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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
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Podcast :: DVD's :: Articles / Tutorials :: Industry News :: Top Threads :: COW Tipping :: Upcoming Events :: Featured :: This Week's Jobs

Business Advice for Tough Times

Sound business advice is more precious than ever, and you can find TONS of it from the businesspeople at Creative Cow. Our very own Cowdog has gathered some of the best tips for building your business from around the Cow, including getting deadbeat clients to pay you, creating strong contracts, protecting your onscreen talent from accidental explosions...and a reminder that, as far as the client is concerned, everything is YOUR fault.

Read more...



LaCie



Podcast
Subscribe with iTunesCreative COW Podcast
Episode #063 - February 17, 2009
by Franklin McMahon
(21:09) -- 2/17/2009

AVCCAM with Panasonic's Robert Harris, JVC GY-HM700 ProHD camcorder, Blackmagic Decklink HD Extreme, CS4 web seminar, Panasonic color viewfinder and P2 AG-HPX300, Skype on smartphones and more creative news and interviews - creativecow.net - Robert Harris from Panasonic Broadcast talks about the AVCCAM format, Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro AVCHD editing, playback on PS3 and blu-ray, and the Panasonic AG-HMC150 AVCCAM camcorder.


Subscribe with iTunesFinal Cut Help Tutorials Podcast
Tracking Vignettes - Final Cut Help
by Richard Harrington
(00:08:46) -- 2/14/2009

In this Final Cut tutorial podcast, Richard Harrington along with Robbie Carman use Apple Color to teach how to use a stylized vignette sort of like a power window that will use tracking to follow a person around a scene. -


Subscribe with iTunesPhotoshop for Video Tutorials Podcast
115 Smart Objects - Photoshop for Video
by Richard Harrington
(00:08:26) -- 2/14/2009

In this Photoshop podcast tutorial, Richard takes a look at smart objects. Smart objects are only available in Photoshop versions after CS3 but are very helpful for your workflow. Find project files at podcasts.creativecow.net
View more podcasts at podcasts.creativecow.net



COW Master Series Training DVD's
Stop Staring and Start Grading with Apple ColorStop Staring and Start Grading with Apple Color
An Introduction to Apple Final Cut Studio's Color Grading Application
$49.95

You got it for free with Final Cut Studio 2. You know it used to cost many thousands of dollars so it HAS to be powerful, right? You give it a try...then you want to give up. Color doesn't look or work like the Mac applications you're used to. Don't give up! Find your way through with Creative Cow leader Walter Biscardi. He shows you exactly how Color works, so you can really, truly stop staring and start grading.

View all COW Training DVD's at CreativeCOWTraining.Com



ITN Source



Recent Articles
Red Giant plug-ins
In this episode, Aharon shows you how to turn your video into an animated watercolor painting.
Aharon Rabinowitz
Apple Color
In this Apple Color tutorial, Richard Harrington along with color expert Robbie Carman create the Pleasantville effect in Apple Color. Using the secondary curves, specifically the saturation curve, to isolate just the yellow in a taxi cab everything else in the video clip can then be desaturated to create this popular effect.
Richard Harrington
Adobe Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington gives some tips on how to fix an underexposed or overexposed image using the shadow / highlights command in Adobe Photoshop CS4 and goes through each of the advanced settings to give great understand of how you can harness the power of this adjustment tool. The shadow / highlights filter can also be used on Smart Objects in recent versions of PS, expanding the way you can dynamically utilize this tool.
Richard Harrington
Adobe After Effects
In this tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Carl Larsen shows you how to approach a 2.5D rig removal shot using Photoshop, After Effects and the Mocha AE tracker.
Carl Larsen
Magic Bullet Suite
Tim Johnson takes a thorough look at Magic Bullet Suite 2008 from Red Giant Software. One project at the CBS affiliate he works at called for a variety of different needs and MBS 2008 was able to handle all within the one plugin set: film look, film motion, up-rezzing to HD, color correction, and motion removal.
Tim Johnson
Adobe Audition
In this second installment in his series of articles on Adobes latest post-production powerhouse, CS4 Production Premium, veteran editor David Roth Weiss takes closer look at Adobe Speech Search, a new speech recognition and transcription feature in both Premiere Pro CS4 and Soundbooth CS4. Speech Search is one the most exciting and eagerly anticipated new features to hit the editing world in a long time. So, if youve been wondering about it, read on, as David tells us what Speech Search is all about, how it works, and if it truly makes the grade.
Roth Weiss
Adobe Flash
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Tony Ross demonstrates how to create a simple multi-video player in Flash using Actionscript 3. Also learn to have several videos use a single flv player.
Tony Ross
Cinematography
Cinematographer and Creative Cow leader Todd Terry has shot countless television commercials and industrials using both 35mm film and depth-of-field converted video. In this Creative Cow Magazine Extra, from The Visual Effects Issue, learn how depth of field converters allow you to attach 35mm lenses even to video cameras with fixed lenses, how they work, and which one might be right for you.
Todd Terry

