Adobe MAX has traditionally been later in the year, here in Los Angeles. It appears that MAX will also take place in the Spring of 2013 here in Los Angeles.
I’ve always encouraged people to go, and it’s been great for everyone. Now that the date for MAX has changed, I wonder who else will be able to attend.
**Remember last year, when everyone said “great things are coming for attendees”? Well, if you attended MAX 2011, you received a one-year subscription to Adobe’s Creative Cloud with access to ALL OF THE CS6 applications!
More on Adobe MAX soon.
Digital Anarchy announced Beauty Box 2.0, a significant update of their award-winning skin retouching product. Version 2.0 gives an amazing speed increase by using OpenCL, a new technology that runs on ATI and Nvidia cards. The new product also introduces a new smoothing algorithm that improves automatic masking, and adds shine removal for hot spots on skin areas. Host app support now includes Final Cut Pro X, and support for OpenFX applications is in development.
“Beauty Box is almost magical,” said Bill Evans, producer for Radiant Records. “We didn’t have time to properly light our scene, and the artists didn’t look like themselves. Options were slim and costly. With Beauty Box, we were able to solve the problem the same afternoon we downloaded it. The facial tracking really works, the skin-tone algorithms are pretty natural, and the interface is simple. I’m still amazed.”
Curious Turtle has added 3 new chapters of training to their mocha series:
http://www.imagineersystems.com/products/training
Newly added: mocha v3 – New Features:
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Stash 92 Podcast is out
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- Adobe Creative Cloud, a subscription-based offering for making, sharing and delivering creative work, featuring Creative Suite 6,new HTML5 desktop products – Adobe Muse and Adobe Edge preview – and integration with Adobe Touch Apps.
- Adobe Muse 1.0, software that enables designers to create websites without writing code, and provides access to more than 400 Web fonts via the Adobe Typekit service. Standalone subscriptions are available for individuals at $14.99 per month with an annual subscription and $24.99 on a month-to-month plan.
- Updates to Adobe Touch Apps for iOS – including the introduction of Adobe Proto and Adobe Collage to the iTunes App Store; and updates to Photoshop Touch and Adobe Ideas for iOS with new features and additional language support. Special offers for Adobe Touch Apps are available for customers who sign up for annual membership of Adobe Creative Cloud,www.adobe.com/products/touchapps
Anime Expo (AX), North America’s largest anime, manga and Japanese pop culture celebration, today announced Japanese pop culture sensation Danny Choo as its Master of Ceremonies and “Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt” voice actress Jaime Marchi as an Official Guest of Honor. Choo is making his third consecutive appearance at AX when the event returns to the LA Convention Center from June 29 – July 2, 2012. Jaime Marchi, who is making her debut at AX, will participate in a meet-and-greet, three autograph signings and a focus panel.
In this tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe gets you up and running with Rampant Design Tools ColorFX, and shows you how to create a look made famous by Schindler’s List, and more importantly, shows you why applying your new color grades to each shot individually, is probably not the best way to go.
See more : and get the ColorFX for yourself
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RE:Vision Effects announces support for Adobe After Effects CS6 and Premiere Pro CS6.
RE:Vision Effects, acclaimed effects plug-in industry leader and makers of Academy Award winning software, announces support for Adobe After Effects CS6 and Premiere Pro CS6. In addition to CS6 support, all of RE:Vision Effects’ After Effects-compatible plug-ins now come with uninstallers.
In order to properly work in After Effects CS6 or Premiere Pro CS6, users will need the following versions:
- DE:Noise: v2.1. DE:Noise handles spurious frame-to-frame defects ranging from fine digital/electronic noise to blotchy spots (e.g. dirt on the film).
- FieldsKit: v3.2. FieldsKit allows the user to create interlaced material from progressive material using various techniques, including producing new fields using motion estimation techniques.
- PV Feather: v1.6. PV Feather performs feathering by using an inner mask for filling, and an outer mask for feather control. (Premiere Pro not supported)
- RE:Fill: v2.1. RE:Fill can replace missing pixels in intelligent ways.
- RE:Flex: v4.1. RE:Flex creates visually stunning morphs and warps with an easy-to-use interface. (Premiere Pro not supported)
- RE:Map: v2.2. RE:Map provides professional quality mapping and distortion tools.
- ReelSmart Motion Blur: v4.1. ReelSmart Motion Blur automatically tracks every pixel in a sequence and blurs based on calculated motion. ReelSmart Motion blur also uses motion vector passes from 3D systems to perform a fast 2D post-process blur to 3D generated images.
- Shade/Shape: 4.1. Shade/Shape automatic shading techniques from the 2D outline shape of objects, Shade/Shape automatically turns 2D artwork into 3D rendered imagery.
- Smoothkit: v3.1. Smoothkit is a blurring filter set that combines user-directed controls and feature-sensitive methods. In particular, what is novel is that the most of the tools in SmoothKit allow the user to blur or otherwise “smooth” images while retaining important features, such as edges in the imagery.
- Twixtor: v5.1. Twixtor creates highly engaging slow motion and speed-ramped shots using intelligent and proprietary motion tracking techniques!
- Video Gogh: v3.6. Video Gogh turns pictures and videos into painted works of art by placing brush strokes on images and subsequently tracks them from frame to frame to follow the objects in the images. (Premiere Pro not supported)
Availability and compatibility (except where noted above):
- Adobe After Effects 7, CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.5 and CS6
- Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, CS5, CS5.5 and CS6
Upgrade Pricing:
- The upgrades necessary for CS6 support are free for customers who have already purchased the same major version number of the product they are looking to upgrade. For example, the upgrade from Twixtor v5 to v5.1, with CS6 support, is free.
- Upgrades from previous major versions are listed on the www.revisionfx.com website. For example the upgrade from Twixtor Pro 4.51 to Twixtor Pro 5.1, with CS6 support, is $149.95.
- Volume discounts available. Contact sales@revisionfx.com.
http://aeprojectsync.com/ is now live.
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Remember KORG from when you were a kid? Crazy cool music tech options? Well….
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the best-selling microKorg Synthesizer/Vocoder, which became the premier member of Korg’s “micro” family of products. As part of the year-long celebration, Korg is giving away a different micro-series product every month from May 1 through Dec 31, 2012!
U.S. customers can enter the Mega Micro Giveaway contest by visiting the following URL and entering their information for a chance to win. http://www.Korg.com/megamicrogiveaway
The compact and portable microKorg Synthesizer / Vocoder was released in the summer of 2002. This virtual analog keyboard opened a new avenue for music-making. Combining mini-keys, battery power, a simple-to-use interface, and popular sounds, all at an attractive price, microKORG made the synthesizer available to every musician. Bass players, singers, guitarists, producers, DJs and even beginner/aspiring musicians all flocked to add the professional sounds of the microKorg to their instrument arsenal.
Beginning today, consumers across the country can enter for their chance to be the lucky winner of the month over the next eight months.
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