De-interlacing in Apple Compressor By Jan Ozer
In our last segment, we identified the various de-interlacing options available in Apple Final Cut Studio. This time out, we'll look at the de-interlacing options available in Apple Compressor...
Riding the CG Wave By Ellen Wolff
One of the most challenging assignments in visual effects is simulating photoreal CG water on a large scale. It was only two years ago that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bestowed Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards to the software brainiacs behind water simulation...
HP Six-core Z400 Test Drive, Part 1 By Jan Ozer
Those users considering an HP workstation now have four units to choose from: the top-of-the-line dual-processor Z800 and Z600, which both sport the fancy new case that HP introduced last year, and the less-expensive Z400 and Z200...
My Post House: Click 3X
Click 3X and its interactive division, ClickFire Media, create engaging film, TV, and web content...
Maxon Cinema 4D Studio R12 Review By Franklin McMahon
It's been a while since the last official update to Cinema 4D, and make no mistake, Maxon has been working pretty hard to stuff this latest version with all kinds of high-end creative tools...
My Post House: Mercury Labs
Chris Lawing is director/editor at Mercury Labs, a cinema and communications company in St. Louis and San Francisco...
De-interlacing in Apple Final Cut Pro By Jan Ozer
Though many producers now exclusively shoot in progressive mode, few producers don't have some interlaced footage that they need to work with, whether legacy DV or some HD format shot more recently in interlaced mode...
Driving the Engine By Trevor Boyer
At IBC, Adobe announced that the BBC was adding 2,000 seats of Premiere Pro software for its news-editing operations...
My Post House: Nice Shoes
For more than three years, Robert Keske has acted as chief technical officer heading up technical services at Nice Shoes, supporting the entire production process...
Smoking Storage
"Lights, camera, action" are the words uttered by countless budding film directors to some of the greatest movie icons of all time. The history of film spans hundreds of years. Film editing has moved on tremendously from the early days of the invention of the motion and projector camera...