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| | | | Flarelight Effects for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and After Effects
 Noise Industries adds PHYX Flarelight to its plugin platform FxFactory. Designed for use in Final Cut Pro® 7 and X, Motion and Adobe® After Effects® and Premiere Pro®, PHYX Flarelight is a collection of visual effects and generators that allows editors to add realistic lens flares, industrial-strength glows and anamorphic streaks to footage
Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, adds PHYX Flarelight to its plugin platform FxFactory. Designed for use in Final Cut Pro® 7 and X, Motion and Adobe® After Effects® and Premiere Pro®, PHYX Flarelight is a collection of visual effects and generators that allows editors to add realistic lens flares, industrial-strength glows and anamorphic streaks to footage.
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| | | | Technicolor Announces Color Assist 1.5, Adds Support for Adobe After Effects
New Version Adds Powerful Tools for Fast, Professional Results, Plus a New Fully Functional Trial Version
Technicolor, a worldwide technology leader in the media and entertainment sector, today announced the latest version of Technicolor Color Assist, its video color correction and grading software package. Key improvements of version 1.5 include compatibility with Adobe® After Effects® and support for AVCHD video and still images, meeting the needs of an ever-expanding universe of creative artists.
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| | | | Imagineer Systems and CoreMelt Announce Immediate Availability of SliceX powered by mocha
 New Final Cut Pro X Masking Plug-In Integrates mocha Planar Tracking Technology for Fast, Accurate Masking with Fewer Keyframes
Imagineer Systems, creators of the Academy Award winning mocha Planar Tracking technology, and CoreMelt today announced the immediate availability of a new Final Cut Pro X masking plug-in, SliceX powered by mocha. This new version of SliceX, previewed at NAB 2013 last month, comes as a result of a strategic partnership between Imagineer Systems and CoreMelt, resulting in the integration of Imagineer’s award winning Planar Tracker into CoreMelt’s shape masking tool.
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| | | | Miranda Features the Future at Broadcast Asia 2013
Broadcast Asia 2013 - 18-21 June 2013, Booth 5C2-01 – Miranda Technologies, a Belden Brand, a global provider of integrated solutions for production, playout and delivery systems for television broadcasters and multi-system operators, has announced that it will showcase its class-leading Kaleido-MX and Kaleido-Modular-X multiviewers series at Broadcast Asia 2013.
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| | | | EditShare Ships Field 2 Portable Shared Storage
Next-generation shared storage platform integrates media asset management in a portable form factor for on-the-move tapeless productions
EditShare®, the technology leader in shared media storage and end-to-end tapeless workflow solutions, announced today the availability of Field 2, its next-generation portable shared storage solution with integrated asset management. The turnkey platform includes file ingest, advanced project sharing/bin locking, and archiving capabilities in an all-in-one, high-performance and rugged chassis. Ideal for on-location shoots, ENG trucks and remote offices, the new Field 2 is durable, light and compact, meeting the most stringent airline carry-on regulations.
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| | | | Adobe Delivers “Sneak Peeks” of Ground-breaking Creative Innovation at MAX 2013
Top technology explorations spotlighted, including “Perspective Warp” in Photoshop and “Video Color Grading” in After Effects
Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today presented a behind-the-scenes look at cutting-edge design and interactive technologies at Adobe MAX, The Creativity Conference. Focused on creativity and expressiveness, MAX brings together over 5,000 creative industry leaders, visionaries and professionals to exchange ideas and inspiration and explore how creativity is changing the world.
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| | | | Getaway Productions Chooses Small Tree Shared Storage for Feature Film Project
Affordable Solution Enables Post-Production Team to Meet Tight Editing Deadlines
Having finished shooting on the feature film “Getaway,” an action movie starring Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez and Jon Voight, the Getaway post-production team knew they needed to add visual effects artists to work on the project. With the addition of up to six VFX artists and two post-production assistants, the team also knew a robust storage solution would be necessary to meet tight deadlines. As such, the group installed a Titanium16 Ethernet-based shared storage system from Small Tree.
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| | | | Adobe Today Announces Acceleration to Creative Cloud at MAX – The Creativity Conference
Today at Adobe MAX, The Creativity Conference, in Los Angeles, Adobe made a significant announcement that it has accelerated its shift to the cloud with a major update to Adobe Creative Cloud, the company’s flagship offering for creative professionals. Available in June, Creative Cloud reimagines the creative process through a feature-packed set of desktop applications and sophisticated cross-device collaboration and publishing capabilities.
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| | | | Adobe Unveils Major Update to Creative Cloud
Includes Next Generation of “CC” Desktop Applications and Delivers Fully Integrated Cross-Device Collaboration, Community and Publishing Capabilities
At Adobe MAX, The Creativity Conference, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced a significant update to Adobe® Creative Cloud™, the company’s flagship offering for creatives. Available in June and packed with new features, Creative Cloud reimagines the creative process through a stunning set of “CC” desktop applications and sophisticated cross-device collaboration and publishing capabilities. Creative files can be stored, synced and shared, via Creative Cloud, on Mac OS, Windows, iOS and Android; and Behance, the world’s leading online creative community, is now integrated with Creative Cloud, so customers can showcase work, get feedback on projects and gain global exposure. With Creative Cloud publishing finished work has never been easier, with enhanced services that build and power websites, mobile apps, tablet publications, online portfolios, and content for virtually any medium and device.
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| | | | 3DGarage.com Delivers New "LightWave 3D v11.5 Up to Speed” Training Video
 Highlights Robust New Features in More than Four Hours of Instructional Video
3D Garage.com™, a worldwide producer of instructional training videos for 3D modeling and digital content creation, announced today its new “LightWave 11.5 Up to Speed” instructional training video from Dan Ablan is now available.
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| | | | Oblivion 3D Motion Graphics Design Team Innovates With MAXON CINEMA 4D
 In-Camera and On-Screen Visual Effects Sequences Define Futuristic Tone of Universal Pictures’ New Action-Adventure
MAXON, leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, today announced that an award-winning team of motion graphics designers and animators leveraged the company’s popular CINEMA 4D software application to visualize and design the complex in-camera and on-screen motion-graphics sequences in Universal Pictures’ "Oblivion".
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| | | | emotion3D announces Stereoscopic Suite X3 plugins for The Foundry’s Nuke
emotion3D announces the upcoming release of its award-winning suite of stereoscopic plugins for The Foundry’s Nuke platform. The Stereoscopic Suite X3 for The Foundry’s Nuke features emotion3D’s unique toolset for working with stereoscopic material, bringing the exceptional functionality of SSX3 to a new group of artists.
