Many editors prefer the video encoding application Sorenson Squeeze. It’s one of the top encoders for both Mac and PC platforms and also comes bundled with Avid Media Composer in...
Thanks to the proliferation of laptops and tablet computers and wireless internet access, the use of physical portfolios and demo reels to show your wares has been increasingly replaced by digital alternatives. The newest of these is...
Director Philip Kaufman has a talent for telling a good story against the backdrop of history. The Right Stuff (covering the United States’ race to space in the 1950s and ’60s) and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (...
Harbor Picture Company recently completing editing and color correction work for Coldplay and Rihanna’s “Princess of China” music video. Based in New York City and founded by...
Fans of the Jason Bourne stories are being treated to an expansion of the franchise with the release of The Bourne Legacy. Unlike other franchise restarts, this film moves in a different direction, exploring the greater Bourne world through the introduction of agent Aaron...
Editors moving from older versions of Apple Final Cut Pro to FCP X find that quite a bit of reorientation is required. Standard terminology and editing practices have been changed. It’s time to break the ice and understand what makes FCP X tick.
For the fourth iteration of Lightroom, Adobe has enhanced the processing capabilities and added features to aid photographers with handling modern photographic...
Plug-in developers have had their hands full in recent months. Not only are they rolling out refreshed versions of their products, they have also had to adapt to a range of new hosts, including Apple Final Cut Pro X and...
Thanks to the common Unix underpinnings of Linux and Mac OS X, Autodesk Media & Entertainment was able to bring its advanced Smoke editor to the Mac platform in December of...