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Art of the Edit
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Making Big Plans
Today, South Africa. Tomorrow, the world. Eugen and his colleagues at 3DTree carefully plan every job, plan how to extend their creativity - and yes, their expansion into Hollywood.
Feature, People / Interview
Author: Eugen Olsen |
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DaVinci - NEW !
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DaVinci - Rebuilding the Brand for the 21st Century
How's this for chutzpah? The DaVinci customers at Blackmagic Design buy the company, to set it back on the right path - making big investments, expanding service while slashing fees, accelerating development, and rebuilding Da Vinci from their own experience as its customers.
Feature, People / Interview
Author: Grant Petty |
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Art of the Edit
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Molecule Fueled Imagination
Film? Television? Production? Post? Visual effects? Animation? Stereoscopic 3D? Interactive design? By answering Yes, all of the above, The Molecule keeps its eyes beyond the horizon.
Feature, People / Interview
Author: Chris Healer |
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HD High-End
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Driving Toward Success
No matter how unexpected and varied the routes, the roads to success are often marked by customer service, attention to detail, and the imagination to see that success is even possible.
Feature, People / Interview
Author: Philip Garvin |
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Business & Marketing
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Small Steps to Big Success
Thinking big doesn't always mean having the whole vision at once. For Walter Biscardi, it combines client service, calculated risks, and big investments - especially during down markets.
Editorial, People / Interview
Author: Walter Biscardi |
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DaVinci - NEW !
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Blackmagic & DaVinci, and What It Means
Blackmagic founder Grant Petty says that the company's purchase of DaVinci systems actually fits exactly what they have done all along: build the kinds of products they have needed for their own postproduction business, and being the kind of company they'd want to do business with. While important details are still being worked out, Grant has some very clear visions about how these practices can help rebuild one of the industry's most respected brands.
People / Interview
Author: Grant Petty |
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DaVinci - NEW !
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Cinefilm's Ron Anderson: da Vinci User Since 1986
In this article, Tim Wilson talks with da Vinci user Ron Anderson in his Part Three look at Blackmagic Design's acquisition of da Vinci Systems. Ron Anderson’s relationship with da Vinci has also taken places over several decades, starting as a customer, and evolving into demo artistry even while he continues working with da Vinci systems at Atlanta’s Cinefilm.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Author: Tim Wilson |
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DaVinci - NEW !
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Blackmagic Design Buys the Power of daVinci: Part 2
In this article, Tim Wilson continues his series with his Part Two look at the big news leaking from IBC 2009. Blackmagic Design has acquired da Vinci Systems and with that acquisition comes what Tim refers to as The Power of da Vinci. And for the many that have used da Vinci over the years, they know full well the power of which Tim writes. And for those who might need an introduction to this power, Tim offers these words...
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Author: Tim Wilson |
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DaVinci - NEW !
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Blackmagic Design Buys DaVinci: Part 1
In this article, Tim Wilson begins his series on the big news already beginning to leak from IBC 2009. Blackmagic Design has acquired da Vinci Systems and yes, you read that right. BMD owns and will be developing and marketing da Vinci's award-winning colorgrading technology. What's in store? Here's Part One of Tim's look at the fast-breaking news...
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Author: Tim Wilson |
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DaVinci - NEW !
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A Letter From Grant Petty
The fastest breaking news that is sure to rifle through IBC the quickest? Well, for starters, try this announcement from Blackmagic Design, who have acquired DaVinci Systems, the pioneering color system that for many years has been one of the dream systems in the marketplace. In the letter to employees below, Grant Petty discusses the acquisition with his team members.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Author: Ron Lindeboom |
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Cinematography
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Pushing the Limits on Pushing Daisies
Visual Effects Supervisor William Powloski helped create one of the most eye-popping worlds ever seen on TV, as part of a feature film aesthetic on a TV budget and schedule. Although it was canceled after only two seasons, it remains one of the most beautiful and innovative programs to ever air on US television. In an extended version of the original article in The Visual Effects Issue of Creative COW Magazine, here is an exclusive look at how he and his team helped pull it off.
Feature, People / Interview
Author: William Powloski |
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Stereoscopic 3D - NEW !
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The 3DVX
Stereoscopic, uncompressed 10-bit HD RAW - from a pair of modded DVX100s!
Feature, People / Interview
Author: Jason Goodman |
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Stereoscopic 3D - NEW !
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IMAX - The Biggest Name in 3D
IMAX talks about what they look for in bringing 3D to their screens. IMAX has made a big commitment to 3D exhibition: 200 new screens coming on line as quickly as possible, with IMAX producing all of their documentaries in stereoscopic 3D.
