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Adobe updates Creative Cloud Tools with deep Sensei integration

With the NabShow set to begin April 7th in Las Vegas, Adobe gives it’s video tools a significant update with tighter integration with Adobe Stock. Premiere Pro CC gets Adobe Sensei powered Color Match allowing creatives to quickly match shots, the timeline also receives a new Auto-ducking feature powered by Sensei that automatically adjust dialog and music and fx.

Visual artistry, engaging storytelling, amazing sound — they’re all ingredients of a great video, and what you want to spend your time on when you produce video. But you need the tools to do those things fast, without sacrificing precision and creative control.

Looking forward to the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas next week, we’re unveiling a major update to the video and audio apps in Adobe Creative Cloud, giving video pros better tools for refining color, creating graphics, and crafting audio.

To see the new features in action, join our livestream with demos of top new features here on April 6 at 9am PDT.

Watch live, interactive presentations from NAB beginning April 9 on Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Creative Cloud Video & Audio Facebook channels. We’re hosting pros like the editors of David Fincher’s MINDHUNTER, motion graphics designer Andrew Kramer, filmmaker Valentina Vee, and more.

Are you attending NAB? Come visit us at the Adobe booth (#SL4010).

Specific upgrades to core products include Color Match in Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Master Properties in Adobe After Effects CC. With a single click, you can now apply editable color adjustments from one clip to another to establish visual consistency in scenes and across whole projects. And with Master Properties you can create compositions that allow you to control layer properties in a parent composition’s timeline. You can push individual values to all versions of your composition or pull selected changes back to the master.

You can find more detailed information here https://discre.co/2EkIvT2  and watch all of the videos on the new features here https://discre.co/2q5LGJq.

Join DDC’s UG Manager George E. Kennedy, Jr. for a Pre-NABShow Facebook Live and Periscope conversation with Bram Desmet, CEO of  Flanders Scientific, Inc., on Tuesday, April 3rd at 2:00 PM EST.

They will discuss the new XM650U monitor, the state of UHD/4K/HDR, why FSI doesn’t do 4K at smaller sizes, and their integration partnerships with Pomfort, Filmlight, Firefly, CalMAN, LightSpace, and MediaLight.

Watch the stream on April 3rd 2:00 PM, EST, links below

https://facebook.com/districtcrerate

DDC Live Pre - NABShow Interview with the Supermeet Team Daniel Berube, and Michael Horton

Join DDC for a Pre - NABShow Facebook Live, and Periscope conversation with the Supermeet Team  Daniel Berube, and Michael Horton. Tuesday, April 3rd, 8:00 PM EDT / 5:00 PST.

The NABshow is just a few days away, and the Supermeet happens on Day 2 of the show, and it promises to be a show stopper as usual. District Digital Creatives UG Manager George E. Kennedy, Jr. will chat with the team on what’s trending, and what to expect from the vast lineup.

Register for Supermeet: http://bit.ly/2p6S2YE

Watch the stream on April 3rd 8:00 PM EDT / 5:00 PST, links below

https://facebook.com/districtcrerate

Join DDC for a Pre - NABShow Facebook Live, and Periscope conversation with Other World Computing  Thor Juell on what's next for OWC. Friday, March 30, 1:30 pm EDT.

Other World Computing has developed specialty products for the Mac-centric creative for a number of years. As today's creative universe and post-production teams continue to evolve using Mac and Windows systems OWC is listing and helping relieve some of those pain points as it relates to fast storage and IO Devices.

Thor, and DDC’s @gekjr will discuss OWC’s newly developed products with content creatives and post-production teams in mind such as it's Thunderbay Family of high capacity RAID storage, Thunderblade v4 with super fast read speeds of 2800MB’s, Envoy Pro EX 1800MB/s read speeds, Envoy EX (VE) 2600MB/S speeds, Thunderbay 4, and it’s just announced eGPU Chassis Mercury Helios FX  built for Empowering Mobile filmmakers, content creators, DIT’s, and onset editors wanting to use their favorite Nvidia or AMD graphics card. The good news about the new line of OWC Thunderbolt 3 products, they are Mac, and PC compatible. 

