Tag Archives: digital workflow

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Free Guide to All Photoshop Filters

Everyone out there working in post-production is bound to have Photoshop and use it on a regular basis. It’s one of those must have applications for Avid and Final Cut Pro editors alike. Richard Harrington, video trainer, author and creator … more »

Academy Bestows Sci-Tech Awards

The 2010 Scientific and Technical Awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences were bestowed at a gala event atthe Beverly Wilshire Hotel on February 20. The event was introduced by visual effects pioneer Richard Edlund, ASC, and … more »

Useful Tools for Editors: FxAndy

Let’s be honest here …. there’s no shortage of one-click film-look style emulation plug-ins available for Final Cut Pro. The biggies Magic Bullet Looks and Nattress Film Effects come to mind. Now we can add another one to the list: … more »

Canon PR jumped the gun on the EOS MOVIE release, imagine that

When you’re a large company, like say … Canon, you might often find it hard for one department to talk to another. There may be many people working on many different parts of a project in different parts of the … more »

Cinedeck Debuts Camera-Mountable Viewing/Recording

Ever long for a cheaper, simpler, HD-SDI recording device? Charles d’Autremont has. An architecture student from way back, and one of the founders of New York branding and creative agency dbox, he cites accumulated negative experiences in the field as … more »

Previs Society Open for Membership

The Previsualization Society,whose September 2009 launch was previously announced on StudioDaily, just went “live” with a new online portal and has started to formally accept membership applications. Both these initiatives are a ramp-up of activities and steps towards growing the … more »

Why It’s Still Smart to Buy a Mac Pro

Gizmodo has posted an article called "Why It's Gotten Straight Stupid to Buy a Mac Pro." While the title pretty much sums up where this author comes down in the current  iMac vs. Mac Pro debate, it does specifically mention … more »

Autodesk Smoke is coming to the Macintosh

There have been rumors and speculation floating around for a while that Autodesk was going to port their “effects-centric finishing” system Smoke over to the Macintosh platform. The rumors are true and the ever informative fxguide broke the story a … more »

Sony Opens Colorworks DI Facility

On November 17, Sony Pictures Entertainment held a gala party to celebrate the opening of Colorworks, a digital intermediate (DI) facility boasting real-time 4K grading and an end-to-end 4K pipeline. Located on Stage 6 of its lot in Culver City, … more »

Sorenson Squeeze 6: a whole new Squeeze

Those video encoding stalwarts over at Sorenson today announced the availability of Squeeze 6. It looks to be a whole new product from the ground up. There’s a newer interface, faster encoding, better H.264 quality (yep, the actual Sorenson codec … more »