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Creative COW Newsletter

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
In this Newsletter:
Podcast :: DVD's :: Articles / Tutorials :: Industry News :: Top Threads :: Upcoming Events :: New Leaders :: Featured :: This Week's Jobs

Creative COW Podcasts

All of us here at the COW are delighted to see the popularity of our new Adobe Flash podcast, which today is sitting at #8 in the iTunes Store's Hot 100 in the Technology/Software How-To category. Yesterday, it was at #7. It has been in the Top 10 for over a week, and we haven't even pushed the show until today's newsletter. Why has the show taken off so quickly? Host, Tony Ross, is one of the most articulate Flash educators on the planet and his clear and practical lessons on Flash will help demystify what many believe is Adobe's deepest and most powerful tool. If you have missed this newest COW podcast, check it out at http://podcasts.creativecow.net

We have also been excited to see that depending on the day, there have been as many as 11 of our podcast channels in the Software How-To category's Hot 100 simultaneously. Today, there are currently 8 channels in the Hot 100.

Our podcasts are becoming some of the most popular programs available here at the COW. If you have missed them, take a little time and get to know the Creative COW Podcasts.



Flanders Scientific



Podcast
Lloyd KaufmanSubscribe with iTunesCreative COW Podcast
Episode #064 - February 24, 2009
by Franklin McMahon
(26:16) -- 2/24/2009

Indie Directing with Troma's Lloyd Kaufman, Mac Mini rumor, Screenflow 1.5, Canon Studio Solution, Kern, Stacks 1.0 for Rapidweaver, PhotoTools 2 and more creative news and interviews - creativecow.net - Lloyd Kaufman from Troma Entertainment talks to Franklin about independent moviemaking, South Park beginnings, Troma's history, Tromadance in Park City, the Independent Film and Television Alliance, Net Neutrality as well as his new book "Direct Your Own Damn Movie".


Subscribe with iTunesFinal Cut Help Tutorials Podcast
Gradient Wipe Transition - Final Cut Help
by Richard Harrington
(00:07:01) -- 2/21/2009

In this Final Cut Pro podcast tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at customizing the gradient wipe transition. -


Subscribe with iTunesPhotoshop for Video Tutorials Podcast
116 Alpha Channels - Photoshop for Video
by Richard Harrington
(00:07:16) -- 2/21/2009

In this Adobe Photoshop podcast tutorial, Richard Harrington teaches how to make an alpha channel based upon the luminance of an image. -


Subscribe with iTunesAdobe Flash Tutorials Podcast
Simple Multi-Video Player in AS3
by Tony Ross
(10:33) -- 2/18/2009

In this Flash podcast tutorial, Creative COW leader Tony Ross progresses from his previous tutorial using AS2 and explains how to create a simple multi-video player in Adobe Flash using AS3. -
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



AJA



Recent Articles
Red Giant plug-ins
In this Red Giant tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create a realistic traffic pattern backdrop - great for a scene in which the camera overlooks a low lying, but developed area - perhaps looking down from a high hill onto a residential neighborhood.
Aharon Rabinowitz
Telestream Episode
Recently, Creative COW leader and business owner Walter Biscardi needed a very flexible and fast compression tool that also provided extremely high quality end products for his clients. Oh, and it needed to be easy to use. Enter Telestream's Episode and Episode Pro. In this review, he's using Episode Pro 5.1.1 and he'll explain the differences between the two at the end of this article.
Walter Biscardi
Business & Marketing
Grinner Hester will never tell you success comes easy...or fast. After 25 years in the game, he's learned success never comes at all, unless you keep going. In this Creative COW Magazine article, Grinner discusses tenacity and how it is the secret to success in hard times.
Grinner Hester
Apple Color
In this Apple Color tutorial, Richard Harrington along with color expert Robbie Carman teaches how to use tracking to have vignettes follow a person around the screen to simulate a spotlight effect.
Richard Harrington
Adobe Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a closer look at smart objects in Adobe Photoshop CS4. A smart object is an embedded copy of the original object in your document, this allows you to place large images or vector graphics into your Photoshop project and then scale it up or scale it down without worring about losing the original file resolution.
Richard Harrington
Boris FX
BCC Smooth Tone is an image restoration filter that smoothes out skin imperfections while maintaining image detail and contrast in areas such as hair and eyes. This video tutorial from Paul Ezzy goes over the basics of applying the filter to a clip in AE and provides a brief lesson on how to use PixelChooser to increase the filter's effectiveness.
Paul Ezzy
Media 100 | Media 100 HD
In this Media 100 video tutorial, Floh Peters of Magic Eye (Germany) takes a look at Media 100 Version 13's new multi-channel audio output capabilities. With Version 13, you can assign multiple audio tracks to virtual buses and process each bus separately in the timeline. Each bus can separately master to one or more output hardware channels.
Floh Peters
Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2)
In this Creative COW Magazine article, Jeremy Garchow discusses his experience using the AVC-Intra codec and the Panasonic AJ-HPX2000 camera on an overseas production project.
Jeremy Garchow

