We’re revealing the upcoming Creative Suite 6 Production Premium Release

We are so excited to show our customers ®Adobe Creative Suite® 6 Production Premium—including major updates for Adobe Premiere® Pro CS6 and Adobe After Effects® CS6— before its official release!  Check out the top new CS6 Production Premium features on our CS6 Production Premium Reveal webpage.

Our Sessions at Post|Production World 2012

Adobe has announced a new version of their Creative Suite at the last three NAB shows in a row. Unfortunately, they usually don’t announce it until late Sunday night before the show opens, meaning we’ve not been able to reveal in advance what we’ll be talking about at the associated Post|Production World conference (requires separate registration and fee), resorting to generic titles and descriptions instead.

This year, with Adobe tipping their hand several days before the show (here’s our preview of AE CS6), we have a chance to give you a better heads-up about what we’ll be demonstrating, in case you want to take a break from the show floor and sit in a couple of sessions:

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An A to Z of Building Projections - Part 2

This two-part video presentation looks behind the scenes at two different building projection projects – a small scale production for New Year’s Eve in Melbourne, Australia, and a large scale event for the Alfa Bank in Russia – the largest building projection ever staged to date.  In part 2 we take a detailed look at the After Effects workflow used to create the animations for the Melbourne projections, and how the ZBorn Toy and Freeform plugins were used.

After Effects CS6 (P)Review

Upon the release of After Effects CS5 in 2010, Adobe tried an interesting experiment: Part of the After Effects engineering team was split off to start work on major new features for CS6 with a 24-month time horizon, while the rest started work on AE CS5.5 before joining their compatriots in 2011 to also work on CS6. In addition, Adobe has a separate Dynamic Media Advanced Product Development Group, which has produced such major new features as Roto Brush (CS5), Warp Stabilizer (CS5.5), and the new 3D Camera Tracker (CS6).

As a result, After Effects CS6 is an important new release that has something for nearly every AE user. We’re going to explore a number of those features here, starting with the most visible new one - the Ray-traced 3D rendering engine - and then moving onto the 3D Camera Tracker, Rolling Shutter Repair, Variable Mask Feathering, the Global Performance Cache, and other interesting bits. We’ll be sharing pros, cons, preferred workflows, gotchas, and a number of tips that we hope will get you up to speed with this new release.

An A to Z of Building Projections - Part 1

If you have any interest in motion graphics at all, you’ll have noticed the increasing popularity of building projections all around the world.
This two-part presentation gives a behind the scenes look into two different building projection projects – a small scale production for New Year’s Eve in Melbourne, Australia, and a large scale event for the Alfa Bank in Russia – the largest building projection ever staged to date.

The Masters of Compositing Series - Part 2: Paul Vlahos

This is the second in a series of interviews with the pioneers and masters in the compositing/VFX film & television industry. I originally recorded these interviews for my published book “The Green Screen Handbook” (Sybex/Wiley, pub) and had intended to produce one full-length documentary from the materials. But after a couple of years past now, I thought they would be better served as individual parts of a series to help educate and inform people about these historic times from the early days of VFX compositing through modern-day techniques.

Lights, Camera, Kids: Shooting a Childish Spot for T-Mobile on the Canon 5D

A web spot may be seen by more people than a broadcast spot, so making it pretty is more important than ever. In this case, simple but elegant lighting and custom gamma curves made this spot shine. (And when shooting kids, “simple” becomes very important.)

REVIEW:  Blackmagic ATEM 1 M/E Video Switcher

I’ve been working in TV stations for over 30 years now.  I can trace one of the primary reasons I made this career choice back to a basic fact of my DNA:

I love buttons.

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