Avid, Final Cut Pro, and Streaming Training CoursesFinal Cut Pro, Motion, DVD Studio Pro and Avid training resources (866-566-1881)Telestream Helps Bring Special Olympic World Games to the Web- December 11, 2007 Telestream, the leading provider of transcoding workflow automation solutions, announced that its FlipFactory and Flip4Mac video compression products helped bring the 2007 Special Olympic World Games to Internet viewers around the globe. The Special Olympics Games were broadcast from Shanghai, China in October and are available on the official Games website at www.specialolympicslive.org. The student-led web project was jointly developed by Fudan University in Shanghai and the University of...http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/telestream_helps_bring_special_olympic_world_games... Wowza Media Server Pro Priced More Affordably- December 11, 2007 Wowza Media Systems, emerging leader in media streaming server software, is making Flash streaming even more affordable with an 80% price reduction for its widely popular Wowza Media Server Pro Unlimited. Now priced at $995, Wowza once again reaffirmed its price leadership on a mission to make flash streaming server technology affordable to all. Since Wowza Media Server Pro launched in February 2007, Wowza has taken a leadership role in radically redefining the economics of Flash streaming...http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/wowza_media_server_pro_priced_more_affordably.php Avid Xpress Media Composer Capturing Analog Footage- December 11, 2007 If you need to capture analog footage, (8mm, Hi-8 etc), into your Avid system and you do not have a MOJO or some other form of transcoder, all you need is your DV camera or deck connected through the firewire port. Once you have your DV camera hooked up simply plug the RCA jacks from your analog source into the analog plugs on your DV cam. Make sure your DV cam is set to VTR and you are ready to go. Make sure you have your camera turned on and plugged into the firewire port before you turn on..http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/avid_xpress_media_composer_capturing_analog_footag... A Fresh Look At Music Videos, Director Arno Salters- December 10, 2007 For all of you Final Cut Studio Artists out there who continue to wonder if an iMac G5 can give you the performance you're looking for when it comes to an intense project, take note of the name Arno Salters. This French-born music video director is making waves with his unique style of mixing live-action with stop motion animation and his clientele is growing by the day. "What I'm trying to get out of is that glossy, sterile, corporate look the music video industry has sunk to, where...http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/a_fresh_look_at_music_videos_director_arno_salters... Leading Provider of Webcasting Launches Beijing offices- December 8, 2007 ON24 Inc., the global leader in webcasting and rich media marketing solutions, today announced achievement of major technology and webcasting milestones for 2007. ON24's emphasis on excellent customer service and technology innovation contributed to the company acquiring over 300 new customers. To support ON24's growth in the US and worldwide, the company launched offices in Beijing, China and implemented a second datacenter.http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/leading_provider_of_webcasting_launches_beijing_of... Sorenson Media Announces Sorenson Squeeze 4.8 for Adobe Flash- December 8, 2007 Sorenson Media, the worldwide leader for video compression and decoding solutions, announced the immediate availability of Sorenson Squeeze 4.8 for Adobe Flash. Building on the recent release of Adobe Flash Player 9 Update 3 with H.264 video support, this upgrade enables users of Sorenson Media's award-winning application to encode MPEG-4 video compatible with the newly-released Adobe Flash 9 Update 3 software, using the H.264AVC, AAC and HE-AAC codecs. Because the resulting files are true...http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/sorenson_media_announces_sorenson_squeeze_48_for_a... Creating Crawling Text in Final Cut Pro- December 7, 2007 To create a text crawl in Final Cut Pro you would first need to go to the generator menu which is located at the bottom right hand corner of the Viewer Window (has the letter A on it) and click it. 1 Navigate to the text option which is located at the bottom of the menu and choose crawl from the text menu. 2 Click on the Controls tab located in the Viewer Window and you will see Sample Text in the Text Edit Box. Change the text to whatever you like. 3 Click on the Video tab inside of..http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/creating_crawling_text_in_final_cut_pro.php Adobe Encore and Subtitles- December 7, 2007 Subtitles are a big part of the DVD world. You can simply import subtitles. You import subtitles using a script file. Adobe Encore DVD accepts three different types of script files: Text Scripts, Image Scripts, and FAB Image Scripts. Scripts specify the start and end timecode of the subtitles. The big difference between them is that text scripts contain the subtitle text, whereas the two types of image scripts instead reference predesigned and formatted image files. Unlike image-based...http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/adobe_encore_and_subtitles.php A Quick Way to Solo a SINGLE CLIP in Final Cut Pro Composition- December 6, 2007 While in the process of editing in Final Cut Pro, you can sometimes have second thoughts about a given clip's purpose or the action that it displays. A quick way to review the clip is to solo it. We have discussed soloing a TRACK before, but this is a single CLIP and this can come in handy if you have video in tracks that overlap the clip. 1 Place the position indicator over the clip in the timeline. 2 Click on the clip in the Timeline to select it. 3 Press Control S or go to...http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/a_quick_way_to_solo_a_single_clip_in_final_cut_pro... Avid Xpress Pro Media Composer and Beowulf- December 5, 2007 Once again Avid has proven to be the workhorse of the movie industry! Director Robert Zemeckis (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump) is viewed as somewhat of a legend himself for his technological innovations in cinema. Now, the centuries-old material comes face-to-face with the latest motion-capture technology in Zemeckiss 3D computer-generated film Beowulf. ODriscoll spent two-and-a-half years on the project, handling everything from cutting pre-visualization sequences to finalizing cuts...http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/avid_xpress_pro_media_composer_and_beowulf.php |