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Creative COW Newsletter

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
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Articles and Tutorials :: Industry News :: Hot Threads :: Upcoming Events :: Featured :: This Week's Jobs

Wal-Mart, Blu-ray & Beyond

Nearly a year ago, Cow Magazine Associate Publisher Tim Wilson predicted that Wal-Mart would cast the deciding vote in the hi-def DVD format wars. Toshiba apparently thinks he was on to something.

Of course now that the Blu-ray consortium and its fans can claim victory, we actually have more questions from here than answers. How will Blu-ray fit into the rapidly changing media consumption landscape? When will media creation workflows improve? How will HD movie downloads fit into all this?

Oh yeah, and when's standard-def DVD going to go away?

So take a wide-ranging ride as director Michael Bay, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs weigh in on what happens now that The Big Dog has gotten off the porch, leading us to Blu-ray and beyond.

Read more...



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Recent Articles
Adobe Flash
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Tony Ross answers a forum question:
''I want to animate the movie clip as a roll over. so as the mouse is hovering over the MC it plays the animation in a loop, but when the mouse is moved away it finishes the animation then stops.'' This will be done using a movieclip, an invisible button, and Actionscript.
Tony Ross
Adobe Flash
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Tony Ross demonstrates part 2 of a 3 part series, creating optical illusions in Flash. Create a tunnel illusion using Motion Tweens and Masking. Tools used include the Oval Tool, Transform tool, Gradients, and the History panel.
Tony Ross
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shares some tips and tricks for working with the Echo effect.
Aharon Rabinowitz
N.A.B. Expo
Following Avid's November 13, 2007 lead, Apple officially opted out of NAB 2008 on February 7, 2008. What are the ramifications of this laterst news on the future of NAB and what does it likely portend for the industry's largest gathering? In this editorial, the COW's Ron Lindeboom explores some of the trends and factors that are affecting decisionmakers and the growing move away from expensive trade shows.
Ron Lindeboom
Apple Final Cut Pro
WELL, it happened again. Today, I installed the new Dulce Systems Pro EX PCI-Express expander. This product is amazing, and this review will be very short, as it's such a simple product, that has been LONG OVERDUE.
Bob Zelin
Adobe Flash
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Tony Ross demonstrates the first of a 3 part series, creating optical illusions in Flash. Create a spinning illusion of circles with cycling gradients using Motion Tweens and Rotation Options. Tools used include the Oval Tool, Transform tool, Gradients, and an introduction to the History panel.
Tony Ross
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern demonstrates how you can create the illusion of time bending with a special focus on the correct way of using the CC Time Blend FX.
Eran Stern
Apple Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Studio's Compressor has many pre-existing settings that allow you to start compressing your project immediately. If you find yourself making the same alterations this tutorial can save you time. CreativeCOW.net Contributing Editor Stephen Smith will show you how to: create custom settings, create custom settings from scratch, create groups of settings and how to delete settings.
Stephen Smith

View these and more articles at the Creative COW Library



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Industry News
Autodesk Lustre 2007 Extension 2 Offers Improved Tools, Performance and Workflow for Autodesk Incinerator Customers

HD Camera Lens Selection Guide Goes Online

Fujitsu and Reldata enable high performance 10 Gigabit iSCSI Unified Storage

LaCie 2big and Little Disk Families Win Recognition from Germany-Based International Forum Design GmbH

Far From Earth Films Selects JVC ProHD 100 Series to Shoot Music Videos and Short Films

Harmonic’s Rhozet™ Carbon Coder™ to Support Panasonic AVC-Intra HD Technology



Panasonic


Panasonic Announces CRT Performance in a New 17" LCD Production Monitor

Adobe Launches Director 11

Weta Digital Offers Clients HD VFX Workflow With Avid DNxHD 36

Apple Introduces Xsan 2

Liquid 9 Helps Kill Off OMNI Awards for Kansas City Ad Club, Introduce ADDY Awards

CNET Unveils CNET TV 2.0 with Closed Captioning

Snell & Wilcox Introduces iCR Version 3.0 at the 2008 NAB Show

Snell & Wilcox Debuts Upgrades to Kahuna Production Switcher and IMPAKT DVE at the 2008 NAB Show

Panasonic Announces Advanced Professional AVCHD AG-HMC150 Handheld HD Camcorder

Autodesk Reduces Pricing for Maya Unlimited and Announces Maya 2008 Extension 2

Clickfire Media Announces Key Management Team Additions

HUSH Brings New Talent to the Table

Digital-Tutors Releases Introduction to Animation in XSI®

RE:Vision Effects, Inc. releases SmoothKit version 2

Sans Digital Introduces Internal RAID and JBOD System for 2.5" Laptop Hard Drive

Antics BasePack users can now buy Premium Content Packs

Panasonic Announces 64GB Solid-State P2 Memory Card, Doubling Current Recording Capacity

Stantron® to Exhibit at NAB2008

Editorial/Post House Bond Adds Award-Winning Editor Claudia Reda-Walker




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



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Hot Threads
Business & Marketing Forum
COW Articles: NAB Apple Bows Out of NAB 2008
Following Avid's November 13, 2007 lead, Apple officially opted out of NAB 2008 on February 7, 2008. What are the ramifications of this laterst news on the future of NAB and what does it likely portend for the industry's largest gathering?

AJA io Forum
1080 24p to proress via aja iohd
is it possible to capture 1080 24p footage from hd-SDI to prores HQ with aja iohd?

HDV Format Forum
HVX-old technology
I've read that the HVX uses old technology with the P2 cards. Something out them being PCIMIA(or something like that). I briefly read about it online and can't find where I read it. So...why is it that people say it's old technology?

Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum
opacity: distance from camera
I have a line of 3D pictures in a comp, z-space distributed evenly. This comp is nested into a "MASTER" comp. I would like the pictures to fade opacity as they get further away from the camera in the master comp.



Dulce



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Featured Leader
Creative Cow Contributing Editor: Adam Tracksler
Adam Tracksler

Adam Bryce Tracksler began his professional art career at the age of 13 when he designed his 8th grade yearbook cover. From that moment on, he has never really looked back. He received his BFA from the University of New Hampshire in Stone Carving and soon after graduation began a self education more...
Featured Tutorial
BitShifting and BitExtraction: The Playlist DVD

BitShifting is a simple technique you can use to shift bits from one location to another inside a register. If you have ever wanted access to more GPRM registers than you have available then this is f more...

Get help with, or discuss this tutorial in the COW's Apple DVD Studio Pro Forum.



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