iClone 6 Pro, along with Character Creator, gives filmmakers the ability to create robust pre-viz stills and animations or full-on scenes, environments and characters. For those that also enjoy producing Machinima productions, this is probably the tool you'll want to consider looking at.
Adobe Creative Cloud: IBC Updates (Preview)
Those Creative Cloud updates keep on coming, and at this years’ IBC, Adobe announced the new features that will have everyone in post production pressing the “download” button.
Magic Bullet Suite 12 (Software Review)
Publisher: Red Giant
Website: Redgiant.com
Platform: PC & Mac
x32/x64: x32 & x64
Description: Effects Plugins
Purchase/Rent: Purchase
Pricing: $799 (full), $399 (academic), $199 (upgrade)
Demo: Click Here
Expected Release: Available Now
Review Issue: #110 (05/15)
Reviewed By: Mark Colegrove
Final Score: 9.0 (out of 10)
Last fall, we delved into Red Giant’s Shooter Suite, a suite of products all centered around production (offloading footage, logging, etc).
Now it’s time to delve into the latest version of Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Suite, which is a bundle of plugins designed to help you along the post-production side of the fence –more specifically in finishing and color correcting your footage. Included in this bundle of products are the latest versions of Looks, Colorista, Film, Mojo & Cosmo as well as the existing versions of Denoiser and LUT Buddy. For this review, I’ll be taking a look at the Premiere Pro/After Effects version.
CINEMA 4D R16 (Software Review)
Microfilmmakers that have elected to pursue CG capabilities with CINEMA 4D will welcome this latest release by MAXON. This release is worth a long look. The CINEMA 4D R16 update, coupled with its integration into Adobe’s After Effects, makes professional workflow integration a snap. Augmented reality has never been easier.
Red Giant Shooter Suite (Software Review)
I was excited to get my hands on Red Giant's Shooter Suite, which is essentially a bundle of many of their stand-alone products and plug-ins (at a discounted price in this package) that mostly pertain to the ingest of footage and preparing yourself, or someone else, for the edit.
RX4 Advanced (Software Review)
This fall, Izotope released version four of its RX audio repair software. Within the new version, Izotope has included several key features that are entirely new and exclusive to the Advanced version. Loudness, leveler, ambience match and de-reverb are a few of the incredibly useful tools now available to editors and audio engineers using RX4 Advanced. While some of these tools...