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Getting Ready for 2012: SpeedGrade Video Demo

Late in 2011 Adobe announced it had acquired a number of assets from IRIDAS. One of those assets is the color grading application SpeedGrade. This is a good thing because, with the demise of Apple Color, that leaves Blackmagic’s DaVinci … more »

Top 7 Things Filmmakers Can Be Thankful for This Year

This is far from an exhaustive list, but when you’re gathered round the table this Thursday, why not say a word of thanks—depending on the crowd, maybe only in your head—for these recent developments in production and post. Let’s hope … more »

KataData iPhone App Calculates Storage and Runtime by Camera Type or Codec

Add another essential production and post app to the list. Like many of the most useful iPhone and iPad apps available, the new KataData calculator developed in-house at Katabatic Digital, a New York-based grading and VFX facility, was born of … more »

What to Make of Coppola’s Twixt?

First, there was the Comic Con tease, during which Francis Ford Coppola laid out how he would unconventionally screen his upcoming gothic horror film Twixt by re-editing it, via an iPad-controlled system, live during a 30-city tour. How it turns … more »

Another “Digital 35″ Camcorder Enters the Field

Once upon a time, “digital 35mm” was at best an expensive pipe dream and at worst an oxymoron. That may seem ridiculous to contemplate now, given how far both sensor and compression technology have come in the past few years … more »

Useful Tools for Editors: Pro Media Tools

Back in August of 2009, Digital Rebellion released a really useful tool for Final Cut Pro editors called FCS Maintenance Pack. That thing has probably saved quite a lot of headaches since its inception. Just in the last couple of … more »

The NLE as a Modular Product

Here we sit just a few short weeks from NAB, right after another upgrade to Avid Media Composer and possibly on the verge of what might be the biggest Final Cut Pro upgrade ever. Add to that what will probably … more »

3D Broadcast of the International 3D Society’s Awards

Hosted by Tom Cavanagh, comedian/costar of 3D Yogi Bear, the 2nd annual International 3D Society 3D Creative Arts Awards were held at Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theater. To up the ante from last year, this event was taped for post production … more »

Three Useful Tools Updated

It has been an eventful past few weeks for useful tool post-production software as three products that we’ve discussed here before had major releases or updates: FxFactory 2.5.4, with the new Manifesto titler Singular Software’s PluralEyes for Media Composer version … more »

Five Questions with Codex Digital’s Marc Dando

In Hungary, while directors Maurichio Chernovetzky and Mark Devendorf shot Styria, a horror film inspired by a 19th century vampire tale by Irish novelist Sheridan LeFanu, Budapest-based Colorfront and Codex Digital collaborated on the first-ever workflow that leveraged the power … more »