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NewTek VT[4] LIVE!

The NewTek Video Toaster made its debut in 1991 and started the "desktop video" revolution. It's 14 years later and this product is now in version 4, dubbed VT[4], and is being offered in several more »

No Money? No Problem!

Nobody's paying you to play games for a living - yet. But there's a new crop of largely Web-based animators who've figured out how to make movies on the cheap by leveraging videogame engines to more »

Giving 2D Toons That 3D Pop

Fred and Wilma Flintstone are lifted out of the world of the Hanna-Barbera '70s in a heavily composited 30-second spot for Post Cereal and agency Ogilvy & Mather. "King Cocoa" isn't just more »

Anime Texas-Style

New York agency Berlin Cameron initially wanted Japanese anime artists to create a Coca-Cola spot for airing during the Daytona 500. But, after extensive research on the Net, the shop's producers decided on 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 »

Automatic Duck Pro Import C3 for Combustion

For anyone who has ever tried to move a project from an editing program into a motion graphics program by exporting multiple QuickTime or AVI media files and multiple EDL's and then rebuilding the project in more »

Audio: NAB '05

Moore's Law, The Theory That Digital technology does more with (and for) less exponentially increases with each passing year, will be no more apparent than with the collection of audio toys to be shown at more »

How to Add a Soundtrack with SmartSound Sonicfire Pro

Step 1 Import your video We begin by importing a video (in this case, an AVI file) that is in need of a soundtrack via Cmd/Ctrl+Y. SmartSound Sonicfire Pro can import most of the standard video formats; if you more »

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 »

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 »