Speech-to-text, colorized vectorscope and support for Apple’s M1 chip Applications such as Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects play a central role in video and film production. In July, Adobe announced updates to their video apps which include important new features that will not only make your workflow easier but enhance your creative options. Premiere […]
First Mile Technologies Introduces Camera-to-Cloud Connectivity
TORONTO—July 26, 2021—First Mile Technologies, a developer of creative connectivity solutions for media and entertainment production, has launched a new service to allow film, television and advertising productions to stream live, high-quality camera media to the cloud, making it accessible live for review, editorial, post-production and visual effects through a choice of various platforms. The service […]
What’s New, Creative Cloud? We Offer Our Take on Adobe’s Recent Updates
It’s Been 16 Years Since Creative Suite Launched. Does Cloud-centric Adobe Still Deliver? Twice a year – we’re used to it already. “It” is when Adobe announces its upgrades to Creative Cloud suite. So much of our industry depends upon this family of video and audio apps including Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, Character Animator, […]
Video Review: Does IK Multimedia’s SampleTank Deliver What a Sound Editor Needs?
If you score film or television projects, you know that the more sounds you can draw on, the better. That doesn’t mean you can’t create your own custom patches, but when deadlines loom, you want to draw on the largest libraries of samples as you can. That’s why we’re taking a look at IK Multimedia’s […]
Video Review: What Makes PreSonus Studio One 4 Pro a Top Audio DAW Choice?
Image: Alex Scott wants you to rethink your DAW. Is it time to check out a new digital audio workstation? In the following video, Alex Scott thinks so. To start, the musician and sound engineer points out that today there are a dizzying number of choices among DAWs that you should be considering besides old […]
Apple Spreads the Love: Adobe’s Video Apps Now Support ProRes
It’s a welcome announcement: Apple finally allows Windows apps to export files using its proprietary ProRes codec. Adobe was one of the first companies to announce support for exporting Apple ProRes on the Windows platform for such ubiquitous Adobe applications as Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC and Adobe Media Encoder CC. So what’s so […]
The Compositor’s Apprentice – Joe Herman Checks Out Blackmagic’s Fusion 9
Here’s Joe Herman’s take on Blackmagic Design’s Fusion 9. Soon after he wrote this review, Blackmagic dropped Resolve 15, which builds in the once stand alone Fusion app. As Joe notes, “This is impressive. Everything I wrote is still pertinent, but with the inclusion of Resolve’s legacy high-end color correction, full-featured video editing, Fairlight audio […]
Real Time Animation: Review of Reallusion’s iClone 7
As GPUs, from companies such as NVIDIA and AMD, have gotten ever more powerful over the past few years, they have become able to deliver real-time 3D performance in ways that we once dreamed about. This is true especially in games, where realistic 3D scenes are interactively rendered in real-time during gameplay. Now convincing real […]
Adobe Reveals Great New Video Chops at IBC 2017
Adobe unveiled a tasty bundle of updates to its Creative Cloud video applications at IBC 2017. The Amsterdam-based show doesn’t garner the same slew of new product intros that NAB does. But many companies big and small save their latest-and-greatest announcements for this Fall show for that very reason of a lowered PR frenzy. Adobe […]
MAXON Announces CINEMA 4D R19 at Siggraph 2017
Every year, right around Siggraph, MAXON announces a new release to CINEMA 4D, their popular and versatile 3D modeling, animation and rendering application. This year is no exception as the company took the wraps off CINEMA 4D Release 19 (R19). A new release of CINEMA 4D is big news amongst 3D artists and animators as […]