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Creative COW Newsletter

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
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Podcast :: DVD's :: Articles / Tutorials :: Industry News :: Top Threads :: COW Tipping :: Upcoming Events :: Featured :: This Week's Jobs

ADR: Hollywood Dialogue Recording Secrets

At Creative COW, many of our audience work in the field of film, from those working with small budget indie films that have been entered (and won) festivals like Sundance, all the way up to major films like Hollywood blockbusters that have graced both the library and magazine here at Creative COW.

Correcting dialogue is one of the most important parts of the old saying, "fix it in post." They're part of a process called ADR -- Additional Dialogue Recording, or Automated Dialogue Replacement -- that has been going on since movies had audio, and is still being done today, from the smallest indie films to the biggest blockbusters. Here's an overview of the world of ADR, some of the Cows who are working in this field, and where to go when you are ready to ADR to your own productions.

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Focus Enhancements



Podcast
Subscribe with iTunesBusiness Strategies Roundtable Podcast
Episode #004 - March 03, 2009
by Franklin McMahon
(20:16) -- 3/3/2009
Carol (left) Susan (right)
Public Relations and Marketing for Creative Professionals with Carol Warren and Susan van Barneveid from Antarra Communications. - Carol and Susan discuss with Franklin McMahon how to target your market, use press releases, adapt your messaging, improve your website, internally communicate to your team and go over the pros and cons of industry trade shows. Join us for a "PR Bootcamp" and learn how to use public relations to take your creative business to the next level.


Jason Stewart and Robin Williams Subscribe with iTunesCreative COW Podcast
Episode #065 - March 03, 2009
by Franklin McMahon
(26:08) -- 3/3/2009
World's Greatest Dad
Editing Reality TV and Film with Jason Stewart, Kindle 2 ships, Sony GPS-equipped AVCHD, Safari 4 beta, Obama cans YouTube, Painter 11, Matrox Axio LE, CS4 updated and more creative news and interviews - creativecow.net - Jason Stewart is a Film and TV Editor whose credits include CBS The Amazing Race, MTV Movie Awards and ABC Extreme Makeover as well as feature films including his latest project "World's Greatest Dad" starring Robin Williams and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. He talks with Franklin about editing reality TV and feature films, his workflow, making the transition from TV to film and offers advice on getting into the industry to become a commercial editor.


Subscribe with iTunesFinal Cut Help Tutorials Podcast
Compression with Turbo - Final Cut Help
by Richard Harrington
(00:06:04) -- 2/28/2009

In this Final Cut Pro podcast, Richard Harrington takes a look at using the elgato turbo.264 to speed up your compression process when exporting or rendering for iPod, iPhone, YouTube or other devices that you need to compress to. -


Subscribe with iTunesPhotoshop for Video Tutorials Podcast
117 Balancing Images - Photoshop for Video
by Richard Harrington
(00:06:29) -- 2/28/2009

In this Photoshop podcast tutorial, Richard Harrington gives some free tips to help balance out exposure issues in a photo. When lighting issues arise with a photo, with parts of a graphic that are too light or too dark this podcast can help. -
View more podcasts at podcasts.creativecow.net



COW Master Series Training DVD's
Getting Organized in Final Cut ProGetting Organized in Final Cut Pro
A Broadcast Editor Shares Editing Set-Up Secrets
$49.95

In this in-depth series of 9 video tutorials spanning over 90 minutes, CreativeCOW.net leader Shane Ross will show you time-saving techniques for project and media management that the manual left out. For every version of Final Cut Pro.

View all COW Training DVD's at CreativeCOWTraining.Com



Dulce



Recent Articles
Apple Final Cut Pro
In this Final Cut Pro tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the gradient wipe transition. The gradient wipe transition is a highly customizable transition using greyscale patterns to create your own custom wipes.
Richard Harrington
Adobe Photoshop
In the Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at making an alpha channel based upon the luminance in an image. Alpha channels allow you to store transparency in a graphic and transfer that transparency to another non-linear video editing program or compositing application and key or composite in real time.
Richard Harrington
Indie Film & Documentary
After 3 years working on their labor of love, Harry and his partners tasted the full range of film festival experiences, some more magical than others...
Harry Pallenberg
Cinematography
The tools for creating 3D stereoscopic movies are now amazingly affordable. A few challenges remain, but you can easily see the possibilities. In this Creative COW Magazine article Christopher Werronen takes you through the process of making a movie destined for Stereoscopic 3D.
Cowdog
Apple Final Cut Pro
When CreativeCOW's Peter Wiggins  first started editing in facility houses in the eighties, an edit suite was a room full of large control panels next to a room with racks and racks of mainframes. Recently he decided to issue a challenge: Build a broadcast DigiBeta quality edit suite that will fit in a computer bag and will go through airport security. Read on to find out how he did it.
Peter Wiggins
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