Feature, People / Interview
Author: Greg Foster |
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Stereoscopic 3D - NEW !
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All In - Dreamworks Animation Goes All 3D
DreamWorks wasn't the first to make a modern-day 3D animated movie. But they were the first to commit to do nothing else, and to commit to start-to-finish 3D authoring for all of it.
Feature, People / Interview
Author: Jim Mainard |
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Stereoscopic 3D - NEW !
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FotoKem: 3D DI
FotoKem opened as a film lab in 1963, and has continued to evolve and expand. Here are some of the tools they're using as the industry, and their business, now adds another dimension.
Tutorial, Feature, People / Interview
Author: John Daro |
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Stereoscopic 3D - NEW !
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Tiny Stereoscopic Rigs - Big Pictures
In this article from the Stereoscopic 3D issue of The Creative COW Magazine, Bernie Laramie, co-founder of Stereoscope, discusses rigs and stereoscopic hardware used in creating high-end 3D movies.
Tutorial, Feature, People / Interview
Author: Bernie Laramie |
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Stereoscopic 3D - NEW !
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Perception and The Art of 3D Storytelling
By working in the area between what you see, and what you can see, Brian Gardner is helping re-write the rules of 3D filmmaking - right before your very eyes. In this article, he tells how some of these new rules played out in his work on the amazing movie, Coraline.
Tutorial, Feature, People / Interview
Author: Brian Gardner |
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Indie Film & Documentary
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DreamSpeakers On Tour: Budding Aboriginal Filmmakers
In this article, VASST's Douglas Spotted Eagle, takes COW members inside the DreamSpeakers On Tour. DreamSpeakers is a three-weekend project where students meet with professionals in the film/video industry and learn their craft, beginning from the ground floor of film making. Budding Aboriginal filmmakers and Dreamspeakers work together to produce first films for youth, by youth, and the program has kicked off to a great start.
Feature, People / Interview
Author: Douglas Spotted Eagle |
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Apple iPhone
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iPhone, iTouch, and Playing for Keeps
In this article from The Creative COW Magazine, Bob Stevenson, Chief Creative Officer for ngmoco (Next Generation MObile COmpany), imagines what's possible when iPhone and iTouch are seen, above all, as very advanced game devices.
Editorial, People / Interview
Author: Bob Stevenson |
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Business & Marketing
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Client Management and The 5 Stages of Grief - Video Game Development
Everything is fine, until the client gets involved! Now there's a long list of changes to make, on the same schedule and budget. In this article from The Creative COW Magazine, video game producer, William Dwyer discusses the game development process and how it aligns with the five stages of grief.
People / Interview, Business
Author: William Dwyer |
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Broadcast Video
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South Park: TV's Longest Week
An animated show that completes an entire episode, from writing to air, in only six days? Delivered to the network with only minutes to spare? Meet the producers and editors of South Park, winner of 3 Emmys, a Peabody Award for Excellence and many more, as they take you inside the tools and technologies enabling one of the most pressure-packed workflows imaginable.
People / Interview
Author: Tim Wilson |
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Broadcast Video
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Improvising Visual Effects
On-set circumstances changing fast? Improvise! In this Creative COW Magazine article Mark Allen discusses how he overcame the complications in a recent short film production by improvising the visual effects.
Feature, People / Interview
Author: Mark Allen |
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RE:Vision Effects
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The Art and Science of Optical Flow
Creative COW leaders Pete Litwinowicz and Pierre Jasmin won an Academy Award® for the design and development of the RE: Vision Effects family of optical flow-based image manipulation plug-ins. For RE:Vision's tenth anniverary, we asked Pierre to talk to us about what optical flow is - and isn't - and how it works in their products.
Feature, People / Interview
Author: Pete Litwinowicz |
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COWmunications feedback
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Cows Around the World
The 'W' in COW stands for 'world,' and we really mean it. Here are reports from Cows in Russia, India, the Netherlands and Canada about what they do, and what they're working on.
People / Interview
Author: Cowdog |
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Lighting Design Pros
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Westward Ho!
A wild ride of an edit: shot on film, projected onto five screens. In this Creative COW Magazine article Mike Sullivan discusses some of the problems such as lighting and color interaction he faced in a project he did for National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper, Wyoming.
People / Interview
Author: Mike Sullivan |
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Business & Marketing
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Real Estate Video Production
In this article from The Creative COW Magazine, George Cohn discusses his real world experience in real estate video production and how 'No' gave way to curiosity - and then to profit.
