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Brainy Branding in HD with Unichrome and DeckLink HD Extreme

Clients and projects vary by extremes. A day of work at Unichrome could involve a promotional video for a high tech gadget, or perhaps a 60 second television commercial for baby food. Add a music video for a reggae band to the mix and even then, the possibilities are still endless. Having worked with household brands such as L'Oreal, San Pellegrino, Nescafe and Hasbro, the company knows what it means to deliver high quality, creative work that meets demands and exceeds expectations. In fact, they've earned a reputation for it. Read More

What began six years ago as simply a "creative outlet" for filmmaker/animator Ian Chisholm, Clear Skies III, the third film in his machinima series about the space adventures of the crew aboard the battleship Clear Skies, has steadily built a huge online audience thanks to its memorable storyline and characters, and innovative use of the iPi Soft's Desktop Motion Capture system, which played an integral role in bringing Chisholm's vision to life. Read More

Product Review: By Heath McKnight

OWC 16GB RAM and 240GB SSD Drive Upgrade for 2011 Mac mini

Other World Computing (OWC, www.macsales.com) sells some the best and most affordable upgrades for Mac users, such as RAM, hard drives and more. I've heard stories of just how fast a solid state drive (SSD) is compared to a standard drive found in a Mac, and I wanted to see for myself. More RAM and a faster hard drive is always great for video editors to work faster and more efficiently. Plus, can my new 2011 Mac mini really accept 16GB of RAM? Read on to find out. Read More

Personal Profile: By Tim Dashwood

Tools and Technologies for Working with 3D on the Set

The nature of how we shoot 3D and monitor it on set has changed as we have learned from our mistakes. Today, I would say 75% of stereographers out there prefer DPs to shoot in parallel. Not necessarily parallel rigs, with cameras side-by-side, since beam-splitter rigs are more flexible and therefore much more common -- but instead, pointing both cameras straight ahead, literally shooting parallel to each other. Read More

White Paper: By Alexandre De Pereyra, Graphics Software Engineer, Intel Visual Computing

MLAA: Efficiently Moving Antialiasing from the GPU to the CPU

Efficient antialiasing techniques are an important tool of high-quality, real-time rendering. MSAA (Multisample Antialiasing) is the standard technique in use today, but comes with some serious disadvantages. new technique developed by Intel Labs called Morphological Antialiasing (MLAA) [Reshetov 2009] addresses these limitations. MLAA is an image-based, post-process filtering technique which identifies discontinuity patterns and blends colors in the neighborhood of these patterns to perform effective antialiasing. It is the precursor of a new generation of real-time antialiasing techniques that rival MSAA [Jimenez et al., 2011] [SIGGRAPH 2011]. Read More

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