Final Cut Pro freebies for a better edit experience By Mike Jones
It seems no matter how mature and complex creative software tools become, particularly non-linear editing systems, there always seem to be the extra things you find yourself wishing for. The technology trickle-down effect has seen enormous changes over the past decade where the tools that were once the sole domain of high-end turn-key systems - with appropriate astronomical price-tags - are now stock standard.
...Read More »
The impact of Flash Professional CS5 exporting to the iPhone By Matthew David
If you are a Flash developer then Adobe has big news for you. You can now export your movies as native iPhone Apps. Well, sort of. In this article you will find out what the impact of exporting Flash movies to the iPhone really is.
...Read More »
Kaspersky Lab's Peter Beardmore talks anti-virus and the Mac OS By John Virata
Kaspersky, developers of anti-virus and security software has just released a version of its anti-virus software for the Macintosh operating system. While the Mac OS is targeted by malware and virus writers significantly less than Microsoft's Windows OS, it still gets attacked, just on a much smaller scale. Digital Media Net spoke with Peter Beardmore, senior product marketing manager, Kaspersky Lab, about viruses, malware, and the Mac OS.
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Working on the Mac OS X Desktop By Paul McFedries
When you start your Mac and log on to your user account, the first thing you will see is the Mac OS X desktop, which takes up the entire screen as shown in Figure 1.1. The default desktop is fairly sparse with only the Dock at the bottom of the screen and the menu bar at the top.
...Read More »
Australian conservationist and adventurer Malcolm Douglas By David Hague
Conservationist, adventurer and raconteur Malcolm Douglas is well known to most Australians and many overseas via his Channel 7 films on Australia and the stunning Kimberley in particular. David Hague took a spin through Broome recently and caught up with Malcolm for a chat.
...Read More »
Steve is back - and with new iPods!
Steve Jobs stepped back into the spotlight for the first time in nearly a year on Wednesday, drawing a standing ovation before unveiling new and cheaper iPods for Apple Inc.
...Read More »
Adobe Story First Look Preview By Heath McKnight
Adobe Story is the newest application from the company that brought us Photoshop and other great apps. Adobe Story is a great new way to develop and write screenplays, teleplays, and video scripts. It's a fully featured app that is highly compatible with many of the popular screenwriting and pre-production software. Best part? It works "in the clouds," ie, it's Internet-based as well as a standalone app.
...Read More »
FlickerLab Creates 13 Hours of Animation For Hooked on Phonics
For the first time in 20 years, Hooked on Phonics(r), has redesigned its flagship product, Learn to Read, and incorporated some of the latest reading and literacy research into proven lesson strategies and reading activities designed to teach children fundamental reading skills.
...Read More »
Blue Room Shoots Five Spots For NFL.Com Fantasy Files and Reebok
Produced by Blue Room, the award-winning NFL Fantasy Files have been reopened. Filmed for NFL.com and Reebok, the viral campaign began rolling out one spot a week on July 20 on NFL.com, NFL Network s Total Access and Reebok.com. Designed to incite fantasy football signups and interest for NFL.com, the series of five :30 spots features NFL stars: Joe Flacco (Baltimore Ravens), Santonio Holmes (Pittsburgh Steelers), Maurice Jones-Drew (Jacksonville Jaguars), Darren Sproles (San Diego Chargers) and Kevin Boss (NY Giants).
...Read More »
Free Apps that make your Mac go Zing! By Matthew David
There is a lot of noise about the apps you can get for your iPhone. But what about the Mac, the system that got most Cocoa developers excited? Well, you are in luck. There are thousands of applications for the Macintosh. Some of the best are small and free. In this article you will get review the best of the free applications on the market.
...Read More »
Autodesk Debuts Autodesk Maya 2010 at SIGGRAPH 2009
At SIGGRAPH 2009, Autodesk, Inc. announced it has unified its Autodesk Maya Complete 2009 software with its Autodesk Maya Unlimited 2009 feature set, to come up with Autodesk Maya 2010. The solution combines matchmoving, compositing and rendering in a single unified workflow.
...Read More »
PNY's Carl Flygare talks graphics cards at SIGGRAPH09 By John Virata
Graphics cards play a central role in the creation of animation and special effects that artists see annually at the SIGGRAPH show (in New Orleans this year) and what consumers seem to desire more of in their daily exposure to digital entertainment, be it via the movies, video games, ride simulators, even TV. Over the last several years, artists have been pushing the envelope in what they can create with the tools that are available to them.
...Read More »
Apple updates Final Cut Studio
Apple has updated its Final Cut Studio suite of professional creative applications with more than 100 new features, as well as new versions of its Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Color and Compressor applications.
...Read More »
Apple refreshes MacBook Pro line By John Virata
Apple, Inc. today introduced a refreshed laptop line starting with the MacBook Pro line that starts at $1199 for a 13-inch MacBook Pro with 2.26 Core 2 duo with 2GB RAM, 160hard drive and a SD card slot, the first for an Apple notebook. The top of the line 17-inch model ($2499) features 4GB DDR3 memory, a 500GB hard disk drive, and NVIDIA 9400M or a 9600M GT and an ExpressCard slot.
