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The Unreal World of Retouching
I always find it interesting why creative directors feel it necessary to retouch certain images. A great collection of photos showing before/after retouching are below. Some obviously need it, like...
View ArticleSpeeding Up Beauty Box Video
We’ve come along way from Beauty Box Video 1.0, which was pretty slow. It’s now as fast as any other solution out there, and BB still offers the easiest and highest quality way of doing retouching for...
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The MacPro and Does Anyone Really Need It?
Apple has confirmed several times that a new MacPro is coming, so I believe them. There have been some good blog posts recently about this, notably Larry Jordan’s. The spat Apple has with the EU that...
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Beauty Box Photo App Got to #6 in the App Store!
Yesterday, our new iOS app, Beauty Box Photo, climbed all the way up to #6 in the Top Free Photo Apps! That’s 3 spots behind Instagram! Pretty impressive for an app that’s only been out for a month....
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NAB Trends
What’s Trending at NAB Around this time of the year, you start seeing a lot of talk about what’s going to be released at NAB. It’s always interesting to look at some of the larger trends that are out...
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Greenscreen Tips for Shooting Video
There was a question the other day on the After Effects List about tips for successfully shooting greenscreen. A couple good links were suggested (see below), but one that stood out was rotating the...
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Beauty Box Video 3.0 Released!
The new version of Beauty Box Video for After Effects, Premiere, and Final Cut Pro 7/X is available for purchase or you can download the trial version. We’ve added a number of great new features, first...
View ArticleWhy the NSA Spying on You Matters
When I was a kid growing up in the 80s we were often told how much better America was than the likes of East Germany or the Soviet Union. One of the reasons for this was that we, unlike them, didn’t...
View ArticleAll Installers are Updated for Creative Cloud
We’ve finally got all of our installers updated to recognize Adobe’s Creative Cloud. All of our plugins worked in CC, but you needed to point the installer to the right directory. We weren’t finding it...
View ArticleSorry Leap Motion, Like 3DTV, Nobody Wants You
Let’s get one thing straight… consumers don’t like 3D. Well, ok, they like 3D for about 5 seconds then ADD kicks in and they get over it. (Gamers are an exception of course) Tech geeks, and especially...
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What Does the Creative Cloud Mean to You?
Last month we asked folks to do a survey about the Creative Cloud and how they felt about it. I thought I’d share the results as some of you may also be curious what you’re fellow users are thinking...
View ArticlePatent Trolls
The other day I had a friend call and ask me if I could help him out with some info about visual effects. He’s not in the industry, so I wondered about this, but I gave him a call back ready to help...
View ArticleCreative Cloud from a Software Design Perspective
The Creative Cloud has gotten mixed reviews from users. Many users don’t like the idea of ‘renting’ software and feel Adobe is forcing them to pay more or gouging them. While this may or may not be...
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Beauty Box Video or Photo Crashing Problems – How to Fix It
Beauty Box makes extensive use of your video card’s GPU (graphic processing unit) to speed the plugin up. Usually this works great and results in the plugin working quickly. However, it can cause...
View ArticleIt’s a 4K World! … or not.
A survey released lately seem to indicate that, despite all the marketing, there’s little consumer interest in 4K… or UltraHD as it’s now called. It’s estimated that it’s going to take until 2017, at...
View ArticleCustomers That Piss Me Off
Let’s say you did some work for a client 3 or 4 years ago. A promotional video featuring upper management or something. They come back now and want you to redo the video with current management but...
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FCP X Blue Frame (or Screen) Problem : Update FCP Please
We’ve gotten a couple tech report requests about this lately, so it’s worth noting. In earlier versions of FCP X, there’s a bug where third party effects will sometimes render a blue frame. This was...
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Flicker Free and the Bloody Beetroots feat. Tommy Lee
I think the most exciting thing about Flicker Free plugin is that people are willing to let us talk about it when they use it. Beauty Box Video gets used all the time on very high profile projects but...
View ArticleBreaking Down Using Beauty Box in a Music Video
It’s always cool to see folks posting how they’ve used Beauty Box Video. One of the most common uses is for music videos, including many top artists. Most performers are a little shy about letting it...
View ArticleWhy does Final Cut Pro handle Flash Video f4v files better than Premiere Pro?
First off, if you want Flash’s .f4v files to work in FCP X, you need to change the extension to .mp4. So myfile.f4v becomes myfile.mp4 I’ve been doing some streaming lately with Ustream. It’s a decent...
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