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Archive for December, 2009

15 % Off Christmas Sale, Must-have FCP Utilities

One of my favorite FCP utilities of all-time is Digital Rebellion’s Preference Manager. It’s a FREE download off their website and lets you manage your preferences for each of the Final Cut Studio apps individually or collectively. The kids over at Digital Rebellion are at it again, this time with 15% off their paid FCS [...]

Demo: Autodesk’s Smoke on Mac OS X

VCA Fusion will be demoing my favorite NLE, Autodesk’s $15,000 Smoke… on a Mac. If you’re not familiar with it, Smoke is one of the most advanced NLE’s on the market. Smoke runs on the Linux platform and late this year the Mac OS X version was announced and released.
The Smoke on Mac concept runs [...]

Members Only Discount on O’Reilly Books and eBooks

Mopictive User Group members have a Special Offer from O’Reilly Publishing. 35% off on all books and 45% off all ebooks when you purchase directly from O’Reilly.com. When you buy an O’Reilly ebook you get lifetime access to the book, and whenever possible we make it available to you in four, DRM-free file formats–PDF, epub, [...]

Hello MoPictive!

Hello MoPictive!
Finally, after a loooong time we’ve got ourselves a new website. And you, our members, get to watch us build it out over the next few days! Ain’t that fun? We’ll be building out a Community Calendar and a full blown Web Forum. We’ll also be able to prominently feature our generous sponsors who [...]

Ripple Training donates Compressor Online Training for Raffle

Ripple Training has donated their Apple Certified COMPRESSOR training tutorial for the Jan. Raffle. Introducing the Apple Pro Video Series. Ripple Training is pleased to present the industry’s first Apple Certified online video curriculum for iTunes
In this tutorial, master compressionist and author Brian Gary will walk you through all facets of using Compressor 3.5 while preparing you to become [...]

50% of Zaxwerks Plugins @ ToolFarm.com, December Special

Check out this page for half-price plug-ins from Zaxwerks:
http://toolfarm.stores.yahoo.net/zadede.html

Adobe Updates Premiere Pro to 4.2.1

Adobe released a small update to Premiere Pro which fixed a memory issue that occurs when importing large numbers of AVC-Intra files. Use the Adobe updater or update it directly in Premiere Pro.
HT: ToolFarm

MoPictive Volunteers: Day Jobs

In Memorium: Michael Vitti

Michael Vitti, founder and driving force behind The Moving Pictures Collective of NYC. His vision guides our actions. His inclusiveness inspires our goals. Michael - we will not forget.