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Apple’s New Mountain Lion OS X 10.8: Value and Security in Production and Post
Apple has delivered over 3 million downloads of its latest operating system, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, making it the most successful desktop release in the company's history. As Mac is the preferred platform for the majority of the creative …
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 …
SIGGRAPH 2012: Great Show. But That Convention Center? Meh.
This year I returned to SIGGRAPH after an 11-year absence. I stopped going when my publishers stopped picking up expenses, and I no longer lived in LA. At that point, I believe the conference was a bit of a mad …
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 …
Sight & Sound Revises Best-Films-Ever Lists
The venerable BFI publication Sight & Sound revealed an interesting difference of opinion in the just-announced results of its latest poll of critics and filmmakers to determine the current thinking on which films are the Greatest Ever. This year, for the …
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 …
Coming Attraction: Surviving in VFX
I've watched a lot of VFX companies go under in the last decade and it's a shame. Some were run by friends of mine, pretty much all of them did fine work, too. Others, even some of the principle houses, …
Three Reasons Why Position Music is OK with the Unlicensed Track in That Mock 2001 Trailer
A mock trailer from the movie blog Film School Rejects imagining how 2001: A Space Odyssey would be promoted to a contemporary audience garnered a quarter of a million views after it hit YouTube last week. The recut trailer amped …
What Will Danny Boyle’s Olympic “Live Film” Look Like? Six Ways He’ll Leave His Mark
With the world watching and expectations high for Friday's 2012 Summer Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, it's hard not to speculate on how filmmaker Danny Boyle will direct his latest effort. Boyle and ceremony organizers aren't saying much, but on the …