View these and more articles at the Creative COW Library



Sony



Industry News
Canon U.S.A. Introduces The New PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II and PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II Professional Photo Printers

Imagineer Systems Boosts VFX Workflow for After Effects Community; Announces ‘mocha for After Effects 2’ and ‘mocha shape for After Effects’

Double Negative First Beta Client to Use Image Metrics Technology In-House

ATTO Technology Demonstrates Innovative Storage Infrastructure Solutions at CeBIT

Apple Introduces New Mac Pro

Iraqi Media Network Modernises Infrastructure with Harris Corporation ONE™ Solution for Integrated Broadcasting



Maxx Digital


Avid Delivers Native XDCAM Support and Industry First Stereoscopic 3D Capabilities with Latest Versions of Editing Software

Save $100 on the CalDigit RAID Card or HDElement during March & April

Pink Sneakers Relies on Small Tree's Cost-Effective Shared Storage Solution During "Miami Social" Post-Production

Sorenson Media Names Digital Media Veteran Peter Csathy as President and CEO

Jay Bolotin:The Jackleg Testament

LaCie's 4big and 5big Product Range Win Big Recognition from iF Design GmbH

Sony Features High-Definition Compact POV Camera And Recording System For Professional Video Applications At NAB

Sony Highlights HVR-Z5U HDV Camcorder At NAB

Sony Unveils New High-Definition Viewfinder For Professional Camera Systems

Sony Expands Line Of Luma LCD Professional Monitors With New Nine-Inch Display

Sony Expands Line Of LCD Monitors For High-End Broadcast And Video Production

Sony Expands Family Of XDCAM HD422 Products With New High-Definition Field Recorder

iZ3D Monitor for Gamers Wins the GameIndustry.com 2008 Game of the Year Award - Best Peripheral

Anton/Bauer Takes Charge At NAB 2009 With Debut Of Dionic® HC Camera Battery

Aviom's Personal Mixers At The Academy Awards

Creative Community Turns to Class on Demand Training to Enhance Employment Marketability

FOR-A's MBP-100CK HD/SD Standalone Chroma Keyer Making U.S. Debut At NAB 2009

Abaltat Helps the Music Come Together on the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus

Panasonic Announces Versatile AW-HE870E 2/3-Inch 3-CCD High Definition Convertible Camera




For more industry news, visit COW News & Press Releases



Focal Press



Top Threads
Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Redigitizing process still dumb
I see folks on here making requests for all kinds improvements in the next edition of Final Cut. I would still love to see Apple fix one of the dumbest things about the software, redigitizing an old project...

New MacPros yes i want one!
Discussion on the New MacPros...

Art of the Edit Forum
Editing: Experimenting or Papercutting?
I have edited many short films and music videos before, and I have worked mainly in Final Cut Pro. No one has ever taught me to edit, I have learned everything by myself, and my editing has always been a very intuitive process...

Panasonic VariCam Forum
New Products
I work as a Cinematographer in “long form” Documentary segment (mostly) with 33 years of service notched onto my belt...



Anthro



COW Tipping
Forum List Preference

The forums' list at Creative COW can now be adjusted. You can choose between an Alphabetical listing or a Catagorical listing of forums. Additionally you can choose to have the list only include your favorite forums if you choose. Find these settings by going to your COW Account Settings. The Extra tab contains these controls and the Profile tab allows you to choose your favorite forums.

Browse around the account controls on this page for a short time and find many things you may have missed.



Camtasia



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Euphonix



Featured Leader Featured Tutorial
Jim Kelty: Creative Cow Indie Film and Documentaries forum host
Jim Kelty

"We've known Jim Kelty since mid-1997 when we sold our Media 100xs and Jim's company bought the system from us. We've talked alot over the years since then and have become good friends," says Creative Cow's Ron Lindeboom."He's a very creative guy and he loves great historically accurate document more...
Placeholder Composite Effects

In this Final Cut tutorial, Richard Harrington performs a quick placeholder effect in Final Cut Pro. Many times you will need this technique so you can figure out what shots you want to use and if it more...

Get help with, or discuss this tutorial in the COW's Apple Final Cut Pro Forum.



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