Red Giant Software this morning released Primatte 4 for After Effects and Avid, as well as (now) Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro. This version also adds an automatic matte selection feature which Red Giant claims is useful with many well shot and lit, straightforward blue and green screens. Performance has been improved up to […]
Month: March 2008
Chip Color Balance: How Much of a Difference Does It Make?
Life isn’t easy when one lives with overly intelligent appliances. In my case, my home is “enriched” by Harry the Civil Toaster (“civil” not as in kind, but because he used to be in civil service), an appliance who frequently makes life more interesting than it needs to be. Yesterday I got home from work […]
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Semantic Revolution
La taxonomie est morte! Vive la taxonomie… Submitted by: Theresa Regli, Analyst at CMS Watch 12-Mar-2008Conference events and tracks are getting nichey-er and more specific, and rightly so, as every year the knowledge we accumulate about content technology gets deeper and more nuanced, which begs more specific presentations and probing questions from implementers. Earlier this […]
Information architecture and taxonomy courses
TFPL, knowledge and information management services: TFPL Training – Course Subjects:Information architecture and taxonomy – structures, standards and tools for effective navigation and retrieval. Information architecture and taxonomy training courses Information architecture & taxonomy course brochure 2008 Level 1 (Foundation)For delegates with little or no experience in the subject. Course titleInformation architecture foundation programme: bringing […]
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Pasting Paths from Illustrator to After Effects
So what’s so interesting about a feature we’ve had for eons? We all know you can copy and paste vector paths from Illustrator to After Effects as mask paths and motion paths (you did know that, right?). But with the new Shape Layers in After Effects CS3, you may run into a little snag when […]
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NAB Purchases
Every year for the past 11 years or so, I have made the trek to NAB. For several years, myself and a couple of friends/co-workers used the trip as an opportunity to ride our motorcycles from San Francisco to Vegas. Nice ride, and something to look forward to every year. Despite having to pack intelligently […]
Here Comes Hulu
As I type this, Hulu is temporarily closed as it is prepared for public roll-out on Wednesday. What, you might ask if you’re too busy creating images to watch them on a beta website, is Hulu? As best I can tell, it is an attempt by network television – specifically NBC, although other networks are […]
DAM handling streaming media
From Content on content management Lately Digital Asset Management and more specifically media streaming has been a pretty hot item. I’ve found myself in a number of conversations discussing Oracle UCM’s capabilities and how to integrate it’s features in to web sites. The content server is an excellent platform for media storage, management and conversion, […]
Precise information access – enabled by intelligent control
Wordmap’s software brings a new level of precision to information access and control. Using Wordmap’s enterprise products, organisations develop classification schemes or taxonomies, upload and store documents by reference to them, then publish rich information resources for their users to search and navigate. In short, Wordmap can transform information that is complex, chaotic and hard […]
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Exporting stills from FCP
I recently had a chance to compare the PMW-EX1 with a RED and an F23 (about which, more will be said in coming days). I collected quite a few video clips from the cameras and I’m going through the process of exporting still frames from the two Sonys, using Final Cut Pro. As I want […]
