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

South Park: TV's Longest Week

Creative Cow Magazine's "Workflow 3.0 Issue" brought you stories from some of the people truly defining the cutting edge of how the industry's top producers work. These include articles from DigitalFilm Tree's Zed Saeed on posting 3 network shows every week with a team of 9, and cinematographer Dave Stump, whose Academy Award-winning technology points the way to new ways of capturing on-set metadata for advanced VFX.

This week, we introduce you to an animated show that completes an entire episode, from writing to air, in only six days -- delivered to the network with only minutes to spare. Meet the producers and editors of Comedy Central's "South Park," winner of 3 Emmys, a Peabody Award for Excellence and many more, as they take you inside the tools and technologies that enable one of the most pressure-packed workflows imaginable.

Read more...



Data Robotic



Podcast
Autodesk ToxikSubscribe with iTunesCreative COW Podcast
Episode #067 - March 17, 2009
by Franklin McMahon
(21:40) -- 3/17/2009

Autodesk Toxik 2009 Features with Ken LaRue, VideoPier HD, Amplitude Fender Amp, New Tek 3PLAY, first live 3D webcast, next Firefox this summer, P22 Music Pro, PhotoFreebies and more creative news and interviews - creativecow.net - Ken LaRue is the Toxik Application Engineer at Autodesk, he discusses with Franklin the new features in Toxik 2009 including new color options, stereoscopic 3D, advanced blurring, the node-based interface layout and special effects.


Subscribe with iTunesPhotoshop for Video Tutorials Podcast
Camera Raw - Part 1
by Richard Harrington
(00:06:14) -- 3/14/2009

In this Photoshop tutorial podcast, Richard Harrington spends some time looking at the camera raw interface inside of Adobe Photoshop. -


Subscribe with iTunesFinal Cut Help Tutorials Podcast
Fixing Exposure
by Richard Harrington
(00:06:42) -- 3/14/2009

In this Final Cut tutorial podcast, Richard Harrington discusses a problem that can occur when shooting video outdoors, backlighting. -


Subscribe with iTunesAdobe After Effects Tutorials Podcast
Sci-Fi Classics - Part 2
by Eran Stern
(22:37) -- 3/13/2009

In this After Effects tutorial podcast, Eran Stern takes the next step in the science fiction classic and finalizes the promo by projecting graphics in space from a flying saucer. -
View more podcasts at podcasts.creativecow.net



COW Master Series Training DVD's
Zaxwerks Invigorator TrainingZaxwerks Invigorator Training
The Fusion of Adobe After Effects and Zaxwerks Invigorator, Vol. 1
$49.95

For the very first time: complete training for Zaxwerks Invigorator, the leading plug-in for 3D model creation inside Adobe After Effects. Want to build 3D models inside AE? This is what you're looking for. Even if you've got no 3D modeling experience whatsoever, you'll see how easy 3D in After Effects can be, and how great it can look. Hosted by longtime power user and Creative COW leader Serge Hamad, this DVD is the perfect step-by-step guide to getting the most out of Zaxwerks Invigorator running inside Adobe After Effects.

View all COW Training DVD's at CreativeCOWTraining.Com



Blackmagic Design



Recent Articles
Apple Final Cut Pro
In this Final Cut tutorial, Richard Harrington discusses what to do to correct your film when you shoot footage with the wrong white balance setting. This is a common problem if you step outside after shooting inside and you forget to rewhite balance. Richard uses the three way color corrector to do a digital white balance on the clip inside of Final Cut Pro.
Richard Harrington
Adobe Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the auto blend command that allows you to merge multiple pictures together into a single larger document. When you have a large scan and you have to scan it in multiple pieces and then stitch it together or if you want to stitch together panoramic photos for a virtual scene this photography tool becomes quite useful.
Richard Harrington
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, Eran Stern shows you the first step to create a retro design title animation for a fictional sci-fi movie.
Eran Stern
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, CreativeCOW contributing editor, Nelson Fernandes demonstrates a method to obtain a quick and dirty mask using the find edges effect combined with the auto-trace feature.
Nelson Fernandes
Boris FX
DV video is prone to jaggy edges and compression artifacts. BCC 6 AE's new DV Fixer will greatly improve the look of your clip without sacrificing image detail or quality. Watch how it's done inside Adobe After Effects CS4.
Paul Ezzy
Apple Final Cut Pro
In this Final Cut Pro tutorial, Richard Harrington take a look at the elgato turbo.264. This is a USB add on device that accelereates the h.264 encoding you can do on your Mac. The turbo.264 comes with its own compression software with presets for iPod, iPhone, Sony PSP, Apple TV and YouTube.
Richard Harrington
Adobe Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at balancing out exposure issues inside of Photoshop CS4. Mixed lighting on a photo can cause portions of the image to be too bright or too dark, fortunately Photoshop gives us some great tools to take care of these types of issues. Using a levels adjustment layer in combination with a color range selection, Richard is able to greatly control the lighting in a photo. The equalize command is also covered in this video tutorial.
Richard Harrington
Adobe After Effects
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Michael Park shows you how to create a realistic 3d earth, complete with clouds and atmosphere, using only After Effects' built in effects. Special attention will be given to combining multiple instances of the CC Sphere effect to create unique layers with different specular properties for the land and water masses, as well as creating lights from urban centers on the night side of the earth.
Michael Park

