Adobe Creative Suite 5 First Look By Jan Ozer
Today, Adobe revealed Creative Suite 5 (CS5). Like many members of the press, I've been working with beta software for about three months, and I am very familiar with the additions to Premiere Pro, OnLocation, Media Encoder, and a couple of ancillary programs...
Navigating Apple Final Cut Pro's Speed Options, Part 2 By Jan Ozer
Last time around, we covered the Speed tool and Change Speed dialog in Apple Final Cut Pro...
HP 12-core Z800 Test Drive, Part 1 By Jan Ozer
I've had the pleasure of working with HP's quad-core, dual-processor Z800 for much of the last 12 months...
Navigating Apple Final Cut Pro's Speed Options, Part 1 By Jan Ozer
Speed changes are one of the most commonly used effects, and Apple Final Cut Pro has multiple interfaces and tools to speed up or slow down your footage...
The Great GPU Shift By Trevor Boyer
Adobe's Mercury engine will use GPUs to provide better playback in editing software...
Autodesk Smoke for Mac OS X Beta Sight By Alexandre Domingue, owner, Post-Moderne, Montreal
We at Post-Moderne were approached by our fellow Montrealers at Autodesk in September 2009 to see if we'd be interested in beta testing Smoke for Mac OS X...
Copy Protection for Your DVDs, Part 1 By Jan Ozer
This past year, I produced about 12 separate DVD projects ranging in quantity from five to about 200 DVDs. Simplifying the printing and replication of these projects was the Microboards MX-2 Disc Publisher...
Using Motion Templates in Apple Final Cut Pro, Part 2 By Jan Ozer
Back again working with Apple Motion. When I last left you, you had just finished customizing a Motion template in Final Cut Pro. You liked the effect, but decided that you wanted to change the font and font color, activities that you can only perform in Motion...
Editing for Slow Motion By Jan Ozer
To illustrate the process of editing for slow motion, I'll work through two test cases using two editors--Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro--and using footage shot with a JVC GY-HM700U and a Canon EOS 7D...
A Decade of Vanguards, #7 By Franklin McMahon
Different postproduction suites, such as Apple's Final Cut Studio and Adobe's Creative Suite, have by and large evolved in the same ways...