Digital Rebellion LLC today announced the availability of Cut Notes for iPad, a tool for taking timecode notes on set or during a screening. If you are a Producer, Director or Editor that still hand-writes timecode during a screening, say Hello to Cut Notes.

TIMECODE NOTES
As simple as tapping Play along with your Editor, you’ll never again worry about manually writing timecode next to your thoughts during a screening.

NOTE KEYS
With a single tap of a Note Key, your notes can be a short as one word or an entire phrase, all added instantly at the current timecode. Cut Notes frees you from looking at what you’re writing and allows you to focus on what’s important: the cut.

CUSTOMIZE
Change any Note Key, create new pages of Note Keys, all centered around your workflow. Cut Notes tailors to your Post Production needs.

EXPORT
Cut Notes is platform independent. Whether you’re screening a DVD, a QuickTime file the Editor sent out, or sitting in an edit bay with your team, Cut Notes just works. After you’ve made your notes, Cut Notes can e-mail Avid Locator or Marker List files, which can be imported into NLEs like Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro, and more. Cut Notes can also e-mail, copy, and print your notes using AirPrint. Importing a Marker List into Final Cut Pro requires the free Cut Notes Marker Import utility for Mac OS X available from http://www.digitalrebellion.com/cutnotes.

MANUAL ENTRY
Swipe all the way to the left to make notes with the keyboard if a Note Key doesn’t apply.

PROJECT & CUT MANAGEMENT
Have as many projects as you want, at any of the common frame rates. Inside each project you can have an unlimited number of cuts. You’ll always be able to reference an older cut in case you think your Editor missed something from the last round of notes.

“Cut Notes is a perfect example of how an iPad can supplement production & post production workflows.” 
– Craig Bergonzoni, Editor/Producer 

“I’m really happy with the software… I’d feel comfortable using Cut Notes in a screening with executives.” 
– Chris Chris Losnegard, Story Producer

Cut Notes is priced at $7.99 and is available for the iPad on the iTunes App Store.
More information is available at http://www.digitalrebellion.com/cutnotes.

About Digital Rebellion
Digital Rebellion LLC specializes in workflow tools for post production professionals. Our other products include FCS Maintenance Pack – a must-have tool for maintaining, optimizing and troubleshooting Final Cut Studio – and FCP Versioner, a utility that backs up every revision to a Final Cut Pro project and generates changelogs between versions – making it an essential tool in fast-paced collaborative post production environments.
Our products are used daily by Fortune 500 companies and studios on projects including NCIS:Los Angeles and Cougar Town.
More information is available at http://www.digitalrebellion.com.

VFX Soldier makes an elaborate post on wages for the artists in the VFX Industry. 

Scott Squires makes some points about being taken advantage of. 

Wages In The VFX, Animation, And Games Industry

VFX artists don’t need to be taken advantage of

 All great. Each able to suck up more time than you have.

• Adobe After Effects Support Center
• AE Tuts
• All Bets Are Off
• ayato@web
• CG Tuts
• C4D Cafe
• cgpov
• Digital Hitchhiker
• Digital Tutors
• Eran Stern
• FXPHD
• graymachine
• GreyScaleGorilla
• HelloLuxx
• Mac Animation Pro
• maltaannon.com
• MotionScript
• Motionworks
• Pariah Studios
• PSD Tuts
• Squeezeme.tv
• Stephen Schleicher
• Toolfarm
• VisualFXTuts
• Video Copilot
• Viefex.com

PAID

Cineversity

Digital Cinema Lessons

>Lynda

Uncategorized

Motionographer Cream – The only list you want to be on

Make certain to cut out 15 minutes, since you will want to see the entire piece…for example, set it up on a 2nd monitor while eating breakfast and answering email on the other monitor. Oh, and, cut out other time in your day, since you will be showing and sending this far and wide.

Click here [The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman.] to get a new screen with the original feed, or click on the HD, the FullScreen and the Play button here:

Make certain to watch the “Making Of” called “Compositing Breakdown (T&S)“

More info at:
GreyScaleGorrilla

For a special treat, we’ve extracted the first 3 questions from an interview done at the blog Dimensión 2.5 [EN PORTADA: Alex Roman y “The Third & The Seventh”]. It is originally in Spanish, so first 3 questions are translated by our mutual friend Google.

Both Spanish and English links are at the end of this article.

Miguel: Better known as Alex Roman, today I present an interview with Jorge Seva, which will disclose your career and the end result of “The Third & The Seventh,” a short film – out of the ordinary.

Welcome to Dimension 2.5. “The Third & The Seventh” is an unconventional short, by your own words, based on a sequence of architectural images from the photographic point of view. How was the idea?