People / Interview
Author: George Cohn |
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Broadcast Video
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14 Terabytes of Burnin' Love
Elvis Presley Enterprises took its video production in-house - into Graceland, one of the most famous houses in the world. But with 14TB of archived film and video, they're already running out of room...
People / Interview
Author: Bevin Baddorf |
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Live & Stage Events
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Journey - Anyway They Want It
Three weeks to build 90 minutes of world-class video and animation for a one-of-a-kind performance by one of the world's legendary rock bands.
People / Interview
Author: Bob Bonniol |
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Broadcast Video
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Ask Bob and then stand back
If you don't want to know, don't ask. Bob Zelin is one of the industry's straightest shooters, and he'll tell you how he's seen things work during his 30+ years in the broadcast trenches.
Feature, People / Interview
Author: Bob Zelin |
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Adobe After Effects
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Poets of the Fall/Stobe Harju Music Videos
Creative COW Magazines Music Video issue featured a look at the making of Poets of the Falls Carnival of Rust, one of the most imaginative music videos we have seen. Created in Helsinki, Finland by director Stobe Harju and director of photography Eki Halkka, you can read about the making of Carnival of Rust in our free Music Video issue, and here in this magazine extras page you will find links to the videos, interview podcasts, more on the band, their music, as well as the music videos of Stobe and Eki.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Author: Eki Halkka and Stobe Harju |
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Indie Film & Documentary
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A Labor of Love
In this article from The Creative COW Magazine, Laurie Pepper discusses her adventures in the movie making industry and her late husband Art Pepper, one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time.
Feature, People / Interview
Author: Laurie Pepper |
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Cinematography
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Inside HBOs The Wire
Set in Baltimore, Maryland, The Wire will begin its fifth and final season in January 2008 on HBO. As different from standard TV as it gets, the show has received the highest levels of critical acclaim, being referred to by multiple reviewers as the best show on television. In its last issue of 2006 Time Magazine ranked The Wire first on its list of 10 Best TV Shows. And Finally recognized as the best series on TV. Sorry, Tony (Soprano), was Newsweeks description. Creative COWs Nick Griffin spent time on set earlier this year and interviewed one of the shows Producers. Heres his inside glimpse into The Wire and its production.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Author: Nick Griffin |
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Adobe After Effects
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Building Cinematic Composites: A Creative COW Magazine Extra
Building cinematic composites takes more than software. It takes careful planning, understanding the drama in every shot, and a sense of magic. In this Creative COW Magazine extra, we share our conversation with director Mark Allen, discussing his short film, Least Likely, a 60-second science fiction epic. Weve got the film here, along with some HD images from it. Prepare to be amazed.
Feature, People / Interview
Author: Tim Wilson |
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Motion Graphics
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Playing Your Role in a Working Film Crew
For years, I've known David McGiffert as an FCP user making his own documentaries. But I had no idea that he had over 40 Hollywood features under his belt until I saw his name in the credits for 'An Officer and a Gentleman.' He wouldn't tell me any of these stories. He finally broke his silence and gives Creative COW readers the story.
People / Interview
Author: David McGiffert |
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Business & Marketing
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Client Management Strategies
CreativeCOW.net business leaders Nick Griffin, Walter Biscardi and Aharon Rabinowitz join Creative COW Magazines co-publishers, Tim Wilson and Ron Lindeboom, to discuss choosing clients wisely, managing their expectations with the goal of successful, and enjoyable collaboration, while striving for equitable profits.
Tutorial, People / Interview, Business
Author: Business Roundtable |
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Indie Film & Documentary
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Film Festival Success
In this article from The Creative COW Magazine, J.C. Bouvier give five tips for getting your film into a film festival.
Feature, People / Interview
Author: J.C. Bouvier |
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Indie Film & Documentary
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Independent Film Productions - Through the Swamps
Navigating the challenges of independent productions. Low budgets don't have to mean low quality. They do mean that you'll have to work harder, longer, and smarter. What you lack in money and crew, you have to make up with hard work and passion.
People / Interview
Author: Mark Maness |
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Motion Graphics
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Educating the Future of High Definition
JMU faced many challenges on the way to a working HD facility. In this Creative COW Magazine article, John Woody discusses some of the struggles and triumphs experienced at James Madison University.
Feature, People / Interview
Author: John Woody |
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Adobe Audition
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Adobe takes COW members inside Adobe Creative Suite 3
Steve Kilisky, Giles Baker, Hart Shafer and Mark Randall sat down with Tim Wilson and Ron Lindeboom to talk about the launch of CS3. They discuss what it means to them, and what it will mean to you. This is a brief overview of what you'll find in each of the 4 parts.
