By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) Red Giant has made a name for itself in the post-production world as a leading third party plugin maker. Just last month they celebrated their fifth anniversary by taking 25% off of their Magic Bullet Suite and all related individual tools for a 24-hour period, and … [Read more...]
Seagate Announces Mammoth 60TB Solid State Drive
August 15, 2016 By Leave a Comment
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) About two weeks ago Samsung announced the PM1633a solid state drive with a massive 15.36 terabytes of storage space. The unit it available for around $10,000 (or less if you shop around) and I titled the article with "the world's largest SSD." Well, thanks to … [Read more...]
Motion 5 Tutorial: Lesson 27 – Working With Effects Pt 1
August 15, 2016 By Leave a Comment
By Kevin P. McAuliffe (doddleNEWS) In our last lesson (click here), in our look at Apple Motion 5, we wrapped up our talk on Behaviors. In this lesson, I want to start talking about effects, and we’re going to start out by talking about where you can find all your standard and third party … [Read more...]
Blackmagic Releases Extensive DaVinci Resolve 12.5.1 Update
August 12, 2016 By Leave a Comment
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Blackmagic has released a new update to DaVinci Resolve 12.5, which promises enhancements that include Apple ProRes Decode for Windows and a plethora of additional editing tools. … [Read more...]
Motion 5 Tutorial: Lesson 26 – Working With Behaviors Pt 4
August 11, 2016 By Leave a Comment
By Kevin P. McAuliffe (doddleNEWS) In our last lesson (click here), in our look at Apple Motion 5, we talked more about behaviors, and how you can work inside the HUD, and manipulate the timing of the behavior, so it works the way you need it to. In this lesson, I want to talk about the 3D aspect … [Read more...]
BlueFish KRONOS I/O Offers 8K At 120 FPS Over IP
August 10, 2016 By Leave a Comment
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) 4K and above requires a tremendous amount of bandwidth, even when you're moving edit files from one work station to another. Proxies help, but when you're reading the mastering phase, or recording at super high frame rates, you'll be moving a huge amount of data. … [Read more...]
Motion 5 Tutorial: Lesson 25 – Working With Behaviors Pt 3
August 10, 2016 By Leave a Comment
By Kevin P. McAuliffe (doddleNEWS) In our last lesson (click here), in our look at Apple Motion 5, we continued our discusson on Behaviors, and I talked about how easy it was to create a very basic animation. With that being said, there is a big pitfall that you’ll run into, if you’re not … [Read more...]
Sony Launches X-OCN Raw Codec To Compete With RED RAW
August 9, 2016 By Leave a Comment
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) We all know how the faithful at RED love to use the RED RAW R3D codec to capture the most detail and image information as possible, without having to break the bank with an uncompressed data file. Now Sony wants in on that action, so they've created their own … [Read more...]
Motion 5 Tutorial: Lesson 24 – Working With Behaviors Pt 2
August 9, 2016 By Leave a Comment
By Kevin P. McAuliffe (doddleNEWS) In our last lesson (click here), in our look at Apple Motion 5, started our talk on Behaviors in Apple Motion 5, and wrapped up my mentioning that with a Behavior selected, you can hit F7 to call up the Heads Up Display (HUD), and you would then be able to … [Read more...]
Motion 5 Tutorial: Lesson 23 – Working With Behaviors Pt 1
August 8, 2016 By Leave a Comment
By Kevin P. McAuliffe (doddleNEWS) In our last lesson (click here), in our look at Apple Motion 5, we talked about working with Photoshop PSD Files inside of Apple Motion 5. In this lesson, I want to continue our talk about animating inside of Motion 5, by looking at Behaviors, and how they work … [Read more...]
Premiere Pro CC Tutorial Part 25: Copy & Pasting Attributes
August 5, 2016 By Leave a Comment
A new Premiere Pro CC 101 tutorial By Kevin P. McAuliffe (doddleNEWS) A few lessons ago, we wrapped up talking about Clip-Based Parameters (part 1 and part 2), and how beneficial they are to your workflow. With that being said, it can become a big pain, in situations where you have to … [Read more...]
World’s Largest SSD Comes With Hefty Price
August 4, 2016 By Leave a Comment
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) One thing every editor knows is that you'll run out of space on your hard drive. No matter how much space you've got, and no matter how roomy it felt when it was new, you've run out of space. This is also known as Murphy's Fourth Law of Computers, "Disks are always … [Read more...]
FilmConvert Adds DJI Osmo Camera Profile
August 3, 2016 By Leave a Comment
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) The DJI Osmo is a very popular handheld, three-axis gimbal, stabilized camera which was introduced last year. Just about everyone who had a gimbal at Comic-Con, was using one of these. So it makes sense that FilmConvert would finally add Osmo support to their color … [Read more...]
doddleREVIEWS: Edit Essentials From Rampant Design Tools
August 3, 2016 By Leave a Comment
By Kevin P. McAuliffe (doddleNEWS) Rampant Design Tools is a company that is always coming up with new ideas and new products. Whether it's one of their three weekly live streamed shows on Facebook, or a new product, you can count on something new from them on a regular basis. Their product line … [Read more...]
Premiere Pro CC Tutorial, Part 24: Closed Captions Pt 2
August 1, 2016 By Leave a Comment
A new Premiere Pro CC 101 tutorial By Kevin P. McAuliffe (doddleNEWS) In our last lesson in learning Adobe Premiere Pro CC, talked about how to set up to view Closed Captions in your timeline (click here for part 1). In this lesson, let's create the Closed Captions themselves. Most … [Read more...]
Wandering The Edges Of SIGGRAPH 2016
August 1, 2016 By Leave a Comment
By Larry Jordan (doddleNEWS) SIGGRAPH rolled into Anaheim, California, this week and for the first time in a long time, I finally had time to go visit. “Since its beginning in 1974 as a small group of specialists in a previously unknown discipline, ACM SIGGRAPH has evolved to become an … [Read more...]
