Wednesday, December 28, 2011

PsF’s missing workflow, Part 9: Premiere Elements 10

Allan Tépper | 12/28- 03:22 PM

Despite the Premiere Elements team’s denial about the existence of PsF in AVCHD, fortunately there are workarounds to handle AVCHD PsF properly with the sub US$100 Premiere Elements in many cases.

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In parts 1-3 of the PsF’s missing workflow series, we introduced the terms benign PsF & malignant PsF, and revealed the PsF status of several AVCHD cameras from 3 manufacturers. In #4, we did the same with several HD recorders. In #5, we revealed how one recorder manufacturer is offering its own software to counteract the inappropriate signals offered over HDMI by many cameras. In #6, I published an open letter to all pro AVCHD manufacturers. In #7, I covered how to deal with PsF on a progressive sequence in Premiere Pro CS5.5. In #8, I showed how ClipWrap is an excellent solution for many Mac editors. Now in #9, I’ll discuss PsF with the sub US$100 Adobe Premiere Elements 10.

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Digieffects v2.5 - Damage & Delirium Explored

Jeff Foster | 12/27- 03:29 PM

Taking a look into Digieffects latest creative plugin effects

Digieffects has updated and optimized their plugin effects to be Adobe CS5/64-bit compatible and have added some great new tools to their suite of tools! Both Damage v2.5 and Delirium v2.5 are fully compatible with the latest versions of After Effects, Premiere Pro, FCP and Edius. Even better news, this is a free upgrade for registered v2.0 owners!

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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Sony’s NX70 camera to receive its missing 29.97p framerate via free firmware update

Allan Tépper | 12/24- 07:08 PM

29.97p is a vital framerate for producers in ex-NTSC countries. I’m glad Sony has recognized this fact and is finally adding it to the NX70.

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Sony has just announced that the NXCAM camera model known officially as the HXR-NX70 (often followed by a regional suffix) —but colloquially known simply as the NX70— will receive the vital 29.97p framerate via a free downloadable firmware, sometime in the first quarter of 2012.  Well, let me get a little more specific: The 59.94Hz segregated versions of the NX70 will get 1080PsF29.97. This article will explain how vital this framerate is for many producers in ex-NTSC countries, and cover some other improvements included in this update, together with a few that are still missing.

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Friday, December 23, 2011

Simulated Camera DOF In Video with Photoshop CS5.5

Jeff Foster | 12/23- 01:19 PM

Part Two: Video Editing & Animation with Photoshop CS4/CS5 Extended Series

Learn how you can create a simulated Camera DOF effect on your video footage right inside of Photoshop CS5.5 Extended! This technique can be applied to on any video footage and doesn’t require any plug-ins, but rather, it utilizes the 3D Camera to achieve a realistic DOF effect.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

The Smoke and Mirrors Behind Sweden’s Brokendoll

Clint Milby | 12/20- 02:06 PM

Brett Richards Tells Why His Post Is Up In Smoke

Winner of numerous ProMax awards in 2011, Sweden-based, boutique production company Brokendoll has garnered acclaim with their self-described “visually intense” high end productions for advertising, television and web.  You might think a company with this level of initial success would also have goals of growing, but according to Brett Richards, Brokendoll is intent on keeping their footprint small to maintain the quality of their productions, “It is important to the quality of the production that we have the right team on each job, so we avoid large, in house teams to maximize our flexibility.” 

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Sunday, December 18, 2011

New That Post Show: Edit Pro Supergood

Scott Simmons | 12/18- 06:56 PM

New episode is a discussion of Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro X

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Just over a week ago I enjoyed sitting in on another episode of That Post Show where we had a calm and rational (mostly) discussion of Avid Media Composer 6 and Apple Final Cut Pro X. While it might seem these two NLEs are rather far apart in their perception and target market they are indeed both non-linear editors that can be used to tell a story as well as the two newest NLEs on the block. The show is called Edit Pro Supergood and it’s a long one, clocking in at a bit over two hours.

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Saturday, December 17, 2011

What Is The Future Of The Post House?

Terence Curren | 12/17- 04:32 PM

Or is there any…

In the latest episode of “The Terence & Philip Show,” Philip and I start by discussing an article, “Hollywood & the Job Crisis” that leads to questions about constantly the changing business model of post.


Right now the model seems to be “how low can you go” which is ultimately self defeating.

Where do you go from here?


How did post houses get to this, and what will the future hold?


What is your Unique Selling Proposition?


Hear all this and more when you click the link below and join the conversation.

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Saturday, December 10, 2011

Clean those Adobe Media Cache Files

Scott Simmons | 12/10- 01:26 PM

And reclaim some drive space in the process

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I learned something today about Adobe Premiere Pro that I was unaware of. The application creates a media cache when it imports media and that media cache seems to default to the system drive in the user Library folder. This cache can balloon in size over a period of time as I found out when cleaning up a drive. But it can be easily cleaned and relocated.

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Allan Tépper | 02/10- 04:23 PM

A contracted article, sponsored by Datavideo Corporation.

Our friends at Datavideo recently asked me to write an article called How to get the “24p” look for your live-switched multicam shoot. The article covers many factors involved in accomplishing that goal, including framerate, aperture, shutter speed, depth of field, and menu settings in Datavideo’s digital HD video mixers (“switchers”) and recorders, and also the menu settings in several pro cameras from Canon, Panasonic, and Sony. The included chart explains which of the cameras have a direct HD-SDI output, and which require an optional converter to go from HDMI to HD-SDI to connect to the Datavideo digital HD video mixer. As you’ll see in the article, the approach is quite different from the workflows I normally cover, which are more appropriate when programs are to be edited, as opposed to when they are shot —and potentially broadcast— live. The graphics for this article were done by Victory Elliot of Datavideo Corporation.

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