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Product Review: By Heath McKnight

FIRST LOOK: JVC HM-100u
A great primary or secondary HD camera for under $4000

The JVC HM-100u ProHD camera may be small in size, but it's packing three Full HD (1920 x 1080i/p) CCDs that capture great image quality, and it uses Sony's SxS/EX technology to deliver a tapeless workflow on affordable SDHC media cards. Plus, if you're a Final Cut Pro user, you can shoot directly to QuickTime for even faster importing and editing. Read More

Bicoastal creative production company Stardust Studios recently produced a spot for Princeton, New Jersey-based ad agency Princeton Partners and their clients at the Westchester Medical Center, which is located in Valhalla, New York. The :30 spot directed by Stardust's New York-based creative director Alan Bibby debuted regionally earlier this month, and is set to continue airing over the weeks ahead. Read More

Tutorial: By Kevin McAuliffe

Exporting a Media Composer edit to Soundtrack Pro

For the second of my three part article series, I will look at the second most important part of your edit, and that is the sound mix. In many cases, the sound mix can make or break your show. Avid has always been the leader when it comes to taking an edit from the Media Composer (MC), and sending it via OMF to ProTools for a mix, and then sending it back to MC for the final output. Read More

Product Review: By Kevin McAuliffe

Avid Media Composer 3.0

Nothing gets me more excited than sitting down in front of a new editing application, or one that has recently been updated. As I have said in previous articles, no one makes a better editing application than Avid, and it is back with its new line of post production products, and leading the way is Media Composer version 3.0. Why should everyone care about this? Keep reading, and you'll find out! Read More

Project Profile:

Imarion Adopts Autodesk Smoke and Autodesk Lustre to Meet Growing Client Demands

Alex Olegnowicz founded Imarion (pronounced EE-mary-on) in 1995 on what he now refers to as low-end systems such as Adobe Premiere and Avid Xpress NT software. If the systems were low-end, however, the work Imarion produced was not. Successful projects enabled Olegnowicz to upgrade his systems and, by 1998, to add online editing to Imarions services. In 2003, Imarion added two Autodesk Smoke software system to its technology arsenal and, just last year, it brought in an Autodesk Lustre software systems to provide top-quality color correction and DI. Read More

Tutorial:

Boris FX Tutorial: Using Light Effects

This tutorial uses BCC Rays Cartoon in Apple Final Cut Pro to generate a volumetric lighting effect on an animated text element. The BCC Rays Cartoon filter will also give the text the appearance of being made of neon lights. Read More

Project Profile:

"Burma Viral" PSA from MTV, Ogilvy & Mather Amsterdam and Shilo Debuts Worldwide

The filmmakers from creative production company Shilo recently collaborated with an extraordinary group of individuals and organizations to create a powerful animated :90 public service announcement (PSA). The piece, entitled "Burma Viral," uses footage of warplanes bombing Burma with flowers as a dramatic call-to-action.... Read More

Case Study:

Local Hero Post Focuses on Indies with SCRATCH

Local Hero Post in LA is an innovative post production boutique that specializes in high-end digital intermediate (DI) and finishing services for independent filmmakers. The high quality of Local Hero's DI work also attracts bigger-budget films and cable shows, but indies have found a shop that gives them access to top-notch DI at an affordable price point. ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH Digital Intermediate Process Solution is in daily use at Local Hero Post. Read More

Feature: By Douglas Spotted Eagle

HD Primer

Never before has the video industry seen such an explosion of formats as we're experiencing today, and along with the plethora of formats comes confusion about what HD is and what it isn't. Rarely does a day go by that we don't hear the phrase "True HD" or "Full HD" in the context of comparing camcorders and/or formats. Read More

Product Review: By Kevin McAuliffe

Avid Media Composer 2.7.5 (Software Edition) For OS X

When the decision was made for me to review Avid's Media Composer, I have to say that I was really excited. I was (and still am for that matter) an Avid editor for a long time, and was anxious to see what Avid had brought to the table, as afterall, they do make "Tools for Storytellers." Read More

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