Creative COW Editorials

Stereoscopic 3D The Dog Days of 3D We've seen complicated rigs, higher budgets and audience skepticism deflate the hype of new movie-making technology before. What can the past tell us about 3D's future? Editorial, People / Interview Angela Gyetvan Sony F Series & PDW Series Cameras Cinéma Vérité with the Sony PMW-F3 Two-time Creative Arts Emmy Award™ winner Zach Zamboni puts the cinéma vérité in cinema with the Sony PMW-F3. More sensitivity in the F3 means more possibilities -- shooting longer after sunset, more available light and more ambient fire in on-the-fly situations. Editorial, Feature Zach Zamboni COW: The Community Speaks SOPA Initiative If you are a USA citizen, help us protect the internet from the control and regulation that legislators are trying to implement under two ill-conceived bills that would effectively destroy the internet as we have known it. These bills are being referred to as SOPA and PIPA. Editorial Ronald & Kathlyn Lindeboom Business & Marketing The Heroism of Joyful Creativity I'm constantly inspired by the pleasure and the pride that the people in Creative COW Magazine take in doing the right things the right way, in always trying to improve, and always keeping their eyes peeled for new possibilities. I aspire to do my own work as creatively and joyfully as they do. Editorial Tim Wilson Art of the Edit The Power of Many or No Waiting Required: Adobe After Effects vs. Apple's Motion You've heard the best and the worst about the compositing applications out there, and if you've struggled with the decision of which one is best for you, take a look at some of the advantages of both to assist you with your choice. Editorial, Feature Kevin P. McAuliffe NEWS: People in the News The Back Forty: Introducing Sean Mullen From the pages of the September-October 2011 issue of Creative COW Magazine, three-time EMMY® winner, Sean Mullen has joined the Creative COW team as our new Creative Director. Editorial, Feature Ronald Lindeboom NEWS: People in the News Steve Jobs - A Personal Calendar Entry Steve Jobs was almost unbelievably young when we met him. We talk about him as a visionary now, but then, they called him a whiz kid, the Boy Wonder: 21 when Apple was founded in 1976, 22 when Apple formally incorporated, 25 for Apple's IPO, and 26 when he first made the cover of Time Magazine. Macintosh shipped when Steve was 28. Editorial Tim Wilson Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Media Composer 6: Avid kept their promise. Walter Biscardi has been beta testing Media Composer and gives his "Avid from a Final Cut Pro" point of notes in this article. This is not a full review, Walter tells us, but a point by point relay on Avid test systems, AJA Kona support, storage support, promises kept, and where it goes from here. Editorial Walter Biscardi Art of the Edit Now What? It's a Question We've Been Hearing a Lot Lately. "As always, we're happy to provide answers from the people actually making the hard decisions about the products and technologies in which they'll be investing their money, their time, and their expertise." Tim Wilson muses on the "End of Film" issue of Creative COW Magazine. Editorial Tim Wilson Business & Marketing Promote Your Company Worldwide, FREE. Creative COW's Services Offered Directory is a Powerful Free Resource for Your Business. Editorial Ronald Lindeboom Cinematography Film Fading to Black ARRI, Panavision and Aaton have all quietly ceased production of their film cameras to focus exclusively on the design and manufacture of digital cameras. Film? Fade to black. Editorial, Feature Debra Kaufman Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate FCPX and the Domino Effect Pt 2: Knocking Them Down Apple's release of FCPX has shaken the digital content creation industry, and raised a lot of speculation among editors about how much Apple understands or cares about professional users. Walter Soyka looks into the issues in this two part series. Editorial Walter Soyka Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate FCPX and the Domino Effect Part I: Stacking Them Up Apple's release of FCPX has shaken the digital content creation industry, and raised a lot of speculation among editors about how much Apple understands or cares about professional users. Walter Soyka looks into the issues in this two part series. Editorial Walter Soyka IBC Expo High-speed cameras roll at IBC 2011 IBC boasted hot new high-speed cameras, with P+S Technik