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ARCHIVE NEWS: Tuesday, March 15, 2005
News: Alienware Rolls Out Acoustic Dampening Upgrade to Reduce Noise on High-Performance Desktop Systems
New package to include Ultra Quiet Chassis fans as well as Alienware’s exclusive acoustic absorption matting
Alienware®, the leading manufacturer of high-performance systems, has rolled out a new option for its line of high performance desktop systems, an option that will significantly reduce the overall noise of the systems in the studio and home environment. Systems configured with the Acoustic Dampening System will be outfitted with Alienware’s revolutionary acoustic absorption matting, as well as low-noise system fans, for measurably decreased internal chassis decibel levels. Starting at only $99, the Acoustic Dampening System will be made available on all high-performance desktop systems.
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News: Media 100, A Unit Of Optibase, Announces 10-Bit Uncompressed HD & SD Editing With Media 100 HD 10.1
Media 100, a unit of Optibase and a leading provider of advanced media systems, announced the release of Media 100 HD 10.1. Version 10.1 expands the feature-rich Version 10 release to include a new Media 100 software codec and other key enhancements that make the 10-bit-uncompressed Macintosh-based system even more powerful and unique for projects that use HD, SD, or need real-time mixing of different codecs in the same timeline.
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NAB 2005
News: FOCUS Enhancements to Unveil Industry's First High Definition Portable DTE Recorder
Featuring Direct To Edit™ Technology, FireStore FS-4 HD Maintains a Pure HD Signal from Acquisition and Editing to Distribution and Broadcast
FOCUS Enhancements Inc. , a worldwide leader in video production and conversion technology, today announced it will demonstrate its new FireStore FS-4 HD and FS-4Pro HD High Definition Portable Direct To Edit™ recorders at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas from April 18th to 21st .
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News: 16x9 Inc Introduces New Chrosziel Twister camera support
16x9 Inc introduces the Chrosziel Twister DV. The Twister is a precisely balanced one-piece camera support system for popular lightweight cameras.
Twister offers stable and smooth support when shooting from any position. The camera simply attaches to the system’s central mounting plate. Once installed, the camera pivots between Twister’s two handgrips on the system’s rotary axle. This enables the camera to establish its natural center of balance. Regardless of how or where Twister is moved, the camera remains upright.
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News: Leitch Announces Version 9.1 of VelocityQ™ NLE
Leitch Technology Corporation today announced a new software update for VelocityQ™, Leitch's award-winning standard-definition post production non-linear editing system.Version 9.1 of VelocityQ features new tools for color correction, collaborative workflows, and audio processing, plus broadened media format support and a wide range of user interface enhancements.
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News: FOR-A Names Chuck Bocan Western Regional Sales Manager
New Executive Looks to Increase Awareness of Company’s Extensive Product Range
FOR-A Corporation of America, a leading manufacturer of video and audio systems for the broadcast and professional video industries, has named industry veteran Chuck Bocan Western Regional Sales Manager for all its product lines. Bocan will be based in FOR-A’s Cypress, California, office.
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News: FilmLight Expands U.S. Operations, Adds Key Personnel
FilmLight Ltd. announced today that its Los Angeles office has expanded its operations and incorporated as FilmLight Digital Film Technology, Inc., a subsidiary of FilmLight Ltd., to be the North American headquarters for the company. The expansion will ensure that the company can continue to provide its trademark high level of pre- and post-sales support to FilmLight’s customers, and to drive continued adoption of FilmLight’s products in North America. The company operates under the guidance of newly-named President, Craig Risebury.
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News: RE:Vision Effects, Inc. introduces new tracking in Twixtor 4.5.
Twixtor 4.5 raises the bar in motion estimation.
RE:Vision Effects releases a major update to Twixtor, their popular retiming solution. Twixtor 4.5 is now available for After Effects plugin-compatible applications: After Effects, Final Cut Pro, combustion and Premiere Pro.
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Game Developers Conference San Francisco 2005
News: Digic Pictures and Black Hole Entertainment Choose Maya and Alias MotionBuilder to Create High-end Graphics for RTS Game 'Armies of Exigo'
Alias provides flexible and stable graphics solutions for in-game graphics and cinematics
Alias, the world's leading provider of 3D graphics technology, announced today that Hungary-based computer animation studio Digic Pictures and computer and video game developer Black Hole Entertainment, both subsidiaries of Cinergi Interactive LLC, choose Alias software solutions as their core tools to produce the real-time strategy computer game Armies of Exigo™.