Review, Editorial, People / Interview
Author: Tim Wilson |
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Compression techniques
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Radical Approaches to Mini - Media
Portable media is quickly becoming one of the most popular arenas for video production and broadcast. In this Creative COW Magazine article Tim Wilson discusses the insights about multi-platform media revealed from his interview with Evan Schechtman, CTO of Radical Media and explains how to get the tools to utilize this expanding marketplace.
Feature, People / Interview
Author: Tim Wilson |
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Business & Marketing
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Finding the Way to Real Money - Full Time
Industry pros reveal how they got ahead and ways to stay there... Tim Wilson reveals some professional business secrets video and effects artists have shared with him over the years of how they have come to make money doing the work they love to do.
People / Interview, Business
Author: Tim Wilson |
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Adobe Audition
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Adobe Creative Suite Premium 2.3: CS The Next Generation
Tim Wilson recently spoke with Lonn Lorenz, the Creative Suite's product manager, and gives his thoughts on what the fuss about a point release for the Adobe Creative Suite is and concludes that premium version of Suite, offering more than enough reason to upgrade from the CS Standard, or from earlier versions of CS Premium.
Editorial, People / Interview
Author: Tim Wilson |
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Adobe Audition
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Adobe Soundbooth: A First Glimpse
Tim Wilson previews the new Adobe Soundbooth audio sweetening and soundtrack creation tool planned for 2007 release. In this article, Tim talks with Adobe's Hart Schafer, Senior Product Manager of Adobe Audio Products, and explores many of the features and functions in the newly announced Soundbooth.
Review, Tutorial, People / Interview
Author: Tim Wilson |
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Art of the Edit
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Exploring the Workflow of Good Eats
No matter what a television series is about, producing a series is all about workflow. The credits at the end of an episode list who did a particular task, but how they all work together is a story in itself. For a small part of that story on one show, meet -Good Eats-, the top-rated Food Network series.
Feature, People / Interview
Author: Tim Wilson |
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Windows Hardware & Software
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AMD acquires ATI: What Does It Herald?
With Intel's new CPUs and Apple as Intel's new customer, what does AMD see in its latest counter-strike move? In this article from The Creative COW Magazine, Ron Lindeboom discusses the future of ATI, AMD and the market as a whole.
People / Interview
Author: Ron Lindeboom |
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AVID Editing
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A Talk with Medéa and Avid
An exclusive report from the Creative COW Magazine, a talk with Andy Dale of Avid & Martin Bock of Medéa, regarding Avid's recent purchase of Medéa Corporation. What does Avid see ahead for the company that changed the video hard drive market forever?
People / Interview
Author: Walter Biscardi |
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COWmunications feedback
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The Taps Project
Preserving the story of veterans for the library of congress - Everyday, we lose another 1,000 WWII veterans whose stories are lost forever. These are fathers, sons, brothers, uncles and friends whose stories are now gone forever. We are working with the Library of Congress to help preserve these stories for the families and for the future.
People / Interview
Author: Ron Lindeboom |
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Autodesk Combustion
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Sapphire Plug-ins Provide Big Help on ''Little Manhattan''
Film editor and FX artist, Alan Edward Bell shares some Hollywood secrets in this discussion of his recent job for 20th Century Fox and New Regency Pictures, "Little Manhattan." One tool he came back to again and again was GenArts' Sapphire Plug-ins -- both during the editing stage to create effects within Final Cut Pro, and during the finishing stage to finalize the effects at film resolution within Autodesk combustion.
Interview
Author: Alan Edward Bell |
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Panasonic VariCam
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Leo Ticheli discusses the HD VariCam from Panasonic
Panasonic's VariCam HD camera is one of the most popular HD units in use today, being used in major and independent films, commercials, corporate and music videos and many other projects. In this article, Creative Cow's Leo Ticheli discusses how the VariCam is used at his company, Leo Ticheli Productions (LTP). LTP bought VariCam back in 2001 and today uses the VariCam in projects that are developed at the two company offices located in Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia.Leo Ticheli, (host of Creative Cow's VariCam forum), discusses his purchase reasons, the image quality, the posting process and some of the projects that the VariCam has been used on. He gives his assessment of the camera, as well as the VariCam's aptness for a broad range of assignments.
