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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
In this Newsletter:
Podcast :: DVD's :: Articles / Tutorials :: Industry News :: Top Threads :: COW Tipping :: Upcoming Events :: Featured :: This Week's Jobs

Surgical Video

Creative Cow Contributing leader Mike Cohen has been working on the cutting edge of surgical video for years. In this expanded version of his article in the Cow Magazine's "Non-Broadcast Production Issue," Mike answers some of the most frequently asked questions about these techniques from the Cow forums. He also describes the process of helping doctors to become better surgeons, and observes that he's somehow become much more adept at sewing buttons back onto his shirts.

It's fascinating stuff, but seriously, you might want to make sure you've had breakfast before reading this, and taking a look at Mike's amazing pictures. Read more...



Footage Films



Podcast
Steve WrightSubscribe with iTunesCreative COW Podcast
Episode #056 - December 30, 2008
by Franklin McMahon
(24:45) -- 12/30/2008

Digital Intermediates with Steve Wright, Windows XP gets 4 more months, JVC at MacWorld, Sony at CES, Intel 160GB SSD shipping, new Matrox CS4 support and more creative news and interviews - creativecow.net - Steve Wright does VFX compositing training for Shake and Nuke, he discusses the digital intermediate process, what DI is, costs, color timing, conforming, workflows, pros and cons 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



Blackmagic Design



Recent Articles
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, Eran Stern demonstrate the creation of 3D shadows with After Effects built-in filters and compares it to the functions of RG shadow plug-in.
Eran Stern
Apple Motion
Motion templates are a great feature that can get you great results in no time. This video tutorial from CreativeCOW leader, Stephen Smith will go over the fundamentals so working with templates is easy.
Stephen Smith
Creative COW Magazine feedback
Creative Cow Contributing Editor Zed Saeed has helped create pioneering Final Cut Pro workflows for major feature films and episodic TV production. This year, he and the team at DigitalFilm Tree faced their biggest challenge yet: posting 3 major shows, for 3 different networks, every week -- with the same small team that used to do just one. How do they do it? World-class workflow management.
Zed Saeed
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

View these and more articles at the Creative COW Library



G-Tech



Industry News
NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 by PNY with 4GB of Frame Memory Delivers the Ultimate Graphics Technology for Workstation and Cluster Performance

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"



Data Robotic


Matrox Introduces PowerDesk for Mac

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




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



Panasonic



Top Threads
Adobe After Effects Forum
3D text Rotating around an existing object
I can get it to be 3D and rotate, but it all happens in front of the earth...

Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
RAID AND PRORES 422 Oh not again...
Can anyone tell me if Im on the right track up the raid part, and then explain which setup with raid I should get when working with prores, or did I get it all wrong and AIC is fine with external 800 firewire hardrives?

Cinema 4D Forum
Closing Polygon Holes
I have a set of paths from illustrator of a world map, I am trying to create a 3d model of a world map.

AJA Kona Forum
720p 29.97 field dominance
Anyone know if this can be changed or reset in some way to force Field 1 Dominance?



Roland



COW Tipping
COW Blogs (A New Look and Feel)

If you haven't been to the COW Blogs lately there's been a number of changes happening, integrating the COW Blogs further into the main farm of CreativeCOW.net. Creating and managing your own COW Blog is now easier than ever with just a couple clicks. Each Blog is built to allow you to have your own personal blog pages with navigation that is specific to your personal Blog. Blog pages, tags, links, archives, widgets, comments and dynamic content are all personalized and controllable on each of your blog pages.

If you are an active memeber in CreativeCOW.net then you have a COW Blog account and can start using it right away.

Create your own COW Blog...



TechSmith



Upcoming Events
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Cork CIT, Bishopstown Ireland
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worldwide
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Philanthropic Swag design Competition for ACFCLA
Jan 3, '09 - Jan 3, '09
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Dreamweaver Hands-On Intensive - Class
Jan 2, '09 - Jan 4, '09
Las Vegas Nevada USA
Motion 3 Class - Get Certified with Andrew Freeman
Jan 6, '09 - Jan 6, '09
Boulder CO
Photoshop for Photographers - Intermediate Hands-On Class
Jan 7, '09 - Jan 7, '09
San Francisco CA USA
8th Annual Macworld FCPUG SuperMeet
Jan 7, '09 - Jan 7, '09
Boulder CO
Getting Started with Final Cut Pro - Workshop
Jan 8, '09 - Jan 8, '09
Boulder CO
Getting Started With Outdoor Filmmaking - Workshop
Jan 10, '09 - Jan 10, '09
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Jan 10, '09 - Jan 10, '09
Columbia MD 21046 USA
Final Cut Pro Workshop - CSB Columbia
Jan 12, '09 - Jan 12, '09
Boulder CO
Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator - Workshop
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Collegedale TN USA
One-day Film Workshop
Jan 13, '09 - Jan 13, '09
Boulder CO
Introduction to Search Engine Optimization - Workshop

View more events at events.creativecow.net



Abel



Featured Leader Featured Tutorial
Meet Shailesh Pahuja, CreativeCOW Contributing Editor
Shailesh Pahuja

My name is Shailesh Pahuja and I reside in Bhopal, India. I have been in the field of 3d for the last 1 year. I have completed my Diploma in 3d Animation and Visual Effects from Maya Aademy of Advance Cinematics (MAAC). My area of Interest is in Compositing, Matte Painting and Modeling. I'm not too more...
Animating Skies and Writing Text With Light

Mark Simpson uses The Foundry 'Tinderbox' plug-ins, T_Sky, T_Rays, & T_Blur filters to create some unique text effects against an artificial sky. In this first look at the new TinderBox series from T more...

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



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