...Read More »
Bud Light Lime Serves-Up Summer State of Mind in High-Profile Broadcast Spots from Stardust and DDB Chicago
Bicoastal U.S. creative production company Stardust Studios is very proud to detail its close collaborations with the creative team from DDB Chicago for Bud Light Lime. For the project, one :30 and two :15 design-intensive broadcast spots entitled "The Summer State of Mind" created by Stardust debuted on May 10 during high-profile U.S. primetime broadcast coverage, like the 2009 NBA playoffs, and continue to air widely.
...Read More »
Stardust Delivers Ice Breakers Spot for ArnoldNYC
Under the direction of EVP and senior creative director Sig Gross and his colleagues from ArnoldNYC, bicoastal U.S. creative production company Stardust Studios recently produced a colorful spot for Hershey Canada's Ice Breakers Mints.
...Read More »
Graeme Nattress By Heath McKnight
I've known Graeme Nattress, creator of Nattress Filters for Final Cut Pro, Color, and Motion, for a few years now. He has helped me with technical questions (he's one of the smartest people in the world when it comes to video and computer-related tech), we've had conversations about the future of digital filmmaking, and he's just an all-around great guy.
...Read More »
Keying virtual backgrounds for "Hellevator" By Heath McKnight
In the past two to three years, I've been relying more and more on using green screen and chroma keying for my film and video work. After working with visual effects (FX) artists, I began to realize there is nothing complicated when using software to key virtual backgrounds and sets in.
...Read More »
Yosemite National Park. . .in High Definition 3D By John Virata
While 3D films have been around since at least the 1950s, the technique of creating 3D movies gets revisited quite often. Back in the mid 1990s at SIGGRAPH in New Orleans, Sony showed a 3D film at one of its after hours parties at the Aquarium, to the delight of all who were invited to screen it. At this year's NAB trade show in Las Vegas, all the major camera manufacturers were showcasing 3D displays and some had 3D camera demonstrations in their booths.
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Bluetooth headsets have become more and more popular throughout the years and now more and more cell phones have been able to take advantage of this technology. In this review we'll be looking at a brand new Bluetooth headset from iTech, the SolarVoice 908, one of the first solar charging headsets on the market.
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Thank goodness you're a pack rat! You know, have to grab, keep everything that flies by...ok everything except that report or news item or YouTube yuck you saw last week and now desperately need. Can't find it it save your behind. And still you don't have enough storage...there are new worlds to conquer, new worlds to destroy or take home with you. Don't worry Flash will always be there for you Dale!!!!
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On this Veteran's Day 2009, as we honor those who served and gave their lives for America, there are stories about man's best friend being told by those who fought alongside their "War Dogs of the Pacific." Most Americans have no idea that dogs were trained to sniff out the enemy during World War II, 549 to be exact fought with the U.S. Marines on Guam, Saipan, and other battlegrounds of the Pacific Theater.
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Did you hear? Microsoft is releasing a new version of Windows - should you buy it? Windows 7 is here. In this article you will find out if Windows 7 is worth the wait and whether or not you should upgrade. Or is Windows 7 just another Vista?
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Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #6 - Apple ProRes Formats
Apple ProRes is not new to Final Cut Pro 7. It was introduced in Final Cut Pro 6. But with FCP 7, the ProRes family has been expanded to include 3 new-and extremely useful-formats.
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Final Cut Pro freebies for a better edit experience
It seems no matter how mature and complex creative software tools become, particularly non-linear editing systems, there always seem to be the extra things you find yourself wishing for. The technology trickle-down effect has seen enormous changes over the past decade where the tools that were once the sole domain of high-end turn-key systems - with appropriate astronomical price-tags - are now stock standard.
...Read More »
The impact of Flash Professional CS5 exporting to the iPhone
If you are a Flash developer then Adobe has big news for you. You can now export your movies as native iPhone Apps. Well, sort of. In this article you will find out what the impact of exporting Flash movies to the iPhone really is.
...Read More »
Kaspersky Lab's Peter Beardmore talks anti-virus and the Mac OS
Kaspersky, developers of anti-virus and security software has just released a version of its anti-virus software for the Macintosh operating system. While the Mac OS is targeted by malware and virus writers significantly less than Microsoft's Windows OS, it still gets attacked, just on a much smaller scale. Digital Media Net spoke with Peter Beardmore, senior product marketing manager, Kaspersky Lab, about viruses, malware, and the Mac OS.
...Read More »
Working on the Mac OS X Desktop
When you start your Mac and log on to your user account, the first thing you will see is the Mac OS X desktop, which takes up the entire screen as shown in Figure 1.1. The default desktop is fairly sparse with only the Dock at the bottom of the screen and the menu bar at the top.
...Read More »
Australian conservationist and adventurer Malcolm Douglas
Conservationist, adventurer and raconteur Malcolm Douglas is well known to most Australians and many overseas via his Channel 7 films on Australia and the stunning Kimberley in particular. David Hague took a spin through Broome recently and caught up with Malcolm for a chat.
...Read More »
Steve is back - and with new iPods!
