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Propellerhead Reason 3.0

Propellerhead shipped Reason 3.0, the newest version of its music production system. Reason now boasts an expanded sound bank, a new system for remotely controlling keyboards, and a suite more »

Maxon Cinema 4D R9.1

Maxon released a.1 update to Cinema 4D Release 9, including support for transferring projects to Apple's Motion. Also new is enhanced support for n-gons more »

Digital Anarchy Color Theory 1.5.3 for Windows

PC users now have a version of Digital Anarchy's Color Theory Pro, a digital color wheel system using RYB (red-yellow-blue) color space instead of RGB more »

Doing the Math

The show, which shoots on location all over the L.A. area, has a distinctive look, thanks to the Scotts and DP Ivan Strasburg ( Bloody Sunday, Live From Baghdad, The Corner) who was hired by director Mick more »

What Randy Thom Hears

It's hard to imagine a more golden Hollywood resume than the one sported by Randy Thom. Since getting his first big breaks recording effects for Apocalypse Now and The Empire Strikes Back, the sound designer has left his aural fingerprints more »

Choosing & Using

Ben Burtt, a sound designer at Skywalker Ranch who has worked on all six Star Wars films, notes that libraries have increasingly become a source for temp scores and character shadings. "Certainly, [music more »

Finishing: Digital Finishing Is Just Getting Started

"Objects in mirror are closer than they appear," is a message Charles S. Swartz, CEO/executive director of the Entertainment Technology Center at USC, likes to apply to some of the faster-moving more »

Audio: HD Audio to Go

The soft whirring of hard drives is now a common characteristic of film and video sets as production sound continues to make the transition to hard-drive systems. In a sense, the transition to hard drives is a more »

Graphics: Better, Cheaper and Faster?

Better, cheaper, faster- those three demands for graphics are never, ever satisfied at the same time. But it's still a relentless mantra in the graphics business. Until recently, Adobe Systems has also more »

Editing: HDV Cutting Goes Native

With great fanfare, Apple Computer's CEO Steve Jobs predicted that 2005 would be "the year of HD video editing." That winter day at MacWorld, Jobs was joined on stage at the Moscone Center by more »