How To: After Effects Green Screen Key

March 18, 2011, 01:50 PM

http://charlesheureaux.com/2011/03/18/green-screen...

The long-awaited tutorial, How to key a green screen as arrived. In todays lesson will spend roughly 7 minutes learning a three-step technique to properly key a green screen. If you follow these steps below you should be able to do so.

Final Cut Friday

March 18, 2011, 10:30 AM

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/blog/2011/03/17/fi...

Thunderbolt!

March 18, 2011, 10:29 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/editingpost...

You’ve likely heard about the new interconnect technology called Thunderbolt. With two 10 Gbit/sec channels this has some interconnect power, at budget pricing. It’ll make a big difference when momentum gathers.

BEHIND THE EDIT – SMR VS FACEBOOK

March 18, 2011, 10:28 AM

http://www.elskid.com/blog/behind-the-edit-smr-vs-...

I’m pretty pleased with the way the latest episode of SMR turned out and there’s quite a lot in it that’s quite interesting so I thought it’d make a good case study looking at the way post-production can bring a project to life. It’s fair to say that the post in SMR is labour intensive, mind-numbingly, insanely post heavy. Each of these episodes is turning into a mini visual FX-laced short film now and we’re looking to push the production value up much higher in the coming months.

Joe Walker Edits Life in a Day

March 18, 2011, 07:38 AM

http://www.moviemaker.com/editing/article/life_in_...

Editing a narrative feature is difficult enough. The logistics of it have the potential to be frustrating--the clips aren’t labelled well enough, so you can’t find that one shot you really like, and when you do find it, you can’t use it because Character A’s hair isn’t the same as in the rest of the scene. There’s a dinner scene where Character B’s eyeline is off, but you can’t cut it because then the rhythm gets thrown off and Character B’s confession to Character C in the thi...

Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter Cut The Social Network

March 18, 2011, 07:37 AM

http://www.moviemaker.com/editing/article/angus_wa...

Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter are having a good year. Their work editing David Fincher’s The Social Network garnered them both Oscar and Eddie nominations. And the film itself, in addition to being a front-runner come Oscar night, was a success with both audiences and critics. That might seem like a hard thing to accomplish with a movie that, on the surface, is about the founding of a Website. But The Social Network is less about writing computer code and drafting business plans than it is about....

Archiving Dilemma

March 17, 2011, 09:37 PM

http://lfhd.net/2011/03/17/archiving-dilemma/

OK, it has been a while since I did a spontaneous blog post...dealing with an issue I am faced with at this moment. But, it is one that has always been in the air, and has driven me to make the decisions I have made. ARCHIVING TAPELESS MEDIA

CoreMelt Unleashes CoreMeltFREE

March 17, 2011, 09:36 PM

http://www.digitalproductionbuzz.com/2011/03/17/co...

CoreMelt, a provider of advanced video plug-in effects, announced CoreMeltFREE, a compelling new collection of 33 visual effects plug-ins based on CoreMelt Complete V2, the company’s highly regarded and comprehensive line of professional products featuring over 200 GPU accelerated plug-ins for faster rendering and workflow. The CoreMeltFREE bundle includes an assortment of plug-ins from each of the eight products in CoreMelt Complete V2 – from soft organic glows and blurs to advanced color c...

SmartSound Announces Music Plug-in for Avid Studio

March 17, 2011, 09:33 PM

http://www.digitalproductionbuzz.com/2011/03/17/sm...

SmartSound Software, Inc., the leader in fully-customizable royalty-free music and soundtrack creation software, announced a new Plug-in for Avid Studio and Pinnacle Studio v15 video editing software. Recently released, the new Plug-in adds SmartSound’s Sonicfire Pro music scoring ease and versatility to Avid and Pinnacle Studio video production platforms.

Adobe’s Mercury Playback Engine & Apple’s

March 17, 2011, 09:32 PM

http://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/

Recently I’ve been getting a lot of performance questions from Mac users about using Premiere Pro editing systems with ATI/AMD graphics cards. No question this has been "sparked" by Apple’s recent series of MacBook Pro Laptops featuring Thunderbolt and a 1GB AMD Radeon 6750 graphics card. Below is a link (Click picture) to show the Mercury Playback Engine running on the new Apple MacBook Pro 17" Thunderbolt laptop in 64 bit CPU mode or what’s also known as Mercury Software mode.