View these and more articles at the Creative COW Library



Roland



Industry News
Autodesk Introduces Softimage 7.5 Software

Autodesk Honors 'PLASTIC' for Outstanding Student Achievement in Visual Effects

Panasonic And Abel Cine Tech Award AG-HPX170 Grand Prize To Winner Of P2 For A Cause Program For Cooley’s Anemia Foundation

Wonderdog Media Produces Northwest Living & Wellness With P2 HD Camcorders

Sound Devices 788T Takes Home The Cinema Audio Society Technical Achievement Award

Hula Post Production Makes Its Third Trip to the Oscars



Blackmagic Design


Class on Demand Makes Available Self-Paced Training for Episode 5.1

‘Goodman’s Guide To The Panasonic P2 System’ Now Available

Telestream ScreenFlow Celebrates First Anniversary with New Release

Fujinon HD Lenses Part of HD Upgrade at Saddleback Church

New tablet from Genius for On-the-Go work

Rhino Rebrands To Reflect Global Reach

Solid State Logic Presents Streamlined C100 System At NAB 2009

WEGENER Receives Patent for Method that Reduces Costs and Extends Life

BBC Motion Gallery Treads The Red Carpet

Digital FX Adds Regions First Flame 2K Suite

Harris Corporation Digital Signage Solution Sets Tone for Customer Experience at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center

ATTO Technology Releases the Fastest 6Gb/s SAS/SATA Host Adapters on the Market

New Studio Solution Software from Canon U.S.A. Provides Automated Workflow for Photography Studios from Capture to Revenue

Canon U.S.A. Expands Its Lens Portfolio with the Introduction of Two New Wide-Angle Tilt-Shift Lenses

New Vision Television Group Moves To High-Definition Production With Sony XDCAM Tapeless Systems

Canon U.S.A. Dives Deep With A New WP-V1 Waterproof Case For The New VIXIA HF20 and VIXIA HF200 Flash Memory Camcorders

Lindenwood Univ. Chooses Hitachi HD Cameras for Local Newscasts

FOR-A to Highlight Video Writer, Frame Synch, Color Corrector

Vizrt Announces Enhancements to Viz Video Hub™




For more industry news, visit COW News & Press Releases



Panasonic



Top Threads
Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Fast workflow for editing and compressing 500 videos ??
We have recorded 500+ clips ranging from 2 to 7 minutes in length. We need to edit each of them to trim, add a bumper and lower third and a bug. From there we need to export them for the web...

Business & Marketing Forum
Proving my capabilities to colleges?
I'm starting to look into colleges, especially those that offer a major in "cinematography/video production."...

AVID Editing Forum
Video Formats
I am a new user to Avid and I’m trying to figure out how I can import and edit different files formats in one project...

Cinematography Forum
DoF converter Lens Choices
We're going to rent our first DoF converter for an upcoming shoot and I need some opinions. We're looking at the P+S Technik Pro and the Letus Ultimate, and will likely go with the Letus due to budget constraints on the project...

Apple Color Forum
New Apple Color Tutorial - Tracking Vignettes
Robbie Carman teaches how to use tracking to have vignettes follow a person around the screen to simulate a spotlight effect...



G-Tech



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Camtasia



New Leaders
Paul Ezzy Paul Ezzy
Massachusetts USA

Contributing Editor

Massachusetts USA

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



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Featured Leader Featured Tutorial
Meet Filip Vandueren
Filip Vandueren

Filip Vandueren works in the music industry in Belgium. He loves using expressions in After Effects to enhance his music video work.  more...
Color Range Command - Photoshop for Video

In this Adobe Photoshop video tutorial, Richard Harrington gives some free tricks on how to use the color range command in Photoshop. Many people use the old method of utilizing the magic wand tool fo more...

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



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