Digital Heaven Announces Public Final Print Beta

March 4, 2011, 09:34 AM

http://www.dv.com/article/103614

Digital Heaven, a third-party developer for Apple Pro Apps, announced a free, time-limited public beta release of Final Print 2.0, a tool for browsing and printing Final Cut Pro projects. By taking advantage of Final Cut Pro's XML interchange format, Final Print allows the user to view a list of clips, markers or the content of a bin with up to 10 columns of information. The lists can be printed or saved as a PDF file.

Technicolor Finishes Year on High Note as Q4

March 4, 2011, 09:34 AM

http://blog.devoncroft.com/2011/03/03/technicolor-...

Part 1: Scripting for After Effects

March 4, 2011, 09:33 AM

http://library.creativecow.net/toula_jesse/AE-Scri...

In this tutorial, Jesse Toula will walk you through the basics to scripting for After Effects. Part 1 will go over the basic JavaScript concepts that will be needed to create your first script. This tutorial will not turn you into an expert, but it will give you a starting point and a basic understanding of the capabilities of scripts and how they can help improve your work-flow.

CalDigit Brings USB 3.0 to the Mac

March 4, 2011, 09:31 AM

http://www.dv.com/article/103612

CalDigit has a established a reputation as a supplier of high-quality, high-performance RAID arrays that are ideally suited for editing HD video footage. Now CalDigit has moved into the space dominated by LaCie, Maxtor and G-Technology—that of the smaller desktop drives. CalDigit's entry is the AV Drive, which consists of a single 1TB or 2TB drive mechanism housed in a slim aluminum case.

Alteran Technologies to Present ViTaDi Media

March 3, 2011, 07:37 PM

http://www.digitalproductionbuzz.com/2011/03/03/al...

Alteran Technologies will present its enhanced ViTaDi product suite at NAB 2011 in booth N5537 to offer a series of low-cost, mobile and modular solutions for videotape ingest. Built around the company’s AutoPack- the world’s first low-cost 4-channel videotape capture flypack that operates in both automatic (robotic) and semi-automatic modes, ViTaDi’s scalable systems facilitate migration of all library sizes on location.

ATTO Announces Express Power Center Update

March 3, 2011, 07:36 PM

http://www.digitalproductionbuzz.com/2011/03/03/at...

ATTO is pleased to announce the launch of Express Power Center for Windows and Mac OS. This new software offers RAID protection for both operating system platforms on one disk or web store download. It contains all the features of the previous Express Power Center (Windows) and ExpressStripe (Mac OS), including the Mac OS Disk Benchmark utility and updated icons and graphics for a more user-friendly feel.

Digital Rapids Announces Release of Update

March 3, 2011, 07:36 PM

http://www.digitalproductionbuzz.com/2011/03/03/36...

Digital Rapids announced the release of version 3.4 of the Digital Rapids Stream software for the company’s StreamZ, StreamZHD, Flux and DRC-Stream encoding and live streaming solutions. In addition to previously announced new features — including frame-compatible 3D support and enhanced JPEG2000, H.264 and MPEG-2 format support — the version 3.4 release also includes support for the MXF AS02 application specification, enhanced Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Smooth Streaming...

Sorenson Media Launches Squeeze Server On Premise

March 3, 2011, 07:35 PM

http://www.digitalproductionbuzz.com/2011/03/03/so...

Sorenson Media announced the immediate availability of Sorenson Squeeze Server On Premise, which brings the full power and functionality of the award-winning Sorenson Squeeze encoding engine directly to any existing enterprise server infrastructure to provide high-volume, high-quality encoding capacity.

Sequence of the Day

March 3, 2011, 04:35 PM

http://postfifthpictures.com/2011/03/sequence-of-t...

Who Gets to Clean up this messy timeline... THIS GUY!

News Intro Composition: Pt 2

March 3, 2011, 04:34 PM

http://library.creativecow.net/barenblat_neal/Cine...

In part 2 of the News Intro composition, we finish up in After Effects with several different techniques including color correction, transfer modes, and using Fractal Noise as a luma matte.