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Monday, January 7th, 2008
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Articles and Tutorials :: Industry News :: Hot Threads :: Featured :: This Week's Jobs :: Upcoming Events

Working with Cineon Files

In this in-depth report, expert film compositor Pete O'Connell takes you through the world of Cineon files, including exactly what they are, how they work, and how to work with them in Adobe After Effects. This is the uncut "Director's Version" of an article that ran in Creative COW Magazine. In the magazine article, Pete digs into the similarities between the way that film records light and how your eyes see light. In this in-depth study, Pete looks at much more, exploring the what, how, when, where and why of Cineon files. If you work with film files or want to, you need to read this article.

http://library.creativecow.net/articles/oconnell_pete/cineon.php



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Recent Articles
Broadcast Design
For his article in the Creative Cow Magazine's Commercial Issue, film compositor, VFX artist, animator and Creative Cow Contributing Editor Steve Wright (Ray, Traffic, Blade: Trinity, Never Die Alone and 60 others), told how the computer graphics animation technology we see in film today actually originated in the world of commercial advertising. (He knows. He was there.) In this Creative Cow Magazine Extra, Steve provides even more details, including the demo reel for CGI pioneers Robert Abel & Associates, and a great spot that Steve created for Volkswagen...with cows!
Steve Wright
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern demonstrates a quick, easy way to make a smoky title effect.
Eran Stern
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz continues his weather replacement tutorial, and shows you how to add rain to your shot, as well as drops of water on the camera. Also, 3D compositing and color correction are covered.
Aharon Rabinowitz
Adobe After Effects
In this quick tip for after effects users, CreativeCOW contributing editor, Bob Thompson creates a complex looking animation using only a camera, 3d layer, null object, and some duplicated layers. In only minutes, you can get an animated look with only one layer to worry about to control the motion. It's a quick fix to let you spend more time on other facets of your project workflow.
Bob Thompson
Adobe After Effects
Expert film compositor Pete O'Connell takes you through the world of Cineon files, including exactly what they are, how they work, and how to work with them in Adobe After Effects. If you work with film files or want to, you need to read this article.
<BR><BR><B>High Bandwidth/Large File Warning:</B> Due to the fact that this article deals with film images, the image sizes are large and this article contains 32MB of images in the HTML file.
Pete O'Connell
Adobe After Effects
In this tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to change the weather from a sunny day at the beach to a very cloudy day, with a chance of showers. You'll learn techniques is color correction and compositing.
Aharon Rabinowitz
Adobe After Effects
After publishing his ShapeExtruder, Jerzy Drozda Jr (aka Maltaannon) got tons of emails asking for further explanation, so in this follow-up tutorial, Jerzy answers the most commonly asked questions.
Jerzy Drozda Jr
Sony CineAlta HD
In this Creative COW Real Time Report, Don Greening puts the Sony DSR-PD170, long-acknowledged to be a low-light champ, against the newcomer, the PMW EX-1 head to head in a low-light test. Will the upstart unseat the champ? Read on....
Don Greening

View these and more articles at the Creative COW Library



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Industry News
Softron Media Services Releases OnTheAir CG

Canon U.S.A.’s Compact, Cost-Effective HDgc Lenses Are A Perfect Fit For Tapeless Production At Télécam Films

TV Worldwide Chooses TriCaster STUDIO™ to Produce Webcast of 59th Annual Emmy® Awards for Technology and Engineering

LaCie Announces Five New Products at CES in Las Vegas

Flip4Mac Image Server Component for Final Cut Pro Now Available

Harris Ships First 3 Gb/s HD Routers



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Top Dogz Launches in Kiev with FilmLight's Baselight

AJA KONA 3 and Apple Final Cut Pro Provide Optimal Edit Pipeline

$2 Million Handcrafted Luxury Car Designed with NVIDIA Quadro Graphics

Squirrels Cross Road in New Viral Campaign for Monroe Shocks and Struts

LaCie Expands Mobile Capacity to 320GB for Its Rugged All-Terrain and Little Disk Families

Digieffects Acquires Walker Effects Plugins

Bitcentral Launches Three Precis Digital Newsroom Solutions in a Day

Announcing the RIDATA SMART Compact Flash Card

BBC Motion Gallery licenses footage for "Charlie Wilson's War"

Viz|Reporter Speeds Mobile-to-Air Broadcasting

Iconix Opens Hollywood Office at Sunset Gower Studios

Fusion Gains Foundry's Furnace Firepower

2008 Lifetime Achievement Awards Event Set by Society of Camera Operators

NewTek’s TriCaster™ Powers Live Production and Streaming of AMP Energy NHL Winter Classic Pre-Game Webcast on New Year’s Day

Digital-Tutors Announces Cartoon Vehicle Rigging Training for Maya Artists

Experience Holophone®’s H4 Supermini Firsthand At MacWorld 2008

Local Filmmakers Honored With CINE Golden Eagle Award

Telestream Flip4Mac WMV Components Hit 10 Million Downloads

Montreal’s damnfx Teams Up With National Geographic Once Again




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Hot Threads
Business & Marketing Forum
How would you estimate this?
I worked on a project for a friend because I wanted to see his pillow project succeed. He asked me how much such a commercial would cost, and I had no idea what it might run him out in the real world.

Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) Forum
Sony PMW-EX1 vs Panasonic HVX-200 Shootout footage online
It's not all encompassing or completely scientific, we just put both cameras next to each other and pointed them at the same scene, with out of the box presets on both cameras. I think what we got is pretty interesting, so check it out!

RED Camera Forum
Why 4k?
I kept going on about various RED features and capabilities but after every statement he would say "Great but why do you need 4k?" I would point out something else and he would say "Great but why do you need 4k?" So I will ask you REDers and soon-to-be REDers-- what kind of projects are you planning for your RED? Why do YOU need 4k?



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Featured Leader
Creative Cow Contributing Editor: Chris Zwar
Chris Zwar

Chris is a 31 year old Australian who recently moved to London, where he freelances as a remarkably tall Motion Graphics Designer. Way back in 1995, while studying Media Arts at Deakin University in Melbourne, the faculty purchased a brand new Media 100 and the experience on this new-fangled sy more...
Featured Tutorial
Using Post Render Actions to Pre-render elements and create proxies in AE 5.5

One of the best ways of speeding your work in AE is to use low- resolutions proxies to substitute your original footage. This will increase the speed while previewing or rendering your work tremendous more...

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



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