirements develop.

Review of Edit Fest LA, Day 2 - Morning

August 6, 2012, 08:59 AM

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Edit Fest LA continued on Aug 4th with 2 panels in the morning. Panel 1 was The Assistant Editor: The Soul of the Edit Bay,  moderated by editor, Lori Jane Coleman ACE, who is the Chair of the ACE Internship program.  On her panel were 4 former ACE interns, 2 from recent years and 2...

EditCodes

August 6, 2012, 08:58 AM

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EditCodes is a searchable database of over 200 common error codes and messages for Mac-based video editing software. Don't you love cryptic error messages that seem like they were written by Dr. Seuss? Avid Media Composer seems to have the...

Review of Edit Fest LA, Day 2 - Afternoon

August 6, 2012, 08:58 AM

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Edit Fest LA continued on Aug 4th with 2 panels in the afternoon. Panel 3 was The Brave Journey of a Pixar Editor, hosted by Bobbie O'Steen and panelist Nicholas C. Smith ACE.  This was a really fun panel taking us on the journey of the making of Pixar's latest feature, Brave.  Thru various clips...

Another week in After Effects

August 6, 2012, 08:53 AM

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Here’s another summary of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts. The return to the regular news cycle caught idle hands by surprise with a promise of a big CS6 release, snakes in AE, tracking offscreen, plug-ins, and more.

Digital Rebellion

August 6, 2012, 08:53 AM

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This week's Tools Spotlight interview is with Digital Rebellion founder and CEO Jon Chappell. With the tagline of "Workflow Efficiency Redefined," Digital Rebellion has a diverse ecosystem of post-production apps. Jon talks to us about what drove him to start...

August: Keying / Matting

August 6, 2012, 08:53 AM

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Every month, a daily progression of facts on a post-production topic. This month Jeff Foster, author of The Green Screen Handbook, gives us a daily progression of facts on the dark art of keying and matting. Primarily from a post...

Denver CO - August DFCPUG Meeting - 08.15.2012

August 5, 2012, 06:07 PM

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Weekend Reads - 8-5-12

August 5, 2012, 06:07 PM

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Here are some interesting articles we discovered over the past week. Final Cut Pro X and Mountain Lion - now that's interesting!Philip Hodgetts tests out Mountain Lion's new dictation feature with FCPX.Avid Mountain Lion test threadAvid have provided an official thread for people to discuss issues with OS X 10.8.Make your sound editor love youBest practices for recording sound.Six, (er) Seven New Features in Resolve 9Alexis van Hurkman summarizes his favorite new features of Resolve 9.