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Review: Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3
Since its initial release last July Final Cut Pro X has gone through several updates that have taken it from version 10.0.0 to 10.0.3. Those numbers may look small but the feature improvements are big and there is plenty of new functionality worth reviewing as part of a much-improved whole.
Create Titles Straight Out of Spider-Man in After Effects
Nancy, from Mettle, makers of ShapeShifter AE, shows you how to create the die-cast title effect seen in the most recent trailer for Sony/Columbia Pictures' The Amazing Spider-Man, coming this summer.
Redrock Micro Begins Shipping UltraCage|Blue Rigs for Canon EOS C300 Cameras
Redrock Micro is now shipping its UltraCage|Blue support gear the company first announced in November during Canon's EOS C300 launch event. The suite of support gear includes five new configurations, from handheld to cinema shouldermount, as well as more than a dozen new accessories to build out the rigs for various production needs.
Scratch Lab Adds Support for Sony F65 Dailies
Assimilate said today that its $4995 Scratch Lab system for production dailies supports the Sony F65 digital cinema camera.
VFX Supervisor Tim Burke on the Final Harry Potter
Tim Burke spent the last ten years immersed in the magical world of Harry Potter, a world that could not have been created without visual effects. He was visual effects supervisor at Mill Film for the second film, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and has been the visual effects supervisor on each film since in the series of eight, receiving an Oscar nomination as co-visual effects supervisor for the third.
VFX Supervisor Rob Legato on Hugo
Rob Legato began his career in television, working as a visual effects supervisor on The Twilight Zone, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and receiving five Emmy nominations and two Emmys before joining Digital Domain in 1994.
The Artist’s Cinematographer Speaks
On the surface The Artist, directed by Michel Hazanavicius, is an ode to a simpler time in movie-making history. Set in 1927 Hollywood at the dawn of the talkies, the black-and-white silent movie tells an old-fashioned love story with plenty of heart …
VFX Supe Joe Letteri on Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Rise of the Planet of the Apes stars a chimpanzee named Caesar, a CG character performed by Andy Serkis and created at Weta Digital, who acts alongside actor James Franco, a scientist who raises Caesar like a child.
Editor Christopher Tellefsen on Moneyball
We spoke to Christopher Tellefsen, A.C.E., about editing on the Avid, intercutting performances by actors and non-actors, and coal-mining in the cutting room.
Side By Side Documents the Digital Transition
Director Chris Kenneally and producer Keanu Reeves traveled the globe, interviewing cinematic luminaries - Martin Scorsese, James Cameron and Christopher Nolan, for starters - about the ongoing digital revolution.