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CES 2013 – My highlight from this year’s exposition: better than Apple’s retina screens and Color Reference monitors.
As expected, this new edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (aka CES) has been less than exciting. This will certainly be the year of the fitness gadgets. Everyone is trying to take on Fitbit and a few other pioneers in this domain. I will spare you the infinite list of low cost tablets to concentrate of what is, in my view, the highlight of the show for colorists in quest for a new reference display.
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The Power of Grading: understand why color correcting can take a long time
Color correcting a shot takes time. Depending on the expectations (and needs) of your clients (directors & producers alike), it can be a relative short job but for the most demanding, this can turn to be quite time consuming. Scott Maclean, an Aussie colorist guy made a very well done video demonstrating why a 30 second spot took him almost 25 hours to grade on a very high end top-of-the-line grading system (Baselight 4). See the movie after the jump!
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How to add funds to your US PSN account from aboard without eBay
Since the huge breach that Sony and its PSN saw in 2011, the PSN security has been raised up (and that’s a good thing) but they also limited the use of credits cards to American credit cards if you want to add funds to american PSN wallet accounts. Gamers all over the world had to look for other ways to fund their wallet, the most popular being of course eBay, expensive and unsafe. Until now…
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The Strange Case of the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer and the greatness of the internet.
Some of the most funny stories on the internet are met in the most unexpected places. Take the case of the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer
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The best scene of The Avengers is an awesome work of post-production.
Do you remember this great scene in The Avengers? You know, the long, panning one-shot that showcases all six Avengers, working together to kick Chitauri butt all around midtown Manhattan. Remember? Good.
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After seeing this video, you won’t ever play ‘Fruit Ninja’ the same way.
Everyone knows and played ‘Fruit Ninja’ on its iPhone. No?… Well, first of all, go to the AppStore, get the app for your iPhone or your iPad or even your Android device and come back if you can…
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Around the ‘The Hobbit’: Color Correcting ‘The Lord Of The Ring’
Have you already seen Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit? If so, you surely remember its first trilogy ‘The Lord of the Rings”. In the DVD
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Time Machine, Time Capsule and a sparsebundle file that refuse to be erased.
Time Machine is a great tool that Apple provides in Mac OS X (10.5 and up) for easily backing up your system: select your computer, select the disk you want to backup to and turn it on. That’s it and your system is backed up on an hourly basis. But when something goes wrong, it is awfully hard to troubleshooting it. That’s what happened to me with my Time Capsule.
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‘searchOextra’, the turbo-charging add-on to ‘The Movie searchOmeter’ for iPhone is on sale during Christmas.
The Movie searchOmeter is an entertainment app that provides you with everything you need to know about your favorite movies, your favorite actors and save them as list or share it with your friends.
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Motype, the awesome plugin for FCP X, Premiere Pro, AE & FCP7 is on sale today! [U]
![Motype, the awesome plugin for FCP X, Premiere Pro, AE & FCP7 is on sale today! [U]](https://i2.wp.com/kplprod.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/blocks_image_27_1.png?resize=150%2C150 "Motype, the awesome plugin for FCP X, Premiere Pro, AE & FCP7 is on sale today! [U]")
Created by Yanobox, Motype is a stunning text animation plug-in for Final Cut Pro 7 and X, Motion, Premiere Pro and After Effects based on FxFactory.
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