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| | | | Boris FX Expands Real-Time Performance of Boris Continuum Complete
New Boris Continuum Complete v8.2 Features Fast OpenGL Rendering, New Real-Time Filters
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated VFX and workflow technology for video and film, today announced Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) Version 8.2. The new v8.2 release features up to 100% improvement in render time for OpenGL-accelerated filters. In addition, nearly all BCC AVX for Avid filters can now be rendered in real-time.
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| | | | Imagineer Systems and CoreMelt Announce New Final Cut Plug-in at NAB2013: SliceX powered by mocha
 Imagineer to Preview New mocha 3.2 with Added Internationalization and Localization, and Support for Contour ShuttlePro
Imagineer Systems, creators of the Academy Award winning mocha Planar Tracking technology, and CoreMelt (http://www.coremelt.com) today announced a new Final Cut Pro X masking plug-in, SliceX powered by mocha. This new version of SliceX comes as a result of a strategic partnership between Imagineer Systems and CoreMelt, resulting in the integration of Imagineer’s award winning Planar Tracker into CoreMelt’s shape masking tool.
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| | | | Matrox Announces Support for the Next Version of Adobe Professional Video Editing Tools
Matrox MXO2 family of I/O devices and Matrox Mojito MAX I/O card will be tightly integrated with the next version of Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe SpeedGrade, including the Adobe Mercury Transmit feature.
Matrox® Video today announced support for the upcoming release of Adobe® professional video editing tools, including Adobe Mercury Transmit for Adobe Premiere® Pro and Adobe SpeedGrade™, with the Matrox MXO2™ family of I/O devices and the Matrox Mojito MAX™ I/O card. The award-winning Matrox I/O products provide broadcast-quality video and audio input, output and monitoring to enable traditional tape-based workflows including deck control for frame-accurate batch capture and print-to-tape. They are also the only I/O solutions on the market that let users encode H.264 files for delivery to the web, iPad® and iPhone® up to five times faster than software alone without sacrificing quality. In addition, MXO2 devices provide cross-platform Mac® and Windows® support and are still the only solutions that connect anywhere, Mac and PC, via Thunderbolt™, PCIe® or ExpressCard/34®—with the same versatile unit. WYSIWYG support for Adobe After Effects® and Adobe Photoshop® will also be provided.
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| | | | NVIDIA Accelerates Creative Workflows at NAB 2013
New NVIDIA GRID Visual Computing Appliance Featured Among Demos for Broadcasters, Visual Effects Artists and Animators
NVIDIA is showcasing how professionals creating and distributing content can accelerate their workflows using the latest GPU technologies and partner software in booth SL3905 and throughout the conference at NAB 2013.
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| | | | Blackmagic Design Announces Support for the Next Versions of Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
Blackmagic Design today announced that its entire range of desktop video products will support the next generation of professional video editing software from Adobe®, including Adobe® Premiere® Pro and Adobe After Effects®. The integration will be available as a free download from the Blackmagic Design site when these future Adobe products are available. See related Adobe sneak peeks: adobe.com/go/nab_reveal.
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| | | | FilmConvert now with BMCC and GoPro Hero3
Today sees the release of Rubber Monkey Software's latest update to its' FilmConvert digital film emulation tools. Extending the ability of filmmakers to deliver accurate, quick film looks for their projects, this release includes a significant new set of camera profiles. With specific support for the GoPro Hero3, and the Black Magic Cinema Camera, the new profiles also include additional custom picture styles for the Canon DSLR range of cameras.
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| | | | Fusion-io to Integrate ioFX Acceleration Into HP Z Workstations
 Industry Leaders Enhance Application Performance in Visual Effects, Digital Content Creation and Computer Assisted Design for Demanding Creative Projects
Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) today announced that it is collaborating with global workstation leader HP to integrate the Fusion ioFX into the award-winning HP Z820, Z620 and Z420 Workstations. The integrated solutions will offer ideal development platforms for professional artists in visual effects, upstream exploration of oil and gas, digital content creation (DCC) and computer-aided design (CAD). In addition, professionals interested in adding the Fusion ioFX to their current HP Workstation can purchase the ioFX as a custom integration component.
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| | | | New EditShare Field 2 High-Performance, Mobile Shared Storage Designed For Every Production Adventure Is Featured at NAB 2013
EditShare shows off its next-generation portable form factor with integrated media asset management capabilities
EditShare®, the technology leader in shared media storage and end-to-end tapeless workflow solutions, is demonstrating the brand new EditShare Field 2 at NAB 2013 (booth SL9010). The highly portable shared storage solution offers asset management, file ingest, advanced project sharing/bin locking and archiving capabilities in an all-in-one, high-performance, compact and rugged chassis designed for on-the-go and on-location productions. “The new Field 2 design is even lighter and more rugged than its predecessor, with size dimensions that comply with the most stringent of airline carry-on regulations,” comments Andy Liebman, founder and CEO, EditShare. “Coupled with EditShare's core asset management, project sharing and archiving capabilities, Field 2 gives editors a complete, end-to-end tapeless workflow in a small form factor with tools to collaborate with colleagues anywhere. Whether you are out on location shooting a movie or an event, on assignment in an ENG truck, or stationed at a remote office, you have the latest production and editing capabilities to make your workflow a lot more efficient and your life a whole lot easier.”
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| | | | Dalet Showcases Dalet Cube, a Complete 3D Graphics Suite for Dalet News Solutions at NAB 2013
Modular package tailored to news production for authoring, fast CG creation, and playout management
Dalet Digital Media Systems, a leading developer of Media Asset Management (MAM) solutions, software and services for broadcasters, is featuring Dalet Cube, a cost-effective 3D graphics solution for news production at NAB 2013 (Booth SL4524). This IT-based offering is available as an optional package that integrates natively with Dalet News Suite and Dalet News Pack.
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| | | | Version 1.1 of Miranda iTX Render Service Makes NAB Debut
Miranda Technologies, a Belden Brand, a global provider of integrated solutions for production, playout and delivery systems for television broadcasters and multi-system operators, has announced the debut of Version 1.1 of its iTX Render Service for Adobe® After Effects® CS6 software. The iTX Render Service is a marked departure from traditional methods of graphics creation that now unleashes the full creative power of After Effects CS6 within Miranda’s iTX playout platform workflow.