Places to Watch

Friday, March 30, 1:30 PM EDT

https://facebook.com/districtcreate 

https://periscope.tv/districtcreate

https://twitter.com/districtcreate

Q&A, and Comments available on Facebook only

(via Gimbal Killer: Insta360 ONE Adds Pro-Level Stabilization, Silk-Smooth Camera Movements – Insta360 Blog)

Innovative camera maker Insta360 today announced a major update for its popular Insta360 ONE, adding a groundbreaking stabilization technology and smart editing features that put the camera at the forefront of a new type of photography – using 360-degree camera technology to improve the way we create traditional, “flat” video and photos.

“360-degree cameras free people to live in the moment, without the distraction of recording an experience from behind a screen. And this benefit applies whether your goal is to share an immersive 360-degree video, or just post a few clips to Instagram,” said JK Liu, Insta360 Founder and CEO. “The updated Insta360 ONE makes it easy to grab the best parts of a 360 video, and put them together into a pro-quality edit that’s ready to share anywhere.”

(via Showtime's The Chi - How Script Supervisors Keep the Storyline Togethe – Teradek, LLC - Wireless HD Video)

Anyone who’s ever worked on set has encountered the elusive script supervisor - those mysterious members who work from the video village with their pens & papers, taking notes on anything and everything that goes on during each take. What exactly is it that they do?

“We’re the ones in charge of ensuring continuity through the show,” explains Marianna Harrison, Script Supervisor. “Our jobs are to know what’s going on in everything. What did the makeup look like? Did we film this particular scene yet? What kind of dialogue changes did the talent make? I make sure the right people have the right information on set and in post.”

Marianna, who has worked on an impressive number of large productions like Chicago PD and Fox's The Exorcist, was on set of Showtime’s The Chi (actually pronounced ‘the shy’. Crazy, right?) Season 1, and tells us about her experiences using Serv Pro and having her very own personal monitor.

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Fremont, CA  - Blackmagic Design today announced that Toronto-based production house CreamVR used four Micro Studio Camera 4Ks to shoot the virtual reality (VR) series “A Curious Mind with Dominic Monaghan,” now available on Hulu VR.

Co-produced with Hulu and Microsoft, “A Curious Mind with Dominic Monaghan” takes viewers along on a immersive scientific exploration of our universe with the host. Viewers join Monaghan as he travels into outer space and other unreachable places to deconstruct mind-bending scientific and philosophical questions, such as the concept of the Earth as one living super organism.

“The Blackmagic Design Micro Studio Camera 4K was the best option in existence for us,” says CreamVR Creative Director and Director of Photography Andrew MacDonald. “We needed cameras that were physically small enough to place side by side, while sitting no farther apart from each other than a set of human eyes, and also capable of capturing 4K. If you’re shooting in stereo and the cameras are farther than about 72mm apart, the whole world begins to look miniature and the viewer has the illusion of being a giant. We obviously need to avoid this kind of disconnect when trying to simulate environments that engage audiences in a way that traditional television can’t.”

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OWC, a leading zero emissions Mac and PC technology company, has announced an addition to their Helios PCIe expansion chassis line with the release of the Mercury Helios FX eGPU. Whether the need is to edit at greater resolutions, achieve smoother frame rates, utilize VR and AR to improve your gaming experience, or take advantage of the computational gymnastics for which GPUs are known, the OWC Mercury Helios FX eGPU is built to empower everyone.

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Featuring a robust power supply, the Mercury Helios FX is built to handle almost any GPU while simultaneously charging a laptop. The whisper-quiet cooling fan makes the Helios FX an ideal addition to noise-sensitive workstations. And with support for most Thunderbolt™-compatible AMD® and NVIDIA® GPUs, there are many workflow and gaming empowering options from which to choose.

With its Thunderbolt 3 interface, users can add the Mercury Helios FX to any computer needing a boost. Whether it's a Mac or Windows™ PC, the Mercury Helios FX can be connected with the included Thunderbolt 3 cable for an immediate increase in performance.

OWC allows users to choose capacity, configuration and speed with this new external storage solution.

Woodstock, IL – March 13, 2018 – OWC®, a leading zero emissions is making drive juggling a thing of the past with the new OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad. The new external storage solution offers four drive bays to provide massive amounts of storage from a single USB–C™connection, with the flexibility to be utilized in Mac, PC and mixed Mac/PC environments. Designed for users who require high capacity storage with fast transfer speeds, the Mercury Elite Pro Quad is ideal for use by post– production firms, photographers, creative agencies, higher education programs, and small businesses.