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Blackmagic Starts an Internet Forum, Offers Cinema Camera RAW Shots Ready for Grading
Taking a page from Apple, Avid, Adobe, RED and others, the folks over at Blackmagic Design have launched their own Internet forum. Point your browser to forum.blackmagicdesign.com, complete a registration and you, too, can join in the discussion of all …
Useful Tools for Editors: Pro Player
QuickTime Player X got you down? Then you might be interested in the brand new Pro Player from the folks at Digital Heaven. Pro Player is a lot like its name sounds. It's a simple application designed for playback of different …
Moving Day: A Free E-Book on VFX and More
If you're one for learning about this crazy world we call post-production and, more specifically, visual effects, then you're probably familiar with FXPHD and fxguide. They are a great resource for all things VFX, including online classes, blogs, podcasts and …
Two Great New Color Grading Resources
If you were interested at all in the big DaVinci Resolve 9 beta that was released last week then you might also be interested in a couple of relatively new color grading/color correction resources that have come online in recent …
DaVinci Resolve 9 Beta Ready to Download
If you took any time to evaluate color grading tools at NAB 2012 then you must have seen DaVinci Resolve 9 running at the Blackmagic Design booth. If you were familiar at all with Resolve then you probably did a …
A Thunderbolt CF Card Reader … and More!
I'll admit I'm a bit off the Thunderbolt radar since I don't own a Thunderbolt-capable machine (though I do have one on loan). But last week I was working with a photographer who was looking into a new Macbook Pro …
The Edit Button. Is This Thing in Beta?
We often have endless debates about our nonlinear editing software and it's usually Avid vs. Final Cut Pro … or maybe Adobe Premiere Pro gets into the mix as well. Today there's even discussion about Autodesk Smoke poking its A …
NewBlue Titler Pro: It’s Like LiveType, Only Different
Remember LiveType? That quirky little titling application that came along around Final Cut Pro 4 and did some pretty cheesy nifty animated titles without a whole lot of animation effort? Many people loved it, some people hated it and others …
Autodesk Smoke 2013 Pre-Release Is Ready to Download
All signs point to go for Autodesk's big, long, free beta period for its upcoming release of Smoke 2013 for Mac. Follow the link to the download, fill out the form, install something called the Akamai NetSession Interface and Smoke …
A Challenging Time for the Mac Pro
The Mac Pro debate has intensified in recent weeks. The We Want a New Mac Pro Facebook page popped up earlier in the month to give disgruntled pro Mac users a place to vent their frustrations about the lack of an updated …