View these and more articles at the Creative COW Library



Sony



Industry News
Compix Media Gets HD Ready With New Line of Character Generators, Eases Migration to HD

2009 NCAA® March Madness® On Demand Adds High-Quality Video Player

JMR Brings the Power of BlueStor to the 2009 Hollywood Post Alliance Technology Retreat

Windowseat Pictures Documents Vans Triple Crown Of Surfing With Panasonic P2 HD Camcorders

Inition Launch New 3D HD Video Processing Unit ‘StereoBrain’ at Broadcast Video Expo 2009

Matrox Announces Rackmount Version of Popular Matrox MXO2 I/O Device for the Mac at Broadcast Video Expo



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Blackmagic Design Announces New DeckLink HD Extreme with Dual Link SDI

Blackmagic Design Demonstrate 3 New Video Capture Cards at Broadcast Video Expo

Alliance Video and Post Installs Small Tree’s Mac-based Shared Storage Technology to Enhance Workflow

EditShare Heads to The South African Waterfront

Panasonic Ships New 17" BT-LH1710 HD LCD Production Monitor

Panasonic Introduces Full-Featured AJ-CVF100G Color Viewfinder for High-end P2 HD and DVCPRO HD Camcorders

Panasonic Announces Availability of AJ-PCD35 P2 Memory Drive with PCI Express Interface for Super Fast Content Transfers

Panasonic Announces Versatile AW-HE870 2/3-inch 3-CCD High Definition Convertible Camera

Panasonic Offers Free AVCHD-to-DV Transcoder Update

Panasonic Debuts AJ-HRW10 Rapid Writer P2 Workflow Tool

Panasonic Announces Availability of the AG-HPG20 P2 HD Portable Recorder/Player Featuring AVC-Intra Recording

Panasonic Debuts AG-HPX300 P2 HD Camcorder, World’s First Affordable 10-bit, 4:2:2 Camera

Canon HDTV Long-Zoom And Portable Field Lenses Are Once Again The Exclusive Choice For The Network Telecast Of Super Bowl Game Coverage

Blackmagic Design Appoints MacAfrica as Southern Africa Distributor

EditShare Showcases Complete Collaboration Products At BVE

S3 Graphics Chrome 540 GTX: The World's Most Connected Hi-Def Card

Panasonic Expands Professional AVCCAM Product Line with Compact HD Recorder and Multi-Purpose Camera Head

Studio Network Solutions Announces Major New Release of SANmp Sharing Software

Noise Industries Rolls Out FxFactory 2.0.6




For more industry news, visit COW News & Press Releases



Euphonix



Top Threads
Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
DVCProHD 1080i60 to 720x486 NOT letterbox must pan & scan
I am working on a show that was shot in DVCProHD 1080i60, and NOT intended to be 4x3 safe. Then we found out from the network that they would not letterbox their SD broadcast...

Lighting Design Pros Forum
Cool lights reviews
I'm debating between getting a Diva light vs CL-455PMD Cool Lights Portable Dimming 4 x 55 watt Softlight...

Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) Forum
The new HPX-300
I’ve spent some time looking at the stat’s of the new 1/3” HpX-300...

Apple Color Forum
Using Color with Sony EX1 Footage
We just wrapped on a short film that was shot on the Sony EX1 in 720p...



Footage Films



COW Tipping
COW Blogging

Looking to blog here at Creative COW? You can have your own COW blog by simply clicking on the My COW Blog link in the sub navigation bar of the blogs. If you have a CreativeCOW.net account you're about one step away from having your own Blog right here at CreativeCOW.net. You'll find many of the other professionals and leaders already blogging about the projects their working on and things that are happening in the industry. Or feel free to blog about whatever you want, the choice is yours.



Anthro



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Telestream



Featured Leader Featured Tutorial
Meet CreativeCow Leader: Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller

The owner of an award-winning production company, TreeLine Productions, Jon has had the opportunity to blend his creative vision with an outstanding technical ability. Over the years, Jon has worked with various clients and projects that have found him filming around the country and the globe. more...
Arranging video clips to match sound

In this article, Avid editor Rambabu Dhanisetty demonstrates arranging clips to the beat. He finds this shortcut helpful while creating promos, etc. more...

Get help with, or discuss this tutorial in the COW's AVID Editing Forum.



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