There are moments in your career that are truly gratifying. And today is one of those days. Because an old client - we had worked together around 10 years ago - called and asked if I’d be interested in working together again. I’ve always said that one of the best parts of running a consultancy …
Artificial Intelligence Engines Drive New Transcription Software
Digital Anarchy's Transcriptive is shipping! If you were at NAB 2017, you may have seen Jim Tierney doing a tech demo of this new, intelligent transcription software for Premiere Pro editors. Today, they've announced it's available immediately! This is great news for any editor - or anyone - who's had to deal with the …
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Making Video Editing Plug-ins Smarter
I've known Jim Tierney of Digital Anarchy for over 1o years now - I see him at least once a year at NAB in Vegas in the famed Plug-in Pavilion. I've always admired his work, and now after all these years, we've found an opportunity to work together. Digital Anarchy has become well known in …
Edit Essentials: Exactly What I Need, Everyday
Vast libraries of amazing effects are great. But sometimes it's like drinking from a fire hose. Sometimes you're on a job, on a deadline, and on a budget. And let's face it, sometimes it's drudgery. Sometimes you just need those handful of effects to get the job done easily and quickly. But it still has to …
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Rampant Design for Premiere Pro Editors
Rampant Design is at it again, this time taking aim at Adobe Premiere Pro CC and making its users' lives a lot better - and easier. Today Rampant officially launched Premiere Essentials - a collection of over 120 Style Effects specifically designed for Adobe Premiere Pro editors. The library includes an incredible selection of transitions, …
Automatic Duck Xsend Motion for FCPX: Building Bridges, The Good Kind
At NAB 2016 during the FCP Exchange event, Wes Plate of Automatic Duck made a lot of Final Cut Pro X editors and Motion 5 artists very, very happy. He announced the development of a new product from the Duck - a product that effectively builds a bridge between Final Cut Pro X and Motion. …
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NAB Roundup: Rampant Design Tools on PostPerspective
Stefanie and Sean Mullen of Rampant Design Tools also spoke with Randi Altman of PostPerspective at NAB 2016. These two are the hardest working people in VFX I know, and they were at NAB talking about 14 brand new products! In addition to that, they've homed in on the Final Cut X market with some …
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Y’know All That VR360 Video? Someone Has to Edit It!
NAB 2016 is right around the corner. I, for one, am looking forward to it. There will be a lot to see, a lot to talk about. And there's one topic that just about everyone is talking about - VR and 360 Video. I'm excited to see some of the new rigs - people are …
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Rampant Design for Action Films
Why are these Style Effects so real? Because Sean and Stefanie Mullen of Rampant Design flew to NY and found some weapons experts, and shot all of these elements in 5k! Check this out:
Dear Editor, Part 3
Dear Editor, It's been a long day, that sequence is just taking too long. You have other things to do. Rampant Design Tools. Drag-and-drop Quicktime based Style Effects. Check them out for free here.