Power Everyone Can Afford: Review of the HP Z240 Entry-Level Workstation
Visit us on the web at http://nycppnews.com In the world of workstations, few manufacturers make them as well as HP, and virtually no one makes them better. Therefore, if you’re looking for a machine...
View ArticleLenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro Offers a Look at the Day’s Shoot
Visit us on the web at http://nycppnews.com The field of Mac, Android and Windows tablets is chock full of capable candidates that you might take on a production – but would you use one to screen...
View ArticleJoe Herman Reviews Adobe Premiere Pro’s Lumetri Color Panel
Visit us on the web at http://nycppnews.com Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 has been out for a while, but with my busy schedule, I only recently had a chance to look a little more closely over the new...
View ArticleAlpha Lab Film Truck Attempts to Keep Film Viable
Visit us on the web at http://nycppnews.com Film is dead. Not a new thought, or particularly interesting at this point. Except it isn’t. Celluloid, although a ghost of its former self, is on a small,...
View ArticleIn the Market for a Hot New Workstation? A Lenovo ThinkStation P900 Review
Visit us on the web at http://nycppnews.com In the market for a new workstation? While powerful laptops are increasingly used for production, often their choice is due to particular reasons – say their...
View ArticleSo Just How Good a Workstation is the Lenovo ThinkStation P300?
Visit us on the web at http://nycppnews.com There are not many players in the pro workstation market. If you’re using Windows or Linux, HP is a brand that comes immediately to mind. But what about...
View ArticleExploring Red Giant’s Universe
Visit us on the web at http://nycppnews.com Red Giant, as you may already know, is a leading developer of effects and plug-ins that are widely used by visual effects artists, motion graphics artists...
View ArticleBlackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve 11 Adds NLE, Competes With Other App Suites
Visit us on the web at http://nycppnews.com Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve, Version 11 has been out for some time. So after getting to know it for a while, here are my thoughts about the latest...
View ArticleHow Does Lenovo’s ThinkPad W540 Workstation Stack Up?
Visit us on the web at http://nycppnews.com In corporate America, millions rely upon their portable computers every day to do their work. But what if the usual run-of-the-mill machine isn’t enough?...
View ArticleFree as Ever, Lightworks Finally Does Mac
Visit us on the web at http://nycppnews.com Since the advent of non-linear editing systems (NLEs) through to today, you’ve had a lot to choose from. Whether you like this or that approach to layout,...
View ArticleThe Foundry’s NUKE 8 Reviewed – And Thoughts About NUKE STUDIO
Visit us on the web at http://nycppnews.com I recently wrote a review of the latest version of NUKE, The Foundry’s popular node-based compositing and visual effects app. In writing about Nuke 8, I go...
View ArticleSilhouette V5: Much More than Just Rotoscoping
Visit us on the web at http://nycppnews.com In the world of visual effects, rotoscoping is a critical component of most any project. Whether you need to isolate elements from their backgrounds,...
View ArticleThe G Spot of Primary Storage? G-Technology’s G-RAID Drives Reviewed
Visit us on the web at http://nycppnews.comI recently wrote a review of G-Technology's massive external dual-disk G-RAIDs. (I did it for CineMontage Magazine, the official publication of the Motion...
View ArticleChecking Out Autodesk’s Entertainment Creation Suite 2014
At NAB 2013, Autodesk demo’d its latest Entertainment Creation Suite 2014. Now, it’s delivering and ready for action. With it comes updated versions of each of the important apps included which are...
View ArticleMaking the Grade the Easy Way: SpeedLooks by LookLabs
Recently, I reviewed SpeedLooks for the Editors Guild magazine. This collection of 3D LUTs by Canadian based LookLabs enables you to take ungraded, log footage and easily deliver sophisticated "looks"...
View ArticleFun, Easy Character Animation with Reallusion’s CrazyTalk 7
Reallusion's CrazyTalk 7 exists in some alternate universe where creating animation isn’t the laborious, time-intensive chore it typically is. Instead, the app allows you to import photographs of...
View ArticleWill MAXON’s Cineware Bring True 3D to Adobe?
Will After Effects finally get real 3D chops? Among the most striking new technologies on view at NAB 2013 was Cineware, which allows for unprecedented integration between the 3D world of CINEMA 4D...
View ArticleA Look at SpeedGrade: Professional Color Grading within Adobe Creative Suite 6
--This review is the first of a two-part series on Adobe SpeedGrade. The release of the Production Premium version of Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6) last year contained a wealth of important new...
View ArticleBlackmagic Does It Right: DaVinci Resolve 9 Review
Color me impressed. With the release of DaVinci Resolve 9, Blackmagic Design not only delivers a major upgrade to a color-grading workhorse, but also—with some heavy lifting from the latest series of...
View ArticleA Review of Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
Recently, I reviewed Adobe Premiere Pro Creative Suite 6 (CS6) for the summer issue of CineMontage magazine, the official publication of the Motion Picture Editor's Guild. Aside from the print version,...
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