How technology is influencing storytelling and filmmaking

Academy-award winning VFX Supervisor Rob Legato (Hugo, Titanic), and filmmakers/directors Vincent Laforet (Revelry, Mobius), and Jacob Rosenberg (Act of Valor, Waiting for Lightning) discuss the changing world of filmmaking. Moderated by Sharlto Copley (District 9), panelists dive into a discussion on the digital advances in filmmaking technology and innovative techniques to create engaging, thought-provoking work on any budget.

NVIDIA Maximus and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.52

With the advent of version 5.52 of Premiere Pro, Adobe offered support for what NVIDIA calls Maximus on the PC platform.  Maximus in essence is a Quadro card combined with a Tesla card.  Okay, what’s a Tesla card?  Basically, it’s a Quadro card without the display outputs – essentially, a headless GPU processing powerhouse.

I wanted to take what I had done with the NVIDIA Quadro card comparison and apply the same tests to the Maximus card set I have.  Read on, to learn the results.

My previous blog entry is here – give it a read if you haven’t gone through it yet.  To review, I have a HP Z800 that is a couple of years old but still pretty solid all the way around.  For my Maximus test, I took the comparatively lowly Quadro 2000 and matched it up with the Tesla C2075.

On the set of Vincent Laforet’s short film Möbius

On December 8 writer, producer and vfx artist Jon Carr presented how his team leveraged the capabilities of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium to help complete the short film Möbius edited by Vashi Nedomansky and directed by Vincent LaFloret.

Here is a recording of the session.

You can watch Möbius here: http://vimeo.com/31525127

Möbius was shot using a prototype of the new Canon EOS C300 camera and was edited using Adobe Premiere Pro with effects shots produced using Adobe After Effects.  Also integral to post production process were Adobe Story, Adobe Photoshop Extended and Adobe Media Encoder.

Here are some highlights from Jon’s presentation:

Adobe Story

> Plays nicely with other popular screenwriting tools such as Final Draft
> The collaboration features of Adobe Story allowed Jon and his co-writer Justin Hamilton to share the script, mark up and make comments and have a dialog about needed changes.
> The outline view lists scenes and uses color-coded dots to identify characters used in each scene. This feature helped Jon’s team save money by identifying a scene requiring a single actor that could be rewritten to instead not use that character.

Adobe Premiere Pro
> Editorial started with 18 hours of source material and a tight schedule so editor Vashi Nedomansky was able to pass Adobe Premiere Pro project files back and forth with other team members to help identify selects and speed the editing process.
> Other NLEs would have required the C300’s Canon XF media to be transcoded before it could be edited, but Adobe Premiere Pro was able to work with the media natively so no transcoding was necessary.

Resources for Choosing a Graphics Card for Adobe Premiere Pro

We get asked a lot about what kind of hardware to buy for optimum performance for Adobe Premiere Pro (and After Effects). In fact, we get asked so often, that we’ve put together this brief FAQ entry:
“FAQ: What computer and components should I buy for Premiere Pro or After Effects?”

Adobe really is open

Last month, it was announced that Automatic Duck, makers of popular plug-ins for exchanging timelines between After Effects, Avid, Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools, and more, had partnered with Adobe to bring best-of-class interchange technology to Adobe Premiere Pro and Production Premium. As the President and co-founder of Automatic Duck, Inc., I was invited to join the team at Adobe and put my experience and ideas to work on the future of the suite.

David Dessel’s personal transition to Adobe Premiere Pro

Recently, David Dessel described his personal reasons for moving his work from Final Cut Pro to Adobe Premiere Pro. You can watch his presentation and learn about what factors motivated his transition here:
“Confessions of a switcher, with David Dessel”

If you want to learn more about Adobe Premiere Pro, check out these resources:

• Premiere Pro resources for Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer users
• FAQ: How do I learn Premiere Pro?

Ask a CS Pro: Mastering the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline Panel

Thursday, 3 November, 10:00AM PDT

In this Ask a CS Pro session, Richard Harrington will provide an introduction to the Timeline panel in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Richard will demonstrate basic editing techniques, such as insert, overwrite, ripple, and roll edits. He’ll then move on to demonstrate the more advanced and powerful features in the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline panel, including using a replace edit, creating custom transitions, and using Adobe Dynamic Link to exchange files with Adobe After Effects and Audition.

Click here for information and to register for this online seminar.

About Richard Harrington:

Richard Harrington is the founder of RHED Pixel in Washington, DC (http://www.RHEDPixel.com). Richard is the co-author of the new book and DVD, An Editor’s Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro. He is also the host of Creative COW’s Premiere Pro video podcast. To find out more, follow Rich on Twitter @rhedpixel or visit his blog (http://www.RichardHarringtonBlog.com).

Ask a CS Pro: Intro to sound design with Adobe Audition

In this week’s Ask a CS Pro session, Senior Solutions Engineer Colin Smith will provide an introduction to sound design, including matching audio levels, adding foley, understanding effects, and mastering for output to video with Adobe Audition CS5.5.

Join us this Friday, 26 August, at 12 noon Pacific Time in our Connect Room:
http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/askcspro

(session start time for other time zones)

The room will open 15 minutes before the session starts. At this time, please sign in as a guest to join.

About Colin Smith:

As Senior Solutions Engineer DMO with more than 14 years of experience at Adobe, Colin travels across North America evangelizing Adobe software to individuals, corporations, and professional associations. Mr. Smith is a certified Adobe expert in Acrobat and Creative Suite. He is a frequent speaker at Adobe’s customer seminars, providing tutorials for business communicators, graphic designers, print professionals, and video and audio producers and editors. He also appears regularly on television and radio stations in major cities in Canada, including CP24 in Toronto, A-Channel in Ottawa, and CKNW in Vancouver.

Mr. Smith also works closely with law enforcement agencies to leverage Photoshop and other Adobe technologies to fight crime. An avid music composer, video producer and photographer, Colin expresses his artistic voice through multiple media: music recordings, web sites, and digital photography and video.

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