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Date: 2009-12-17
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Diana's Top Ten Final Cut Pro 7 Features#1 - Global Transitions
Diana Weynand
There's a very good reason why this new Final Cut Pro 7 feature is my #1 pick. It's because it's the one I'm going to use the most. Not only that, but it's extremely easy to use and very intuitive. What are global transitions anyway? Well, rather than apply one transition to on edit point at a time, you can now apply the default transition to all edit points in an entire sequence at one time.
Brewed from Cleaner Real Colorado Water
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In a breaking commercial for Breckenridge Brewery of Colorado. Denver, a brewer, in flannel shirt and speaking from beside a stream in the snow-capped Rockies, states that Lucky U IPA is "brewed with real Colorado water." Pointing to the stream, he then adds, "well, not this water.
Rhino Produces In-House Spot for Comcast
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Rhino's Harry Dorrington directed a dazzling, 100 percent CG spot promoting Comcast's Triple Play Rewards program. Dorrington directed the :30 entirely in-house at Rhino, completing it only five weeks after Agency M approached the studio for the project.
Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #2: Creating an Alpha Transition
This effect can be really stunning and can bring a unique style to your project
Diana Weynand
Those of you who work with a lot of graphics may have already created alpha transitions in other apps. Now this option exists inside Final Cut Pro 7. The alpha transition is one of the transition effects that you can access from the Effect menu or the Effects tab in the Browser. It is part of the Wipe transitions.
SWEET CHILD O MINE: A CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM JOHN LEWIS
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We all remember how special Christmas felt when you were young, that there's a little bit of magic, surprise and excitement in every wrapped package.
Lenovo D20 media workstation
John Virata
Lenovo's D20 is the company's top of the line ThinkStation workstation. This particular model shipped with dual Intel E5540 2.53GHz Xeon processors (four processor cores), 12GB RAM, and Windows 7 Professional. Graphics was powered by an NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 graphics card. This is your classic media workstation, configured to run the latest creative applications from Adobe Systems, Autodesk, Sony Creative Software, as well as CAD tools such as AutoCAD, Pro Engineer, and others.
2G Digital Post Moves Entertainment Industry to Digital Distribution
Jaxon Lang
2G Digital Post is a post-production company specializing in versioning and re-mastering major movies and television programs for the broadcast, Electronis Sell-thru and airline industries. Among the services it provides for a broad range of distribution outlets are: content editing; graphics and titling; digital restoration; compression; and foreignlanguage dubbing and sub-titling. 2G also offers formatting and packaging services, including high-definition and standard-definition formatting; format conversion; and archiving.
DUCK Handles Stop Motion for Spongebob's 10th Anniversary
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Stop-motion animation pros Screen Novelties, the latest talent addition to DUCK Studios, created a jolly opening sequence for children's favorite SpongeBob SquarePants' 10th anniversary special on Nickelodeon. The roughly :45 piece is a spectacular showcase of the diverse capabilities of DUCK's newest creative team.
Rhino Supervises Entire Assembly Line for Mazda
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Rhino CD Vico Sharabani recently collaborated with director Jason Smith of Industry on an elegant new :30 for Mazda via Doner, Detroit. Sharabani supervised the planning, shoot and post work for all VFX, with a special focus on a detailed pre-vis to streamline the spot's creation as much as possible.
Merge Works at Speed of Thought for 3D Post, 4K Workflow, and Restoration in SCRATCH
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Colorist and compositor Jerome Thelia and photographer David McLain founded Merge six years ago in Brooklyn, New York. www.mergegroup.com At the core of Merge's in-house took kit are systems they believe unify production and post production: the RED ONE(tm) 4K Digital Camera and ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH(r) Digital Process Solution.
SUSPECT Animates Richard Wilde's World
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Thirty-five years ago, Richard Wilde launched the BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Today, he still is still chair running the program with enthusiasm and unparalleled leadership, recruiting the top industry talent as instructors to maintain the college's reputation as one of the best of its kind. He is nothing less than a living icon in the world of graphic design and advertising.
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