Edit Review: Apple Motion 3 Reviewer: Franklin McMahon
In new version 2, Apple Final Cut Studio is an extremely powerful, even intimidating suite of professional video production applications. The effects/ compositing/motion-graphics...
Exclusive: The Real Deal By Darroch Greer
Those who have faithfully followed every version of Blade Runner will be heartened to know that through the magic of digital film restoration, it has...
Cinematic Blow-up By D. W. Leitner
World cinema's pantheon of narrative masterpieces has been expanded to include a 16mm production: Berlin Alexanderplatz. But due to its Wagnerian 15-hour,...
True Colors By Michael Goldman
The principal architects for three prominent summer CG animated movies— Ratatouille, Shrek the Third, and Surf's Up—talk with millimeter about the process of designing, building, and executing complicated color palettes for such movies...
NAB 2007 Pick Hit Awards By Trevor Boyer
Is there a Moore's Law equivalent for camcorders? Whatever it might be, NAB 2007 displayed its hypothetical fruits. We saw a working model of Red Digital...
New DI Pipeline By Michael Goldman
Spider-Man 3 was, of course, a huge digital effects project. Significantly, it was also Technicolor Digital Intermediates (TDI)'s first 4K DI project, executed at its new facility on the Sony lot in Culver City, Calif....
Edit Expertise: Compose Your Own By Gary Eskow
Back in the day, entry into the stock music business required a sizable investment for composers and studio costs, office space, advertising, and other...
Mark In
Should your future production plans include video for the Web? The necessary high-speed connections will be there. According to recent Nielsen//NetRatings...
Step by Step: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End By Ellen Wolff
Diseny's Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has been rightfully praised for dazzling character animation, but its CG cast isn't the only advanced animation...
NAB 2007 Pick Hit Awards
At NAB 2007, new digital cinema cameras ruled the show floor. Like everything else in the digital world, these high-res...