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Creative COW Newsletter

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
In this Newsletter:
Articles and Tutorials :: Industry News :: Hot Threads :: COW Tipping :: Upcoming Events :: Featured :: This Week's Jobs

Windows on Mac

Sure it's possible, but why would anybody want to run Windows on a Mac? There are a bunch of great reasons for people using either OS -- and plenty more for people who have to use both. The Cow's Tim Wilson takes a look at some of the options for working with 2 --or even more-- operating systems on the same computer. Sometimes, even at the same time! Read more...



ATTO



Recent Articles
Adobe After Effects
In part two of his shotgun tutorial, Michael Park will demonstrate how to incorporate the 3d footage together with 2d footage in After effects and use different filters to create the distortion surrounding the blast from the barrel of the shotgun and the air distortion trailing the individual shotgun pellets as they race towards the camera.  He will also cover some time remapping techniques to add some more interest to your shot.
Michael Park
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz introduces you to Shape Layers, one of the most powerful features in Adobe After Effects CS3.
Aharon Rabinowitz
Adobe After Effects
Many people are interested in creating and incorporating 3d generated footage into live action.  In this 2 part tutorial, Michael Park will demonstrate how to create a shotgun blast at the camera using 3d rendered particles and distortion trails along with some 2d footage to create a convincing effect.  In part 1 of this tutorial, we will create the 3d shotgun pellet geometry and material, as well as the distortion trails to be later used in the after effects composition.
Michael Park
Adobe Flash
In this video tutorial from CreativeCOW leader Tony Ross, learn how to create and save a custom swatches palette in Flash. Tools include the Eyedropper tool, the Paint Bucket tool, and the Swatches window.
Tony Ross
Business & Marketing
Okay, so you've taken the big plunge and started your own business. You've got the office set up, you've got the cards printed...now what? In part 3 of his series, Creative COW leader and business owner Walter Biscardi tells you what you need to know to get the word out, how to manage money...and manage clients! If you're even thinking about starting your own business, start here.
Walter Biscardi
Apple Motion
In this Apple Motion tutorial Ben Scott shows you how to create a TV screen effect inside Apple Motion. This is part four of a series that can be found in the Creative COW Final Cut Studio Tutorials Podcast.
Ben Scott
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern with the help of his brother Yuval will show you a simple method to create the famous invisible look inspired from the movie ''The Predator.''
Eran Stern
Adobe Photoshop
This Adobe Photoshop tutorial will show how to use Photoshop to design a website that will be exported as HTML and image slices. The web page can be brought into an HTML editor program such as Adobe Dreamweaver to be modified. This is an Adobe Photoshop web design tutorial showing how to design, create and save a web page with Photoshop.
Abraham Chaffin

View these and more articles at the Creative COW Library



LaCie



Industry News
Applied Electronics Purchases 66 AJA FS1 Converters for Beijing Olympic Games

New Echolab MultiPlayMD™ Offers Affordable Multichannel Instant-Replay Functionality

Reldata announces compatibility with Cybernetics disk and virtual tape products

IRIDAS and Partners to Present End-to-End RAW Workflow at NAB 2008

Solid State Logic Showcases Gravity Media Production Management System At NAB 2008

Gamma & Density Brings 3cP On-Set Color Correction to Cinematographers in Any Budget Range



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Bitcentral’s Précis Digital News Production System Integrates with Matrox for Multiformat Playout

POP Sound's Peter Rincon Completes Thrilling Mix For New Range Rover Spot

Abel Cine Tech Acquires Sales Division Of Fletcher Chicago

WEGENER Exec to Address File-Based B'casting at PBS Tech Conference

IMAGICA Technologies and Digital Vision Integrate DVO Grain Management into IMAGER XE Film Scanner

Cinea Enables Forensic Watermarking of Encrypted Content for Enhanced Content Protection

Sachtler Unveils Industry Firsts at NAB 08

World of Visual Computing to Converge at NVISION 08

Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board Purchases Panasonic P2 HD Camcorders

MLB Advanced Media Chooses Inlet for Streaming Broadcast-Quality Live Content on MLB.com

Sans Digital Introduces SAFE33 / SAFE50 2-Bay Storage Subsystems

HighPoint Releases External RAID Controller

Autodesk 3ds Max 2009 and Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2009 Now Shipping

Adobe AIR for Linux Alpha Now on Adobe Labs

MAXON Brings “Power Integration Tour” to Montreal

SynthEyes 2008 Camera Tracker Debuts in Time for NAB

Fujinon To Showcase New Select Series Of Cost-Effective HDTV ENG Lenses At NAB 2008

Smoke & Mirrors New York has a New EP

V4x iTV Factory for Adobe Flash and Flash Lite Debuts at NAB 2008




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



Roland



Hot Threads
Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Compressor Settings: 60i to 23.98P for slow motion
Can someone please help verify the correct settings in Compressor to convert footage from 60i to 23.98P so that it looks like 60 frame slow-motion?

Business & Marketing Forum
What Education to Prepare for Industry Employment?
My son (soon to begin his last year of high school) wants to go into professional camera/editing/post.

Art of the Edit Forum
Edit Times
Is there a general rule of thumb for editing times? I produce video shoots of live music performances and we usually run 3 cameras. With that in mind, I'm curious what a fair amount of time to edit down a 5 minute song is.

Apple Color Forum
Pleasantville effect in FCP or Color?
I have a tight deadline (May 10) for work, and I have to make a 3-5 minute video using the "Pleasantville" effect- essentially certain people/things in the shot have to be color in a black & white world.



Matrox



COW Tipping
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Over the past weekend we added two more servers and a load balancer to our farm, boosting performance here at CreativeCow.net. We currently have another server getting a major overhaul. This will be used as an additional file server, dedicated for serving up our podcasts, video tutorials, and other media. Look forward to even faster load times in the days to come!

We would appreciate your feedback in the Cowmunications Forum as we're always looking for ways to improve the grazing quality of our pastures.



Tech Smith CAMTASIA



Upcoming Events
Mar 5, '08 -
May 26, '08
Film Arts Foundation Spring 2008 Classes Enroll Now! San Francisco
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Mar 31, '08 -
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Photoshop World Conference & Expo Orlando
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Power Integration Tour 2008 Toronto
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Apr 7, '08 -
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Managing Micro Enterprise Development Interventions and Programmes orcha
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TV IN OUR BACKYARD panel event San Francisco
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An Evening with Film Editor Stephen Rotter New York
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Apr 14, '08 -
Apr 14, '08
THE ART OF PHOTO PAINTING with FAYE SIRKIS Salt Lake City
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Six Week Art of Editing Workshop Manhattan
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View more events at events.creativecow.net



Tapeonline



Featured Leader
Creative Cow forum host: Walter Biscardi
Walter Biscardi

When asked about Walter Biscardi, Kathlyn Lindeboom, director of Creative Cow remarks: "Our favorite part about what we do online has always been the people. Walter is one of the great people we've interacted with for years and he's a true pro's pro and he's also a very funny guy. In fact, when more...
Featured Tutorial
Embedding Quicktime Movies

Learn the basics and advanced methods of embedding Quicktime Movies into your web site, blog or any html page. Find out what it takes to maintain cross platform compatibility when publishing all your more...

Get help with, or discuss this tutorial in the COW's Web Design Forum.



G-Tech



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