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| | | | MAXON Announces New Live 3D Pipeline Between CINEMA 4D and Adobe After Effects
First Step in Recently Announced Strategic Alliance Results in Streamlined Workflow and Improved Functionality for Motion Graphics and Visual Effects Artists
MAXON, leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, today revealed the first step in its strategic alliance with Adobe Systems Incorporated, aimed at delivering a new level of integration between its powerful 3D application, CINEMA 4D, and Adobe® After Effects®. The recently revealed next release of Adobe’s industry leading software will include two MAXON technologies directly within the new Adobe After Effects: CINEWARE and CINEMA 4D Lite.
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| | | | Adobe Anywhere Launches at NAB 2013
Global Collaborative Workflow Platform Revolutionizes Broadcast Industry
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe®Anywhere for video, a modern, collaborative workflow platform that empowers teams using Adobe professional video tools to work together, enabling the access and management of centralized media and assets across virtually any network. Revealed as a technology preview in 2012, Adobe Anywhere supports tools such as Adobe Premiere® Pro, Adobe After Effects®*, and Adobe Prelude™, and will be showcased at this year’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show, with final availability expected in May 2013. Adobe Anywhere will be on display during the NAB show taking place April 8-11, 2013 at Adobe’s booth # SL3910, South Hall in the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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| | | | Adobe Drives Innovation with New Video Workflows at NAB 2013
Company Previews Next Generation of Professional Video and Audio Products and Launches Adobe Anywhere for Video
At the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) will showcase new software and video technology that is transforming the way broadcasters, filmmakers and video professionals create and deliver high-quality productions across multiple screens. Highlights of the show include the first public demonstrations of the next generation of Adobe’s flagship video tools including Adobe® Premiere® Pro, Adobe After Effects® SpeedGrade™, Adobe Audition® Adobe Prelude™, Adobe Media Encoder and Adobe Story before their official release. NAB attendees will see a modern, highly-interoperable set of video tools that enable fast, seamless workflows.
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| | | | DiaQuest ProductionLink Now Available for Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects
 Software Plug-In Now Sold Separately or Bundled at Reduced Price
DiaQuest Products, a software development firm with a focus on the video and film industries, today announced two new versions of its ProductionLink plug-ins for Adobe® products. ProductionLink for Premiere Pro and ProductionLink for After Effects add Avid® Interplay to the list of available render formats for both programs. Once installed, ProductionLink features appear within the Adobe user interface and provide a reliable, seamless link between applications.
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| | | | NAB 2013: Adobe Introduces Adobe Anywhere
At NAB 2013, Adobe is introducing Adobe Anywhere, a collaborative workflow platform that centralizes projects and allows users to share and change project files. Also new are some powerful new features for Adobe Premiere Pro, including color grading and the ability to "link & locate" clips. A newly designed SpeedGrade also makes color grading tools more familiar to Adobe toolset users, and After Effects celebrates its 20th anniversary.
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| | | | Camp Creative Chooses ProMAX Platform for Shared Storage Solution
 ProMAX, the innovative provider of turnkey editorial, shared storage, and asset management solutions, has announced that Camp Creative has chosen ProMAX Platform as their shared storage solution. Camp Creative, a marketing and experiential event design agency serving clients in the Bay Area and across the U.S., had Platform installed to meet their creative needs in January of this year, and the server has been running nonstop as the facility's replacement for its aging SAN (Storage Area Network).
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| | | | Imagineer Systems Partners with CoreMelt at NAB 2013; Unveils New Version of SliceX for FCP X Powered By mocha
Imagineer to Preview New mocha 3.2 with Added Internationalization and Localization, and Support for Contour ShuttlePro
Imagineer Systems, creators of the Academy Award winning mocha Planar Tracking technology, today announced it has partnered with CoreMelt (http://www.coremelt.com) to integrate Imagineer’s Planar Tracker into SliceX, the shape masking plug-in for FCP X. SliceX is available for demonstration at the Imagineer Systems booth at NAB 2013 during the week of April 8, 2013 at booth #SL3329 in the Plug In Pavilion in the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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| | | | MAXON Announces Strategic Alliance with Adobe to Bring Creative Professionals New Levels of Digital Media Content Creation
MAXON, the developer of CINEMA 4D, a leading 3D animation software for film, broadcast and motion graphics professionals, today announced it has entered into a strategic alliance with Adobe Systems Incorporated to further collaborate on technology that provides creatives in the motion graphics and visual effects industry with new levels of digital media content creation. As part of the alliance, both companies are expected to collaborate and engineer a pipeline between Adobe® After Effects® software and CINEMA 4D to give users a seamless 2D/3D foundation.
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| | | | MAXON Applauds Oscar® and Visual Effects Society Awards Winners and Nominees
 Innovative VFX Sequences in Life of Pi, Prometheus and Men in Black 3 Benefit from CINEMA 4D and BodyPaint 3D Technology
MAXON congratulates the many customers that won and were nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Visual Effects Society (VES) and other prominent creative arts organizations for outstanding achievement in the visual effects and other categories who leveraged the company’s professional 3D solutions – CINEMA 4D and Body Paint 3D – to create this year’s most proclaimed characters, backgrounds and environments.
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| | | | Jollyfy Announces SXSW Mobile Video Theme-a-Thon Contest for Creative Designers
 ‘Jollyfy@SXSW Theme-A-Thon’ Contest to Award 32GB iPad Mini to Designer With Most Popular SXSW Video Theme for Jollyfy, the First iPhone and iPad App Enabling Users to Add Their Own Themes in Camera Viewfinder
Jollyfy today announced a creative designer contest, the ‘Jollyfy@SXSW Theme-a-Thon’ which challenges iPhone and iPad developers and designers to create the most popular video themes around the SXSW interactive/film/music festival, which takes place in Austin, Texas March 8-17. The Jollyfy@SXSW Theme-a-Thon provides interactive designers with a chance to gain global recognition during SXSW, and win a 32 GB iPad Mini. The Jollyfy theme which gets the most downloads and has the most videos created with it between the date of submission and March 20th will be declared the winner. Jollyfy will announce the winner on Monday, March 25, 2013.