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News: Blackmagic Design releases Microsoft Windows update for all models of
DeckLink broadcast video cards with powerful new features.
Includes new RealTime effects in Premiere Pro, 3:2 pulldown in HD, Photoshop plug-ins and more.
Blackmagic Design announced the immediate availability of DeckLink for Windows v4.8 software, which is available today at no charge to all DeckLink users.
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News: Blu-ray Disc Association Welcomes Apple to Its Board of Directors
Move broadens support for Blu-ray Disc -- the next generation optical disc for storing High Definition movies, photos and other digital content
The Blu-ray Disc Association today announced that Apple® will become a member of the consortium’s Board of Directors. Apple has been a leader in driving consumer adoption of DVD authoring since January 2001, with the introduction of its SuperDrive™, the industry’s first high-volume CD- and DVD-burning drive, and its revolutionary iDVD® and DVD Studio Pro® software applications. Apple is also helping bring High Definition to market with a complete line of HD content creation tools for consumers and professionals alike including iMovie® HD, Final Cut® Express HD and Final Cut Pro® HD editing software.
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Game Developers Conference 2005
News: Softimage and Epic Games Collaborate on Powerful Game Development Solution
Companies to offer integration between 3-D animation software and market-leading game engine
Avid Technology, Inc. today announced that its Softimage subsidiary and Epic Games have collaborated to co-develop the UnrealActor X Exporter for the XSI® toolkit – a solution for professional developers and enthusiasts interested in creating interactive titles with SOFTIMAGE®|XSI animation software and Epic’s Unreal® Engine technology. The Unreal Actor X Exporter for the XSI toolkit enables game developers to use technologies from both companies together in a game development pipeline. Gamers and enthusiasts known as “modders” – who routinely change the way video games are played – can also use the toolkit with the SOFTIMAGE|XSI Mod Tool to create their own characters, props and environments for titles powered by the Unreal Engine 2.
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NAB 2005
News: wondertouch At NAB 2005
wondertouch™ LLC, the award-winning developer of particle effects creation tools for the digital content creation industry invites members of the press and convention attendees at NAB 2005 – April 16 through April 21 – to stop by the wondertouch booth #SL453 to learn more about the technology advancements and use of its particleIllusion™ software line by broadcast and film industry professionals.
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NAB 2005
News: TANDBERG Television Brings Expanded Offering to NAB with Leading Video Compression and On-Demand Solutions
Unveils integrated N2 On-Demand Solutions for broadcast content management and delivery
NAB2005 will see TANDBERG Television take center stage as a global force in the provision of enabling technologies for compelling broadcast and on-demand video services. The company will show its first-to-market video compression systems for multi-channel, cross platform SD and HD television, alongside its newly integrated N2 On-Demand Solutions. TANDBERG Television comes to NAB with a strong worldwide momentum, an intensified focus on the Americas driven by its recent acquisition of N2 Broadband and with significant world-first technology deployment successes. The company will launch new products at NAB and show systems designed to help broadcasters and operators maximize the potential of their networks.
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News: Digital-Tutors Releases "Fundamentals of Photoshop: 3D Texturing"
Digital-Tutors, a division of PL Studios, Inc., is excited to announce the much anticipated "Fundamentals of Photoshop: 3D Texturing" training kit - the latest release in a library of industry leading training resources for digital artists of all expertise levels. In over 3 hours of revolutionary training methods, users have the opportunity to bring their 3D models to life and add incredible realism.
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Flash
 | Flash Video Basics: Part One
In CreativeCOW's very first Flash Video Tutorial, CreativeCOW leader, Lee Brimelow demonstrates Flash Video Basics. This tutorial is part one and helps launch our new Flash forum.
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DVD Studio Pro
 | Scripting: Code Lock
As many more users of DVD Studio Pro discover its scripting capabilities we see many more questions for basic examples exploring interactive scripting. In this article, Creative COW leader Alex Alexzander explores the Code Lock script -- one of the scripts most asked about.DVD Studio Pro, DVD Authoring |
Combustion
 | Getting That Old Movie Look
CreativeCOW.net Contributing Editor, Bimo Adi Prakoso demonstrates some techniques for Creating the Old Movie Looks with Combustion in this tutorial. He advises readers that, "Many plugins for creating an old movie look are available at various costs, but the challenge is creating one without any plugin at all. Actually, it's a simple, straight forward process".
