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Video Demo: ScopeBox 3

ScopeBox 3, new from Divergent Media, is designed to replace hardware scopes with software. Here’s a video demo.

Adobe Story: Getting Started

Adobe Story can help you write, plan, collaborate, and schedule your next production. This video tutorial shows you how to get started. You can access Story from anywhere via a web browser, or as part of the Adobe Production Premium suite.

Photoshop: Retouch Video

Photoshop is legendary for fixing image problems. But the Extended version can also retouch video, as this video tutorial illustrates.

Plugin Review: Irudis Tonalizer

Irudis Tonalizer is a color grading tool that allows very subtle manipulation of your images, especially grayscale values. This review describes what it is and when to use it.

Picking The Right ProRes For Canon 7D Video

Which version of ProRes should you select in Log and Transfer for a Canon 7D? Which is better for the Canon 7d format?

Frustrated? HP Responds

A few days ago I wrote about my frustrations in finding archiving solutions. The next day, I had a long phone conversation with the executive team at Cache-A plus a long email from HP.

An Exercise In Frustration

I’ve become increasingly concerned as I talk with producers, editors, and vendors that we are rapidly moving into a tapeless environment without any realistically priced options for long-term media archiving.

Creating Log DPX Files

Compressor automatically generates log DPX files. Is there a way to create linear DPX files?

FCP X: Free Effects

Alex Gollner has posted a new, FREE, effect for Final Cut Pro X — it’s an eight-point mask.

Software Review: Intelligent Assistance Event Manager X

One of the limitations of FCP X is that all Events and Projects must be open at all times. This product is a stand-alone utility that makes file management much easier in FCP X.

Burning Questions

In this article we examine my personal favorite method to burn DVDs (Roxio Toast) as well as the most reliable way to burn a VIDEO_TS folder.

Blu-Ray HD Blues 

A subscriber writes in asking for the best codec to use to get the great HD quality of her footage transferred onto a 4.7GB DVD, which is, unfortunately, a question with no easy solution.

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