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April 15 2004
Production News:
• Adobe Premiere Pro Redefines the Economics of High Definition Video Production at NAB

• NewTek to Broadcast Live from NAB

• Sorenson and Ulead to Bundle Squeeze 3.5 Compression Suite

• Xtore to Introduce XD 2000 Fibre Channel-SATA Storage Array

• 1 Beyond announces HD PRO workstation

• Blackmagic Design announces HDLink

• Canopus Announces ProCoder 2.0 Availability

• The Pixel Farm Announces New Plug-ins and Optical Flow Tools

• Pinnacle Systems Announces Graphics Everywhere Strategy

• Canopus Announces Imaginate 2.0


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How To Pitch A Hollywood Blockbuster
Tips from an expert
Peter May
Author, teacher and speaker Laurie Scheer always draws crowds of anxious, hopeful writers. She's spent nearly twenty years either sitting across the table from anxious, hopeful writers or as an anxious, hopeful writer herself. She's a veteran of Women's Entertainment, Showtime, MTV, Nickelodeon, Carolco, HBO, ABC Productions, Hearst Entertainment, Columbia Pictures and The Sundance Institute. Over the years she's learned to recognize an effective pitch and, more importantly, she's been willing to analyze the good ones and share her observations. DMN reporter Peter May sat in on one of her recent classes.

Bleach Bypass
How to do it in your application
Stephen Schleicher
Made most famous in the film Saving Private Ryan, the bleach bypass method of treating film gives a very unique look to a project. Since most videographers don’t have the luxury of spending money on film to achieve this look, they usually turn to mimicking the look in post. In this exercise, I’ll show how to do the effect in Adobe After Effects, Avid Xpress DV, discreet’s Combustion, and Apple’s Final Cut Pro 4.

TrendWatch Fast Fact: Top Investments at NAB
What are studios/facilities most likely looking for at NAB?
Jim Whittington
In this weekly quick feature, TrendWatch founding partner Jim Whittington offers you interesting factoids based on market research from the broadcast and graphics industries. This week, see what studio and facility buyers are looking for at this year's NAB 2004.

Effortless Text Animation in Boris Red 3GL
Part One: Text on Path
Chris Vadnais
One of the most interesting and amusing capabilities of Boris Red 3GL is its vector text animation features. Red 3GL allows you to animate beautiful, clean vector titles in ways you’ve never imagined. In this short tutorial, we’ll see how easy it is to make your text move along a path using the Text to Path feature.

Motion Masks in DVD Studio Pro 2
Creating buttons with moving mask shapes and modifying button effects
Dave Nagel
You know DVD Studio Pro can use motion masks. You've seen them in action in some of the themes supplied with the program, but, for the life of you, you can't figure out how to make your own. Motion masks allow you to add transitions to your individual button shapes without affecting the entire menu. You can use them to create transitions for your buttons, add effects or even fade drop zones in and out. So why don't you have the ability to create your own custom motion masks? The short answer: You will after you read this.
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