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Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) | G-Technology G-Drive Mobile Portable Hard Drive
Portable hard drives are great option for carrying gobs of media wherever you go. In this review, Creative COW leader Helmut Kobler takes a look at a unique portable drive -- the G-Drive Mobile -- from a company that's been building media-focused drives for years.
Review
Helmut Kobler |
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MAYA | Maya 2011: Camera Sequencer
In this tutorial, Michael Hurwicz shows you how to use the new Camera Sequencer in Maya 2011 to import an animatic sequence from Sony Vegas 9.0 using AAF (Advanced Authoring Format).
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Michael Hurwicz |
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MAYA | Maya 2011: Assigning Invisible Faces
Michael Hurwicz demonstrates the new "Assign Invisible Faces" feature
in Maya 2011, making one face of a cube invisible but still very much
"there" when it comes to a smoothing operation performed on the cube.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Michael Hurwicz |
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Cinematography | ARRI Alexa: Love at First Sight!
In one of the world’s first overviews of the new Arri Alexa digital cinema camera, Creative COW Contributing Editor Gary Adcock has been taking an early shipping unit for a ride this week -- and what a ride it has been! Read on for the details of what Gary has learned about the Alexa operation so far, where he sees it going, and why Gary believes that Alexa is a true game changer.
Review
Gary Adcock |
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MAYA | Maya 2011 Bezier Curves
In this Maya tutorial, Michael Hurwicz provides an introduction to
Bezier curves, a new feature in Maya 2011 which allow you to
create curves the way you do with the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator
or Photoshop.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Michael Hurwicz |
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Boris FX | Using BCC 7 AE's New 3 Way Color Grade Filter: Part 1
In this video tutorial, Kevin P. McAuliffe takes a look at Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE's new 3 Way Color Grade filter. BCC 3 Way Color Grade provides a professional color grading process complete with three custom color wheels for pedestal/gamma/gain adjustment. In part one of this video tutorial series, Kevin focuses on the basics of the filter. In part two, he will demonstrate the filter's built-in masking and keying tools.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Kevin McAuliffe |
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COWmunications feedback | Lightworks
Professional editing goes open source: top editors describe a powerful editing tool being unleashed on the public.
Review, People / Interview
David Battistella |
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COWmunications feedback | Why We've Avoided Tradeshow Awards Until Now
There's a long list of reasons that we've avoided doing a Tradeshow Awards Issue... We have a unique perspective on awards, because we are not exactly magazine people, and at times it shows, but we hope it shows in some good things like new ways of fresh thinking, too.
Editorial
Tim Wilson |
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Cinematography | Camera and Lens Round-Up
Gary Adcock explores and reviews many of the high-end cameras, lenses, monitors, and camera support gear introduced at NAB 2010 in this acquisition and display report.
Review, Feature, People / Interview
Gary Adcock |
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Cinematography | DSLRs: A Time Exposure
Robert Primes, ASC is watching the progress of DSLR video, and sees some remarkable visions of the future of cinematography. Read on for his detailed review...
Review, Feature, People / Interview
Robert Primes, ASC |
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SAN - Storage Area Networks | Fast Enough? Data-Driven Broadcast Infrastructure
We can always can count on Bob Zelin moving fast enough to keep up with the crazy number of new options for data-driven broadcast infrastructure. Read on for Bob's review of his findings - enthusiastic and exhausted (er.. exhaustive) - at the super-charged, super-fast NAB 2010.
Review, Feature, People / Interview
Bob Zelin |
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Broadcast Video | Blue Ribbon Broadcast Switchers
Integration is the name of the broadcast game, and both of these switchers generated traffic because of their integrated software that is changing the game. Read on for Creative COW's short review of two Blue Ribbon Award Winning Broadcast Switchers...
Review
Tim Wilson |
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Blackmagic Design | Blue Ribbon for Best of Show: NAB 2010 -- Blackmagic Design
There may have been companies at 2010's NAB Show who brought more new products than Blackmagic Design -- but then again, with a dozen major new releases, there may not have been. There was certainly nobody who brought so many best-of-category products, several of which could merit Best of Show awards on their own, with the potential to truly transform advanced post and broadcast workflows. Simply put, we've never seen anybody come to the show playing for keeps in so many different ways.
Review, Feature, People / Interview
Grant Petty |
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Broadcast Video | Best Nonlinear Editing System Report
As the three companies showing their best wares in the Nonlinear Editing System category vie for attention in the broadcasting and post-production world at NAB 2010, some of the glitter caught Walter Biscardi's eye, but others left him wondering if they can keep up. Read on for more insight on what he saw at NAB...
Review, People / Interview
Walter Biscardi |
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CoreMelt Plug-ins | CoreMelt VideoWall
Iain Anderson demonstrates a wide range of video wall effects inside Final Cut Pro, including transitions, three dimensional stylised effects and slideshow transitions. All of these can be created in seconds on video or still images with fine control over placement and randomization of the various layers. Save yourself hours and hours of time over placing and animating layers by hand using these techniques. Iain also shows animating parameters to audio by sending a shot to motion, and some combinations that can create some unique looks.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Iain Anderson |
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Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) | Panasonic AJ-HPM200 P2 Mobile
Panasonic's P2 Mobile is many things, including a cutting-edge video recorder, a non-linear editor, a network storage device, and more. Curious to come to terms with its long list feature set, Creative COW leader Helmut Kobler took one home for two weeks and gave it a spin. Here are his impressions.
Review
Helmut Kobler |
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Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) | ShotPut Pro V3 by Imagine Products, Inc.
ShotPut Pro streamlines an important part of tapeless, solid-state workflows: offloading the media cards to a hard drive or other volume. Creative COW leader Helmut Kobler has been using Shotput for a couple of years now, and reviews its latest update on the Mac (a Windows version works the same way).
Review
Helmut Kobler |
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AJA Ki Pro | Production of the Canadian Olympics Hall of Fame Gala
Mathieu shares his experience with KiPros in this article on the production of the Canadian Olympics Hall of Fame Gala. Thirty-six hours of footage filmed on ten cameras had to be transformed into a two-hour long master including commercial breaks, subtitles and packaging in both official languages... and the show had to be on air 24 hours only after the event took place. Read about the amazing compatibility between Final Cut and KiPro and the steps required to make the impossible possible.
Review, Feature, People / Interview
Mathieu Marano |
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RED Camera | Exposing the RED MX
David Battistella looks at the RED camera, an offering from a company that have now delivered over 7000 cameras to customers worldwide. David examines exposure techniques for the MX sensor and gives us an upgraded review and updated vision of the best exposure practices. Read on for the details of this highly informative product review...
Review
David Battistella |
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RE:Vision Effects | Handling Twixtor Artifacts in Premiere Pro
This Tutorial shows how to mark segments in an edit in order to avoid warping across edits when speeding up or slowing down the overall edit. It also explains when it is appropriate to use Smart Blend and shows Twixtor and Twixtor Pro with Smart Blend and compares a panning shot with and without Smart Blend. This tutorial also explains how to use Motion Sensitivity to avoid unwanted warping in your re-timed shot.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Lori Freitag |
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