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Creative COW Newsletter

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
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Articles and Tutorials :: Industry News :: Hot Threads :: COW Tipping :: Upcoming Events :: New Leaders :: Featured :: This Week's Jobs

Matrox MXO Creative Cow Shane Ross

Many aspects of HD production cost just about the same as SD production did. Thanks to new formats, HD production sometimes actually costs less than SD production does. But one of the most critical pieces for professional-strength editing is an external broadcast monitor for your work....and HD versions of those cost much, much more than their SD counterparts.

Desktop LCD monitors cost less, and make beautiful pictures, but haven't been up to the job of broadcast HD monitoring. Creative COW leader Shane Ross has experienced this the hard way in his HD editing for Discovery, The History Channel, and many more.

Enter the Matrox MXO, a converter box that sounds too good to be true: true, fully-calibrated HD broadcast monitoring using the DVI spigot on an Apple Cinema Display -- or a laptop! -- for less than half the price of previous options. Join Shane as he puts the Matrox MXO to the test, over months of HD broadcast monitoring. Is it too good to be true? Or truly good?

Read more...



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Recent Articles
Imagineer Software
In this video tutorial, Aaron Zander takes an introductory look at Imagineer's Mocha and its toolset. Aaron also demonstrates some basic rotoscoping to be applied into a Gatorade style look.
Aaron Zander
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, Jerzy Drozda Jr (aka Maltaannon) demonstrates how to generate snow using particle playground. He'll also show how to make the snow stick to other layers in your composition.
Jerzy Drozda Jr
Adobe After Effects Expressions
In this tutorial from Creative COW Contributing Editor Trent Armstrong, you'll see how to use Expressions to animate reflected light across text. You can get great results using only ingredients included free with AE, including track mattes and the AE Camera.
Trent Armstrong
Business & Marketing
In this article, Kathlyn Lindeboom explains the functionality and use of our new free Services Offered Directory section. With it, you can promote yourself within Creative COW's vital half-million monthly visitor stream at CreativeCOW.net.
Kathlyn Lindeboom
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use AE to simulate the popular light writing effect seen in recent Sprint commercials.
Aharon Rabinowitz
Apple Final Cut Pro
Creative COW Leader Jeremy Garchow is one of the COW's most frequent posters. I work in Final Cut Pro all day every day, he says, and often all night too. These are a few of the issues I've found with Final Cut Pro 6. I assume that Apple will take care of these soon, but until then, here are some tips to help you watch where you step.
Jeremy Garchow
N.A.B. Expo
We at The COW asked Graham Sharp, the VP and General Manager of Avid Video for some more details about Avid's recent announcement that they're skipping NAB in 2008. “Meeting people directly, where they live and work, without distractions, is the right thing to do, he told us. We agree, which is why we're making a similar choice. Read on for details.
Ron Lindeboom
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz introduces you to the new Per-Character 3D Text animation feature in After Effects CS3.
Aharon Rabinowitz

View these and more articles at the Creative COW Library



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Industry News
Autodesk Launches Combustion 2008 Desktop Compositing Software

SmartSound Celebrates Release of 50th Disc from the Strata Series® of Customizable Multi-Layer Music at DV Expo 2007

Telestream Streamlines News Workflow for Azteca America

GenArts to Showcase Sapphire Plug-ins at DV Expo West 2007

Harris Corporation Names Broadcast Industry Expert Richard Scott Vice President, Europe, the Middle East and Africa Operations

Using Inlet’s Fathom, Amusement Park Media Achieves 80 Percent Higher Quality Encodes for ADV Films and Other Clients



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Omneon Designates Toronto-Based Majortech as Master Systems Integrator for Canada

Maximum Throughput and da Vinci Systems Partner to Deliver Virtual Telecine

Give Good Food to your Mac

Toon Boom Releases its First Animation Software for Kids

Washburn Guitars Announces Addition of Handcrafted Joe Trohman Idol Series

Breast Cancer Detection Achieves Greater Contrast

yU+co Creates Storybook Ending for Enchanted

Seminole Productions Shoots FOX Sports Features With HPX2000S

GLUE TOOLS releases Cineon/DPX Pro v2.5.10 with Leopard Support, and DPX Proxy Frame Creation

