I switched from Final Cut Pro to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 last summer, and three projects later, I'm still happy. But when I wrote my original article, there was one thing I never considered - losing my existing plug-ins I used in FCP. Every editor has plug-ins, some we use daily, others we only need to pull out once in a great while. After Effects and Premiere come with some pretty useful ones, but once in a while I need something a little more specialized.
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Imagineer Systems is Hollywood's favorite planar tracker. At this year's SIGGRAPH convention in Hong Kong, Imagineer Systems brought their Mocha Pro workflow to demo for the strong visual effect communities that attend the asian conference.
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By Diana Weynand, James Alguire and RevUpTansmedia
A Camera Archive is a complete back up of the contents of a videotape (for tape-based cameras), or a memory card or hard drive (for file-based cameras). Normally the video in a camera archive is only accessible from within Final Cut Pro, but what if you need to use some of the archived video in another editing program? You could import the needed video into Final Cut Pro and then export it from a project, but that is quite a bit of work. With a bit of care video from a camera archive can be made available to be imported directly into other software, and this tutorial will show you how.
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By Diana Weynand, James Alguire and RevUpTansmedia
Creating a camera archive creates a backup that frees your camera or capture media for reuse, preserves and protects your media for future use (this should also be enhanced with more traditional backup options like Mac OS X's Time Machine), and finally the camera archive feature helps preserve the date structure used by your camera to make it easier to store and access your video files. A camera archive can be easily mounted (in some cases automatically) and the video imported at any time.
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By Diana Weynand, James Alguire and RevUpTansmedia
If you are an avid user of iPhoto or Aperture, Apple's consumer and professional photo management tools you probably have shoeboxes worth of photos, all carefully organized, cropped, color adjusted, keyword tagged, and now just crying to be seen. Somewhere. Anywhere?
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Whatever the hindsight, or occasion, what's a summertime get together without cold beers and quality food? The commercial was filmed in HD on-site at ElBulli in Catalonia, and in the region of Costa Brava. Artola and Coixel's team of 70 people utilized two RED One cameras, an ARRI Alexa and a Canon 5D Mark II at 25 and 100 frames per second. The footage was cut over the course of 22 days using Final Cut Pro. To effectively construct the cinematic tone for "La Campana del Verano," Moncho applied DaVinci Resolve's secondary color correction controls for curve grading, leveraging the tools to change luminance value and adjust the associated saturation.
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Jingle Punks is a music-licensing company who has provided songs for channels such as Comedy Central and countless shows like The Voice , and The H
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We've been playing with the Nextbook P_remium 9 tablet for a few days and wanted to give you our first impressions.
It has a 9 inch Capacitive
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The Epson Stylus® Pro 3880 and 4900 Designer Editions were created to specifically meet the unique needs of graphic designers. Print full-bleed from 17" to 44" with ultra-accurate color matching. Compatible with the graphics software you already use. Learn More
It has a 9 inch Capacitive TFT screen that supports multitouch operation, a 1280x800 display and a front facing camera (2MP best suited for video calling but there as a camera if you need it). It comes with 4 GB memory, expandable to 32 GB via microSD ram. Has a G sensor so you can rotate to what ever view you prefer. Built in in speakers, WiFi and USB. OS is android 2.3.
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