DaVinci Resolve 8.2.1 beta 2 released

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Category: DaVinci

Published on Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:16

Written by Nikolai Waldman

Black Magic Design has released DaVinci 8.2.1 beta 2. New for this version is Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 support but it also includes general performance and stability improvements.

Available for download from http://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/

Problems with the forum

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Category: Colorgrader News

Published on Monday, 14 May 2012 14:52

Written by Nikolai Waldman

I am having problems with the forum and until I have resolved the problem I have removed it from the menu. I hope to have it up and running again soon.

/Nikolai

Speedgrade CS6 - First look

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Category: Adobe

Published on Sunday, 13 May 2012 20:53

Written by Nikolai Waldman

When Adobe bought Speedgrade from Iridas I got very interested what they where going to do with it. Now that CS6 is released I have taken a look at the new Adobe Speedgrade CS6.

One thing Iridas Speedgrade wasn't known for was an easy to understand GUI, so I was hoping that Adobe would improve this, but after starting Speedgrade CS 6 I felt as lost as I used to do with the original Speedgrade.

When I press <F1> for help I am sent to a website with a few links to videos and tutorials, but no real manual. There is a Keyboard shortcuts document which gives me some hints how to use the program, but how Adobe can release a program with such a specific GUI without a manual is quite a surprise. I watched a few videos and read a few documents and then I decided to load a clip and do some grading.

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SCRATCH Lab 6.1: New Metadata Tools - video

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Category: Tutorial Assimilate

Published on Sunday, 06 May 2012 20:34

Written by Nikolai Waldman

Quantel releases V5.1 rev 12

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Category: Quantel

Published on Sunday, 06 May 2012 19:23

Written by Nikolai Waldman

V5.1 rev 12 is both a feature and bug fix release.

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Rent your grading software - Adobe Speedgrade CS6

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Category: Adobe

Published on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:36

Written by Nikolai Waldman

One of the new possibilities Adobe is launching is Creative Cloud, a subscription based service that lets you rent your software for a monthly fee. Pricing for Creative Cloud membership for individuals is US$49.99 per month based on annual membership and US$74.99 per month for month-to-month membership for the whole CS6 package.

But you can also subscribe to just one product, like Speedgrade CS6 and that for US $19.99 per month instead of spending US $999 for the software. I don't know how Adobe is thinking, but renting seems a lot cheaper then buying and the fact that you always get the latest version makes is even sound better.

Light Illusion announces ACES support, AutoAlexicc and more

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Category: Lightillusion

Published on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:55

Written by Nikolai Waldman

Light Illusion announces significant enhancements to its range of colour management systems, both hardware and software, providing advanced colour control capabilities for all colour critical workflows, from film lab operations, through digital intermediate grading, to final delivery and distribution.

First to be unveiled is an ACES toolset for LightSpace CMS providing direct colour control for any ACES based workflow, a new colour space developed by the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. From on-set to DI operations, visual effect facilities, broadcasting, or animation, colour space management has become more difficult with the plethora of new digital cinematography cameras released in recent times. LightSpace CMS with ACES capability provides facility-wide single colour space management from a simple to use system that is display, format and workflow agnostic.

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ASSIMILATE announces SCRATCH Lab Self-Paced Training

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Category: Assimilate

Published on Thursday, 19 April 2012 20:11

Written by Nikolai Waldman

ASSIMILATE announces that it is offering a comprehensive, self-paced training course for SCRATCH Lab production dailies software. The new SCRATCH Lab course is designed to introduce DITs and Video Engineers to all the features of the software as well as train them on using Lab for the entire production dailies workflow.

Priced at $49 USD, the course features the same curriculum that serves as the foundation for classes offered by ASSIMILATE Authorized Training Centers such as Moviola, Manhattan Edit Workshop and Digital Film School, and includes a detailed script and the media and project files needed for artists to easily learn the SCRATCH Lab dailies workflow.

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SGO Mistika Insight

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Category: SGO

Published on Thursday, 19 April 2012 20:04

Written by Nikolai Waldman

SGO presents Mistika Insight which is provided to educational operations to enable students to learn use Mistika through direct hands-on experience with a free software-only training version complete with all Mistika tools & creative capabilities.
 
Mistika Insight is a software only application that runs the full Mistika software, providing access to all standard capabilities and functions, enabling self-education for all students learning Mistika within an educational environment.
 
With the advantage of Mistika’s complete creative toolset available, the more advanced aspects of Mistika’s capabilities can be explored.

ScopeBox 3.0.1 Update

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Category: Divergent Media

Published on Monday, 16 April 2012 18:14

Written by Nikolai Waldman

Divergent Media releases ScopeBox 3.0.1. This release contains a variety of minor bugfixes and enhancements and is encouraged for all ScopeBox users.

Changes in ScopeBox 3.0.1:

• better 10bit RGB support
• added new keyboard shortcut to reset envelope peaks
• added spacebar keyboard shortcut to pause/play controllable sources
• added ProRes 4:4:4:4 to transcode options
• sidebar scroller sized properly for mouse/trackpad auto-detect in lion
• interlaced video properly tagged in records
• fixes recall of layouts with TC palette (will need to resave layouts)
• fixes PPC layout recall
• fixes misc crashes with DV/DVCPro/DVCProHD and HDV devices
• fixes latency with BlackMagic cards on PPC (by default audio will not work, see sidebar for details)
• fixes pixel aspect of SD video records
• cosmetic fixes to some sidebar controls
• some PPC performance optimizations (more to come)

 Available via in app auto update