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| | | | Cinerama Restores Films with Boris Continuum Complete’s Flicker Fixer
BCC Flicker Fixer Removes Flicker, Emulsion Blotching, Artifacting, and Image Weaving
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated VFX and workflow technology for video and film, today announced that David Strohmaier, Restoration Producer for Cinerama, Inc., is using Boris Continuum Complete’s Flicker Fixer in Adobe After Effects to remove flicker, emulsion blotching, and artifacting during the film restoration process.
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| | | | Boris FX Rolls Out New Boris Continuum Units Product Family
Pick and Choose Boris Continuum Complete Filter Categories Starting at $199
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated VFX and workflow technology for video and film, today announced that each category of Boris Continuum Complete filters is now available as a separate Boris Continuum Unit, allowing artists to choose toolsets that are geared towards their specific needs.
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| | | | SUGARfx Subtitles for Final Cut Pro, Motion, After Effects and Premiere Pro
Easy-to-use Subtitle plugin offers support for several subtitle formats and hundreds of international languages and fonts
Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, adds SUGARfx Subtitles to its family of powerful plugins. The new versatile software allows users to add permanent subtitles to their finished movies in Final Cut Pro®, Motion, Adobe® Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects. In addition to supporting a wide variety of fonts, the software is capable of handling hundreds of languages, as well as importing several subtitle formats, making it one of the most versatile subtitle tools available today. Helpful on-screen controls allow editors to easily import text and adjust font, style and color to fit the project’s style perfectly. SUGARfx Subtitles is available now on FxFactory for 49 USD.
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| | | | Editors' Lounge Demonstrates Time Saving Tools For Post Production
The Editors’ Lounge recently kicked off their 2013 educational series with demonstrations on time-saving tools for the post-production professional. Editors and other industry professionals enjoyed an evening chocked full of invaluable tips and trade secrets, including how you can now edit from anywhere with the use of your i-Pad.
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| | | | LightWave 11.5 Now Available
 Enhances 3D creativity with new Soft Body Bullet Dynamics, After Effects integration, Interactive Modeling Tools, Genoma character rigging system and much more
The LightWave 3D® Group, a division of NewTek, Inc., announced today LightWave 11.5, the newest version of its award-winning 3D modeling, animation and rendering software for artists and designers, is now available for purchase at http://www.lightwave3d.com. A no-charge upgrade to LightWave 11.5 is available to all registered LightWave 11 customers via the LightWave 3D website.
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| | | | Bounce Transitions and Shatter Transitions for Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro and After Effects
 Nattress releases two new transition effects to bounce and shatter footage on and off the screen
Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, introduces two brand new transition plugins from Nattress to FxFactory for FCP® X, Motion, After Effects® and Premiere® Pro. A package of four fun, bouncy effects, Bounce Transitions lets editors quickly bounce footage on and off the screen using realistic motion algorithms for natural bounce or spring movement. Nattress Shatter Transitions create dynamic transitions based on either breaking apart the outgoing video or bringing together the incoming video.
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| | | | Authority FX is currently running a fantastic sale for the holidays.
 Until Christmas you can save 75% on all plugin purchases!
Authority FX plugins are production tested and designed by a professional boutique visual effects studio. Authority FX plugins are not a suite, nor a set, just a collection of extremely useful tools that will be used on almost every composite you do. Sold with free support, free upgrades, no-hassle licensing, and extremely competitive prices, Authority FX offers some of the best After Effects and Fusion compositing plugins available today.
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| | | | SNS EVO Increases Production Output for Top Online Education Leader’s Workflow
 Sympoz Inc. Reinvents the Online Class Experience with Craftsy
With an estimated 1m-registered users and over 600,000 students, Craftsy, a virtual school for crafting enthusiasts is poised to be the largest online education business ever. Craftsy parent company, Denver based Sympoz, Inc., was founded in 2010 by former eBay executives who were frustrated by the quality of online education. Sympoz introduced classes in crafting and cooking, which they quickly found tapped into a large underserved online market segment, women. The crafting courses were so successful that in May 2011, Sympoz launched the Craftsy brand now offering quilting, knitting, crochet, sewing, paper crafts, cake decorating and more.
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| | | | Facilis Launches TerraBlock v5.7, Introduces New SyncBlock Archive and Backup Solutions
 Today, high-performance shared storage provider Facilis Technology unveiled TerraBlock v5.7 and introduced SyncBlock – the company’s new line of archive, backup and synchronization packages qualified for direct attachment to their TerraBlock Shared Storage Systems that support 4Gb/s, 8Gb/s and 16Gb/s Fibre Channel, and 1Gb and 10Gb Ethernet client connectivity.
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| | | | MacVideo Promo Launches Holiday Bundle, Offers Massive Savings
6 great Mac video apps and tools for just $199.95, over 85% off the regular price
MacVideo Promo, an etailer specializing in unique money-saving bundles of apps, plug-ins, templates, and training for Mac video enthusiasts, today announced their inaugural bundle for the 2012 holiday season. A $1,500+ value, the MacVideo Promo Holiday Bundle includes the following components for just $199.95:
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| | | | Imagineer Systems Ushers in the 2012 Holiday Season with its Annual Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sale
40% Discounts Available on Entire mocha Family of Planar Tracking Solutions
Imagineer Systems (http://www.imagineersystems.com) today announced it is ringing in the 2012 Holiday Season with its annual Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sale. With discounts of over 40% , Imagineer Systems invites its global community of VFX artists and post production professionals to take advantage of its newest mocha v3.1 family of Planar Tracking solutions.
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| | | | FxFactory 4.0 Visual Effects Plugin Platform Now Available on Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
The revolutionary visual effects package from Noise Industries adds Adobe Premiere Pro support alongside existing host application support of Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion and Adobe After Effects
Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, is pleased to announce FxFactory 4 is now available. The latest update to Noise Industries’ visual effects plugin platform, FxFactory 4 now supports Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS6, in addition to Apple® Final Cut Pro®, Motion, and Adobe After Effects®. Powering hundreds of hardware-accelerated film-quality visual effects, FxFactory 4 is an all-in-one expandable video toolbox with plugins for video stylization and looks, color correction, stills animation, keying, stereoscopic 3D and titling. The newest version also includes updates to many popular products: Photo Montage, Motype 1.3, Callouts 1.3, Cleaner 2.0, Split Animator and FxFactory Pro. Download FxFactory 4.0 for free today.
