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News: RHED Pixel Shoots in HD New Clarity Shines Light On National Problem
RHED Pixel, a visual communications company based in Tyson’s Corner, is producing a national spot for the American Diabetes Association in high-definition video.
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News: Offshore Films Receives Platinum Award
Offshore Films of Houston, Texas, was recently awarded a Platinum Remi Award for "The Silent Source" at the 38th Annual Houston Int'l Film Festival on April 30, 2005. The award was for "Direction/Art Direction".
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News: Blu-Ray Disc Association becomes exclusive high-definition sponsor of EMX 2005
— CMP Entertainment Media and the International Recording Media Association have announced that the Blu-ray Disc Association has been named the exclusive High-Definition Sponsor of the 2005 Entertainment Media Expo , taking place August 30–31 at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Hollywood, CA. During EMX, the BDA will showcase the many benefits of its next-generation, high-definition optical format in the Nichols Canyon room, conveniently located on the second floor of the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel.
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News: BOXX Offers New Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processors in 4400 Series Workstations
Austin, TX — BOXX Technologies, Inc., the leading workstation company offering systems that are as powerful as they are easy to integrate, announces today it is offering the Intel® Pentium® D dual-core processor in its new 4400 series of workstations. The Intel Pentium D dual-core processor extends multi-tasking capabilities with two independent execution cores for simultaneous computing, allowing users to better utilize multi-threaded application technology from software companies such as Alias, Autodesk Media and Entertainment, Newtek and Softimage.
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Mac Design Conference & Digital Photography Expo 2005 News: Mac Design Extends Crabby Award Entry Deadline Mac Design Conference & Digital Photography Expo – June 21-23, 2005 – Tampa
Organizers of the Mac Design Conference & Digital Photography Expo are extending the entry deadline for its annual Crabby Awards to 5:00 p.m., Mon., June 6, 2005. The Crabby Awards recognize the exceptional design and photographic work of Mac Design Conference attendees. Submissions will be accepted for print, Web, illustration, and photography design. Contest rules are posted at http://www.macdesignconference.com/awards.html.
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News: Pace Launches First Ever Hardware H.264 Set-Top Box; IPTV Dream to Become a Reality
IPTV is one step closer thanks to an innovative new product from Pace Micro Technology, the world's largest dedicated developer of digital set-top box technology. The company has developed the World's first hardware H.264 decode set-top box - the IP215 - to provide telcos and operators with an entry-level solution for the lucrative IPTV market.
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News: Ikegami's Editcam HD Wins NAB 2005 Mario Award TV Technology Cites Ikegami HDN-X10 as a Significant Technical Breakthrough
Ikegami, which pioneered digital television newsgathering when it introduced its tapeless Editcam camera system with built-in digital disk recorder, has now advanced DNG technology into the realm of High Definition Television by unveiling its HDN-X10 Editcam HD camcorder at NAB 2005.
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Mac Design Conference East 2005 News: First Nikon Photo Safari at Mac Design Conference Mac Design Conference – Tampa Convention Center, Tampa – June 21-23, 2005
Organizers of Mac Design Conference & Digital Photography Expo today announced that Nikon Corporation is sponsoring a half-day “Nikon Photo Safari” digital photography pre-conference workshop on June 20th, one day prior to the full conference kick-off in Tampa.
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News: NTI Enhances PC and Mac Products with DVD-R DL Support
NewTech Infosystems, Inc. , announced today that it has added DVD-R Dual Layer support to the latest versions of its award-winning Windows® and Mac® products. NTI products that have been enhanced with DVD-R DL support include the CD & DVD-Maker™ 7 product line, Backup NOW!® 4 Deluxe Suite and NTI DriveBackup™ 4.0 for Windows systems; and Dragon Burn® 4.1 for Mac users.
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SIGGRAPH 2005 News: Get Experienced with Alias MasterClasses at SIGGRAPH Early Bird Pricing Closes May 31 - Your Chance to Learn From the Experts for Less
Film and game industry experts from companies such as Digital Domain®, Inc., Sony® Pictures Imageworks Inc., Turner Studios and Weta Digital Ltd. are scheduled to present Alias® MasterClasses™ at SIGGRAPH®, August 1-5, 2005 in Los Angeles. May 31 is the early bird deadline to receive 20 per cent off the cost of classes.
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News: News Wit Animation Reveals Strength of Character in New CG Spot for McDonald's Leading Animation Studio Specializes In Character Animation And Development Of Original Content
Wit Animation was recently commissioned to create a character animation spot for McDonald's via ad agency Burrell Communications, which introduces the new Fruit & Walnut Salad.
