Tough Cuts: Letting Go Of A Scene

July 14, 2011, 11:01 AM

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IN OR OUT? I showed some footage of my short film, The Climb to my producing partner Eric the other day. The plan was simple. I was going to show him the new sequences I just locked and then go over the entire film scene by scene. What I failed to mention to him was...

Avid's Committed to the Professional event

July 14, 2011, 10:56 AM

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On Wednesday evening Avid held its Committed to the Professional event on the Warner Brothers Studio lot in Burbank California. The event was announced just over a week ago in a blog post by Avid's CEO.

Red Giant Upgrades Magic Bullet Movie Looks to HD

July 14, 2011, 10:55 AM

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Read my article about the fascinating world of the

July 14, 2011, 10:53 AM

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he accomplishments of an editor can be both mysterious and underappreciated, and nowhere is this more evident than among the editors at Pixar Studios. I discovered their special role in the animation process when I visited Ken Schretzmann at Pixar shortly after he won an Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film in Animation for Toy

Stereo 3D Toolkit, a new script for AE

July 14, 2011, 10:51 AM

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Ryan Cashman and AE scripts have released a new script for After Effects, Stereo 3D Toolkit, a set of tools that help you create complex stereoscopic compositions. The Stereo 3D Toolkit "uses true left and right channels (instead of collapse transformations) so it is compatible with all 3D effects and plug-ins that use composition cameras."

Contour Design Releases New Shuttle Settings

July 14, 2011, 10:48 AM

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Contour Design, a market leader in multimedia control surfaces, has released new optimized ShuttlePRO v2 and ShuttleXpress settings for Apple Final Cut Pro X, Apple Motion v5, Adobe Creative Suite 5.5, and Avid Media Composer v5.5. Supported Adobe CS5.5 applications include After Effects, Audition, Encore, Flash Professional Illustrator, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro for Macintosh as well as Windows.

Free 3D Ink Preset for Trapcode Particular

July 14, 2011, 10:48 AM

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Greyscale Gorilla has a new Free 3D Ink Preset for Trapcode Particular that attempts to create realistic ink drops: "It's a hog to render, but it gives a pretty cool result. Also, if you change the random seed or the wiggle settings, you will get totally different ink drops every time."

XenData Partners with EVS to Support Media Archive

July 14, 2011, 10:46 AM

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XenData, a provider of digital video archiving and storage solutions for the media and entertainment industry, announced a new partnership with EVS, the leader in professional digital video applications for live and studio TV production. Under the partnership, XenData’s range of digital video archive servers is now certified for use with EVS' Media Archive Director (MAD) and available for EVS to provide to its global customer base.

Apple's Shrinking Commitment

July 14, 2011, 10:45 AM

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Look at that – FCP Studio originally came in that big box in the upper right. It came with all those manuals in the upper left. The last iteration of FCP Studio came in that smaller box in the lower left, with a smallish book that contained mostly installation instructions.

Apple Motion Review

July 14, 2011, 10:44 AM

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Somewhere between editing video and designing full-blown motion graphics, there are countless jobs that require making things move. It may be making titles, handling transitions, moving around video and imagery in two-dimensional and three-dimensional scenes, masking, compositing, or generally arranging assets for purposes of utility or eye candy.