SG//Arts Completes Main Title, Graphics Package & Show Open For 4th Season Of Bravo's "Project Runway"

Fujinon Lens Brings Crisp, Cost-Effective HD Quality to Independent Feature

FOR-A and Panasonic Collaborate on Developing "P2HD/AVC-Intra"-Compatible Product

Noise Industries Ships FxFactory 2.0

Panasonic and Various Broadcasting Equipment ManufacturersCollaborate on P2 HD Compatibility

Band Pro Hosts One World on HD '07

Dalet and DataDirect Optimize Storage Infrastructure for Large Scale HD Deployments

Imaginary Forces Director Of Experience Design Tali Krakowsky To Speak At SEGD "Dynamic Environments" Workshop On November 30th

Music 2 Hues Adds New Products

The Embassy Uses modo 301 for Independent Short Film, “Terminus”




For more industry news, visit the COW News & Press Releases forum



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Hot Threads
Sony CineAlta HD Forum
Upgrade HDR-FX1 for XDCAM EX
1. Would I see a noticeable difference in picture quality between the FX1 and XDCAM EX?
2. Should I suggest spending the extra money for a larger camera (like the panny HPX3000 or Sony F335)

Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) Forum
Speeding up P2 import
I'm editing at a production company that started to shoot the majority of their projects with the HVX-200 on P2 cards. I want to come up with a solution to speed up the ingest/conversion part of the process.

Apple Color Forum
Color Hardware recommendations
Our company is thinking about setting up a dedicated grading room running Color to handle our TV and Commercials work in the UK. Mostly SD but an increasing amount of HD too. We really want to make a 'Wow' room for clients where they get to see their pictures looking great.



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COW Tipping
Account Profiles

Have you seen all the new possibilities in your Cow Profile? Follow the Account & Settings link in the upper right of any page in the Cow, and take a look! We're expanding the Cow's networking possibilities further than ever. In addition to links for your websites and blogs, there's a new form to add links to your LinkedIn and Facebook profiles. You'll find more personal options, too -- everything from favorite books and movies, to favorite YouTube clips that you can embed in your profile. Don't forget to follow the "Promote Your Service, Business or Company" link at the bottom of the page, which takes you to our free Services Offered directory.

Just more ways to build your business and personal networks at the same time, thanks to your ol'd pal Bessie!



Upcoming Events
Nov 28, '07 -
Nov 28, '07
RED Night at LAFCPUG Hollywood
CA
USA
Nov 29, '07 -
Nov 29, '07
After Effects New York - User Group Meeting New York
NY
USA
Nov 29, '07 -
Nov 29, '07
Dallas After Effects User Group Richardson
TX
USA
Nov 30, '07 -
Dec 2, '07
Adavanced Final Cut Pro class - Learn from the author who wrote the book Los Angeles
California
USA
Dec 3, '07 -
Dec 3, '07
Convergence 2007 - The Future of Advertising, Communications & Media New York
NY
USA
Dec 4, '07 -
Dec 6, '07
DV Expo West (Digital Video Expo West) Los Angeles
California
USA
Dec 5, '07 -
Dec 5, '07
TriCaster STUDIO Tour Dallas
TX
USA
Dec 6, '07 -
Dec 7, '07
ColorCamp, Burbank Burbank
CA
USA
Dec 6, '07 -
Dec 7, '07
LVHD - Las Vegas Hi-Def Las Vegas
NV
USA
Dec 10, '07 -
Dec 11, '07
Web Video Summit New York
NY
USA

View more events at events.creativecow.net



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New Leaders
Moody Glasgow
Moody Glasgow
Los Angeles, California USA

Forum Host

Los Angeles, California USA

See more of our COW Team at leaders.creativecow.net



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Featured Leader
Meet Nora Williams!
Nora Williams

Nora is our DVD Sales Manager. Formerly CEO of a Florida video production company, Nora’s workaholic nature makes her a great addition to our team. Nora handles the production and distribution of the Creative COW Master Series DVDs, and is hard at work expanding our online offerings. more...
Featured Tutorial
Working with Adobe Clip Notes - Part 1

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to export your video as Adobe Clip Notes. Part 1 will show you how to prepare and export your AE composition so your notes a more...

Get help with, or discuss this tutorial in the COW's Adobe After Effects Forum.



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