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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
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One Team. Three Network Shows. Every Week.

Workflow. Such a lovely word... Almost like magic. Long flowing robes and flowing tresses, resting beside the gently flowing stream. Ah, sweet repose...

Except that in the steaming trenches of hardcore post-production, the emphasis isn't on "flow." No, the real word is work. "Workflow" isn't a product feature. Workflow is a combination of planning, discipline and creativity, achieved by perseverance, mastery of technology, and, if necessary, brute force, to get from one end of your job to the other. It’s anything but ethereal.

Creative Cow Contributing Editor Zed Saeed and the team at Hollywood's DigitalFilm Tree have been learning this the hard way, over a decade of pioneering Final Cut Pro workflows on major feature films and episodic TV. Here's the story of how a team of 9 went from posting one major network show each week to posting THREE shows every week, for three different networks -- keeping all three clients happy, and without going insane, thanks to the wonders of workflow management. Read more...



Matrox



Podcast
Subscribe with iTunesCreative COW Podcast
Episode #055 - December 23, 2008
by Franklin McMahon
(23:18) -- 12/23/2008

Final Cut Server with Jon Rutherford, final Macworld for Apple, last of VHS, Final Cut PH mode for HMC-150, Matrox PowerDesk, Pro Tools 8, Carrara 7, Panasonic P2 Scene files and more creative news and interviews - creativecow.net - Jon Rutherford is an Apple Certified Trainer and Consultant, he talks about Final Cut Server, the feature set, workflow and how to solve common problems that come up on the Final Cut Server Creativecow.net forum.

Subscribe with iTunesBusiness Strategies Roundtable Podcast
Episode #003
by Franklin McMahon
(42:32)

Trademarks and Copyright Laws with Colette Vogele, Franklin McMahon and Ron Lindeboom interview Colette on topics concerning producers such as protecting trademarks, registration process, web domain rights, losing a trademark, fair use and much more...
View more podcasts at cowcast.creativecow.net



COW Master Series Training DVD's
Internet Killed the Video StarInternet Killed the Video Star
A Guide to Creating Video for the Web
$49.95

It seems like the only choices for web video are files that are too big, or files that look awful. Creative Cow's Aharon Rabinowitz shows you what you need to make your video look its best in Flash, on the web, and for podcasts. You'll learn how to get you video content on the web, looking as good as it possibly can, ready to reach the largest audience possible. You'll also learn why this is the fastest-selling DVD in Creative Cow Master Series history: if you do compression, you need this disk.

View all COW Training DVD's at CreativeCOWTraining.Com



Tape Online



Recent Articles
Autodesk 3ds Max
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Michael Park shows you how to recreate the opening gun barrel sequence from the two newest James Bond movies in 3d Studio Max using the default scanline renderer, minimal modeling, and only standard materials.
Michael Park
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Michael Park shows you how to achieve that classic introduction to all of the James Bond films using only basic After Effects plugins.
Michael Park
Trapcode
In this tutorial, CreativeCOW contributing editor Tony Agliata demonstrates how simple expressions can generate multiple custom particles in Particular to create an animation of bouncing, floating Ping Pong balls--similar to a those in a lottery drawing.
Tony Agliata
Adobe After Effects
In this tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Carl Larsen shows you how to use the Pixel Bender Toolkit to create a recursive image set in Adobe After Effects CS4.
Carl Larsen
Adobe Photoshop
In this tutorial, CreativeCOW contributing editor Sytse Zijlstra demonstrates a quick, easy way to create a vignette in PhotoShop.
Sytse Zijlstra
Adobe Photoshop
CreativeCOW leader, Mike Gondek examines Creating Arctic Kiss: Photoshop Techniques for Illustrators, by Jerry Lofaro.
Mike Gondek
Art of the Edit
In this expanded version of an interview first published in Creative Cow Magazine, Dave describes a possible future for filmmaking -- faster, less expensive, and more creative -- as cameras and metadata come together.
Dave Stump
COW - Stuff
In Elements 2, Stephen Smith will show you where to find high quality stuff, such as video and photo stock footage and design help aids. Elevate your next project without breaking the bank.
Stephen Smith

