Speeding Premiere Pro CS4's H.264 Encoding with NVIDIA QuadroFX and Elemental Accelerator By John Virata High definition video editing and HD video encoding are two of the hardware intensive tasks that can be done with a computer. It takes a lot of power to complete these types of jobs, oftentimes rendering your computer limited in functionality while it encodes video. NVIDIA's Quadro line of graphics cards can help to speed up H.264/AVC encoding in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 with an assist from Elemental Technologies' Elemental Accelerator. ...Read More »

Buster Design Creates Show Open for DJ AM's MTV Series, "Gone Too Far" MTV's "Gone Too Far" documentary series features the late Adam Goldstein, aka DJ AM, counseling other addicts in recovery, as he, himself, had dealt with his own addiction problems. "I got so lost in my disease, I was gone," he once said. ...Read More »

FIRST LOOK: JVC HM-100u By Heath McKnight The JVC HM-100u ProHD camera may be small in size, but it's packing three Full HD (1920 x 1080i/p) CCDs that capture great image quality, and it uses Sony's SxS/EX technology to deliver a tapeless workflow on affordable SDHC media cards. Plus, if you're a Final Cut Pro user, you can shoot directly to QuickTime for even faster importing and editing. ...Read More »

FlickerLab Animates George W. Bush Address For Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story " For a fifth time, FlickerLab has teamed with Academy Award-winning Director Michael Moore, and created a minute-long animated segment, Chicken Little, for his latest feature Capitalism: A Love Story. Opening in New York and Los Angeles Sept. 23 and in theaters nationwide October 2nd, the film explores the root causes of the global economic meltdown and takes a sardonic look at the corporate and political shenanigans that plunged the world into the current financial crisis. ...Read More »

Unfiltered Entertainment's Wake the Witch By John Virata Unfiltered Entertainment, Inc., worked over the months of September, October and November of 2008 to finish shooting Wake the Witch, a direct to DVD psychological horror/suspense feature film that is expected to be released through Amazon.com and Filmbaby.com this month. The company edited the film in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and shot the film using JVC's GY-HD250U camcorder, shooting more than 20 hours of footage during the course of 24 days. ...Read More »

motion504 Invents Kinetic Type for AICP Minnesota Show Reception Sponsor Reel Minneapolis broadcast design & animation studio motion504 recently completed the reception sponsor reel for the Minneapolis screening of the AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the American Commercial, which takes place tonight at the Guthrie Theater. ...Read More »

Complete Training for Tricaster Studio: Administration mode By Faraz Ahmed In this clip, host Faraz Ahmed covers administrative duties to keep your Tricaster Studio running at optimum performance and trouble free. He goes over some of the administrative settings in Tricaster Studio, via admin mode. He shows where you reset the configurations, defrag the hard drive, delete existing videos, and restart in 16:9 mode. He also explains when to access these settings and when you should or shouldn't use them. ...Read More »

Sony Twilight Football in Australia By David Hague A few weeks ago, Sony did an almost simultaneous launch of a swag of new cameras, compacts and camcorders in far-flung and remote places around the globe. 'Almost' simultaneous because of time zone differences and far flung, because the Australian leg was held about as far from most centres of population as you can get - the Pinnacles in the desert sands 300Km (200 miles approx) north of Perth in Western Australia. ...Read More »

Complete Training for Tricaster Studio: Live Production By Faraz Ahmed In this clip, host Faraz Ahmed covers the Tricaster Studio main interface and its three tabs; Live Production, Capture Media, and Edit Media. He details what each of the three tabs perform, and how they fit into the Tricaster Studio workflow. He details how each is used in conjunction with Tricaster Studio workflow. ...Read More »

Complete Training for Tricaster Studio: Edit Media Tab By Faraz Ahmed In this clip, host Faraz Ahmed covers the Edit Media Tab in Tricaster Studio. The Edit Media Tab is a full featured non linear editor. It completes the Tricaster Studio, making it a true studio in a box. He goes over the features of the Edit Media Tab, which is great to make intros that you'll play in the Live Production Mode, or you've taken something from the Live Production mode that you've put together and want to make some tweaks to it. ...Read More »