Review, People / Interview
Author: Leo Ticheli |
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Linux & Media
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A Talk with SpectSoft's Jason Howard about Linux & Film Production
Creative Cow's own Jason Howard, is helping bring Starship Troopers 2 to the big screen. His company, SpectSoft, has been working with the famed Tippett Studios to integrate SpectSoft's new RaveHD system into Tippett's workflow. Faced with creating a system that allowed customers like Tippett to work with many different formats and systems -- like accessing both Sony CineAlta's 1080p24 format and Panasonic VariCam's 720p60 -- and performing well with the very latest HD decks, etc. How well has RaveHD worked for Tippett over the last eight months of its use? Well, famed Tippett Studios used it for the HD editing workflow for Starship Troopers 2. Here's the story...
People / Interview
Author: Jason Howard |
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Indie Film & Documentary
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INDY FILMMAKER, Noah Kadner SHOOTS FORMOSA, VINTAGE 1950
Director Noah Kadner recently shot his debut feature, Formosa, a period comedy about a hapless group of social guidance filmmakers, with Panasonic's AJ-SDX900 DVCPRO Cinema camcorder. An independent project from High Road Productions (Los Angeles, CA), with Anita M. Cal producer, Formosa will go out to potential distributors and have a limited festival run beginning later this year.
People / Interview
Author: Noah Kadner |
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Indie Film & Documentary
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James Kelty: Indie & Documentary Filmmaker
James Kelty has always considered himself more of a writer-director than an editor. But in today's ever changing production world, Jim recently found himself without the editor with whom he'd worked for years. It was at this point that he began calling longtime friend and Creative Cow co-founder, Ron Lindeboom, asking which way should he go to remain competitive. Ron encouraged Jim that he was a great storyteller and that editing would come natural to him using today's tools. Jim, as a writer-director whose past projects have included "mega-wall" three big-screen spreads for the California State Museum in Sacramento and whose recent projects have included documentaries with Danny Glover narrating, found that editing has come naturally thanks to his friends at the Cow. Today, Jim participates in a wide range of Cow forums and helps lead in our Indie Film & Documentaries forum. Here is his story...
Interview
Author: James Kelty |
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Apple Final Cut Pro
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A Mission for the U.S. Army with Imagine's video-logger, The Executive Producer®, and Image Mine®
Producer Bill Horneck recently tackled the challenge of producing a 28:30 TV show entitled, ''Insuring America's Military Might, A Journey Into Yuma Proving Ground'' for the United States Army and the Educational Broadcasting Network of Hollywood, FL for their series ''The Green Planet.'' In this article, Bill shares the experience and how he relied extensively on Imagine Products The Executive Producer (TEP) for video logging, and Image Mine for library functions for media asset management.
People / Interview
Author: Bill Horneck |
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Pinnacle CineWave
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CineWave gives Final Frame network quality at a small business price
If it weren't for Pinnacle Systems, Will Cox would still be just a Final Cut Pro engineer at the Oxygen Network, not co-founder of his own postproduction company in New York City. He and his partner Youna Kwak founded Final Frame and retained Oxygen as a client, and he has his CineWave system to thank.
People / Interview
Author: Will Cox |
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Pinnacle OLD Liquid Solutions
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Liquid silver makes Boise editor a big frog in a remote, little pond
Erich Korte of Laughing Dog Productions has been in the business for 25 years, so he has the talent and the contacts. All he needed when he decided to pursue his dream of being able to run his business from a chairlift at a ski resort was an editing system he could afford without a huge corporate budget or being tied down by technology. One that other freelance editors could easily adopt, and a system that provided the high production quality his clients expect. What he chose was Pinnacle Systems Liquid silver.
People / Interview
Author: Erich Korte |
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Indie Film & Documentary
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Screenwriter Caroline Thompson recalls Edward Scissorhands
Screenwriter Robert Olague interviews screenwriter Caroline Thompson about her screenplay for Edward Scissorhands, working with Tim Burton, and how she got started in Hollywood. Today, following the interview, she has gone on to direct, produce and write for her own films like Hallmarks Snow White: The Fairest of Them All.
People / Interview
Author: Robert Olague |
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Art of the Edit
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Alan Levi: From Columbo to E.R. and Beyond
Tim Kolb explores the career of legendary director, Alan J. Levi. Spanning a career that began in the 1960's and still continues today, Tim discusses the life, work and accomplishments of a talented man whose body of work includes many of the most memorable shows in television history. He is also the inventor of ''video assist'' and is not only hands-on in the artistic side but in the technical side as well. Alan discusses the way that the new technology has changed the face of broadcast production and his own use of nonlinear editing tools. It's a great story and our thanks to Alan J. Levi for granting the interview and Tim Kolb for a great job in writing it.
People / Interview
Author: Tim Kolb |
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