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| | | | Imagineer Systems Launches mocha v3.1
New 3.1 Versions of mocha Pro and mocha AE Improve Lens Distortion Workflow; Adds New Support for ASSIMILATE SCRATCH v7 and HitFilm 2 Ultimate
Imagineer Systems (http://www.imagineersystems.com) today announced it has launched mocha v3.1, with an improved lens distortion workflow that allow users to easily analyze, calibrate and remove camera lens distortion for advanced effects compositing tasks. mocha v3.1 also includes new support for RED (R3D) files, ASSIMILATE SCRATCH 7 and HitFilm 2 Ultimate.
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| | | | Digital Anarchy Releases Free Video Filter: Ugly Box Enhances Skin Damange to Make Subjects Look Worse
 The Perfect Halloween Filter Makes Talent Look Like Zombies in After Effects, Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro
Digital Anarchy today announced Ugly Box, a free filter for enhancing skin damage. With the advent of HD, viewers expect to see every last wrinkle, scar, and oozing pore on zombies, witches, and news commentators. Ugly Box uses Digital Anarchy’s award winning Beauty Box skin retouching algorithms to accentuate all the skin detail on undead talent. This creates the effect of making talent look older, uglier, or just plain hideous. Ugly Box supports Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Apple Final Cut Pro 7 & 10.0.6.
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| | | | MAXON Expands Global Training Initiative with Free Student Version CINEMA 4D Release 14
Latest Edition of Industry Leading 3D Software Application Offers Fully Functional Licenses to Help Animation and Design Students Fast-Track to Success
MAXON today announced worldwide availability of a free, fully functional, Student Edition of CINEMA 4D R14. Today’s release marks an expanded global initiative to empower students with unrestricted access to the same tools professional 3D artists use to sharpen their skills, without budget constraints.
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| | | | The Latest From Avid And Tiffen At September Editors’ Lounge
Avid has recently improved workflow speeds and openness in Media Composer 6.5 with several new key enhancements. On Friday, September 28th the Editors’ Lounge will be hosting an exclusive evening with Avid. Avid Application Specialist Bob Russo will be demonstrating how these new tools have improved speed and also allow the flexibility needed for creating many different looks. The event will be held at AlphaDogs Post Production 1612 W. Olive Ave., Burbank, CA 91506 beginning at 6:30 pm. RSVP is required in order to attend.
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| | | | Coremelt Releases Activetext, Free Text Tool For Adobe Premiere Pro Users
New release gives editors ten styles of text animation with drag and drop simplicity.
CoreMelt, a leading provider of advanced video plug-in effects for the editorial, compositing, design and visual effects communities, today announced the release of ActiveText, ten free titling plugins for Premiere Pro editors.
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| | | | DiaQuest ProductionLink for Adobe Creative Suite Now Shipping
 Software Plug-In Adds Avid Interplay Connectivity for Seamless Integration
DiaQuest Products, a software development firm with a focus on the video and film industries, today announced that ProductionLink for Adobe Creative Suite, a plug-in for Adobe® Creative Suite® that adds Avid® Interplay to its list of available render formats, is now shipping. Available for Windows and Mac systems, ProductionLink adds the file organization and metadata capabilities of the Interplay production asset management (PAM) system to established Adobe workflows automatically.
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| | | | Stardust Completes 10-Spot Campaign For Corona
 Animated Commercials Feature Narration From Football Legend Jon Gruden
Bi-coastal production company Stardust recently delivered a 10-spot campaign from Corona promoting their sweepstakes to send several lucky fans on a trip to a prime football destination. Stardust was recruited for the project via agency Pereira & O’Dell to develop a package of fast-paced, high-energy animated shorts in a contemporary hand-drawn comic style.
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| | | | Broadcast Themes In All-New Premium Templates for Adobe After Effects®
Digital Juice releases Toxic Templates™ for Adobe After Effects®, Collection 3: Broadcast
Digital Juice®, the highly acclaimed developer of digital content for video and motion graphics artists announced today that it is releasing Toxic Templates™ for Adobe After Effects, Collection 3: Broadcast. Toxic Templates™ are unique premium quality animated template graphics that provide After Effects users with a variety of professional finished looks, and feature multiple photo, video and editable text zones per segment. Toxic Templates can be used for everything from opens, segues and video montages to corporate presentations, photo galleries and broadcast commercial spots.
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| | | | Avid Dramatically Improves Workflow Speed and Openness with Media Composer 6.5 Family of Products
New features streamline project mastering and archiving, and advance editing efficiency
Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced the latest release of its industry-leading video editing tools, Media Composer® 6.5, Symphony® 6.5, and NewsCutter® 10.5, providing fast, open workflows that greatly advance editing efficiency. The new releases of Media Composer and NewsCutter are also the first work in conjunction with Avid Interplay® Sphere to support universal connectivity and collaborative production, giving contributors the freedom to work in a distributed environment that spans multiple locations and time zones. With support for new standards that help streamline media mastering and archiving, plus new audio features and relink capabilities, these latest releases enable customers to further enhance their creativity and productivity.
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| | | | Imagineer Systems Expands Market Presence into High End Finishing and Consumer/Prosumer Markets; Announces Series of Licensing Agreements and Partnerships at IBC 2012
Strategic Partnerships with Quantel, Assimilate and FXhome Expands Global Reach of Award-Winning mocha Planar Tracking Technology
Imagineer Systems has announced a series of licensing agreements and strategic partnerships that significantly expand market presence for its flagship Planar Tracking technology into high end post production and finishing markets, as well as into consumer/prosumer content creation markets. At IBC 2012 in Amsterdam this week, Imagineer will announce strategic partnerships with Quantel, ASSIMILATE SCRATCH and FXhome - all of whom are licensing or supporting Imagineer’s Planar Tracking technology from mocha to bring its award-winning motion tracking technology into new products.
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| | | | Boris FX Announces Final Effects Complete 7 AE at IBC 2012
32-bit Float Support, Integration with Adobe After Effects Masks, New Transitions
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated VFX and workflow technology for video and film, today announced Final Effects Complete Complete 7 AE (FEC 7 AE). Featuring 3D particle effects, a complete range of auto-animating transitions, and unique text and edge treatments, Final Effects Complete AE brings over 120 designer effects and transitions to Macintosh and Windows versions of Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro CS6, CS5.5, CS5, and CS4. The new Version 7 release features 32-bit float support, integration with After Effects mask path controls, new Beat Reactor integration for Adobe Premiere Pro, and 10 new filters and transitions.
