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Tutorial: SmartSound Sonicfire Pro: New Cut-Video-To-Music feature in Sonicfire Pro #gettingstarted
Larry Jordan demonstrates the all new Cut-Video-To-Music feature of Sonicfire Pro 6, which allows you to include timing-related markers embedded within the audio export. These markers can then be used to fine-tune your edit points, making for a more dramatic cut.
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Tutorial: SmartSound Sonicfire Pro: Timing Control #gettingstarted
Larry Jordan demonstrates the updated Timing Control feature in Sonicfire Pro 6. This feature allows you to move the beats of the music to match the events in your video, and has been reworked in Sonicfire Pro 6 to deliver better results than ever before.
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Tutorial: SmartSound Sonicfire Pro: Mood Mapping #gettingstarted
Larry Jordan shows you how to use the Mood Mapping feature of Sonicfire Pro 6 to adjust the music to fit the changing moods of your production.
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Tutorial: SmartSound Sonicfire Pro: Search, Preview and Purchase #gettingstarted
Learn how to search the library, preview your selections and purchase royalty free music in Sonicfire Pro.
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Freebie: Corona: 2D Game Engine
Corona is a free, cross-platform framework ideal for creating games and apps for mobile devices and desktop systems.
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Freebie: ZBrush Sculpting Courses for Maya Users
Create3dcharacters.com has a few free courses that explain how to create a cute dragon with Pixologic™ ZBrush®. The instructor, Andrew Silke, explains how Maya users can get around in the ZBrush interface. Plus, learn about how you can get 5 licenses of Arnold for free when you buy or upgrade to Autodesk Media & Entertainment Collection.
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Sales Ending: Many Sales Ending on December 31, 2017
Don’t miss out on great deals from Next Limit, Telestream, NBFX, Avid, SoundToys, and more. These sales end on Sunday December 31, 2017.
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Sale: AutoDesSys form•Z Pro and form•Z Jr. - 25% Off Now through December 31, 2017
Save 25% on new form•Z pro and form•Z jr licenses, save 20-25% on upgrades from older form•Z or bonzai3d versions.
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News: The Making of ‘The Ningyo’ with Chaos Group V-Ray
How Two VFX Artists Created an Award-Winning Short Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film in their Living Room
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Inspirations: Showreel/Demo Roundup 2017
We have compiled some of our favorite showreels and demo reels from 2017. Take a look, get inspired, start creating!
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Midweek Motivations: Predictions for 2018 with Lots of Inspiration
Now that 2017 is almost over, it’s time to peer into our HD holographic 360° VR crystal ball to 2018. What changes and innovations do we see happening in the coming year? Read our 2018 forecast and find out!
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Update: Digital Anarchy Transcriptive 1.0.3 - Improved UI, Import YouTube captions
This small update to Transcriptive offers a few cool new features and some important bug fixes, focused mostly on Premiere 2018.
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Tutorial: Pixologic ZBrush: Free Video Intro Guide to ZBrush
ZBrush user Michael Pavlovich has put together an entire Youtube playlist consisting of 47 videos (about 6 hours) that covers everything from opening up ZBrush for the first time, to conceptualizing a 3D bust and render setup in Keyshot.
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Tutorial: Blackmagic Design Fusion 9 Studio - Planar tracker tutorial
Rob Redman teaches you how to use the powerful, yet easy to use planar tracker in Fusion 9 Studio to track and composite anything from signs to billboards and more.
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Tutorial: Animating Graphs in After Effects
Have you tried the new chart and data animating tools that were introduced in After Effects in CC 2018? Bring in your spreadsheet data to create animated charts and graphs and wow your corporate clients or make detailed graphs for a documentary.
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Sale: iZotope Holiday Sales - Up to 78% Off Elements and more - Now thru Jan. 2, 2018
All iZotope Holiday Specials are back, with savings up to 78% off. Save big on Elements, RX, Trash, Neutron and more, now through Jan 2, 2018.
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Freebie: Final Cut Pro X: Christmas Lights Generator
Fox Mahoney created this little generator a few years ago, and it’s perfect for the holiday season when you want to add a little sparkle to your project.
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Freebie: Download Aged Film Plug-in from Digieffects Damage For Free!
A holiday gift for you from Toolfarm! Get the Aged Film Plug-in from Digieffects Damage for free! But only for a limited time.
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Freebie: Autodesk Character Generator for Students and Educators
Create, customize, and download your rigged 3D characters from a catalog of over 100 body types, outfits, hairstyles, and physical attributes in a few simple steps. Available for use by students and educators only.
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2017: A Year in Review | VFX, Video, 3D, and VR Software
2017 was not all that much of an eventful year for software, unless you’re talking about 360° VR software. Here’s a look back at some major releases and trends in our microcosm.
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Update/Sale: Propellerhead Reason 10.0.1 - $100 Off New Licenses
Propellerhead Reason and Reason Essentials have just been updated with a few important bug fixes. Plus right now, new licenses of Reason 10 are now $100 off.
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Sale: Telestream Wirecast, ScreenFlow, More - 30% Off - Now thru December 31, 2017
Telestream’s biggest end-of-the-year sale is going on now. Save 30% on new licenses and upgrade of Wirecast, ScreenFlow and Flip4Mac, now thru December 31, 2017.
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Sale Ending: CinemaPlugins LAZPoint - Special Introductory Pricing Ends Today December 21, 2017
LAZPoint provides fast Lidar (Light Detection And Ranging) Point Cloud Rendering. Render massive point clouds, in Cinema 4D, in stunning quality. Special introductory pricing ends Today, Thursday, December 21, 2017
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Midweek Motivation: “Stranger Things 2”: Behind the scenes, VFX Breakdowns
Go behind the scenes of the modern day cult classic “Stranger Things” to see how the impressive visual effects were conceptualized and created.
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Midweek Motivations: God With Us with VFX Breakdown
Trent Armstrong sent this video from Igniter Media and gave us some behind the scenes info and photos for their project ‘God With Us’. They constructed the set and shot the project on green screen and used Mocha AE and After Effects to finish the project.
