Good Trish and Chris Meyer tutorial on DV.com

Good tutorial on color format correction

clipped from www.dv.com Two new features in After Effects 7 ease color-critical format conversion. Have you ever received washed-out images from a client—or even yourself? Did you just let it slide ("well, that's the way they shot it…"), or curse them for making you lose more sleep as you tried to make it look better? Well, we have two bits of news for you. One, the fault may not be in the footage but in the way you've been handling it. Two, in Adobe After Effects 7, it's now easier to handle it the right way. This month we'll talk about video and the infamous luminance range issue. In the next column, we'll turn our attention to still images and sRGB color space.

Brainstorm is in After Effects CS3

clipped from blogs.adobe.com After Effects CS3: Brainstorm If you want my opinion (maybe you don't ;-), there are two engineering teams within Adobe that never fail to deliver some exciting new enhancements and features to their products. Those teams as you might surmise are the Photoshop and After Effects teams. Why they are always ‘on’, I’m not sure, but their continuing success and foresight are direct contributing factors to their market share and importance among the creative community. So... I want to chime in as have many others on some of the new features that I like most about Adobe’s latest iteration of After Effects. I'll hit them one or two at a time. My list is in no particular order but hopefully will give you a couple of new nuggets of new information to noodle on as we wait for After Effects CS3 to become a public beta.

Interesting article on shooting HDV video

I found this neat-o article on Digital Media Net. Hope you like it, yo.

clipped from videoediting.digitalmedianet.com Shooting to editing to delivering in the HDV format Now that prices of computers, editing software, and HDV cameras have become extremely affordable, many people, especially people like Wedding Videographers, are now in the position to start shooting, editing and delivering shows and videos in HD for broadcast, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray DVD's and for the web. But, there are some important things to remember when delving into this new and relatively uncharted water. So, let's take a look at the process of shooting to editing to delivering in the HDV format.

About Freesound Project

Cool site to get free sounds.

clipped from freesound.iua.upf.edu The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. New to this site? Read the What is Freesound page to learn more!

Testing from Mac

Testing post from Mac

clipped from www.stage.adobe.com Flash Design Center

After Effects CS3 advancements

clipped from blogs.adobe.com MORE MEMORY AND MULTIPROCESSING – YEAH! For the everyday After Effects user, you can never have too much memory. With Windows XP and After Effects 7, we have a limitation of 3GB of total memory. Pretty much the same with the Mac. Now both desktop platforms are embracing more CPU cores so the demand for memory to feed that processing power is even greater. Enter After Effects CS3. With the latest version, After Effects supports 3.5GB of memory per processor core. Plus, we’ve taken a crack at better processing efficiency. In After Effects CS3 you will see a new preference entitled, multiprocessing. If you have a multi-core system, you’ll be able to get multiple frames rendered at once. Plus, the engineers tell me there that we’re ready for quad and eight core CPU’s as they come out. All this comes at a terrific time as we see more and more people working in HD which has so much more information (data) per frame than SD.

Testing from windows

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