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Getting Near Perfect Video From Your New Camera: The Basics

Posted by on Apr 25, 2012 in Articles, General, Tips, Tutorials, Walk Throughs | 0 comments

When you get a new camera, the first thing you want to know is: what are the best settings to make it look like a million dollars? The short answer: you're already asking the wrong questions. This does not mean there aren't ways to tweak your camera, but those are final touches to some much more preliminary understandings. The radio station you listen to while you drive your car is a much later choice than learning how to drive your car in the first place.

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Powerful New Adobe CS6 Release at Heart of Transformative Creative Cloud Initiative

Posted by on Apr 23, 2012 in Articles, Industry, MicroFilmmaking, News | 1 comment

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Creative Cloud™, a radical new way of providing tools and services* that will change the game for creatives worldwide. A subscription-based offering, Adobe Creative Cloud is a hub for making, sharing and delivering creative work and it is centered around a powerful release of Adobe Creative Suite® 6 software, packed with innovation across its industry-defining design, Web, video and digital imaging tools.

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iZotope Announces Iris

Posted by on Apr 20, 2012 in Industry, MicroFilmmaking, News | 0 comments

Cambridge, MA—April 17, 2012 – iZotope, Inc., a leading innovator in digital audio signal processing, has released iZotope Iris™, a new concept in sound design and sample manipulation in the form of a “visual instrument.”

Powered by iZotope’s award-winning visual feedback technology, Iris lets you unearth a world of sounds you’ve never heard before. Delve into Iris’s spectrogram to extract, layer, manipulate, and discover new sounds from within any audio file. With extended synthesis features, hundreds of presets, and 4 GB of source material, Iris is an impressive tool for sound design, musical inspiration, and sonic experimentation.

Iris Key Features

  • Discover what’s hidden:
    Bring any audio file into Iris and isolate the most interesting spectral portions with a comprehensive set of easy-to-use selection tools. Play your completely custom sound instantly from any MIDI controller.
  • Become a mad sonic scientist:
    Create new textures and dramatic soundscapes by layering multiple sounds from similar or completely diverse audio sources.
  • Stay musical:
    Rely on intelligent root note detection to help shape musical material from noise, ambient textures, and soundscapes, then use advanced controls to tweak, modulate, and add effects to taste—all powered by iZotope’s award-winning DSP.
  • Start playing immediately:
    A world of sound design is at your fingertips, with hundreds of presets from world-class sound designers and 4 GB of audio samples, including recordings of insects, animals, machines, vintage synthesizers, musical instruments and much more.

Even More Sounds

In addition, iZotope has released two complementary sound libraries designed exclusively for use with Iris: Glass and Wood. A bundled version of Iris, Glass and Wood, Iris+2, is also available at a special price.

Glass ($49 MSRP) is a shimmering collection of glass ambiences, reimagined via Iris’s spectral selection capabilities. A lyrical study in lush chords, shining leads, and soothing basses, Glass transforms sonic experiments into accessible musical inspiration. Within the 100 patches of Glass, you’ll hear exploits with bottles, mirrors, marbles, glasses, shards, and even glassblowing torches. The resulting sounds are inviting, uplifting, and unusual. This library is for players exploring original sound design in a musical and meaningful context. read more

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DramaClass (Critique)

Posted by on Apr 20, 2012 in Critiques, Critiques (Feature Narrative), Feature Length | 0 comments

When a television studio of ill repute decides they need to one-up their already questionable line of reality shows, they decide to create a reality show set in a tiny college that’s owned by Barbara Marconi, the barely legal wife of a millionaire. As the reality show gets ready to shoot, things come to a head between Mrs. Marconi, her current beau, her husband, and his enforcer.

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News from NAB 2012 in Las Vegas

Posted by on Apr 18, 2012 in Event Coverage, News | 1 comment

Black Magic CInema: Yes, it is real. And it ships in July.

I have finally overcome technical difficulties enough to bring you some exciting updates from NAB Las Vegas, 2012! The exhibit halls have been packed to the gills for the last three days with eager filmmakers looking to play with the latest toys. Here are a few of the highlights:

It is rare that you find a booth out of place at the show, but even less often is there a product that doesn’t seem to belong to a certain company. 

Black Magic CInema: Yes, it is real. And it ships in July.

Showing up out of nowhere, Blackmagic Design, known for their video breakout boxes for post production and DaVinci post production boards has conjured up a new camera which fills the void left by Red hopefuls who thought the Scarlet would deliver at a cost they could afford. This camera is not vaporware….I played with one of the 4 that they had on display at the show, and I can say it is well thought out, designed for simplicity and 2.5k image capture with 13 stops of dynamic range! Frame rates of 24, 25, 29.97 and 30.

It’s a 2.5K camera with all the bells and whistles for $3K!

Formats CinemaDNGRAW, ProRes, and DNxHD. The camera takes SSD cards, has a built-in thunderbolt connection and will cost $3000 when it ships this JULY. Seriously! The camera has a built in 7″ monitor which also acts as a touchscreen menu for the cam itself. It currently has a Canon or Nikon mount, and they are experimenting with other options. read more

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