“Alex”: Thanks Miguel. The project has a length of about 4 years on paper. I started thinking about it long ago, while working in a company that infoarquitectura, where the line was the general aesthetics in these cases, very different from that offered by photographers specializing in architectural photography fascinated me so much at the time.

So I thought … why not take a short architectural from that point of view?. It was not until 2008 when I started seriously with the issue.

But before going into details about “The Third & The Seventh”, how about if we talk a little about yourself?. To begin with, and as wakefulness in the introduction to this interview, Alex Roman is a pseudonym.

Indeed, my real name is Jorge Seva, born in Alicante in 1979 and resident in Madrid since 1999.

Alex Roman is an “avatar” I have started using for some time. He had published work with my real name before, but with this new project I wanted to do something different, a kind of aliases. Unfortunately in some specialized portals only allow you to post jobs with “real” name, hence I took Alex 🙂

Miguel: I’ve always loved the realism of your pictures, tell me, apart from many hours of work, what is the secret?

Alex: The working hours is true but I am a very lazy guy and I find it very hard to start. Once started, I shot hours nonstop, but the principle is hard.

Besides, I do not think there’s any secret, but one thing I’ve always clear and are role models. Let me explain. I rarely fixed in CG work as a model of inspiration. I think that I would create a relative error in terms of realism that eventually lead me to an absolute error. My inspiration often lies almost always in professional photography, cinema and advertising.

Observe, observe, and then … watch a little more real models.

Miguel: What are your main work tools?

Alex: Mainly 3ds Max modeling and animation, V-Ray as rendering engine, Photoshop for texturing, and After Effects for postproduction. Ah! and an essential tool in our day, Google 🙂

So, again, here are the links to the interview: In the original Spanish:
EN PORTADA: Alex Roman y “The Third & The Seventh”
and in Google’d English: Alex Roman and “The Third & The Seventh”

Head over to the Hollywood Camera Work site for great instructions and tools not found anywhere else for free. Great for practice are the Tracking, Matchmoving and Motion Capture plates and the HD Green Screen and VFX Plates.

For Maya users there is Virtual Dolly and Crane instructions and downloads. For everyone there are Scripts and Blocking Diagrams as well as Illustrator tools for your Blocking templates.

They are promising more free training items in the future—obviously an inducement to use their courses for directors. Notwithstanding, they are superbly done and a great help for people who use cameras as well as those in the post house.

Future Media Concepts (FMC), announces that the accomplished graphic design expert, Katherine Houghton, has joined their elite staff of instructors at Future Media Concepts; She is expected to enhance their Adobe training repertoire.

A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Houghton has degrees in both graphic and industrial design and is certified by Adobe® and Apple® to teach;

• Acrobat®
  After Effects®
  Director®
  Fireworks®
  Illustrator®
  InCopy®
  InDesign®
  Photoshop®
  Premiere®Aperture®
  Final Cut Pro®

Possessing professional experience in both multimedia and graphic design, she joined the FMC team in October to support instruction for the Adobe curriculum. Houghton is based in Philadelphia, but delivers training courses at all six FMC locations and on the newly launched FMC|Online platform. “In order to uphold our reputable position within the creative industry, we need to provide students with first-rate instruction from distinguished instructors,” said Jeff Rothberg, president and co-founder of FMC. “We are extremely excited that Katherine Houghton has joined our elite group of trainers. Her design education and professional background is a great fit for our company. We look forward to seeing the positive impact her expertise has on new and returning students.”

In addition to her multimedia and design backgrounds, Houghton has experience as a multimedia consultant for KPMG LLP, a “big-five” accounting firm. For several years in the late 1990’s, she also held the position of vice president at Confidant, Inc., managing the visual materials, marketing and Internet presence. “I’ve been an active part of the creative industry for many years. It made sense to make the move to Future Media Concepts,” says Houghton. “I feel my comprehensive background will be an asset to the FMC curriculum, which regularly boasts new enhancements. I look forward to witnessing the continuous growth of this amazing training company.”

To learn more about Katherine Houghton and other FMC trainers, please visit: http://www.fmctraining.com/fmc.asp?s=New+Trainers.

About Future Media Concepts
In 1994, Jeff Rothberg and Ben Kozuch launched Future Media Concepts as the world’s first Avid Authorized Training Center. Over the years, FMC expanded its curriculum to become the nation’s premier digital media training organization, representing the leading software manufacturers, including Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Avid, Boris FX, Digidesign®, NewTek® and Softimage®. In addition, FMC is a leading producer of educational-rich conferences and expositions for the production and postproduction industries including the NAB Post|Production World Conference in Vegas.

FMC has established state-of-the-art training centers in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Orlando, Chicago and Dubai, with onsite training worldwide and online courses available to users anywhere. For more information regarding classes and upcoming events please visit www.FMCtraining.com.

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New York City, NY – December 17, 2009