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After Effects
 | Two or Three Color Effect
We've all seen the scene in which everything is black and white except one color, but what if you wanted to have a two or even a three-color special effect? Well, this tutorial from Roland Kahlenberg, which we'll call Coolsville, will show you the way.
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Maya
 | Animating a Ribbon with Maya
One common request or problem Maya users stumble across is how to properly animate a ribbon that zips across the screen and is flexible enough to bend and twist in various ways. While it sounds simple in concept, it may not be as straightforward and obvious as one would think to set this up properly with the maximum animation capabilities. In this article, Chad Briggs demonstrates a solution that he came up with in response to a recent gig.
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Compositing
 | How To Become a Feature Film Compositor
Have you ever wanted to contribute to building a twenty thousand man army in “Troy”, make a mouse fly a plane in “Stuart Little 2”, or launch a doomed luxury liner in “Titanic?” You can achieve visual feats you never dreamed possible and accomplish them all through the magic of compositing. Read this article written by John Lafauce Jr., and see...Compositing, Shake, Combustion, Digital Fusion |
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Studio Design
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 | TBC Crossfire X-K3 Non-Linear Editing Console
With people continually asking, "what edit desk do you use?" here at the COW forums, Creative Cow forum leader, Marco Solorio hopes to settle this question once and for all with his in-depth review of TBC's Crossfire X-K3 edit console. If you're in the market for a new editor's console or are just curious to know what's "out there", this should give you all the information you need to base your own judgment.
Studio Furniture, Studio Design, Product Reviews |
Sonic
|  | Sonic eDVD 3
Many DVD authors are familiar to some degree with the various DVD authoring applications that exist. Most of these authoring applications allow the author to add DVD-ROM content. DVD-ROM content is typically how the author provides additional assets to the viewer. In this article, Creativecow's Alex Alexzander takes a thorough look at Sonic's eDVD 3 Web Enhanced DVD.
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Stock Footage
|  | Post Holes Prematted Stock Clips
Don’t have time or budget to shoot various people in a blue or green screen studio cyk? Also don't have the time or the software to create a perfect chromakey and/or rotoscope to pull that perfect matte? If this is the case, Post Holes may be the solution you’re looking for. Marco Solorio reviews their latest 2-disk DVD set available on NTSC SD.
Stock Footage, Product Reviews |
Discreet Combustion
|  | A First Look at Combustion 4
Creative Cow's Ken LaRue explores the just announced Discreet combustion 4. Packed with many new features that Ken enthusiastically describes as "Hot!" and which include quite a number that many users have had on their own personal wish lists, C4 is drawing a lot of attention and discussion here in the Creative Cow forums. In this article, Ken helps us explore many of the reasons why...
Discreet Combustion, Product Reviews
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After Effects
|  | After Effects in Production
In this article, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Jim Harvey reviews After Effects in Production 2nd edition for AE 6.5 by Trish Meyer & Chris Meyer and published by CMP Books, 382 pages, Dec 10, 2004; Copyright 2005, ISBN: 1578202647 and writes... "When people first become aware of After Effects, the one question that is most often asked is 'What is the best way for me to learn this program?' The answer most often given is 'Pick up anything by Trish & Chris Meyer'. The book most often recommended is After Effects in Production. There is a good reason for this recommendation. The Meyers are two very talented people who completely grasp the inner working of After Effects. The plus is that they are also extremely adept at taking their knowledge and imparting it to the rest of us."
Adobe After Effects, Book Reviews |
Using Vegas, Excalibur & SD-Connect to Edit the 2005 Stellar Awards
|  | Using Vegas, Excalibur & SD-Connect to Edit the 2005 Stellar Awards
In this article, Creative Cow's Timothy Duncan explores how Northstar Studios used Sony Vegas, the Excalibur plug-in's multi-cam wizard for Vegas and Convergent Design's SD-Connect video converter to help create this year's 20th Annual Stellar Awards broadcast -- a ten camera shoot recorded January 15th in Houston, Texas. With a deadline of delivery by 8:30am on January 20th, Timothy had his work cut out for him to edit and fine-tune the show's pacing using these three tools to quickly offline and then finish online using an Avid|DS system. How did these tools perform together? Read on for the complete story...
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