View these and more articles at the Creative COW Library



ITN Source



Industry News
New FSI Broadcast Monitors Now Shipping

Techno-Jib Makes Stunning Moves for Oscars

Company X & Detox Create Lush Animated Video For Nat King Cole

Digital Cinema Society (DCS) March seminars to spotlight Silicon Imaging’s SI-2K and a new line-up from Panasonic

Nineteen Fifteen Produces World's First Live 3D webcast

Students at the New Communications Campus of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Study Panasonic P2 HD Technology



Panasonic


First Commercial Deployment of MAXedit® in the U.S.

NewTek Launches Live Product Demo Webcasts

C-nario and Vizrt Announce Strategic Partnership

Dimmer version for the Sachtler Reporter 8LED

Cache-A Appoints Strategy + Communications

Solid State Logic (SSL) will showcase the C300 HD Master Studio System at NAB 2009

ABS and FX Group Team Up to Offer Expanded Service Portfolio

Cooke Optics Extends /i Support at NAB 2009

Hylén System Recognized By The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

BBFC Selects Digital Rapids Ingest and Encoding Systems for Massive Digital Archive Initiative

AmpliTube Fender® Now Shipping: The Official Fender® Software Amplifier and Effects Suite

Massive Insight™ Brings Film Realism to Engineers, Architects and Researcher

AJA Video Announces New Sales Organization and Team

Introducing Massive Library of Pre-Keyed Footage From Aharon Rabinowitz’s All Bets Are Off Productions

Aviom Welcomes Fault Line And Mac West Group As New Rep Firms

Aquafadas releases new version 1.2 of VideoPier and VideoPier HD

Updated Connectivity Solution for Vectorworks 2009 and CINEMA 4D R11 available immediately

Autodesk at GDC 2009: From Technical to Creative

Allegorithmic's Substance Air Entering Final Stage of Beta




For more industry news, visit COW News & Press Releases



Tape Online



Top Threads
Business & Marketing Forum
UPDATE: I'm about to blow a gasket
Back on Feb. 26th, I posted a thread about an emergency turn-around gig that had gone unpaid after 6-weeks...

Art of the Edit Forum
Need help with J cuts
I understand the purpose of L and J cuts during dialogue, action, and documentary, but there is one use for a J cut I cannot understand...

Audio Professionals Forum
Wireless from a mixer to the camera
I'm going to be shooting some music videos for a band and was wondering if I could come out of their mixer and go wireless into the camera...

AJA Kona Forum
Component Output to Panasonic Plasma?
Just got Panasonic 50PH10 and having problems getting picture on it...



LaCie



COW Tipping
Creative COW Magazine Soon to Be Released

The new issue of The Creative COW Magazine is soon to be released online and by mail. If you are interested in receiving a copy of future releases of this very popular complementary magazine go to the Creative COW Magazine website and sign up.

http://www.creativecowmagazine.net/



Roland



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Euphonix



Featured Leader Featured Tutorial
Meet Brandt Sleeper!
Brandt Sleeper

DP/Producer Brandt Sleeper has an extensive and well-rounded history in production.  His credits include:  GMA, EXTRA, 60 Min. II, 20/20, 48 Hrs., History Channel, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, NFL Films, MLB, VH1, MTV, CMT, City TV, HGTV, Paramount, Oprah, MDA and many other more...
Stephens Five FCP Time Saving Tips

Want to save time while using Final Cut Pro? CreativeCow.net Contributing Editor Stephen Smith will show you how. His video tutorial has five must use tips: Motion Templates, Swap Edit, Audio Levels, more...

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



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