Steve Jobs stepped back into the spotlight for the first time in nearly a year on Wednesday, drawing a standing ovation before unveiling new and cheaper iPods for Apple Inc.
...Read More »
Adobe Story First Look Preview
Adobe Story is the newest application from the company that brought us Photoshop and other great apps. Adobe Story is a great new way to develop and write screenplays, teleplays, and video scripts. It's a fully featured app that is highly compatible with many of the popular screenwriting and pre-production software. Best part? It works "in the clouds," ie, it's Internet-based as well as a standalone app.
...Read More »
FlickerLab Creates 13 Hours of Animation For Hooked on Phonics
For the first time in 20 years, Hooked on Phonics(r), has redesigned its flagship product, Learn to Read, and incorporated some of the latest reading and literacy research into proven lesson strategies and reading activities designed to teach children fundamental reading skills.
...Read More »
Blue Room Shoots Five Spots For NFL.Com Fantasy Files and Reebok
Produced by Blue Room, the award-winning NFL Fantasy Files have been reopened. Filmed for NFL.com and Reebok, the viral campaign began rolling out one spot a week on July 20 on NFL.com, NFL Network s Total Access and Reebok.com. Designed to incite fantasy football signups and interest for NFL.com, the series of five :30 spots features NFL stars: Joe Flacco (Baltimore Ravens), Santonio Holmes (Pittsburgh Steelers), Maurice Jones-Drew (Jacksonville Jaguars), Darren Sproles (San Diego Chargers) and Kevin Boss (NY Giants).
...Read More »
Free Apps that make your Mac go Zing!
There is a lot of noise about the apps you can get for your iPhone. But what about the Mac, the system that got most Cocoa developers excited? Well, you are in luck. There are thousands of applications for the Macintosh. Some of the best are small and free. In this article you will get review the best of the free applications on the market.
...Read More »
Autodesk Debuts Autodesk Maya 2010 at SIGGRAPH 2009
At SIGGRAPH 2009, Autodesk, Inc. announced it has unified its Autodesk Maya Complete 2009 software with its Autodesk Maya Unlimited 2009 feature set, to come up with Autodesk Maya 2010. The solution combines matchmoving, compositing and rendering in a single unified workflow.
...Read More »
PNY's Carl Flygare talks graphics cards at SIGGRAPH09
Graphics cards play a central role in the creation of animation and special effects that artists see annually at the SIGGRAPH show (in New Orleans this year) and what consumers seem to desire more of in their daily exposure to digital entertainment, be it via the movies, video games, ride simulators, even TV. Over the last several years, artists have been pushing the envelope in what they can create with the tools that are available to them.
...Read More »
Apple updates Final Cut Studio
Apple has updated its Final Cut Studio suite of professional creative applications with more than 100 new features, as well as new versions of its Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Color and Compressor applications.
...Read More »
Apple refreshes MacBook Pro line
Apple, Inc. today introduced a refreshed laptop line starting with the MacBook Pro line that starts at $1199 for a 13-inch MacBook Pro with 2.26 Core 2 duo with 2GB RAM, 160hard drive and a SD card slot, the first for an Apple notebook. The top of the line 17-inch model ($2499) features 4GB DDR3 memory, a 500GB hard disk drive, and NVIDIA 9400M or a 9600M GT and an ExpressCard slot.
...Read More »
Bud Light Lime Serves-Up Summer State of Mind in High-Profile Broadcast Spots from Stardust and DDB Chicago
Bicoastal U.S. creative production company Stardust Studios is very proud to detail its close collaborations with the creative team from DDB Chicago for Bud Light Lime. For the project, one :30 and two :15 design-intensive broadcast spots entitled "The Summer State of Mind" created by Stardust debuted on May 10 during high-profile U.S. primetime broadcast coverage, like the 2009 NBA playoffs, and continue to air widely.
...Read More »
Stardust Delivers Ice Breakers Spot for ArnoldNYC
Under the direction of EVP and senior creative director Sig Gross and his colleagues from ArnoldNYC, bicoastal U.S. creative production company Stardust Studios recently produced a colorful spot for Hershey Canada's Ice Breakers Mints.
...Read More »
Graeme Nattress
I've known Graeme Nattress, creator of Nattress Filters for Final Cut Pro, Color, and Motion, for a few years now. He has helped me with technical questions (he's one of the smartest people in the world when it comes to video and computer-related tech), we've had conversations about the future of digital filmmaking, and he's just an all-around great guy.
...Read More »
Keying virtual backgrounds for "Hellevator"
In the past two to three years, I've been relying more and more on using green screen and chroma keying for my film and video work. After working with visual effects (FX) artists, I began to realize there is nothing complicated when using software to key virtual backgrounds and sets in.
...Read More »
Yosemite National Park. . .in High Definition 3D
While 3D films have been around since at least the 1950s, the technique of creating 3D movies gets revisited quite often. Back in the mid 1990s at SIGGRAPH in New Orleans, Sony showed a 3D film at one of its after hours parties at the Aquarium, to the delight of all who were invited to screen it. At this year's NAB trade show in Las Vegas, all the major camera manufacturers were showcasing 3D displays and some had 3D camera demonstrations in their booths.
...Read More »
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