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Stephen Smith ~ Stack Tracks: Layered Digital Music
Fred Ginsburg ~ Using SmartSound in Liquid
Marco Solorio ~ Interlacing Progressive Footage
Tim Kolb ~ Demystifying HDV Workflows
George Avgerakis ~ Pinnacle Liquid Edition 5.5
Marisu Fronc ~ AAF and MXF: What Is It, Who Has It and Why You Want It

	George Avgerakis view bio Avid Liquid Pinnacle Liquid Edition 5.5 Throughout his review, George Avgerakis looks at many features that make Liquid Edition a powerful, yet reasonably priced system for professional editors. Of one of his favorite features, George observes: 'Let's face it, most of us are trying to get busy enough to keep one machine busy, let alone a network, but Liquid Edition is equipped for this important step in your growth. One machine may be set up as the key editing bench, while others can act as animation or compositing stations. Using Liquid Edition on each machine, the resources on the main desk can be accessed, changed and stored back from any networked machine. Even on a humble 100 base T system, you can obtain 2 simultaneous streams of video and a stream of graphics.' What are some of his other favorite features? Read on.. Review back to top

	Marisu Fronc view bio Adobe Premiere Pro AAF and MXF: What Is It, Who Has It and Why You Want It Many products that media professionals now use have AAF or will have it in the near future. Some don't have it and some companies have no plans to add it to their product offerings. Why is Advanced Authoring Format important to media pros? Who has it? What tools use it and what does it bring to you and your studio's capabilities? Advanced Authoring Format and/or Media Exchange Format are project interchange formats that are creating the framework by which media professionals will work more collaboratively and productively in the days ahead. It's time for us to contact our manufacturers and providers and let them know why AAF is important to us and why we'll buy it if they add it. In this report, Marisu Fronc looks at the technology and the companies supporting it and why... Editorial, Feature back to top

	Fred Ginsburg view bio SmartSound - Sonicfire Pro Using SmartSound in Liquid In this article, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Fred Ginsburg gives Avid Liquid editors some tips on how to use SmartSound within their editing system. This article was written in response to questions that came up from members of the San Fernando Valley Liquid Users Group. Tutorial back to top

	Tim Kolb view bio HDV Format Demystifying HDV Workflows Creative COW Leader Tim Kolb uses his HDV expertise to explore the technology behind HDV, and show how it applies inside Final Cut Pro and other NLEs, with a special focus on longer projects. As Tim notes, this is a modified version of a post he made in the HDV forum responding to a question about FCP, but anyone who wants to know about editing HDV needs to check this out. Tutorial, Feature back to top

	Stephen Smith view bio Event Videographers Stack Tracks: Layered Digital Music In need of some high-end royalty free music that can fit any media professionals budget? Creative Cow Contributing Editor Stephen Smith explains why Digital Juices StackTraxx layered music library can be the perfect solution for your next project. Review back to top

	Marco Solorio view bio Adobe After Effects Interlacing Progressive Footage We've all heard of de-interlacing footage, but what about re-interlacing? Marco Solorio of OneRiver Media shows us how -- and why -- to create interlaced footage from a progressive source. The results are picture perfect! Tutorial