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Motion Designer Templates from Ripple Training

Thursday, 19 February 2009 15:04 SBFinalCut

Press Release:

We're pleased to announce a revolutionary new series of Final Cut Studio Master Templates we're calling Designer Templates. Produced in collaboration with professional motion graphics artists, these templates stand apart in that they will bring a strong design aesthetic to your next video project. They work in both Final Cut Pro & Motion and include over 2 hours of instructional videos explaining how get the most out of them. We're offering them at a special introductory price of $129 until Feb 28th. The regular price is $199. (Save $70).

Click here to read more and view template samples.

Looking to Soup-up Compressor?

Tuesday, 27 January 2009 21:59 SBFinalCut

Larry Jordan has a great tip for taking advantage of all those processors on your Octo-core Intel Mac.

Click here to read how.

Want to Author Blue-ray DVDs?

Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:18 SBFinalCut

Bruce Nazarian of the International Digital Media Alliance is on a mission to liberate Blue-ray authoring.
He notes:

Currently, many, if not most of the second-tier optical disc publishers are reporting to us that they are encountering "speed bumps" in their attempts to utilize Blu-ray Disc for publishing high-def video programming. Most report that the AACS copy protection licenses and fees (which are mandatory for blu-ray) are pricing them out of Blu-ray replication, and that the license procedures are difficult to understand.

For the past year, the DVDA (which is now called the IDMA) has been intensively lobbying the Blu-ray Disc Assn to intercede with their licensee, the AACS-LA, to bring the fees and license complexity
into alignment with the abilities and finances of the HUGE number of non-Hollywood publishers who would LIKE to produce Blu-ray titles.

Please take a moment to visit the DVDA website and sign the stimulus petition,

http://www.dvda.org/petition

Last Updated on Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:52

Announcing ProxyMill™ for Macintosh OSX

Monday, 26 January 2009 15:02 SBFinalCut

A New Automated Proxy Builder for P2 and QuickTime Movies - ProxyMill™

Carmel, IN, January 6, 2009 – Imagine Products, Inc. announces the release and general availability of ProxyMill™ for Macintosh, a new automated video compression application for Panasonic [NYSE symbol: PC] P2 media. With ProxyMill™, designate a “Watch” folder and let the software create low resolution QuickTime™ proxies with frame accurate timecode directly from P2 MXF files in one simple step.

ProxyMill’s ability to create preview quality movies in an unattended fashion is a big time saver for those needing to share clips with remote clients. The adjustable visual timecode burn lets producers note segments of interest. Larger productions may want to use the proxies for preliminary “offline” edits to save disk space, and later conform to the originals.

Compressed movies may be saved inside the source P2 Volumes’ “PROXY” folder(s). Alternatively, copies of the proxies may also be placed into a combined folder on your hard disk.

ProxyMill™ works with all Panasonic's P2 formats ranging from DVCPRO HD to DV and the new 10-bit AVC-Intra codec. It may also be used to compress standard QuickTime movies (*.mov files) of any format.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE.