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Red Giant Software buys video plug-in range from Digital Anarchy
A look at the video plug-ins made by Digital Anarchy which have now been purchased by Red Giant. Demonstration by the man behind Digital Anarchy, Jim Tierney, who shows off the former Digital Anarchy video filters and the incredible results which can achieved.
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Red Giant Software buys video plug-in range from Digital Anarchy
A look at the video plug-ins made by Digital Anarchy which have now been purchased by Red Giant. Demonstration by the man behind Digital Anarchy, Jim Tierney, who shows off the former Digital Anarchy video filters and the incredible results which can achieved.
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Interview of the Week
Interview with Micah Sharp, Red Giant Software
Red Giant Software was founded in 2002 by industry veterans to develop and distribute special effects tools for digital video & film professionals. Red Giant products have been used in feature films, music videos, national TV commercials & broadcast shows.
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Editing
News > Tickets on sale IBC FCPUG SUPERMEET AMSTERDAM, SEPT.14
The biggest Final Cut Pro event Europe has seen comes to IBC
The world famous FCPUG SuperMeet will be coming to Amsterdam, The Netherlands on Sunday, September 14 during the week of the giant IBC trade show. This event will be held on the grounds of the beautiful Culture Park Westergasfabriek,? inside the massive Gashouder building.
Reviews > The Assistant Editor, taking the work out of editing
Filmed at the FCPUG Network NAB Supermeet, Las Vegas 2008
It sounds like something out of an Isaac Asimov novel, a time when machines rule the world and computers replace humans. The idea of "The Assistant Editor" is nothing along these sinister lines - this is not something which will do your editing for you, rather it is something that will help to arrange video clips and audio grabs in a coherent form so you can explore the stories within that material. The Assistant Editor takes a lot of the initial work out of the editing process.
Motion Graphics/VFX
News > Toon Boom Studio 4.5 released
Latest version enables users to create photo animation and live-action cartooning
Toon Boom Animation has released Toon Boom Studio 4.5 and its Toon Boom Studio Importer to Flash (TBSi). This latest version enables users to create photo animation and live-action cartooning. Additional new features include a better integration with Photoshop files, extended ease of use, the ability to print, more export options to iTunes and YouTube as well as the import of Flip Boom and Animation-ish projects.
Reviews > Red Giant Software buys video plug-in range from Digital Anarchy
Acquisition adds six new products to Red Giant product-line
A look at the video plug-ins made by Digital Anarchy which have now been purchased by Red Giant. Demonstration by the man behind Digital Anarchy, Jim Tierney, who shows off the former Digital Anarchy video filters and the incredible results which can achieved.
DVD Authoring
News > Disney sells five million films through iTunes
Go online or disappear, Disney leader warns
Unless we occupy space in those platforms, the company will be, and other companies in the traditional media space, will be marginalized," says Walt Disney boss, Iger.
Reviews > Step into Blu-ray - for less than £200
Affordable Blu-ray provides storage solution on the Mac
None of the modern Macs ship with Blu-ray writers which is incredibly frustrating for video editors/camera people, especially those shooting to tapeless formats. What we need is a reliable and affordable way to archive our media. In this report we take a Blu-ray writer, specified to work with Windows XP or Vista, and plug it into a Mac to see what happens. The results are not only surprising but inspiring. We now have that archiving solution we have been looking for.
Encoding
News > Apple adds movies to Australia & New Zealand iTunes Store
Australian iTunes now offering movie downloads
iTunes Australia is now offering movie downloads with 700 titles to choose from.
New features include BluRay VC-1 support, improved MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoding, H.264 support
As ever more video content is uploaded to the Web, the number of compression applications has exploded. With so many budget alternatives, is Squeeze still worthy of consideration?
Camera Technology
News > App makes stop-motion films on iPhone
For purchase from the App Store for US$6.99
Watch It Change is a new application for the iPhone available for purchase from the App Store for US$6.99. It lets you use your iPhone to create stop motion movies and time lapse films.
Disaster Strikes overlooking San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge
It was a very ambitious shoot. A shootout between the new Sony EX1 and the well-established Panasonic HVX-200. Two experienced shooters in a world-class location - high up on a lookout area, overlooking San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. Both shooters jumped into a cab, left the city, crossed the famous bridge and followed a winding road high up into the hills overlooking the Bay area. Out steps the shooters, an insane amount of equipment is unloaded: 4 cameras in all, microphones, tripods, enough gear for a covering wideshot and single shot on either of the shooters as they test the two cameras in one of the world’s most beautiful locations.