Archive of the Visual Effects Category

CoreMelt recently released its CoreMelt Complete V2 plugin package for editors, and it was showing it off at NAB. CoreMelt is also offering its ImageFlow package for quick and painless photo and video montage creation.

This is the 2009 Reel Impressions Editing, VFX, and Animation showcase which premiered at the 2009 NAB Show in Las Vegas on a 24 ft. movie screen, projected in HD.

Reel Impressions is a joint partnership between the NAB Show and Reel-Exchange.com.

Watch the 2009 Reel Impressions Student showcase which premiered at the 2009 NAB Show in Las Vegas on a 24 ft. movie screen, projected in HD.

Reel Impressions is a partnership between the NAB Show and Reel-Exchange.com.

At the Wacom booth, After Effects artist and Apple Engineer Ben Koning is spending his first 20 minutes of life as a Wacom user testing the new Intuos4 tablet. “In that time I’ve gone from completely flailing around, drawing things when I don’t want to, to being able to drive Photoshop and AE,” Koning says. “This is my first animation with keyframes and spline,” he says with mock pride, indicating a kindergarten-level construction of boxes on the monitor. Buy hey, he’s driving. “It’s responsive and easy to learn I’d have to say, almost like drawing with a real pencil or a real brush.” more

Reel-Exchange Community Manager Craig Erpelding talked with Bruno Sargeant of Autodesk about the possibilities Flare creates for studios at NAB 2009.

Got a nice demo today of the leaps and bounds being taken by The Foundry’s new and upcoming versions of its Nuke compositing software (version 5.2 was unveiled this week at NAB, and 6.0 will come out later this year). Lots of improvements worth checking out.

But when the demo was over, Foundry guys gave me a little lesson in the context of product development work. They revealed they have come up with an impressive little, for lack of a better name right now, plug-in called Rolling Shutter which, as the name implies, is designed to help filmmakers address and smooth out artifacts that can occasionally pop out of bits of footage shot with CMOS-chip-based digital cameras. In a technology demo, the tool clearly eased blur and quiver in test frames impacted by the rolling shutter technology that is part of CMOS design. (It’s all very complicated, but as I understand it, the rolling shutter exposes different portions of the frame at different periods in time, and certain anomolies can crop up in frames or between frames under particular circumstances in such footage.) more

During an exclusive press-only event, Vizrt and Stats conduct a live demonstration of the holographic effect used during CNN’s presidential election coverage. Watch the video.

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Press Release

EditShare, a technology leader in cross-platform collaborative editing and shared media storage systems, announced it has partnered with Automatic Duck to solve workflow productivity issues for postproduction facilities and editing workgroups collaborating on shared media files across disparate editing platforms. As a result of this technology partnership, EditShare is integrating key timeline translation technology from Automatic Duck’s Pro Import FCP and Pro Export FCP solutions into EditShare’s Flow Universal Media File technology. Read on at The Briefing Room

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What’s graphics card vendor NVIDIA doing at NAB? Lots, as I learned in a fast paced 30 minute visit this afternoon.

I started with a look at the GeForce 3D vision, which via stereoscopic glasses gives gamers a 3D experience on hundreds of computer games. At NAB, NVIDIA previewed compatibility with content creation programs like Autodesk Maya, so designers can actually preview in 3D right from the program. The only downside is that you need an LCD panel that runs at 120 Hz, essentially 60 Hz for each eye. The largest current single LCD with this capability is only 22”, so NVIDIA showed an array of four 22” LCD panels using their Quadro Plex 2200 D2 visualization system. more

Press Release

Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced that new development partner, Boinx Software, has released the FxTiles FxPack at NAB 2009. The FxFactory-powered FxTiles is a brand-new collection of 3D filters and transitions designed for the Adobe After Effects CS3 / CS4, Apple Final Cut Studio and Apple Final Cut Express applications. A well known developer of video applications for the Mac platform, Boinx Software has an extensive background and a list of accolades for their impressive image technology developments. Read on at The Briefing Room

More 2009 NAB Show news from The Briefing Room