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Video Tutorial: Customize Vocal Tracks with Sonicfire Pro 5
In this video tutorial, trainer Larry Jordan explains how to use SmartSound's Sonicfire Pro 5 to score a video with a multi-layered instrumental and vocal track. Adding the power of words to any video soundtrack, he says, always enhances the emotional core of the visual message. »
Tapping Six Seasons of Weeds in the Edit
One of the more powerful secret weapons for NLEs is Avid Media Composer's ScriptSync feature, which uses speech-recognition algorithms to organize footage. Editor David Helfand told us how he uses it on Weeds . »
Review: DAZ Carrara 8 Pro
For illustrators and animators who don’t need the technical or financial overhead of programs like Maya or 3ds Max, Carrara has been an affordable and capable alternative for almost two decades. Acquired by DAZ 3D in 2006 when the company bought Eovia, Carrara has since evolved in a formidable 3D tool. In this latest release, Carrara 8 Pro features much-needed performance improvements, better lighting and some great additions to the animation toolset. »
Blowing Stuff Up for Nicktoons
The typical viewer of Nicktoons is a 12-year-old boy in couch-potato mode. How do you get them excited about your programming? According to Michael Waldron, creative director at Nailgun*, it all comes down to blowing stuff up. But in a good way. »
Fusion-io Woos VFX Artists, Animators with Flash Drives
If you were at SIGGRAPH last month, you may have wondered just what was up with the mechanical bull-riding contests being run out of the back of the exhibit hall. Turns out that was just Fusion-io trying to get the attention of the VFX-and-animation market. The company makes drives based on solid-state NAND flash memory — a memory technology that's similar to RAM, but non-volatile. It's also a little bit slower than RAM, but it runs cooler and is cheaper, meaning that it can be deployed in much higher quantities, the company says. »
Field-Testing the Panasonic AG-3DA1 3D Camcorder
Randall Dark says he’s always keeping his eye out for something that will rev up his creative gears and throw him into a new world of images, workflows, and storytelling possibilities. When he saw the first images of Panasonic’s new AG-3DA1 3D AVCCAM camcorder, he knew he had found it. “That thing looks like Wall-E,” he remembers thinking. “Physically, seeing that camera, I was excited.” »
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Top Spot: "Running Green," a spec spot featuring combining elaborate time-lapse footage and spot-on compositing work.