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News: Seamless Texture Editor Genetica 2 Released
Spiral Graphics Inc. today announced the immediate availability of Genetica 2, the anticipated new version of its flagship seamless texture editor.
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News: Telecast Announces Rattler™ HD/SDI Mini Transceiver New USB-powered mini transceiver receives critical acclaim at NAB2005
The new Rattler™ mini HD/SDI transceiver from Telecast Fiber Systems, displayed for the first time at NAB2005, has already won two prestigious awards for its ability to lower cost and complexity in fixed and remote broadcast applications, the company announced today.
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In this quick tutorial, Filip Vandueren would like to share a technique he uses a lot which in Belgium is called 'etalongage' or color-timing. It's a two step process which gets great results.
Creative COW leader Lee Brimelow shows you how create a custom context menu for the video player that replaces the deafult Flash menu. This is part 7 in the Flash Video Basics series.
In this tutorial, Abdel-Basset demonstrates how to use the new Diamond of combustion 4 and Color Correction operator to change selected color of the footage. Autodesk Combustion
Depth of field refers to the distance from camera where things will be in focus.This tutorial from Bill O'Neil offers tips for assembling 2D flat objects in 3D space with the most realism using depth of field in After Effects.
Text that seemingly writes itself on is a cool effect and one of those techniques that a motion graphics artist just has to know. But just how do you do it? Well there are a number of ways to create this effect in After Effects, you could use the Write On effect, Vector Paint or masks for example, but in this tutorial John Dickinson demonstrates his favourite technique using After Effects' Brush tool.
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In this article, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Todd Groves reviews The Cinema 4D 9/9.1 Handbook (Graphics Series) by Adam Watkins and Anson Call and published by Charles River Media; Book & CD-Rom edition, 426 pages, Copyright 2005, ISBN: 1584504021 and writes, "...the moment I dove into it, I soon breathed a sigh of relief. Adam wastes no space between the front and back cover." and "Though Adam indicates that The Cinema 4D 9/9.1 Handbook is “best for beginners” most any user of Cinema 4D of any level of expertise will most likely find useful and helpful information inside the covers of this book."
In this article, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Jim Harvey reviews: Particle Illusion Fusion Volume 1, Hosted by Aharon Rabinowitz and says, "It's a good thing that you can pause a DVD, because Aharon Rabinowitz packs so much information into a small space that you're going to be pausing this DVD frequently ... The DVD is packed to the rafters with content. You won't be getting that “What the heck did I pay for?” feeling with this DVD.
Product Review, Adobe After Effects, particleIllusion
Emmy® Award winner, Tim Kolb discusses HDV and its place in the greater scope of HD production formats. Since the inception of the HDV format, we have seen many responces regarding the HDV format and how it fits alongside HDCam, DVCProHD, XDCam and other formats in the greater scope of the HD picture. In this article (which is taken from an HDV Format forum responce), Creative Cow's Tim Kolb gives what we feel is an exemplary job of dissecting the subject and clarifying the many components of the HD universe, HDV being one of those parts....
In this article, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Jim Harvey reviews Vortex Media Warm Cards and states, "You know you do it. We all do it. It’s not something that we brag about. It’s not even something that we think about too much. White Balancing. Sure some guys carry a worn out piece of white paper, or they use the foamcore to set the camera. We’ve balanced on walls, notepaper, even the fat guy’s t-shirt. It gets us by and we get on with the show. But as we are all professionals, shouldn’t we have a professional system to white balance out gear and do it consistently? Well, we do and we can." Read on to discover an effective answer to your white balancing dilemmas.
CreativeCOW leader John David Hutton shows us why Directory Opus 8.1 for Windows "is an outstanding workflow addition at a great price... What is it? Some would say it's a windows explorer replacement and while this is technically true it also offers multitudes of capabilities normally included in many other apps, namely ftp, image conversion, complex file searches including metadata searches, image and file viewer, zip capabilities, folder synchronization, slideshows, etc. It also supports easy access to common utilities like Nero burning software and Google Desktop Search (GDS) software, freely downloadable from Google."
CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Jim Harvey just made the leap to HDV by acquiring one of SONY's new HDV Cameras the HVR-Z1U. Then he was faced with learning his new camera. In this article, Jim takes a look at HandsOnHDV and has determined that they have put together the definitive training DVD for Sony's New HDV Cameras.
Product Review, HDV Format
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