Post Production Software
If you follow photography industry news, two words that may have caught your attention recently are “Kodak” and “cryptocurrency,” and the fact that they were in the same sentence might just have caused you to sit up and click. There was an outburst of opinion filling the blogosphere after the January announcement that KODAK and WENN Digital had entered into a brand-licensing agreement to launch KODAKOne, an image rights management platform, and KODAKCoin, a photo-centric cryptocurrency.
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Using Adobe’s suite of creative productivity programs can be challenging for the uninitiated—but so rewarding that you’ll be impressed immediately. Photographers, videographers, and designers around the world depend on Adobe’s stable of products to do everything from editing text and pictures to laying out publishing material to creating masterpieces of art. It’s so ubiquitous that the term “Photoshopped” is often used as verb when describing an altered image.
But with so many products to offer, how do you determine which one is right for you?
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For the production house working with numerous formats, for the documentary maker compiling archive footage and, truly, for any other professional editor, Grass Valley EDIUS Pro 9 provides a very open and fast, highly advanced and cutting-edge video editing toolset and workflow. What’s Grass Valley’s motto for EDIUS? “Edit anything, fast.” EDIUS Pro 9 features native support for virtually all
Many of Photoshop’s tools are dedicated to selecting the parts of the image you’d like to adjust. In this B&H video, Jason Friedman discusses selection tools such as Color Range, Basic Channel Masking, and the ultimate precision of the Pen Tool. Friedman also explores Smart Objects, layers that preserve the source content of an image, enabling you to edit them non-destructively.
Lightroom and Photoshop share many features, such as RAW Processing and basic retouching, but there are many advanced retouching and compositing possibilities that can only be achieved in Photoshop, or are much easier to do in Photoshop than in Lightroom. Join Jason Friedman on this journey and learn about the unique features that only Photoshop can provide.
Once upon a time, compression was a dirty word, but the reality is that compression is occurring throughout the image taking process. Your lens compresses the image, unless you are shooting 1:1 macro. You could consider the Bayer filter on your sensor a form of compression, (referred to as Color Sampling Ratio) and, of course, there is the codec (compressor/decompressor), format, and bit-rate you choose. All this happens before your images even get to the recording media. So, compression is hidden throughout your image and, by itself,
Looking at the computer market these days, you might think it’s a bad time to buy a music production laptop. AI-induced RAM shortages have caused computer costs to skyrocket. But with AI going nowhere fast and no sign of this trend slowing down, now may actually be the best time to get in while the getting is good. After all, prices may only go up from here! And with great advances in software and hardware over the last few years, you have some impressive choices available to bring your music production setup into the 2020s. So, let’s go over
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Once upon a time, a decent plug-in for pro audio purposes might set you back more than a couple of hundred bucks (to say nothing of software bundles, which could easily run you into the thousands). But we’ve seen a drastic reduction in price for stellar software over the last few years—even from companies that used to charge in amounts heretofore measured in bodily appendages. Since you no longer need to spend an arm and a leg for excellent audio processing, we think the time is right to compile a list of plug-ins now suitable to present as
Learn how to handle data-intensive 4K workflows properly with Doug Guerra in this second 4K Production Series installment. From ingestion to data wrangling and encoding, a great deal must be considered to keep an organized dataset. Some general NLE guidelines are also discussed to help you along. We hope you enjoy the video, and invite you to view the wide selection of other instructional and informative videos at BandH.com.
There is still time left to enter the 2017 B&H Photo Before & After Photo Editing Contest! You could win the grand prize of an Apple MacBook Pro or Microsoft Surface Laptop, or bring home a B&H Gift Card!
An all-star panel of judges will pick the winner, and photos will be judged on inventive use of foreground, middle ground, and distance, creativity in editing, originality, and overall impact. The judges include John Paul Caponigro,
In Part 1 of this three-part series, Justin Colletti, of Sonic Scoop, and Bob Mallory (producer and engineer for Avatar Studios and Paste magazine), introduce you to the materials and construction methods needed to make your own acoustic panels for a home studio. From framing to covering, they discuss the ins and outs of assembling the panels, and the common problems that can be addressed by using them.
Listen to A/B comparisons of acoustic guitar and voice-over in the original untreated room, versus the room with the home-built acoustic
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Adobe has just announced the newest release of its consumer photo and video editing applications, Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 2018, for Mac and Windows. In the professional editing industry, Adobe has been one of the few top names for many years. Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and After Effects are found in virtually every studio. The Elements versions are for those editors who want to make creative and polished photos and videos, but quicker and easier than possible in the pro versions, and they’re designed with the weight and
New hardware and software products are developed and introduced at a dizzying rate. From plug-ins to pop-filters, it never stops. It’s a full-time job just trying to stay informed of the latest release. Like the sea bringing endless swells to the shore, the industry brings innumerable waves of new marvels to our doors. When we see something new, we are instinctually intrigued. Frequently, the intrigue multiplies, expands, and turns into GAS (gear acquisition syndrome). It’s normal to have GAS, but you don’t want GAS to embarrass you, send your
Pioneer has been producing cutting-edge DJ products for more than two decades. With the release of the CDJ-500, in 1994, Pioneer literally changed the game overnight, which is why Pioneer remains the industry standard on equipment riders for professional DJs and artists performing around the world. Always innovating, Pioneer continues to push the boundaries with the latest cutting-edge performance features, such as the rekordbox music management software or the latest rekordbox dj software, offering real-time digital DJ performance with
iZotope has been at the forefront of mastering and audio restoration technology for more than a decade. RX6 is its flagship audio restoration software, highly regarded by music and audio post-production professionals for it ease of use and “magic” results. There are three tiers currently being offered: RX Elements, RX6 Standard, and