Craft and Psychology By Barry Braverman
When it comes to outputting our finely crafted images to DVD, today's shooter faces enormous opportunity and risk. Increasingly sophisticated tools like...
By George Joblove, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Discreet's Lustre has become a major part of the digital intermediate pipeline at Sony Pictures Imageworks. As part of our digital intermediate (DI) services,...
Step by Step: By Ellen Wolff
Rainmaker has long been a visual effects provider for the Stargate SG-1 television franchise work that has earned several Emmy nominations for the Vancouver-based...
Edit Integrate Review Sorenson Squeeze 4 Compression Suite By Jeff Sauer
Sorenson's reputation for excellent video compression, including implementations of MPEG-4 and Macromedia Flash, has carried its Squeeze Compression Suite...
DeckLink Deconstructed By Steve Mullen
Australia's Blackmagic Design has been leading the way to all-digital video production by delivering low-cost SDI and HD-SDI input/output boards for PCs...
Scorsese's Color Homage By Michael Goldman
If you are ever lucky enough to find yourself in Martin Scorsese's private screening room discussing the history of color feature film processes, he will no doubt school you on such movies as Follow Thru, an obscure 1930 film about golf that illustrates the limitations of the early Technicolor two-strip, dye-transfer process by showing golf courses with blue grass. He might also show you clips from other two-strip films...
By S. D. Katz
Synthetik Software's Studio Artist 3 is an image-synthesis program that can be used to paint original compositions by hand. In that way it's similar to...
By Steve Mullen
Simply describing Apple's new Motion software as a motion graphics application is not wrong, but it conveys to readers who have never seen a demo of Motion...
Step By Step: By Ellen Wolff
Watching a yellow submarine descend into an ocean of speckled diamond tuna and crayola pony fish, you know this is no ordinary water world. It's a dive...
By S. D. Katz
At NAB 2004, Apple's Motion press conference was a rock concert, and the best demo at the show. Journalists packed into a room to watch what seemed to...