 You've undoubtedly heard about Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4), and you probably are already familiar with many of the top new features. In this month's Affordable HD, I wanted to introduce you to the next tier of features, or those that didn't get top billing, but should be considered in the upgrade decision and/or used as soon as you install CS4.
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 A couple nights ago I was at Birns and Sawyer giving a presentation on the P2 workflow with Final Cut Pro. It was a Panasonic event that was all about "OK, you shot it...now what?" Mainly DPs there, but a few people who were into post.
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 Once again I am reminded there is a God. Ever since I began using my MacPro to do demos, reviews, and tutorials I have been missing my beloved screen recording software that is on my PC called Camtasia.
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 Do you own a Matrox Hardware Card with Adobe Premiere?
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The new Matrox RT.X2 LE hardware will turn your Adobe CS3 video editing system into a video production powerhouse capable of editing HD & SD footage in realtime – that's the HARDWARE ADVANTAGE! The new Matrox RT.X2 LE card dramatically reduces the cost of a high performance HD editing system.
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 While 2009 isn’t that far away I’m happy to report that I have recently gotten my hands on the Magic Bullet Suite 2008 from Red Giant Software. It’s a comprehensive suite of software that would go well in most any editors toolbox, especially if he/she does finishing out of the edit suite. There’s really a lot of things that this package can do and you might not use everything on one job. But then if you put them all together and use them to complement each other you just might find Magic Bullet
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 Media Composer version 3.0.5 was released this week and, along with some key bug fixes, it offers a couple of important new features.
First and foremost, it allows you to select all clips to the right or left of the blue cursor, or all clips between marks. This makes it trivially easy to open up space in the middle of a complex, overlapped timeline. Just select all tracks, hit the new “select right” button and drag everything to the right. Voila, you’ve got a nice empty space in your timeline
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 Hidden Power User Secrets for Avid Media Composer
Here are some more gems from the Avid Media Composer user’s manual, though today includes at least two REALLY hidden gems, because they don’t seem to be mentioned in the manuals at all (based on searches on the Help menu.)
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 Like the proverbial blind men and the elephant, everyone who touches Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium will experience a different product as they inevitably bend the myriad new features to fit their own projects and creative goals. We enlisted Franklin McMahon and Jan Ozer to give their perspectives on the new wide-ranging suite — which includes After Effects CS4 Professional, Premiere Pro CS4, Photoshop CS4 Extended, Flash CS4 Professional, Illustrator CS4, Soundbooth CS4, Encore CS4,
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 It’s been a busy time at Adobe lately, as they’ve released today new versions of just about every piece of software that they make. But for Videomaker readers, lets break down their new Creative Suite 4 Production Premium bundle, available in October for $1,699.
We managed to fenagle a beta version of CS4, that we’ve been playing with for a while now and I’ll go through some of the new features of each part of the package below. But first off, a broad overview is in order. As you may have hea
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 Avid Media Composer has been the standard on which all NLEs have been based. The first Media Composer rolled off the factory line in 1989. It came with its own Mac, specialized hardware and a hefty price tag. A lot has changed since then, yet Avid Media Composer remains the standard in video and film editing for feature films and TV shows.
However, the landscape for digital video editing software has changed, with a lot more competition for your video editing dollar. How well does the Media C
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 Creative Cow's 900,000 monthly visitors do more than one thing, so we offer more than one perspective on everything. That's especially important with a subject as big as Let's start with articles on CS4: Eran Stern on A Compositor's Look at CS4, and David Roth Weiss on An Editor's Look at CS4. Then tune into the Creative Cow Podcast, where Franklin McMahon talks about the features he's working with in After Effects, Premiere Pro, OnLocation, Encore, Soundbooth, and Photoshop Extended, as well as
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 Just a few observations to tide you over until shipping time
Such is the nature of the upgrade cycle: just as creative types were getting used to the CS3 line, Adobe goes and announces CS4. And while you've likely seen myriad press releases and first looks and other introductory stuff by now, here are a few "below the fold" observations based on the the experiences I've had with the CS4 betas over the last several weeks.
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 Adobe has announced their Creative Suite 4, in which they have aligned the schedules of virtually all of their products to be updated at the same time. One of these programs is, of course, After Effects, which we have based our business around since its release in 1992. As a result, we obviously go over each new release with a fine-tooth comb, looking for which new features will make our lives easier, will give us new looks, and which may open up new avenues of business for us. That last point h
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 Hot on the heals of last year’s huge Adobe software release, the company has quickly turned around another batch of impressive updates in its new Creative Suite 4 line-up. Once again, these products can be purchased individually or as part of various collections for Web, video and print. Plus the all-in-one Master Collection. All CS4 products will ship by the end of Q4 2008.
I’ll focus my comments on Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium — the collection for video professionals. Its main
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 Work with the complete pre- and post-production solutionTake your productions from planning through delivery using powerful, intuitive tools that make the creation process smoother and more efficient. Available for Windows® and Intel® based Mac OS systems, Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium pairs world-class video, audio, and design tools with integration features that help save you valuable production time at every step.
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