View these and more articles at the Creative COW Library



Innobits



Industry News
Smith Micro Software’s Consumer Group Announces Manga Studio 4.0 for Mac and Windows

NewTek TriCaster™ Selected by SportsLink to Produce and Live Stream Coverage of U.S. Army All-American Bowl Week Events

Apple Supports AG-HMC150 AVCCAM Camcorder's Highest-Quality PH Recording Mode With FCP 6.0.5 Update

JVC to Unveil World's First Acquisition Product for Final Cut Post Production at Annual MacWorld Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet in San Francisco

Final Cut Editor Dean Gonzalez Teams with Director Mark Teitelman to Create Dramatic Promos for NFL Network's "Thursday Night Football"

Matrox Introduces PowerDesk for Mac



Tech Smith CAMTASIA


MXF4mac launches first wave of Avid MXF support

NVIDIA Releases Version 2.1 Beta of the CUDA Toolkit and SDK

DAZ 3D Boosts Performance with Carrara 7.0

da Vinci Appoints Industry Veteran Russ Chesley to Director of Worldwide Strategic Accounts

LaCie Ethernet Disk: Up to 6TB in a Rack-Mounted Backup Appliance

Digidesign Ships Pro Tools 8 Software

Noise Industries Rolls Out FxFactory Awards Competition

Digital Ad Pioneer Jason Zada Shoots Adidas Soccer Campaign With P2 HdD Cams

Holiday Movies Twilight, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Others Come to Life With Autodesk Technology

Paragon Studios Brings Sound And Picture Editing Under One Roof

Matrox Announces Support for Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium and the Windows Vista 64-bit Operating System on Matrox Axio LE and RT.X2 Realtime HD and SD Editing Platforms

Avid Introduces Next-Generation Avid Active ContentManager

Panasonic Offers Scene Files To Expand Users’ Creativity With P2 HD Camcorders

Small Tree Communications to Introduce GraniteSTOR abcSAN at Macworld Expo 2009

Autodesk Now a Member of Epic Games' Integrated Partners Program

Autodesk Software Shapes Super Heroes, Open Worlds, Epic Battles and More in Top Holiday Games

Sonnet Fusion™ DX800RAID Includes SAS Expander; Supports RAID 5 and RAID 6

Rustic Kitchen Combines Panasonic AW-HE100 Pan/Tilt/Zoom Cameras and AV-HS400A Live Switcher for Production of Lively Cooking Shows

Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld




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



Digital Juice



Top Threads
Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
no video in cs4
I am getting no video just audio in both my source monitor and program monitor. My husbands an IT guy and has trouble shooted everything.

Business & Marketing Forum
Client relationship in jeopardy - help
I run a small production company based in London, UK, and over the last year, we've had some regular work with the Communications Dept of a local government council, producing around 10 videos with them...

Broadcast Video Forum
DV footage blown up to cinema screen size - possible?
The question is this - if I use a DV camcorder Panasonic nv-gs230 which has 3ccds to shoot a film, will the end result of that film (if blown up / shown on a cinema screen) then look really terrible or will it look satisfactory...

AJA Kona Forum
Connectin Kona to Sony FW900 CRT Monitor
does anyone have experience to Konnect Kona to the FW900 CRT Monitor that have RGBHV and D-SUB connection?



Dulce



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Panasonic



New Leaders
Tony Agliata Tony Agliata
CINCINNATI, Ohio USA

Contributing Editor

CINCINNATI, Ohio USA
Sytse Zijlstra Sytse Zijlstra
The Netherlands

Contributing Editor

 The Netherlands

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



Blackmagic Design



Featured Leader Featured Tutorial
Meet Sjon Ueckert
Sjon Ueckert

Sjon Ueckert is both a motion graphics artist and musician. He is a skilled keyboardist and has toured with major label acts with his Hammond B3. He is the creator of Screen Caffeine fonts ofr LiveType users and is one of the foremost experts on LiveType in the world. more...
High-Pass Texture Tiling

Here's a quick tip from Creativecow leader, George Polevoy for our ''Preparing Graphics for Video'' series. George often uses the ''High-Pass'' filter in Photoshop in addition to the regular "Clone To more...

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



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