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  The Foundry Does It Again! (Part One)

  December 7, 2009 / Blogs, Plug Ins, Product, Product Review, Reviews

  Last month, I was introduced to the superb Keylight plug-in for Final Cut Pro (see And, The Academy Award® Goes To… An Instruction Manual!?! and Enter The Foundry: Visual Effects Software That Is Unbeatable!). After completing my examination of that excellent add-on, I began to study FurnaceCore, which is another superb plug-in for Final Cut Pro that was created by the Academy Award®-winning software-developer, The Foundry.* This plug-in provides tools for image restoration, correction, and stylization, all of which vastly [...]

  

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  The Foundry Does It Again! (Part Two)

  December 7, 2009 / Blogs, Plug Ins, Product, Product Review, Reviews

  If you do not have the time to read this entire review, then here are the vital statistics: Product Name: FurnaceCore Product Manufacturer: The Foundry Product Type: motion-picture repair, improvement, and time-adjustment plug-in for Final Cut Pro Price: 500 United States Of America Dollars Is It Worth The Price? Definitely. It would still be worth the price if it cost 7,000 USD (which would be 1,000 USD per function). Available From: www.thefoundry.co.uk Rating: 5 Stars!

  

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  Enter The Foundry: Visual Effects Software That Is Unbeatable!

  November 20, 2009 / Blogs, Plug Ins, Product Review, Reviews

  If you do not have the time to read this entire article, then here are the vital statistics: Product Name: Keylight Product Manufacturer: The Foundry Product Type: matte-extraction and visual-effects compositing plug-in for After Effects, Autodesk, Avid DS, Combustion, Final Cut Pro, Fusion, Nuke, and Shake Price: 250 United States Of America Dollars Is It Worth The Price? Definitely. It would still be worth the price if it cost 1,000 USD. Available From: www.thefoundry.co.uk Rating: 5 Stars! My 3 favorite [...]

  

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  And, The Academy Award® Goes To… An Instruction Manual !?!

  November 20, 2009 / Blogs, Plug Ins, Reviews

  Last week, I was introduced to a superb plug-in for Final Cut Pro (I use FCP 6.0.6). It is Keylight, which is a set of compositing-tools that was created by the Academy Award®-winning software-developer, The Foundry.* My platform is a 2005 Dual 2.7 GHz Macintosh PowerPC G5, with 8 GB of DDR SDRAM, controlled by OS X 10.4.11.

  

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  The Discrepancies That Irk A Star Wars Enthusiast: Part One

  November 17, 2009 / Blogs

  

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  What If Alfred Hitchcock Had Access To Surround Sound?

  November 16, 2009 / Blogs

  Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is one of my favorite films, and I want to experience it in 7.1 Surround Sound! I want to re-mix it! Universal Studios, please hire me to do it!

  

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  Is Your Film Entitled To Success?

  November 13, 2009 / Blogs

  Penmanship describes some of the attributes of a person. Titles and credits describe some of the attributes of a movie; they are the penmanship of cinema.

  

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  Salutations From A Cinema Enthusiast!

  November 11, 2009 / Blogs

  Hello! My name is Spencer Latham (pronounced Lay-thumb), and I am 41 years old. For the past 20 years, I have earned my living as an Independent Commercial Artist, and my passion is the art of filmmaking. I learned of David Basulto’s Filmmaking Central and Film School On Demand via the “Wish I Had An Ikan” video contest of the summer of this year. Although my film did not finish on the podium, David did vote for my film, and [...]

  

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