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Film History & Appreciation These Amazing Shadows An editor's journey through the films that made America (or, how I stopped worrying and learned to love the B-Roll) Feature, People / Interview Doug Blush Cinematography Editing the Farrelly's The Three Stooges In Atlanta to work on 'The Three Stooges,' the editor of 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Kingpin' reflects on comedy, timing, and editing as a team sport. Feature, People / Interview Sam Seig Cinematography The SciTech Award Goes to... the Stab-C Classic, Super-G & Stab-C Compact Stabilizing Heads At the 84th Annual Academy Awards for Technical Achievements, Nettmann Systems International's "versatile family of 5-axis camera and lens stabilizers" will be honored with a SciTech Award: to E.F. "Bob" Nettmann for the concept and system architecture, Michael Sayovitz for the electronic packaging and integration, Brad Fritzel for the electronic engineering, and Fred Miller for the mechanical engineering of the Stab-C Classic, Super-G and Stab-C Compact stabilizing heads. Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman Cinematography The SciTech Award Goes to... Side Effects' Andrew Clinton and Mark Elendt At the 84th Annual Academy Awards for Technical Achievements, Side Effects senior mathematician Mark Elendt and 3D graphics programmer Andrew Clinton will pick up a Technical Achievement Award (an Academy Certificate) for the invention and integration of micro-voxels in the Mantra software. Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman Cinematography Hugo and The Joy of Filmmaking In this expanded version of the article from Creative COW Magazine, VFX Supervisor and 2nd Unit Director Rob Legato shares some of the secrets of a tribute to the love of making and watching movies, and insights into two filmmaking masters. All of us at Creative COW congratulate Rob on his Academy Award nomination for his visual effects work on Hugo. Feature, People / Interview Rob Legato Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate What a Long, Strange Year It's Been! Apple imploding. Adobe ascending. Avid opening up. Who could have seen it coming? Here's Walter's look at what happens when the blinders come off. Feature, People / Interview Walter Biscardi 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 DSLR Video Plan It Like a Bank Heist A DSLR shoot -- wait, make that two shoots including a couple of Panasonic AF100s -- that is a reminder to both plan for everything, and be ready for anything. Feature, People / Interview Stephen Menick Audio Professionals Drive garners Oscar Nom for Soundelux's Lon Bender and Victor Ennis Garner Oscar nominated Soundelux Supervising Sound Editors Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis & team take the audience of "Drive" on an aural trip. Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Real World Editing: From Avid to FCP and Back Again The inside story of reality TV giants Bunim/Murray Productions, and their trip from Avid Media Composer to Apple Final Cut Pro...and back again. Feature, People / Interview Mark Raudonis Cinematography Douglas Trumbull: A Writer-Producer-Director-Engineer-Inventor Looks Forward While others reflect on his 45 years of achievement, Douglas Trumbull currently has five movies underway, and some strong ideas about saving the future of filmmaking. Feature, People / Interview Douglas Trumbull Cinematography Cutting Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Accomplished Swedish editor Dino Jonsäter follows the clues to edit the notoriously complicated story, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," his first Hollywood film. Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman Indie Film & Documentary Unexpected The album promo that Jason Bergh was working on took an unexpected turn, across generations to South Africa, and then there was that unexpected release from Apple.... Feature, People / Interview Jason Bergh Customer Intimacy & the HP Z800 Jeff Wood, VP of Global Marketing, Commercial Solutions Unit for HP, describes the demands that film and video pros place on their workstations, how HP is meeting those demands, and how they will continue to listen to you to deliver reliable and powerful solutions. Feature, People / Interview Jeff Wood Art of the Edit The Discovery Process John Lawrence and his team at Image Work Communications are helping clients discover their own stories -- and discovering for themselves how the speed of HP workstations can make a difference when editing on both Mac and Windows. Feature, People / Interview John Lawrence Art of the Edit Opening My Mind Has Opened Doors Richard Harrington describes how he reached the decision to switch from Final Cut Pro to Adobe Premiere Pro and why part of his post-production department is running on Windows. Feature, People / Interview Richard Harrington MAYA Tintin VFX Supe Joe Letteri Talks 3D and Mocap Four-time VFX Oscar-winner Joe Letteri describes the advanced technology behind Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, discussing his own adventures with virtual cameras, motion capture, 3D, and three years of pre-production with the team at Weta Digital. Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman Cinematography Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg: Supervising Sound Editors Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg are celebrating 23 years together as a supervising sound editor team at Soundelux in Hollywood, a collaboration that includes the 2008 Academy Award for their work on "The Bourne Ultimatum." Creative COW had the opportunity to speak with Karen and Per about their path to becoming top Hollywood supervising sound editors, how they work as a team and the challenges and joys of working in feature film sound. Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman Cinematography Behind the Lens: Steven Fierberg, A.S.C. Steven Fierberg, A.S.C. is well known for the pilot for the new ABC hit Once Upon a Time, for Entourage, and the movies Love and Other Drugs and Secretary but this A.S.C. cinematographer was the artist behind the lens on many titles, including the pilot of How to Make it in America, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, and Rage, the groundbreaking Sally Potter-directed cell phone movie. Look behind the lens with Creative COW. Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman Cinematography Behind the Lens: David Boyd A.S.C. Talks about 'The Walking Dead' David Boyd, ASC has lensed 10 episodes of AMC's highly popular 'The Walking Dead,' and also directed the sixth episode of the second season, "Secrets." Creative COW's Debra Kaufman spoke with David about shooting style, lighting and lens choices, and staying out of the way. Feature, People / Interview David Boyd, ASC Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Either/Or? BOTH. Ramy Katrib helped design the first FCP workflows for features and TV, but with many new opportunities, DigitalFilm Tree refused to limit themselves. Feature, People / Interview Ramy Katrib Cinematography Douglas Trumbull Sees a Better Filmgoing Future Douglas Trumbull first won acclaim with the visual effects for such groundbreaking features as "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and his own "Silent Running," but with the invention of Showscan in the late 1970s, he became the godfather of high-frame rate cinema. This pioneering innovator sees a better filmgoing future. Feature, People / Interview Douglas Trumbull Cinematography Solving Creative Problems Creatively Pioneers of 5D workflows, Bandito Brothers is focused on workflow, period. What the client wants, the client gets, regardless of platform. Feature, People / Interview Jacob Rosenberg Adobe After Effects Adobe Creative Cloud Offers Applications, Services, Community With Creative Cloud, Adobe is switching from a model of software as a product to Software as a Service (SaS). By early 2012, Adobe Creative Cloud is expected to include such applications as After Effects, Premiere and Photoshop. Creative Cloud includes a hub for viewing, sharing and syncing of files, and a subscription with 20GB of cloud storage. Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman DSLR Video Shane Hurlbut, ASC: Master Cinema Series DSLR Rigs Cinematographer Shane Hurlbut, ASC (Terminator: Salvation, Act of Valor) partners with camera accessory manufacturer Letus to release a line of rigs for DSLRs, designed to turn them into true motion picture cameras. Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman

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