The WebM v. H.264 Debate — A Simple Explanat

March 14, 2011, 01:50 PM

http://blog.sorensonmedia.com/2011/03/the-webm-v-h...

Google dropped a bomb on the online video world a few weeks back with the declaration that they will drop H.264 support from their popular Chrome Web browser. This triggered an unsurprising firestorm of debate in the tech community about open vs. proprietary standards — but for the less technically inclined, it elicited the question: what exactly does this mean?

Small Tree to Feature GraniteSTOR ST-Vault at NAB

March 14, 2011, 01:48 PM

http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/briefingroo...

the first product in its new GraniteSTOR Archive line of tape storage systems created to protect critical video and audio assets (Booth SL10505).

Grass Valley to Unveil Production Center, Switcher

March 14, 2011, 01:48 PM

http://www.governmentvideo.com/article/103864

Grass Valley, a Nevada City, Calif. provider of professional broadcast solutions, is set to unveil the latest software for its line of Kayenne Video Production Center (v3.0) and Kayak (v7.0.4) high-definition switchers. Both new software versions streamline production workflows, making crews more productive by providing the technical director (TD) with more control over camera settings, macro editing and signal routing, according to Grass Valley.

Mick Audsley Discuss Ways To Prepare

March 14, 2011, 11:21 AM

https://www.aotg.com/mick-audsley-discuss-ways-to-prepare/

A preview of Roger Crittenden and film editor (Twelve Monkeys, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles) Mick Audsley's 'Introduction to Editing' at the Imaginox Online Creative Academy of Film and Television. The two discuss editor prep.

All About ACES

March 14, 2011, 10:38 AM

http://mikemost.com/?p=235

There has been a good deal of talk about the IIF/ACES system, but there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding as to exactly what it is. A lot of the early talk centered around the proposed file format to contain ACES information, but the file format is only a very small part of what the system is intended to be, and one of the least significant.

What I do as a Demo Artist

March 14, 2011, 09:43 AM

http://michaelkammes.com/commentary/what-i-do-as-a...

Once a baby, always a baby?

March 14, 2011, 09:38 AM

http://avidassteditor.com/2011/03/14/once-a-baby-a...

I changed over those ... years. (Really think I am going to put that out there? Seriously?!) Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse, but I like to think of myself as a work-in-progress and it probably wouldn’t hurt to think of Avid the same way.

Extruding 3D Text & Shapes 1

March 14, 2011, 09:36 AM

http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Extrud...

Extruding 3D text and shapes can be done in a number of different ways in After Effects using either native tools or 3rd party plug-ins. In this first tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to use the duplication method which uses numerous layers of the same item to create the illusion of depth. Andrew shows the simple expression to use to make the job quick and easy as well as showing how to change the source layer to animate shapes.

Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II

March 14, 2011, 07:09 AM

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2011/cteq/ivan-the-t...

By the time Sergei Eisenstein completed Ivan Groznyy (Ivan the Terrible Part I) in 1944, the widespread experimentalism that had characterised the Soviet arts of the 1920s was a distant, long-suppressed memory. The Soviet Union of the 1920s represented a rare historical instance in which a state openly supported avant-garde art as a force for socio-political change, having fostered futurist and constructivist movements that dexterously combined anarchist sentiment with the pressing Bolshevik...

More random, mindless speculation about FCP

March 14, 2011, 07:08 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/st...

Here we are a couple of weeks past what is just slightly more than a rumor about the next version of Apple’s Final Cut Pro. Let’s call it FCPx as someone on Twitter stated and not FCP Awesome as was tweeted by another. I like FCPx for the mindless speculation. There has been more digital ink spilled over so little information concerning FCPx than pretty much anything besides the next great Canon DSLR or Obamacare. I’m about to add a bit more.