The creator and executive producer of the new Comcast On-Demand series VidBlogger Nation talks about how he and his team at Simplynew Studios manage the creative, editorial and deliverables on a show that gets its rough cuts from featured video bloggers.... »
The Melbourne Skydive Centre's skydiving team is back in free-fall form once again in this follow-up video to "Experience Human Flight," which debuted online last April.... »
In this new music video from emerging Japanese pop band Androp, directors Masashi Kawamura, Qanta Shimizu and Masatsugu Nagasoe have created an animated strobe effect by programming 250 Canon EOS 60Ds to flash like synchronized pixels in a crude Jumbo Tron behind the band.... »
This animation is the ultimate collaboration piece: each element was created by a different artist at NYC's The STUDIO without knowing what the others were making.... »
You've no doubt been reading a lot about Final Cut Pro X. So have I. On Thursday I met with Apple and brought with me the litany of concerns voiced by current FCP 7 users.... »
Apple today announced Final Cut Pro X, a revolutionary new version of the world’s most popular Pro video editing software which completely reinvents video editing with a Magnetic Timeline that lets you edit on a flexible, trackless canvas; Content Auto-Analysis that categorizes your content upon import by shot type, media and people; and background rendering that allows you to work without interruption.... »
Apple this morning finally gave Final Cut devotees what they've been waiting for since April and officially released Final Cut Pro X, the revamped new version of its twelve-year-old editing software program.... »
Cine Gear Expo, which wrapped yesterday on the famed Paramount lot in Los Angeles, is a kind of Red Bull-ified version of NAB for DPs and cinematographers. This year was no exception, and expo organizers packed shooters in for two days and nights of demonstrations, exhibits, screenings, seminars and plenty of beer, wine and food to help digest it all. With this much concentrated talent, it's no wonder P+S Technik used Cine Gear to premiere its just announced PS-Cam X35.... »
Throughout his long and varied career, Tim McGovern has been a radio engineer, a pioneering sound engineer at Skywalker Sound during its digital transition, and a designer of network facilities for the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. He has also learned more than a few valuable lessons in flexibility working as chief engineer, alternately, for George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola. When we talked to McGovern he was just two weeks into his new job as director of professional services at Advanced Systems Group, an installer and integrator of production, post and shared storage software and hardware in the Bay Area and Southern California.... »
Essentially, Newton turns each 2D layer in an AE comp into a rigid body within a new environment. You simply bring your comp into Newton's OpenGL preview simulation to set and control the parameters, then hit "Solve." So what's the big deal? If you tried to do what Newton seems able to do in mere minutes, you'd spend hours if not days trying to replicate the same effect.... »
