Editor David Michael Mauer spent nearly a year working on the horror film Splinter, which hits theaters today and is also available On Demand. This started on set creating dailies and rough cuts, back in the editing suite experimenting with the 120 hours of footage to get a maximum fear quotient and then overseeing the digital opticals to add that extra punch to the scenes.... »
Max Payne is the latest example of Hollywood’s yen for adapting the video game for the silver screen.Back in Los Angeles, editor Dan Zimmerman and first assistant editor Ian Silverstein got HD dailies, which were imported directly into their Final Cut Pro editing systems, thanks to SmartJog, which transferred the dailies from Toronto, and AJA’s KONA 3 card, which captured the HD playback into the systems.... »
In this video from the AlphaDogs' Editors' Lounge, Kevan O'Brien, systems engineer for Adobe, demonstrates how to to edit Red footage in Premiere Pro.... »
In this video from the AlphaDogs Editors' Lounge, filmmaker Jacob Rosenberg of Bandito Brothers demonstrates the new ways to associate metadata to media with On Location (formerly Serious Magic's DV Rack), which has a revamped interface and new tools.... »
In this video from the AlphaDogs' Editors' Lounge, Kevan O'Brien, systems engineer for Adobe, demonstrates the workflow between Final Cut Pro and Adobe CS4.... »
From the AlphaDogs Editors' Lounge, filmmaker Jacob Rosenberg of Bandito Brothers shows how to use the "Replae with After Effects Compostion" tool from Premiere to jump back and forth from Premiere to After Effects timelines.... »
In this video from the AlphaDogs Editors' Lounge, filmmaker Jacob Rosenberg of Bandito Brothers demonstrates the new intelligent tapeless workflows in Premiere Pro CS4 how to use the powerful Speech Search function that automatically provides a transcript of the audio and the ability to search video by dialogue. Watch how you can even include this search function in Flash files.... »
In this video from the AlphaDogs Editors' Lounge, filmmaker Jacob Rosenberg of Bandito Brothers demonstrates the new features in Adobe Encore CS4 including DVD templates and Blu-ray authoring.... »
MicroNet Technology, a provider of storage solutions that small and medium businesses (SMBs) can rely on, today introduced its first unified NAS/iSCSI ipSAN-ready storage solution for the SMB market. The MicroNet MaxNAS™ combines best-in-class NAS file serving performance with iSCSI storage access for an easy-to-use, centralized repository capable of storing up to five terabytes of image, video, Word, Excel, PDF, database files and more.... »
- Blackmagic Design Inc. today
announced that its popular range of DeckLink cards are the only video capture
cards available to enable two Softron MovieRecorder applications running on a
single MacPro™ workstation to simultaneously capture video from two different
sources. Using a MacPro coupled with two DeckLink cards and two applications
of Softron MovieRecorder significantly enhances any facility's ingest capabilities.
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Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the immediate availability of the Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 product family, the highly-anticipated release of industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. Delivering radical breakthroughs in workflow efficiency – and packed with hundreds of innovative, time saving features – the new Creative Suite 4 product line advances the creative process across print, Web, interactive, film, video and mobile.
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You might not guess it from reading the technology trades, but there’s still a market in the video industry for linear editing solutions for HD and SD.... »
Apple called them "our guinea pigs". A Sony representative commented that this type of workflow had never been attempted before on one of their films. For Alex Kendrick of Sherwood Pictures, the making of the upcoming Sony/Provident Pictures movie, Fireproof, was a technical adventure.... »
