G-Technology G-Drive mobile 500GB By John Virata G-Technology has a new mobile drive targeted at users of Apple's MacBook Pro that is built around the FireWire 800 interface and a 5400rpm Hitachi hard drive. Called the G Drive mobile, the portable FireWire drive is formatted for Apple computers and is a Time Machine Ready 500GB drive. The drive features a new piano black top while the sides and bottom are brushed aluminum, in part to match Apple's line of aluminum MacBook Pro notebook computers. ...Read More »
ASSIMILATE AT FOREFRONT OF 3D FILMMAKING WITH SCRATCH 3D REAL-TIME DATA WORKFLOW ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH(r) Digital Finishing Solution is taking the lead in affordable/high-performance 3D data workflows for the filmmaking, TV, and advertising markets, worldwide. The rapid rise of 3D digital cinema is bringing magical and high-impact experiences back to feature films, capitalizing on its wow factor for global audiences young and old. ...Read More »
SCRATCH 3D Workflow Helps "Les Krostons" Become Masters of the Universe Les Krostons" want to take over the world and their impish intentions were recently revealed in a five-minute VFX-laden 3D stereo teaser, directed by Frederick Du Chau through Le Studio d'Imagination, and screened at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Duran Duboi in Paris harnessed the powers of ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH(r) Digital Finishing Solution in a streamlined file-based 3D stereo workflow, from set to post production, to DCP deliverables. ...Read More »
Digital Cinema and Data Workflows in China: An Interview with Wu Chiao, Director and Cinematographer Well known director and cinematographer Wu Chiao is at the forefront of digital cinema in China. He has been immersed in the filmmaking process since his first day as a student of cinematography at the Beijing Film Academy. He has been the director and/or cinematographer (DP) of numerous films, setting a standard of excellence within China. George Lucas` "Star Wars II" -- the first motion picture to be shot using an HD camera -- planted the seed with Wu Chiao that quality movies... ...Read More »
Digital Magic Hong Kong Sets Up SCRATCH 3D and RED Workflows from ASSIMILATE Digital Magic Hong Kong, a leader in state-of-the-art post-production in Asia, has now established an ASSIMILATE SCRATCH digital intermediate (DI) workflow to specifically handle the conform, color grading, and finishing of RED digital camera?s native R3D files, as well as 3D features shot with RED Digital Cinema?s cameras. Because SCRATCH is resolution independent, it will also be used as a component of their 3D pipeline... ...Read More »
ASSIMILATE Expands Reach in Asia; Launches ASSIMILATE China With the rapid rise of 2D and 3D digital cinematography in China, ASSIMILATE announced today the expansion of its global sales and support organizations with the launch of ASSIMILATE China, and the opening of a main office in Beijing, China, effective immediately. ASSIMILATE Inc, with headquarters in Santa Clara, CA, has sales, service and technology teams located around the world. ...Read More »
RED/SCRATCH Workflow Puts Hong Place Vision at Forefront of Digital Cinema in China Riding high on the wave of digital cinema, Hong Place Vision is the biggest rental company of RED Digital Cinema cameras in Beijing, and has built a post-production studio to meet the demand for the rapidly rising number of digital film and TV productions in China. At the hub of their data workflow and DI tool suite is ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH® Digital Finishing Solution. ...Read More »
Social Media #4 By Miles Weston Part of a continuing series of articles to plainly explain what organizations need to consider and carry out in today's social media. ...Read More »
Social Media #3 By Miles Weston Part of a series of articles to plainly explain what organizations need to consider and carry out in today's social media. ...Read More »
ASSIMILATE to Feature SCRATCH v5.2 Digital Post Workflows for Finishing 3D, RED, ARRI Alexa, and Other Formats at IBC 2010 SCRATCH v5.2 demos will include state-of-the-art tools for color grading, finishing, compositing, and 3D-specific features, such as convergence, scaling, and versioning. Other 3D demos will include ASSIMILATE's exclusive offering -- 3ality 3Play Pro S -- a professional quality stereo monitoring system, and developed in partnership with Telairity, the first 3D Post Remote-Review Network for simultaneous, real-time review by post houses and clients, anywhere in the world. ...Read More »
