Interviews

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Interview with Martin Baker, Founder of Digital Heaven

07/11/2008

Rick Young
In November 2004 Digital Heaven introduced Multicam Lite. This was a breakthrough product as it provided the first true Multicam solution for Final Cut Pro, well before Multicam was integrated as part of Final Cut Pro 5. In this interview, Martin Baker, Founder of Digital Heaven, talks about the history of the company, the products on offer, their latest application - Loader, and what we have to look forward to next from Digital Heaven.

Abobe Interviews: Michael Coleman, Product Manager, Adobe After Effects and Simon Hayhurst, Sr. Director, Product Management, Dynamic Media

26/09/2008

Rick Young
Hear direct from the people at Abobe what the release of CS4 means for video editors. When CS3 was released this brought Abobe back to the Mac Platform for video editing. Now with CS4 Adobe takes another swipe at the market with new tools, new features, and new ways of doing things.

Interview with Boris Yamnitsky, the founder of Boris FX

12/09/2008

Rick Young
Boris FX is regarded throughout the video industry as a company which has been innovative and focussed on providing tools to editors, compositors and effects artists who wish to extend the potential creating high quality video effects. Several products are on offer, including tool-sets which rate alongside the best of the best in the world of motion graphics and visual effects creation.

Interview with Roger Maybon, G-Technology

12/09/2008

Rick Young
G-Technology are well know for producing quality drives which are both reliable and capable of sustained levels of data transfer needed for high end video production. In this interview Roger Maybon talks about new products and developments for G-Tech for the the first half of 2008.

Interview with Steve Forde, President, GridIron Software

12/09/2008

Rick Young
GridIron Software are well-known for GridIron Nucleo Pro, a plug-in which allows After Effects to render while you work. In this interview - Steve Forde - President of GridIron Software talks about the development of the company, their successful product, GridIron Nucleo Pro and a new product, soon-to-be-released called Flow.

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Live to Los Angeles and Boston - Michael Horton, LAFCPUG, Dan Berube, Boston FCPUG

22/08/2008

Rick Young
This week we cross live to Los Angeles and Boston to speak to the key players who organise the FCPUG Supermeet each year, for NAB, Macworld and now IBC. In this interview Michael Horton and Dan Berube talk about what has motivated them to bring the Supermeet to Europe and what to expect on the night of the 14th September in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Interview with Graeme Nattress (part 2) Nattress Filters

04/07/2008

Rick Young
The art of plug-in creation from one of key players who has produced many set of plug-ins for Final Cut Pro and Motion.

Interview with David Helmly, Senior Business Development Manager, Video, Adobe Systems Inc., USA

20/06/2008

Rick Young
Adobe Premiere returned to the Mac in spectacular style in 2007. The program which was once the only affordable alternative for independents saw the demise on the Mac platform in 2003. However, when Apple moved to Intel chips Adobe ported what had become a PC only program back to the Mac. This is the story of what happened.

Interview with Grant Petty - CEO Blackmagic Design

25/04/2008

Rick Young
Blackmagic Design introduced 10 new products at NAB 2008 - in this interview Grant Petty, CEO of Blackmagic Design, talks about the new products along with a detailed discussion of video production past and present, codecs, workflows and what drives Grant to keep producing low-cost, high quality, broadcast and consumer devices.

Interview with Giles Baker, Senior Product Manager, Premiere Pro, Adobe

09/04/2008

Rick Young
The Adobe Production Premium suite provides a total solution for video editors who wish to work between Premiere Pro, After Effects, Encore, Soundbooth, Flash and more. In this interview Giles Baker, Senior Product Manager, Premiere Pro, explains how these applications have been designed to work together.

Interview with Pete Schlatter, Director of Marketing, G-tech

09/04/2008

Rick Young
G-tech specialise in producing hard drives solutions for video editing. They sell a range of RAIDS, portable high speed drives, and various options to ensure speed and reliability across their product range. Furthermore, they have some of the best looking drives on the market.

Interview with Todd Prives, Sapphire Plug-ins Product Marketing Manager, GenArts

09/04/2008

Rick Young
GenArts produces a set of plug-ins known as the Sapphire Plug-ins. These work with Final Cut Pro, Motion, Shake, Adobe After Effects, Avid, and other systems such Flame, Inferno, Smoke and eyeone Fusion. These plug-ins extend the capabilities of editing and effects workstations by providing digital artists with a collection of over 200 state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects.

Interview with Steve Ruddock, Director of Communications, Filemaker

09/04/2008

Rick Young
Filemaker makes powerful data-base applications which can be used to locate data quickly and easily. In this interview Steve Ruddock, Director of Communications, Filemaker, describes just how this data-base software can be used in a post-production environment.

Interview with Wes Plate, President Automatic Duck

09/04/2008

Rick Young
Automatic Duck started in late 1999 with the philosophy of using software to solve the tedious workflow issues plaguing today's digital artists. When projects need to be moved from Final Cut Pro to Avid or vice-versa, or into After Effects from either application, Automatic Duck provides solutions which enable this is able to take place.

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