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| | | | IBC 2012: Adobe Provides Broadcast & Media Solutions
Adobe came to IBC 2012 focused on the broadcast industry. The big reveal was its new Adobe Anywhere, a collaborative workflow platform that allows real-time collaboration for remote users of Premiere Pro, After Effects and Prelude. Adobe expanded its partnerships with broadcast solution companies, to over 200. At the show, Adobe also unveiled a new promotional offer for individuals and corporations interested in switching from Apple Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer to Adobe Production Premium or Adobe Creative Cloud.
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| | | | Pixl Family Raises The Bar On Global Production With Studio Network Solution (SNO) EVO
Pixl Family Founder and Executive Producer, John Lundberg has a lot on his plate. With over 40 global brands and agencies trusting the company to promote them including, Samsung, Red Bull, Nike ACG, Oakley, Peak Performance, Grow, Great Works and more, Pixl Family has quickly become one of Europe’s leading creative production houses. So when it came time to update their production pipeline, they needed something that would live up to the highest level of quality, SNS EVO delivered.
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| | | | Blackmagic Design Receives Certification for its Thunderbolt™ Video Solutions for PCs
Blackmagic Design today announced that its Thunderbolt™ based video solutions are the first to have been certified by Intel for video capture and playback with approved Thunderbolt computer hardware operating under Windows™. Blackmagic Design’s Intensity Shuttle and Intensity Extreme feature lightning fast Thunderbolt technology and can now be used with certified Thunderbolt hardware using Windows.
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| | | | Blackmagic Design Announces DeckLink 4K Extreme
 World’s highest quality capture and playback card now supports 4K playback, 3D with new HDMI 1.4 full resolution 3D capture and playback, up, down, cross conversion and 12 bit quality!
Blackmagic Design today announced a new PCI Express capture card, DeckLink 4K Extreme, that now includes all the features of its popular DeckLink HD Extreme 3D card, plus adds 4K playback that is four times the resolution of 1080HD video and a much faster PCI Express Generation 2 connection to allow higher resolution video standards such as 4K.
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| | | | Blackmagic Design Announces UltraStudio Mini Monitor and UltraStudio Mini Recorder
 Capture and playback SD/HD up to 1080p60 with high speed Thunderbolt™ technology.
Blackmagic Design today announced UltraStudio Mini Monitor and UltraStudio Mini Recorder, two new capture and playback solutions featuring 3 Gb/s SDI and HDMI connections plus high speed Thunderbolt technology. UltraStudio Mini Monitor and UltraStudio Mini Recorder are extremely portable, pocket sized products powered by their Thunderbolt connections so they can be operated from a computer’s battery or power source. UltraStudio Mini Monitor and UltraStudio Mini Recorder support all common SD/HD formats for incredible quality video up to 1080p60 and will be available in November for only US$145.
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| | | | Blackmagic Design Announces UltraStudio 4K with Thunderbolt Technology
 High speed attractive rack mount capture and playback device features 4K playback, dual stream 3D, dual link 3 Gb/s SDI, HDMI, analog video in break out box design.
Blackmagic Design today announced UltraStudio 4K, an attractively designed rack mount capture and playback device based on Thunderbolt™ technology developed by Intel® with collaboration from Apple®. UltraStudio 4K features full resolution 4K support, dual stream 3D capture/playback, 10bit hardware architecture, dual link 3 Gb/s SDI, support for up to 1080p60 in SDI,component analog and HDMI connections which support full SD, HD, and 4K , for only US$1,295.
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| | | | Adobe Delivers Powerful Broadcast Lineup for IBC 2012
Company Announces New Products, Partners and Promotion As Industry Continues the Shift to Adobe Video Solutions
At the IBC 2012 Conference and Exhibition, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced it is showcasing innovative new video technologies that are driving the shift to Adobe video solutions across the broadcast and media industries. Highlights of the show include the reveal of Adobe® Anywhere® for video. Adobe Anywhere is a modern, collaborative workflow platform that empowers teams using Adobe professional video tools, including Adobe Premiere® Pro, to work together across virtually any network, using shared media. Adobe also announced new partnerships with leading media asset management and graphics vendors in broadcast news and sports—such as Chyron, Dalet, EVS and Vizrt—which will give customers improved efficiencies in production.
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| | | | Softron Media Services Updates Multicam Logger
New Version Adds Compatibility with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Software
Softron Media Services® will demonstrate its updated version of Multicam Logger at its booth (7.G12) during this year's IBC in Amsterdam. Multicam Logger is an application from Softron Media Services that makes multicam productions easy and cost-effective.
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| | | | MAXON CINEMA 4D Release 14 Now Available
Eagerly Awaited Features Include Sculpting, New Camera Functionality and Rendering Enhancements
MAXON announced the immediate availability of CINEMA 4D Release 14, the next generation of its industry-leading 3D motion graphics, visual effects, painting, and rendering software application. CINEMA 4D R14 delivers eagerly awaited features including a new, fully integrated sculpting system, new camera matching functionality, the debut of exchange plugins to two key applications – The Foundry NUKE and Adobe Photoshop Extended – improved integration with Adobe After Effects and a huge number of other powerful workflow feature enhancements.
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| | | | MAXON Honored with Second CGW Silver Edge Award
CINEMA 4D Technology Named ‘Best in Show’ Two Years in a Row
MAXON is pleased to announce CINEMA 4D R14 (R14), a milestone release of its cornerstone 3D motion graphics, visual effects, painting, and rendering software application, has been honored by the editorial team at Computer Graphics World (CGW) with the prestigious SIGGRAPH 2012 CGW Silver Edge Award, marking the second consecutive year that CGW has bestowed the company’s 3D software technology with this prominent award.
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| | | | LightWave 3D Group Reveals LightWave 11.5
New Genoma rigging system for Modeler, soft-body Bullet Dynamics, modeling enhancements and interchange support for After Effects and GoZ FiberMesh create a robust end-to-end pipeline
The LightWave 3D® Group, a division of NewTek, Inc., announced today LightWave 11.5, a powerful new edition of its Emmy® Award-winning 3D modeling, animation and rendering software. A complete 3D pipeline, LightWave 11.5 includes many new features to streamline productivity, including a new Genoma character animation and rigging system for Modeler, predator and prey flocking, Instancing, soft-body Bullet Dynamics, interchange support for Adobe After Effects and Pixologic’s GoZ Fiber Mesh, major workflow enhancements, and more.
