Post Production

Distribution

Why Should I Caption Online-Only Content?

Do we really have to caption online-only content? I want to caption everything, but how do I justify it to my organization when technically we may not have to?

Production

$99 to Make Your Podcast Sound A Lot Better

Most Black Friday deals nowadays aren’t great. But if you’ve got a podcast, and want it to sound better, there are a couple deals you really need to

Tech

HDR Explained for Regular People

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. When an HDR source like a game or video is displayed on an HDR TV, there’s a much bigger difference between dark stuff and light stuff than there is on a regular TV.

Adobe

Adobe Premiere Pro 2015.3 Drops Video Card Support

Apparently Premiere Pro 2015.3 drops support for some video cards, which they now consider “legacy.” Some of the info is behind a LinkedIn members-only group, so I’m reposting

Adobe

OS X Mavericks Production Software & Driver Compatibility

In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, OS X Mavericks (10.9) released yesterday, and it’s free. But should you upgrade? If you’re in production, check

Adobe

Mid-June Madness: E3, WWDC, and More!

June is going to be pretty nuts for those of us in the tech/content space. E3 and WWDC plus some big product launches from Adobe and Avid mean it’

Apple

ProRes Output from Adobe Premiere Pro or Avid Media Composer - on Windows!

Just caught wind (via FreshDV) of a free little program with big features: namely, it can encode to ProRes on Windows. Sure, you could use ffmpeg standalone or with a

Amazon

Amazon's Elastic Transcoder: Clearing the Cloud Confusion

“Should we do it in the cloud?” I get this question a lot. And with good reason – cloud computing has turned massive computational tasks into simple clicks on an interface

Apple

A Mac/PC Compatible External Drive: Meet exFAT

It’s been an issue for years: you have an external drive, but it’s formatted for a Mac, and you need to read it on a PC. Or it’

Adobe

In Brilliant Move, Adobe Makes CS2 Illegally Free

The internet was aflutter earlier this week over reports that Adobe had quietly made CS2 freely available for download. While not current software by any means, many users were excited

Audio

Audio Plugins for Video Editors

Over this past Black Cyber Friday Through Monday, I was repeatedly tweeting about crazy deals being offered by Waves Audio. Those deals are still available now, but “ending soon.” Plus,

Codecs

QuickTime is Not a Codec: The Basics of Media Files

If one more person answers “What codec is it?” with “Quicktime,” I’m going to lose my shit. QuickTime is not a codec. QuickTime has never been a codec. Seriously

Apple

Final Cut Pro 7 Is Dead, Please Move On

To my friends and esteemed colleagues who are still working on Final Cut Pro 7: Stop being babies. I get that you feel betrayed. Apple took a product that you’

Back to Basics

Back to Basics: Read Your Contracts

This one is really simple: Read every single word of anything you sign. I don’t care what the situation is. I don’t care what it’s for. I

Back to Basics

Back to Basics: Academic Discounts

OK, not really a Basic, but still an overly ignored option for college students – and it came up recently, so whatever. Because software companies want to get you young (similar

Apple

The 2013 Mac Pro X

On June 12th, in response to pro users’ anger at the ongoing lack of a significant Mac Pro update, Tim cook told us “something really great” is coming in 2013

AJA

IBC 2012 News I Care About

IBC root beer is delicious. The IBC conference is currently underway in Amsterdam. The two are completely unrelated. For those who don’t know, IBC is Europe’s NAB – the

Adobe

Adobe Releases New Features Exclusively to Creative Cloud Members

Adobe seems to be following through on its promise to release features to its Creative Cloud subscribers before retail customers. Today, CC subscribers have access to some new features in

Adobe

Muzzle Flashes and DV Rebels

Rich Young at ProVideo Coalition has compiled a massive list of resources for creating muzzle flashes in After Effects. While that’s pretty awesome on its own, I was pleased

Post Production

Video Grandpa's Production Emporium

I get asked for product recommendations on a fairly regular basis. So I figured it might be useful to have all the gear I personally use in one place. Thus,

Avid

Automatic Duck Plugins for Free!

If you missed the news late last year (which I think a lot of people did), the folks at Automatic Duck have moved on to work with Adobe and others

Post Production

Red Giant Acquires PluralEyes | ProVideo Coalition

Yesterday, Red Giant acquired Singular Software, makers of PluralEyes. Not really a ton of news beyond that – Red Giant has consistently been a great steward for software brought under its wing (they also own Trapcode), so this isn’t a huge deal. Read more

Adobe

Is Adobe Creative Cloud Worth It?

Adobe’s generated a lot of buzz with their Creative Cloud, launched in April of this year. The idea is that you subscribe and pay a monthly fee for access

Avid

Continuing 5 Years of Restructuring, Avid Selling Off Pinnacle and M-Audio

In a move that should be a surprise to no one, Avid announced July 2nd that they’re selling off the Pinnacle and M-Audio divisions to Corel and inMusic respectively.

Post Production

PVC: How Blackmagic's Cinema Camera Could Unexpectedly Boost Business

Interesting take on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera, from PVC’s  Allan Tépper – he points out how this open-standards file-based camera could actually bind you to Blackmagic-only products. ProVideo Coalition.com: