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Tutorial: By Diana Weynand

Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #5: Speed Changes
Whether or not you have used the Final Cut Pro speed functions, you're sure to love the new speed changes

Whether or not you have used the Final Cut Pro speed functions, you're sure to love the new speed changes. Simple-yet elegant and powerful. You will be able to change speed in your clips easily and with a lot of flexibility. Read More

The Epson PowerLite 1716 is a portable, wireless-capable LCD projector with a 4:3 aspect ratio targeted at mobile presenters and those on the go who need to present content in an effective manner. The PowerLite 1716 features a three chip Epson 3LCD optical engine that has a native hardware resolution of 1024x768, and features USB, component, and SVGA connectivity. Read More

Technology: By Matthew David

The New Video Standards War - Ogg Vorbis vs. MPEG-4

There is a new video CODEC standard battle that is about to turn into a full, blown out war. On one side is Google and FireFox with the Open Source video format called Ogg Vorbis. In the other corner is Apple with the industry standard MPEG-4. The shared ground they are fighting over: dominance in HTML5. This article looks into this new battle and looks to see if there is already a clear winner. Read More

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Rhino 'Crashes' Fall Lineup With Spot Promoting Starz Series

Rhino Creative Director Vico Sharabani recently completed yet another close collaboration with the Snorri Bros., this time creating all the VFX for a carefully choreographed :30 promoting the new season of Starz' acclaimed series, Crash. Read More

Product Review: By John Virata

Speeding Premiere Pro CS4's H.264 Encoding with NVIDIA QuadroFX and Elemental Accelerator

High definition video editing and HD video encoding are two of the hardware intensive tasks that can be done with a computer. It takes a lot of power to complete these types of jobs, oftentimes rendering your computer limited in functionality while it encodes video. NVIDIA's Quadro line of graphics cards can help to speed up H.264/AVC encoding in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 with an assist from Elemental Technologies' Elemental Accelerator. Read More

Feature: By Mike Jones

Final Cut Pro freebies for a better edit experience

It seems no matter how mature and complex creative software tools become, particularly non-linear editing systems, there always seem to be the extra things you find yourself wishing for. The technology trickle-down effect has seen enormous changes over the past decade where the tools that were once the sole domain of high-end turn-key systems - with appropriate astronomical price-tags - are now stock standard. Read More

Quick Tip: By Diana Weynand

Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #7 - Improved Markers

You know those little post-it note pads that come in multiple colors? Ok, admit it now. Do you ever color-code your notes? Maybe yellow notes are financial, pink ones are hot to-do items. Well with Final Cut Pro 7, you can now use color to label your markers in a very similar way. There are several other marker improvements as well. Read More

Tutorial: By Jeffrey P. Fisher

Adding Audio Hardware Meters to Sony Vegas Pro

There's no doubt that watching volume levels with your audio- and video-centric projects is important. The digital audio world has a top limit --- 0 dBFS --- that you can't exceed. But screen real estate is often at a premium when working in the Vegas NLE. Sure you can pop the Audio Mixer and/or Mixing Console over to a secondary monitor, but that's often filled up with audio/video effects, waveform/vectorscope monitor, and even full-screen previews. Read More

Quick Tip: By Diana Weynand

Diana's Top 10 FCP 7 Features #8 - iChat Theater Preview

In the past, if you wanted to share some portion of your work with another set of eyes, it was a somewhat time-consuming business of exporting a QuickTime file or transferring a sequence or a portion of a sequence to another drive or server for someone else to access. That's no longer the case. Welcome to iChat Theater Preview-the quick and easy way to share and discuss your sequence with someone down the hall or around the world in real time. Read More

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Tonal Sets Uplifting Mood For A&E's Recovery Project Campaign

Following the success of the Emmy-winning series "Intervention," A&E has created The Recovery Project, a multimedia and community based outreach program designed to raise awareness about addiction and how it is treatable and recovery is possible. A key component to the project are two moving TV spots featuring a powerful, anthemic score composed by Alex Lasarenko, Creative Director of music/sound design house Tonal. Read More

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