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• CineForm CineDDR™ Offers Mastering-Quality Video Recording and Playout As An Affordable Alternative to HDCAM SR

  July 22, 2009 / Applications, Blogs, Dave's Blog, NAB 09, Reviews, Tutorials, Videos

  Solana Beach, CA, July 22, 2009 – CineForm®, Inc. (www.cineform.com), creators of high-fidelity compression-based workflow solutions for the post production marketplace, today announced it has teamed with Drastic Technologies (www.drastictech.com), a developer of digital disk recording and data infrastructure technology, to accelerate the migration of post production workflows away from expensive and cumbersome tape-based formats towards more efficient and cost-effective file-based recording and playback. The result of this technology partnership, CineForm CineDDR, combines CineForm’s respected mastering-quality compression with Drastic Technologies’ [...]

  

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• ToolFarm.com teases us with Trapcode 3S Training

  July 2, 2009 / Blogs, NAB 09, News, Videos

  The ever amazing Michele Yamazaki, czarina of ToolFarm.com, did a great little teaser for the upcoming Trapcode 3S Training. Thanks Michele! US Auctions Australian Auctions Austrian Auctions Belgian Auctions Canadian Auctions French Auctions German Auctions Hong Kong Auctions Indian Auctions Irish Auctions Italian Auctions Dutch Auctions Polish Auctions Singapore Auctions Spanish Auctions Swiss Auctions UK Auctions Best Match Time: ending soonest Time: newly listed Price: lowest first Price: highest first Price + Shipping: lowest first Price + Shipping: highest first [...]

  

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• NEW NVIDIA GPU-ACCELERATED PLUG-INS DRAMATICALLY BOOST PERFORMANCE FOR ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 4 USERS

  June 29, 2009 / Applications, Blogs, Dave's Blog, NAB 09, News, Reviews, Tutorials, Videos

  Professional videographers face continuous pressure to deliver high quality work under tight deadlines. To ease that burden and enable greater levels of creativity, NVIDIA today announced the availability of GPU-accelerated plug-in solutions for Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) users, optimized to run on a wide range of NVIDIA®® Quadro®® graphics solutions. NVIDIA is offering exclusive discounts of up to 50 percent on plug-ins from Elemental Technologies, Boris FX, Red Giant Software and proDAD when purchased at NVIDIA.com. Among the plug-ins [...]

  

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• FilmSchoolOnDemand Gets First Look Deal With Maverick Entertainment!

  June 15, 2009 / Blogs, Dave's Blog, NAB 09, News, Reviews, Tutorials

  MAVERICK ENTERTAINMENT GROUP INC. FORMS STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH WWW.FILMSCHOOLONDEMAND.COM OFFERING FIRST LOOK DISTRO DEALS TO ASPIRING FILMMAKERS! Miami, (June 15, 2009) – Maverick Entertainment Group Incorporated (MEG) announced today a strategic partnership with www.FilmSchoolOnDemand.com; offering a “first look” distribution deal to aspiring filmmakers who take the 10 week course “Making and Selling Your First Film” and subsequently complete an independent film. The deal is structured to allow filmmakers early access to “pitch” their film project testing its viability in the [...]

  

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• Visual Effects for Directors DVD Set Giveaway!

  May 16, 2009 / Blogs, Contests, NAB 09

  I really enjoyed viewing Hollywood Camera Works new product Visual Effects for Directors so much I picked up a few copies to giveaway! A $329 value! All you need to do is Comment below why you want the course, leave your twitter ID, follow FMC on twitter @themediamogul and follow HollywoodCameraWork on twitter @VFXforDirectors. Simple! Get ready to take your vfk knowledge up a few notches! In case you havent seen the promo here it is! If you dont win [...]

  

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• Filmmaking Central Episode 7 09

  April 29, 2009 / Blogs, NAB 09, Podcasts

  Welcome! FMC’s second live show was a blast! I invited Carey Dissmore and Ko Maruyama on to discuss the NAB Show. Also joining us is Jim Geduldick from FinalCutUser.com. We discuss some of our top picks and events from the show. Join us on our next show live at BlogTalkRadio. The show is also posted on iTunes and you can download it below as well. [podcast]http://www.filmmakingcentral.com/FMC_2009_007.mp3[/podcast] Download

  

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  NAB 09: Trapcode Particular V2 with Peder Norrby

  April 29, 2009 / Blogs, NAB 09, News, Plug Ins

  I was lucky to catch Peder for a quick demo of a few features in the new Particular V2 plugin. I’ve known Peder for several years – - so it’s just a really quick, informal demo. Just something to grab a quick video of him at NAB… most of the time there were tons of animators with full court press on the booth (see pix on ninjacrayon) For rants, ramblings and general announcements – check out a chaotic blog in [...]

  

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• NAB 09 CasparCG is cutting edge!

  April 26, 2009 / Blogs, NAB 09, Videos

  I love Twitter! While at NAB I was tweeted about contacting Olle Soprani of CasparCG about a new technology for flash video and graphics. I then tweeted him. We met and recorded the following interview. Enjoy! [phpzon]Adobe Flash, NumListings, Books[/phpzon]

  

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• NAB 09 Redrock Micro’s DSLR Rig is HOT!

  April 24, 2009 / Blogs, NAB 09, Videos

  There is a lot on interest in shooting with DLSR’s these days. Canon’s 5D Mark II leading the pack. Our friends at Redrock Micro heard the calling and came up with yet another killer rig to shoot with. Redrock’s Brian Valente took a few minutes to walk us through the setup. This is a must have for the DSLR shooters toolbox. Enjoy. US Auctions Australian Auctions Austrian Auctions Belgian Auctions Canadian Auctions French Auctions German Auctions Hong Kong Auctions Indian [...]

  

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