Walden Media specializes in entertainment that sparks the imagination and engages and delights audiences young and old. Its latest feature film with New Line Cinema, "Journey to the Center of the Earth" will be in theaters July 11 2008. ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH Digital Process Solution was the stereoscopic 3D workflow of choice for the film.
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Apple's 2.8Ghz dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core (8-cores total!) Mac Pro is one of Apple's fastest computers yet. With the capability to run with 32GB RAM, an excellent graphics card (or two), and terabytes of storage, no job is too big for this beast to handle.
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I received my HYPEYE D PRO controller and expansion in the mail today; I was overjoyed. I knew it would be a good product, as I already owned two HYPEYE MINI camera indicators.
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Lighting in After Effects has become almost an essential part of any composition, and with the ability to now add volumetric lighting to our lights using Trapcode's LUX, we can essentially create almost completely realistic lighting setups. For this article I will take a look at how to create a complex lighting setup that can be controlled using one parameter.
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In addition to currently completing construction of two facilities in Southern California, PostWorks has already implemented a unique workflow which prominently features Autodesk® Smoke® and Autodesk® Lustre® software. The new company hopes to bring this highly specialized digital intermediate (DI) workflow process to a much broader spectrum of clientele. In what amounts to a post company actively leveraging data-centric and future-looking technologies, PostWorks Los Angeles is also bringing tomorrow's techniques to film and television clients.
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Creating a highly competent and complex piece of software is not difficult; creating one that is highly competent and complex and yet is accessible and fluid to use is the challenge. And truly this is where Celtx shines. For all its relational database foundations, its depth of annotation and markup, and its diverse array of forms and features that are unrivalled by any other system of its kind on the market, Celtx is a software tool that delivers to the creative producer a very large degree of transparency.
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What does a company do when it makes a highly successful DV camcorder that fits in the palm of your hand and shoots surprisingly high quality 640x480 resolution video? At less than $200? Well, it shrinks the next version, adds some cool sharing features in the intuitive software that ships with it, and adds a neat touch sensitive controls for manipulating the cameras basic controls.
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In a recent time consuming search for a tutorial on how to create a water-color sketchy effect, I found only Photoshop compatible plug-ins. I am using Photo-Paint X4 which is capable of using many Photoshop filters; I tried them but none were really what I wanted. So I messed around within the program and I did come up with a sort of sketch effect, which if I am honest, isn't really what I wanted either.
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The price of gas might be climbing so fast you wonder why all the gas company executives aren't suffering from altitude sickness, but at least in one area the consumer can still get more for less and that's with digital cameras. Such is the case with Canon's next-to-entry-level Rebel XSi.
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After 10 years, Apple's flagship computer, the iMac, is still going strong. With the introduction of a thinner display/computer, a fast Intel Core 2 Duo last year, Apple proved the iMac will remain one of the best desktop computers for everyone. This year, Apple introduced an iMac that pushes the speed envelope with a 3.06GHz processor and a beautiful display, up to 24 inches.
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