introducing a "time effect" or digital cinematography synch sound camera with a 35mm-sized CMOS imager and global shutter that offers slow motion, fast motion, ramped motion and time-lapse motion. Editorial, Feature Debra Kaufman Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Post Production: Did Everything Change in Post? In this article, Walter Biscardi discusses the state of Post Production as he sees it in these months since the June release of FCPX, including comments on the latest 10.0.1 release. Editorial Walter Biscardi IBC Expo Blackmagic Design introduces Resolve for Microsoft Windows Blackmagic Design gives DaVinci Resolve users reason to celebrate with their debut of Resolve for Windows, plus new products, upgrades and more. Celebrate with us as Debra Kaufman reports from IBC Amsterdam. Editorial, Feature Debra Kaufman IBC Expo IBC: Grass Valley debuts Karrera, LDK 3000+ and Stratus At IBC 2011, Grass Valley introduced several projects that focus on the mid-range market and on solutions. Offerings include the Karrera video production switcher, the LDK 3000+ multiformat HD camera, and the STRATUS Media Workflow Application Framework. Editorial, Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman IBC Expo IBC: AJA Debuts Thunderbolt iO and More AJA unveiled five new products at IBC 2011, including its first Thunderbolt-based iO device, AJA Control Room, UDC -- the broadcast-quality Up/Down/Cross-Conversion mini converter and support for the Avid DNxHD video codec into Ki Pro Mini. Editorial, Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman IBC Expo IBC: Autodesk's Smoke on Mac Gains Momentum Autodesk Smoke on Mac is gaining momentum with adventurous designers and IBC 2011 did not disappoint. The variety of ways that customers are using it has made it an all-in-one solution. Creative COW's Debra Kaufman takes a few moments with Marc Hamaker, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Creative Finishing, Media & Entertainment at Autodesk to bring us the details. Editorial, Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate It's Working for Me...Kind of: A Broadcast Editor's Guide to FCPX Mark Morache describes his journey into FCPX as he discusses "the mental gymnastics and back-handed workflow I adopted in order to get my stories done." Review, Editorial Mark Morache IBC Expo IBC: Panasonic has a 3D IBC, also expands AVC Ultra to Long Gop Panasonic’s Rob Tarrant, European Product Manager of AV Systems Europe, discusses with Creative COW the future and challenges of stereoscopic broadcast. Editorial, Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman IBC Expo IBC: Adobe Acquires Iridas, To Be 'The Photoshop of Video' Adobe's Bill Roberts explains how and why Adobe acquired IRIDAS and what its plans are for IRIDAS' color grading toolset. Editorial, Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman IBC Expo IBC: Sony Introduces All-in-One 3D Shoulder Camcorder Sony's most interesting play at IBC 2011 was the advance in 3D camcorders. Live 3D sports is the target for Sony and with their new product releases, they'll be up to the game. Editorial, Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman IBC Expo IBC: AmberFin debuts Unified Quality Control solution AmberFin has introduced iCR Unifed QC, a Unified Quality Control solution for content ingest and transcoding. With UQC, AmberFin enables users to create a high quality file-based HD/SD masters, provide file conversion to multiple formats and implement levels of automated and manual quality control within a single software ecosystem. Creative COW traveled to Amsterdam's IBC and spoke with Bruce Devlin, CTO of AmberFin. Editorial, Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate FCPX: Didn't We Ask for This? "When talking about FCPX, the greater topics of philosophy, ethics, religion, personal well-being, the time space continuum, the consequence of true and real change, the past, the present, the future and, of course, our collective video careers, are often touched upon." Jeremy Garchow invites you to read the FCPX forums here at the COW to gain a greater sense of how people might feel about it if you have not frequented them lately. Yes, there is a lot of work to be done, and there are many holes to fill, but he does want FCPX to succeed. With this in mind, Jeremy spends some time focusing on what he likes about FCPX, today. Editorial Jeremy Garchow

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