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| | | | Adobe Powers India’s First Stereoscopic 3D Animated Feature Film ‘Krishna aur Kans’
Reliance Animation leverages groundbreaking techniques to create a stunning visual experience
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) has announced that “Krishna aur Kans”, an animated feature film presented by Reliance Animation, has been powered by Adobe technologies including Adobe® Flash® Professional, Adobe Premiere® Pro, After Effects® and Photoshop®. Set for release on 3 August 2012, Krishna aur Kans will be India’s first stereoscopic 3D animated feature film marking a milestone in the Indian animation industry. A team of over 1,200 exceptional artists have worked over the last five and a half years on this movie using a host of Adobe technologies to bring to life the narrative of Krishna, who is set to mesmerize the audience with his charm and valor. While most of the global releases (in Hindi, English, Tamil and Telugu) are in stereoscopic format, the film will also be released in 2D.
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| | | | MAXON Announces CINEMA 4D Release 14
 Breakthrough Innovations in Modeling, Performance and Product Integration Bring a High-Impact Creative Experience to 3D Professionals
Today, MAXON unveiled CINEMA 4D Release 14, (R14) a milestone release of the industry-leading 3D motion graphics, visual effects, painting, and rendering software application. Leveraging more than two decades of 3D graphics programming innovation, R14 delivers breakthrough performance including a new, fully integrated sculpting system, camera matching functionality, exchange plugins to two key applications – The Foundry NUKE and Adobe Photoshop Extended – and improved integration with Adobe After Effects. Motion graphics/VFX artists and visualization designers will benefit from features that accelerate productivity to produce spectacular 3D content more fluidly and collaborate with increased efficiency. [Note: MAXON will debut CINEMA 4D R14 at the upcoming SIGGRAPH 2012 convention, booth #723, http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20120730005333/en]
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| | | | Imagineer Systems to Preview New Update to mocha v3 at SIGGRAPH 2012
Special Guest VFX Artists to Showcase Examples of their Work on Top Hollywood Blockbusters and Television Series in the Imagineer Systems Booth
Imagineer Systems today announced it will showcase its newest versions of mocha Pro™ and mocha AE™, at SIGGRAPH 2012 in Los Angeles next week. Imagineer also announced it will be showing a technology preview of the upcoming mocha v3.1. This release will add significant new tools for lens distorted footage, Python scripting, RED support and new features to help roto artists work more efficiently.
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| | | | Animated Title Templates with Dramatic Style in New Toxic Type® 8
Digital Juice releases Toxic Type Collection 8 featuring cinematic-themed text-centric templates for Adobe After Effects®
Digital Juice® announced today that it is releasing Toxic Type™ Collection 8 for Adobe After Effects: Cinematic III. The Toxic Type collections feature a variety of ready-to-use Adobe After Effects® templates that contain expertly-designed text-centric animations with title text and supporting graphics presented in a lively and attention-getting manner. After Effects artists can build projects around these animated text designs or simply add the ready-made title segments to any multi-segment production for a polished cinematic look that will grab the viewer’s interest.
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| | | | Manhattan Edit Workshop and theC47 Present: The Filmmaker's Intensive 2012
Learn the art and science of documentary film from top working professionals in the industry; Early bird special ends Monday, July 16th
Manhattan Edit Workshop (MEWshop) and theC47 are excited to announce The Filmmaker’s Intensive (TFMI), an annual two-week program that takes aspiring filmmakers out of their day-to-day environments and allows them to fully immerse themselves in the art and science of making movies. This year's program is specifically designed to provide each student an intense education in non-fiction filmmaking from some of the best documentarians in the industry.
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| | | | CRASH+SUES Rocks With Stop-Motion Animation + VFX For Imagination Movers’ New DVD for Kids of All Ages
 ‘Rock-o-Matic’ Heralds the Emmy Award-winning Band’s 2012 Nationwide Tour and The New Season Of Its Hit Series on the Disney Junior Network
When the Imagination Movers were ready to release “Rock-o-Matic,” their latest DVD of music videos targeted to children and parents alike, they came to CRASH+SUES (C+S) for an innovate approach to creating music video vignettes that would bring their songs to life. The full-service post production company’s multi-disciplined team took a fresh, collaborative approach to the project, providing a full pallet of editorial, visual effects, stop motion animation, color correction and finishing – as well as some production services – for six of the seven videos featured on the DVD, in addition to cutting all of the interstitials and authoring the disk.
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| | | | NVIDIA Maximus Lowers Dawnrunner Productions' Last-Minute Stress (and saves the day for them and their client)
 For today’s most creative digital filmmakers, pushing the technological envelope is part of doing business. Case in point: Dawnrunner Productions, a boutique production house in the San Francisco Bay Area known for creating festival worthy films, award-winning award show motion graphics, and innovative commercials, corporate videos, and music videos. Dawnrunner also has a core mission of reinvigorating and revitalizing the film industry in the Bay Area.
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| | | | All-New ready2go Projects & Templates Collection Pushes the Limits of Creativity!
Digital Juice Releases New Multipurpose ready2go Collection 16 for After Effects® in Instant Download or DVD Format
Digital Juice® announced today that it is releasing ready2go™ Projects & Templates for Adobe After Effects® Collection 16. ready2go projects are animated template graphics that provide After Effects users with a variety of professional finished looks, and feature expertly designed “drop zones” for text and video. This new collection in the ready2go library is available for purchase as either an Instant Download or a boxed DVD product. The designs in this collection push the limits of professional style and suit a wide range of productions from wedding videos, business presentations and network show promos to broadcast television commercial spots, sports highlights reels and training material.
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| | | | FREE Pan and Zoom Plugin Updated to Support Final Cut Pro X
Add smooth still-image animations in FCP, Motion and AE
Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, updates the free Pan and Zoom plugin to offer support for Apple® Final Cut Pro X, alongside Motion and Adobe® After Effects. Easily bring still images to life with the Pan and Zoom generator that allows editors to create the effect made popular by Ken Burns. Users can achieve stunning animations without a single keyframe. Pan and Zoom is supported in Final Cut Pro 6, 7 and X, Final Cut Express 4, Motion 3, 4 and 5 and Adobe After Effects CS4, CS5, CS5.5 and CS6.
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| | | | Boris Continuum Complete v8.0.2 AE Now Available for Adobe CS6
 Boris Continuum Complete 8 AE delivers the most comprehensive VFX plug-in suite ever created for Macintosh and Windows versions of Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro CS6, CS5.5, CS5, and CS4. A whopping 200+ filters include 3D particle effects, image restoration tools, lens flares and lights, keys and mattes, 3 Way Color Grading and other color correction tools, time-based effects such as Optical Stabilizer, warp and perspective effects, and blurs, glows, and cinematic effects. All filters take advantage of either multi-processing or OpenGL hardware acceleration for an interactive effects design experience.
