Walter Biscardi has posted a quick 1 minute look at his top 10 (11) favorite features of the next version of Premiere Pro. He also says in the text just how fast the program is. Can't wait to get my hands on it, especially with my GTX 675 with 4GB of RAM powering it.
David Torno at the Pro Video Coalition has released part 5 of his ExtendScript training videos.
Petapixel has an article on the beta of the new Piccure Camera Shake Reduction Plug in that you can download for free for 14 days to try to give feedback. Looks pretty amazing, I am looking forward to giving it a go. Be interesting to see if it is better than Adobe's own solution which is coming with the next cloud version of creative cloud.Check it out at their web site.
AE Scripts has Paint Out on sale for $19.99 down from $29.99. It helps to easily control, manage and visualize a large number of paintstrokes easily. Especially good for removing tracking markers and the like.
Align3D is a new After Effects script to align and distribute objects in 3D space. it is $29.99 or you can name your own price. Awesome.Honestly I would buy more of these if I could take them with me. If there was a way to have a cloud license so you can install them and they only work if you log in one machine at a time, as I work in so many different offices on so many different machines. Sure I have awesome scripts on my home computer, but how awesome would it be to be able to take them with me wherever I go? Now that would rock!
CGMeetup has an article on Digital Domain doing Oblivion's VFX.
The Pro Video Coalition has a press release on how the film Oblivion used Cinema 4D to do it's effects. Interesting.Cinema 4D is on my list to learn after DaVinci Resolve, as it's new After Effects integration will be huge!
GMUNK has some video on Oblivion's graphics. I have not seen it yet because of Tom Cruise, though the graphics do look impressive.
Imagineer Systems has posted it's Mocha show reel at Vimeo to show off it's motion tracking. 2013 Imagineer Systems Customer Reel - mocha AE & mocha Pro from Imagineer Systems on Vimeo. Featuring work done by our customers, using mocha's planar tracking, roto and visual effects tools. www.mocha-Pro.comImpressive stuff. This is a great program, though with a decent learning curve. Worth learning though as it does a fantastic job!
The Canon EOS 5D Mark III has gotten a firmware update to 1.21, FX Guide has the news.This is exciting as it enables uncompressed HDMI output! So you get uncompressed 4:2:2 8 bit video to an external recorder! And with it's anti-aliasing this becomes a powerful video camera! Still not the EOS-1D C, but still pretty amazing.