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RED Workflow Book

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My book on the RED camera is now available for pre-order. We just finished it up! 

The book features RED workflow from production to post-production. Here's the table of contents:

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. RED: The History of the Future 

Part I: RED Pre-Production and Shooting
2. RED Workflow Overview
3. Defining Your Project
4. Building a RED package 
5. Working with Sound
6. Exposing the Image 
7. Exploring Shooting Formats

Part II: The RED Workflow: Post-Production
8. Building a RED Post-Production System
9. Using Helper Applications
10. Final Cut Pro Workflow
11. Adobe Premiere Pro Workflow
12. Avid Workflow
13.  Finishing Your Project
14. Archiving Your Media
15. Your Future with RED

Appendix - Complete System Menu Map

Appendix - RED Footage Gallery

12 POV Interviews with Industry Professionals

For more info and to order visit:

http://www.peachpit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321617681

Final Cut Studio 3 Released

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A "significant" upgrade to Final Cut Studio was announced by Apple Thursday, with more than 100 new features and new versions of Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Color and Compressor.
 
And at $999, the new Final Cut Studio costs $300 less than it did before. Existing users can upgrade for $299.
 
"With 1.4 million users and 50 percent of the market, Final Cut Pro is the number one professional video editing application," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "The new Final Cut Studio includes more than 100 new features and dramatically expands Apple's ProRes family of codecs so editors can work in the studio with the highest quality video or on location at low bandwidths."
 
Apple also debuted the new Final Cut Server 1.5, which is the asset management and automation tool for Final Cut Studio. It offers offline editing with ProRes Proxy, production hierarchies to organize media, and support for still sequences to easily view and manage image sequences for graphics and effects workflows. The new Final Cut Server also includes unlimited client licenses. It is available for $999 or as a $299 upgrade for existing users.
 
In revealing the new Final Cut Studio Thursday, Apple announced the following new features for each of the suite's included applications:
 
Final Cut Pro 7
  • Expands Apple's ProRes codec family to support virtually any workflow. ProRes Proxy allows offline and mobile editing at low bandwidth; ProRes LT allows general purpose editing; and ProRes 4444 is for editing and visual effects at the highest quality possible.
  • Easy Export allows users to continue working on projects while encoding is done in the background and the sequence is exported to YouTube, MobileMe, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, DVD or Blu-ray.
  • iChat Theater support allows real time collaboration by sharing Final Cut® timelines or individual source clips with iChat users anywhere in the world, even if they don't have a copy of Final Cut Pro.
  • New speed tools to change clip speed with ease.
  • Alpha transitions to create dramatic effects using moving mattes.
  • Native AVC-Intra support for the latest high quality Panasonic cameras.
 
For more info, visit:
 
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/07/23/final_cut_upgrades_boast_more_t...
 
and
 
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/

The New Deal

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We're switching all our training courses over to downloadable files! All our great high-end DVD content is now available iPhone-sized and ready for immediate delivery. Not only do you save a mint off our original prices, you get your stuff right away! No waiting, no shipping charges, instant satisfaction. So why wait, grab our awesome content right now! (And don't steal, think of your karma!)