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| | | | Imagineer Systems Launches New Academic Discount Program For Universities, Film Schools, High Schools
 New Authorized Education Partner Program and EDU Discounts Offers mocha Pro v3 to Schools and Students for Low-Cost Annual Renewal Fee
Imagineer Systems, developers of the popular motion tracking and visual effects software, mocha Pro, today announced it is launching a new discount pricing program created specifically for universities, film schools and high schools. The new Imagineer Systems Authorized Education Partner Program is designed to make it easy for educators to incorporate valuable skill sets derived from mocha Pro v3 and its powerful Planar Tracker technology into a school’s curriculum.
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| | | | Adobe CS6 Now Available
Adobe Creative Cloud Coming May 11
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 software. The CS6 product line includes powerful new releases of Photoshop®, InDesign®, lllustrator®, Dreamweaver®, Adobe Premiere® Pro, After Effects®, Flash® Professional and other products as well as four suite versions – Creative Suite 6 Design & Web Premium; Creative Suite 6 Design Standard; Creative Suite 6 Production Premium; and Creative Suite 6 Master Collection.
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| | | | All-New Animated Canvases Offers Editors A Fresh Start
 Digital Juice Releases Animated Canvases™ Collection 05: Fresh Starts with Instant Download and Boxed DVD Product Options
Digital Juice® has announced the release of Animated Canvases™ Collection 05: Fresh Starts, available as either an Instant Download or boxed DVD product. Animated Canvases are subtle background animations that are designed to be the foundation for any video or motion graphics project. In the new Animated Canvases™ Collection 05: Fresh Starts, video editors and motion graphics artists will find an eclectic mix of subtle background animations specifically designed to highlight and frame the user’s own text, video and images using a sophisticated animated mix of colors and textures.
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| | | | |  Articles and Tutorials: Creative Fireworks in Adobe After EffectsRob Mize shares his techniques for using After Effects to create a variety of fireworks displays. All you need is CC Particle World, a few expressions and a reason to celebrate and you can light up your world with dazzling pyrotechnic effects.Read Article Subscribe GenArts Sapphire 7: Must-Have VFX Plug-ins for AE & AvidFrequent COW Contributing Editor Kevin P. McAuliffe reviews the latest version of GenArts Sapphire plug-in effects filters for both Adobe After Effects and Avid AVX versions, with ratings for current and new Sapphire users. Kevin also observes Sapphire's ability to plug into other NLEs and finishing systems, and takes a closer look at its licensing options, including purchasing, monthly rental and site licenses. You'll definitely want to see the latest and greatest of what this must-have software package has to offer.Read Article Subscribe AE - RE:MATCH Non-matching Cameras in After EffectsIn this tutorial, Andrew Devis demonstrates a relatively new plug-in by RE:Vision Effects called RE:Match and how it can very quickly and accurately deal with the very common problem of non-matching cameras in After Effects.
A typical approach to dealing with say a white balance issue would be to apply Color Finesse 3 and work with that which can be a slightly convoluted process, while RE:Match deals with the whole thing in a couple of clicks!
This very powerful effect can save a great deal of time for an everyday problem and so earn its cost back very quickly as well as giving excellent and fast results.
There is another tutorial showing how this effect works in Premiere Pro as there is a slightly different way the two applications deal with reference images.Read Article Subscribe RE:Match Non-matching Cameras in Premiere ProIn this tutorial Andrew Devis demonstrates a relatively new plug-in by RE:Vision Effects called RE:Match and how it can very quickly and accurately deal with the very common problem of non-matching cameras in Premiere Pro.
A typical approach to dealing with say a white balance issue would be to apply the fast color corrector and use the white balance picker, but this can be very hit and miss, while RE:Match deals with the whole image using another image or clip as the reference to match too.
This very powerful effect can save a great deal of time for an everyday problem and so earn its cost back very quickly as well as giving excellent and fast results.
There is another tutorial showing how this effect works in After Effects as there is a slightly different way the two applications deal with reference images. Read Article Subscribe NAB 2013: Adobe Introduces Adobe AnywhereAt NAB 2013, Adobe is introducing Adobe Anywhere, a collaborative workflow platform that centralizes projects and allows users to share and change project files. Also new are some powerful new features for Adobe Premiere Pro, including color grading and the ability to "link & locate" clips. A newly designed SpeedGrade also makes color grading tools more familiar to Adobe toolset users, and After Effects celebrates its 20th anniversary.Read Article Subscribemore articles » Blogs: Free Class — Creative Color GradingLearn how to approach color grading tasks from production to post using Tiffen Dfx v3 and DFT Film Looks Plug-ins. You'll also learn about Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Final Cut Pro X. Free Class — Creative Color Grading Republished by Richard Harrington...Read Blog SubscribeHearing Audio in After Effects PreviewsWhen working in After Effects, you might not hear your audio tracks. This is because audio must be loaded into RAM before it can be heard. Make sure that there s audio in your composition. Make sure that the speaker icon is not muted in the Preview panel. Click the...Read Blog SubscribeTime-Lapse: RAW Workflow Part 2Adorama Photography TV Presents DSLR | Video Skills with Rich Harrington. In the second episode of this three-part series, we continue with the all-RAW workflow in post-production. Join Rich as he shares some tips on how to develop and finesse the RAW files using Adobe After Effects. He will show...Read Blog Subscribemore blogs » Podcasts:Creative Fireworks in Adobe After EffectsRob Mize shares his techniques for using After Effects to create a variety of fireworks displays. All you need is CC Particle World, a few expressions and a reason to celebrate and you can light up your world with dazzling pyrotechnic effects.Tune In Subscribemore podcasts »AE Basics 65: Expression Controllers PART TWOAE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 65: In this second follow-on tutorial, Andrew Devis continues to demonstrate how to apply a color Expression Controller to one part of the production.Tune In Subscribemore podcasts »AE Basics Extras: More Repetition PART TWOAE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. In this second 'Extra' tutorial in the AE Basics series, Andrew Devis shows how to create shapes from text, how to rotate that shape into a circle, and more.Tune In Subscribemore podcasts »Related Tags | | | | |
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