Publicity... By Miles Weston As the world turns so does the hot and not communications tools. We jump from print, online news; websites, blogs, microblogs. Proponents of each will swear that "this is the source, the tool that will rise to the top and become the news source of choice." But when you want to be informed (or better yet when YOU want to inform) you think of the lowly, maligned press release. It's not dead. It's just that so few can do the darn thing right. Let's look at the facts and do it right... ...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 2 of 10 By Tom Geller Keep in mind that Drupal essentially is just an attractive and flexible interface to a back end database. So it's worthwhile to take a look at that database to understand what exactly happens when you create, modify, and delete content in Drupal. This understanding will make Drupal administration a lot clearer overall and it opens up a world of possibilities if you are an advanced programmer or a database administrator. ...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 9 of 12 By Laurie Burruss Inside of Photoshop we will open the two screen captures that we made, put them into one image layer and save it out as a PDF. So let's get going on this. Let's go up to the File menu, scroll down to Open, which would be Command+O or Ctrl+O, navigate out to our Desktop, and select Picture 1 and hold down your Shift key and select Picture 2, and click on Open. ...Read More »
Social Media #2 By Miles Weston Number two in a series of articles to plainly explain what organizations need to consider and carry out in today's social media. As the online communities increase in size, number, character; companies will refine their activities to develop "word of mouth equity" that can be used to strengthen their understanding of the customer's wants/needs (present/future), produce sales, blunt the effect of cheap store brands compared to name brands and draw upon when problems, issues arise. ...Read More »
Social Media #1 By Miles Weston The reach of the Internet has opened the door for companies to be in direct touch with millions of individuals who want to obtain information and discuss your company, products, services and your capabilities. They have thousands of online outlets to research virtually anything - and anyone - who exists on the planet. The challenge for companies is how to participate with these people, win them over or neutralize their issues. ...Read More »
Colorista II By Kevin McAuliffe When it comes to a program like After Effects, competing with Color Finesse 3 (that comes with AE CS5) can be tricky, but if there is one company out there determined to do it, it's Red Giant Software and their flagship color correction application Colorista. ...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 1 of 10 By Tom Geller Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal's Content Construction Kit. Tom also shows how a data-driven web site can improve its interactivity by using geographic data to connect real-world addresses to maps. Exercise files accompany the course. ...Read More »
Staying in Touch By Miles Weston We are "entranced" by all of the social media noise and how it's going to be the marketing tool of today and tomorrow. Funny we just thought it was about people talking to people. Rather like our business communications. Not real concerned about people following our Twits (growing up we called it stalking). Wanna tag our social site wall? Have at it! We want to communicate with you and would like you to respond...not the ROW! But that's us ...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 8 of 12 By Laurie Burruss Using Acrobat Pro and the web developer's toolkit, Laurie shows how to capture a homepage and create, in another layer, its visual framework (wireframe). ...Read More »
Avid's Media Composer 5 Part 3 - Matrox's MXO2 mini By Kevin McAuliffe When AVID stated that they supported the MXO2 mini to monitor external video, I was pretty surprised, as this is a big change of direction for AVID as they normally only support their own hardware for video monitoring. I wanted to give the MXO2 mini a fair shake, as for the $449 price tag I really wanted (and hoped) it to work for the user bases sake. Let's see how it fared. ...Read More »
ASSIMILATE Helps Divizion Create a Film Factory in Poland In less than a year since opening, Divizion has completed the DI on seven features, including "Cookie" (Ciacho), one of Poland's biggest-budget productions, directed by Patryk Vega. Next up is the big-budget, 3D stereo horror-flick "Charnobyl 2012", from the same director. Providing in-house production resources; a clutch of RED ONE(tm) cameras, with RED Epic Stage 2 plus CG coming soon; editing; and ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH(r) Digital Finishing Solution for the VFX and digital intermediates (DI). ...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 7 of 12 By Laurie Burruss We've talked about how information being well designed and having a hierarchy is important. But what makes you want to stay at a well-designed homepage? For me designing a homepage is all about thinking 3D, not 2D. It actually is a house. ...Read More »
Content Insider #146 - Games Get Real By Miles Weston The fun and fantasy of the recent E3 conference was breathtaking. But wait a minute isn't it just like WarGames -- a lot of make believe along with some real world reality? So what else is there? Right! The online gaming world is huge and getting even larger. It is stuff you can play on your computer, your TV, your tablet, your smartphone with friends and enemies around the globe. Gaming is good for young/old, male/female, everyone in between. ...Read More »
Media Composer 5 Feature Showcase By Kevin McAuliffe We AVid users have had a BIG problem, and that was working with footage that was not OMF or (now) MXF. Any footage that wasn't captured via the digitize tool needed to be imported and converted to either OMF or MXF, and in many cases, the process was excruciatingly long if files weren't rendered with the Avid Codec. Thankfully, with Media Composer 5, that is no longer the case. ...Read More »
