ElementFX recently created a fun commercial for BuderEngel Advertising and the Monterey Bay Aquarium that shows a young girl looking at rain puddles to see various sea life as she splashes. The digital facility used the commercial to mark the first time as a live action production company to shoot in high definition, using the Sony FP 23 HD digital camera.
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This tutorial uses BCC Rays Cartoon in Apple Final Cut Pro to generate a volumetric lighting effect on an animated text element. The BCC Rays Cartoon filter will also give the text the appearance of being made of neon lights.
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I had a reader e-mail me with an interesting question. The problem that they were experiencing was that they were in the field shooting HD, and wanted to capture the footage they shot into their edit system that they had with them, but the only VTR they had was the camera itself. Most people might say "No problem, just hook up the HD-SDI, and capture your video and audio!". That is true, except for one problem.
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Apple's 2.8Ghz dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core (8-cores total!) Mac Pro is one of Apple's fastest computers yet. With the capability to run with 32GB RAM, an excellent graphics card (or two), and terabytes of storage, no job is too big for this beast to handle.
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Editing in Final Cut Pro is wonderful for me. I love the layout and its ease of use. To learn the basic controls is easy and a quick learn. What I wasn't prepared for was the lovely (and I mean that in the most sarcastic manner) beach balls that pop up when I am in the middle of working. "What is going on now?" I would ask myself. I would scrub the timeline only to find myself locking up and that vicious beach ball appearing from the dark depths of my mighty Mac Pro.
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Nothing drives an editor crazier than when they have gotten to the end of a project, and the producer/director says "Can you bring the on-camera dialog up 5db across the board?" Most editors, at this point, would run screaming out of the edit suite, as it always takes forever to go clip by clip to raise the audio universally, especially if you have adjusted that specific track to varying levels throughout your entire show.
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After getting back into your chair after rolling on the floor laughing at the title of the upcoming Playstation Network game "Fat Princess", take a moment to check out thes...
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Iomega 500GB external hard drive (Rated by 22 users)
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If you're in the market for a great, dependable Windows Vista-based laptop, the Toshiba Satellite is the perfect portable PC. Packed with a solid amount of processor speed, RAM, and a sizeable hard drive, this computer means business. And after working with the Toshiba QOSIMO earlier this year, I know that Toshiba makes a great laptop.
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Vinyl is dead. Or is it? While most folks have long abandoned records in favor of CDs and music downloads, and if Apple gets its way, a totally media free media, ION Audio, a manufacturer of USB turntables and other devices, has quietly shipped its one millionth USB turntable.
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Pinnacle Systems has released a new version of its PCTV TV tuner sticks called the PCTV HD Pro Stick, the middle version of the product line retailing at $ 99.99 US. The other two being the PCTV HD Stick that doesn't come with an IR remote for $69.99 US, and the PCTV HD Ultimate Stick which comes with 2GB of built in flash memory for PVR recording that you can bring with you for $129.99 US.
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Besides the "super thin keep in your pocket/purse all the time model of compact digital cameras" there seems to be a new kid on the block nowadays, the superzoom. Such is Sony's DSC-H50 (available in chrome or black finish).
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