CULVER CITY, CA — When the first Tranformers film was released four years ago, moviegoers were treated to an Earth-based battle for control of the universe between the dastardly Decepticons and heroic ...
July 12, 2011
HOLLYWOOD — Following in the footsteps of his father, writer-director Lawrence Kasdan, director Jake Kasdan has carved out a successful career bouncing between movies and television, with the focus on ...
I have been doing this job for more years than I care to admit, and in all that time I have never seen a reaction to a new product release like the one that has occurred with Apple’s Final Cut Pro X.
At the recent SMPTE show and Digital Video Expo East in New York City, JVC hosted a new technology demo for members of the post and production communities, soliciting feedback for a 4K camcorder that ...
SAN FRANCISCO — An alien invasion of the Old West. “From the VFX side it doesn’t get any better than a mash-up of the two genres,” says VFX supervisor/2nd unit director Roger Guyett of San Francisco’s ...
July 13, 2011
By working together, Intel and Apple were able to bring to market Thunderbolt, a new, high-speed I/O technology that offers bi-directional, dual-channel, 10Gb per second performance using a single cab ...
It’s the season for superheros and the supernatural, as the new crop of summer features comes to a multiplex near you. Visual effects studios, whose modelers, animators and compositors have been toili ...
BURBANK — AJA Video Systems’s Kona 3 digital video I/O cards are being used by the picture and visual effects editorial teams that are working on Walt Disney Pictures 2012 release, John Carter. The ca ...
August 2, 2011
October 11, 2011
3DS Max 2012 has received an injection of Nitrous. An apt name for the new, accelerated viewport graphics core. Combined with optimizations from improved start-up time to a more responsive scene explo ...
July 15, 2011
In a few short weeks CoreMelt’s Lock & Load motion tracking and stabilization plug-in has become my go-to solution for complex tracking and stabilization needs.
July 11, 2011
Out of the box, DSLR cameras are set-up to perform well for shooting stills, but they require a different approach when shooting video. Here are some tips to make the editing easier in Adobe Premiere ...