Media Composer 5 Feature Showcase Part 2 By Kevin McAuliffe With Media Composer version 5, Avid is moving in not only a forward direction, but in a bit of a sideways direction as well. Premiere Pro CS5 and Final Cut Pro are drag-and-drop editing applications. This means that you can not only drag clips from the preview window and drop it into your timeline, but you now have an extensive amount of flexibility when dragging clips around in your timeline as well. ...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 6 of 12 By Laurie Burruss Continuing our discussion of Web design principles, we should take a look at information hierarchy. The way to think about it is WE SEE, THEN WE READ. Web designers often do 4 or 5 jobs. They design the graphic elements, they create the interface design, navigation design, interaction design and often are required to design the information. But it should be done on a hierarchical basis that makes sense from the most important to the least important, from the general to the specific. ...Read More »
"Standing Ovation" Shines in SCRATCH-RED Workflow at Local Hero Post Tween audiences will be all aglow when the musical "Standing Ovation" (2010) opens at theaters nationwide on July 16. The RED ONE(tm) Digital Camera was used for the shoot of this major summer release, and the entire DI, including color correction, was done in ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH(r) Digital Finishing Solution at Local Hero Post, Santa Monica, CA. ...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 5 of 12 By Laurie Burruss In this excerpt from Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Hands-On Training, Laurie Burruss, director of digital media at Pasadena City College, demonstrates the eight commandments of naming. These are the rules, these are the commandments. Never break them. ...Read More »
ASSIMILATE Congratulates Mob Scene On Golden Trailer Awards 2010 Mob Scene Creative + Productions took home three Golden Trailer Awards at the 11th Annual Golden Trailer Awards on June 10 at he the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. Mob Scene's tool of choice for their RED camera and 3D post workflows, color grading, and finishing is ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH Digital SCRATCH(r) Digital Finishing Solution. ...Read More »
Adobe CS5 and NVIDIA Quadro FX by PNY - What is your time worth? By Tim Kolb I've been a professional graphics card user for a number of years now and have used 5 or 6 different models from the NVIDIA Quadro by PNY product line. Currently I am using two dual-head cards in one workstation, lighting up four displays. I've become absolutely addicted to the speed of visual feedback I get while working on a system with a Quadro card installed...but Adobe CS5's use of the GPU for edit effects preview changes everything. ...Read More »
ASSIMILATE Features Stereo 3D Workflow in SCRATCH v5.1 at Broadcast Asia 2010 SCRATCH v5.1 also introduces users to Post 2.0, the next-generation of digital post-production tools to achieve the highest level of quality in digital cinema imagery. SCRATCH v5.1 includes a host of new product features and enhancements that propel creative pros -- broadcasters, filmmakers, studios, post facilities, creative teams, and agencies -- to work at their utmost levels of creativity. ...Read More »
Nice Shoes Delivers Promise in United Nations PSA The 38th annual United Nations World Environment Day, on Saturday, June 5th, was highlighted by an event which took place in Rwanda City, Rwanda the same day. Nice Shoes helped spread the word about the global event with design, VFX and color-grading work on an upbeat PSA. ...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 4 of 12 By Laurie Burruss Let's take a moment to look at Firebug, the other extension that we loaded in previous lessons. There are several ways that you can access Firebug. ...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Preferences By Jan Kabili In this clip, host Jan Kabili covers the Elements Preferences, and how to customize them to suit the way that you work. She covers the preferences dialog box and goes over the various categories, and how you can tweak them. ...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 3 of 12 By Laurie Burruss The last tool that I'm going to show you is the Tools dropdown menu. You click on this. At the top I want you to see that there is a number of features all grouped together and these are called Validation links. These look at your web site to make sure that it's correctly written CSS. That's it's correctly written HTML, ...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Toolbar By Jan Kabili In this clip, host Jan Kabili covers the toolbar and details how to use the tools more efficiently. She details how to make the toolbar a double column for those with smaller screens, how to access all the tools using the black triangle that showcase hidden tools behind the other tools, keyboard shortcuts for the tools, and more. ...Read More »

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