I just got off the phone with Apple's Richard Townhill, senior director of applications marketing, who took the time to update me on the latest major update to Final Cut Pro (http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/), ver. 10.0.3. Apple is delivering multicam support, broadcast monitoring via third-party PCI-e cards and boxes (in beta, along with Thunderbolt), advanced chroma keying features, XML 1.1, the ability to import layered Photoshop graphics (PSD), and media relinking.
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Soundbite from Boris FX is an excellent dialogue search tool developed in conjunction with Nexidia, a company focused on speech analytics. You can search for specific words and phrases easily with Soundbite, then import into Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro, making it easy and quick to edit hours of interviews for a project. Producers, writers, one-man bands and interns can rejoice while searching through hours of interviews. Say so long to logging video!
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Clients and projects vary by extremes. A day of work at Unichrome could involve a promotional video for a high tech gadget, or perhaps a 60 second television commercial for baby food. Add a music video for a reggae band to the mix and even then, the possibilities are still endless. Having worked with household brands such as L'Oreal, San Pellegrino, Nescafe and Hasbro, the company knows what it means to deliver high quality, creative work that meets demands and exceeds expectations. In fact, they've earned a reputation for it.
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This technology, in the hands of camera operators in motion picture, television, sports, and Electronic News Gathering (ENG) organizations is ideal for the placement of digital video cameras in remote locations up to 500 meters from the receiver without wires and without concern for interference.
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Tutorial:
By Diana Weynand, James Alguire and RevUpTansmedia
In the legacy versions of Final Cut Pro you marked a portion of a clip that you wanted to use by setting in and out points. One cool thing about in and out points is that they are persistent, that is, once set in a clip they remain set until you explicitly removed them. This made it very easy to edit multiple clips into the Timeline with just the scenes you wanted.
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The Other House, a new boutique commercial production house, produced 360 degree video content for a unique, interactive Web experience allowing a visitor to virtually explore the infamous Pendleton Building --the ominous setting of the new Dean Koontz novel, 77 Shadow Street ( www.77ShadowStreet.com. The Website is a 360 degree immersive experience of the Pendleton apartment building and features a series of maps a viewer employs to explore 25 locations spread across multiple apartments of characters at the Pendleton, with more than 100 special effects and details produced by the Other House.
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The Epson Stylus® Pro 3880 and 4900 Designer Editions were created to specifically meet the unique needs of graphic designers. Print full-bleed from 17" to 44" with ultra-accurate color matching. Compatible with the graphics software you already use. Learn More
Struggling Finnish phone maker Nokia plans to cut 4,000 more jobs at its plants in Finland, Hungary and Mexico as it seeks to cut costs by moving smartphone assembly work to Asia.
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A new cell phone application limits distracted driving by prohibiting the ability to text or e-mail when the device is traveling more than 15 miles per hour. It can also track the mobile user's location using GPS.
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The Byte, Feb. 6, 2012 Apple removes then restores some products in its online store in Germany. In flight WiFi remains unprofitiable with only 7 percent of the traveling public using the service. Smartphones outshipped PCs and tablets for the first time
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