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MAYA
Iron Man 3: The Trixters Behind Tony Stark's Shiny New Armor
Seventy artists from Trixter worked an entire year to create a formidable 208 VFX shots for Marvel's Iron Man 3. Each new episode in the Iron Man saga details a slick new technology created by the ingenious Tony Stark, and the new installment does not disappoint! Combining the hard surface geometry of the Iron Man suit auto-assembly with the flexibility of the human body was one of the challenges that Trixter brought from previs to believable screen reality.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Alessandro Cioffi |
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NAB Expo
NAB 2013: Adobe Introduces Adobe Anywhere
At NAB 2013, Adobe is introducing Adobe Anywhere, a collaborative workflow platform that centralizes projects and allows users to share and change project files. Also new are some powerful new features for Adobe Premiere Pro, including color grading and the ability to "link & locate" clips. A newly designed SpeedGrade also makes color grading tools more familiar to Adobe toolset users, and After Effects celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Debra Kaufman |
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Adobe Audition, Soundbooth
Audio Basics - Understanding Bit Depth
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In this second tutorial in his occasional series on audio basics, Andrew Devis explains what bit depth is and how the right choice of bit depth can effect the accuracy of your recording. Although Andrew uses Adobe Audition CS6 the information given in this tutorial is valid for any digital audio recording software package.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis |
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Adobe Audition, Soundbooth
Audio Basics - Understanding Sample Rate
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In this occasional series on audio basics by Andrew Devis, Andrew explains what audio samples are and how they can effect the accuracy of you recording. Although Andrew uses Adobe Audition CS6, the information given in this tutorial is valid for any digital audio recording software packed.
Andrew also shows how to create new audio files in Audition and how to specify the sample rate and then how to create tones.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis |
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Adobe Premiere Pro
Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 83 Audio 13: Gain Options
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In this tutorial, Andrew Devis goes through the right-click gain options for audio waveforms in Premiere Pro. These often overlooked options are very powerful when used to either maintain the relationship between clip volumes or break that relationship such that the volume of each of the clips in amplified to the maximum. Understanding these options will give you some quick and powerful tools for dealing with problem audio in your projects. Note: Gain should be sorted out before changes to volume for best results.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis |
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Adobe Premiere Pro
Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 81 Audio 11: Audition
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In this tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to use Adobe Audition to separate the 2 channels of a clip already in the timeline so that they become 2 mono tracks. Although this is a potential work-flow for this problem of separating stereo to dual mono, it is not the best way of dealing with it and should only be done when there isn't really the option to go back and start with the clips from scratch once again.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis |
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Adobe Premiere Pro
IBC 2012: Adobe Provides Broadcast & Media Solutions
Adobe came to IBC 2012 focused on the broadcast industry. The big reveal was its new Adobe Anywhere, a collaborative workflow platform that allows real-time collaboration for remote users of Premiere Pro, After Effects and Prelude. Adobe expanded its partnerships with broadcast solution companies, to over 200. At the show, Adobe also unveiled a new promotional offer for individuals and corporations interested in switching from Apple Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer to Adobe Production Premium or Adobe Creative Cloud.
Editorial, Feature
Debra Kaufman |
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Cinematography
Behind the Lens: Paul Cameron ASC on Total Recall
Paul Cameron, ASC, just finished work on the remake of Total Recall, directed by Len Wiseman and starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel with Bill Nighy, Bryan Cranston, and John Cho. Cameron was last featured in Creative COW for his work on Henry's Crime. His previous credits include director Michael Mann's Collateral and Tony Scott's Man on Fire.
Feature
Paul Cameron, ASC |
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NAB Expo
NAB 2012: Adobe CS6 Release
With the release of Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium, Adobe's booth at NAB 2012 was packed every day of NAB 2012. Editors in particular came to check out all the dramatic changes made to Adobe Premiere Pro, including a redesigned interface that makes it friendly to users of other NLEs.
Feature
Debra Kaufman |
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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 |
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Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Systems offers path for FCPX editors to switch
As disgruntled Apple Final Cut Pro users search out options for professional video editing, Adobe Systems has been a major beneficiary of the big switch since FCPX hit the market. In her interview with Jim Guerard of Adobe Systems, Debra Kaufman finds the result of Adobe's offering for former FCP users to be a big uptick in pro video users.
People / Interview
Debra Kaufman |
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Adobe Premiere Pro
Premiere Pro: Sweetening Audio with Parametric EQ
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In this advanced Premiere Pro tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to use the parametric equaliser in Premiere Pro and for CS5.5 in Audition and for CS4/5 in Soundbooth. The parametric eq is a simply and effective way to affect a whole series of frequencies in you audio to quickly and efficiently sweeten (or un-sweeten depending on what you want to do) your audio. However, the work-flow for CS5.5 and above and CS5/4 (and probably CS3) are different and so the tutorial starts with the work-flow for PP/Audition CS5.5 and above and then at 13:30 onwards looks at the work-flow for CS4/5 and Soundbooth including showing how to balance the volume level. Andrew also shows how to apply parametric eq directly in Premiere Pro even though this is a much less efficient way of applying the effect.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis |
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Adobe Audition, Soundbooth
Audio Problems: Balancing Speech Levels
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Have you ever had to deal with audio levels from your talent which are all over the place? One moment they are almost shouting and the next nearly whispering and you are nearly pulling your hair out trying to get the levels to a point where they can be heard and used in your final production? Well, this tutorial is for you! A brand new tool in Audition CS5.5 makes balancing speech audio levels a piece of cake, saving you hours of work and worry. In this tutorial Andrew Devis will go through the work-flow from Premiere Pro to Audition and show how to apply this new effect and work with the settings. This is going to be one of those little effects that you wondered how you ever coped without! This tutorial is for the Production Premium or Master Suite CS5.5 or later.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis |
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Adobe Premiere Pro
Audio Editing Basics for Premiere Pro & Soundbooth
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Good audio is a very important part of great video. In this tutorial, learn how to edit your audio in Premiere Pro and Soundbooth. You will learn how to use keyframes to adjust individual parts of your audio and then how to adjust the audio of whole clips in Soundbooth. See also the upcoming video on balancing or matching the audio of multiple clips for a more professional production.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis |
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Adobe Audition, Soundbooth
Safe Editing in Adobe Soundbooth
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Audio editing is full of peril if you don't take care. But Adobe has now given us the wonderful Snapshot function which can save copies of our files in various different states so that if we make a real mess of things we can always get back to a version before the errors - even if we have saved the file and exited Soundbooth! This tutorial shows how to use the snapshot and history panel to save losing something really important!
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis |
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