Amazon are releasing “Digital Film Making” by Mike Figgis at less than half price if you pre-order. The 176 page paper back is available for only 3.99. In this indispensable step-by-step guide, leading director Mike Figgis (“Timecode”, “Leaving Las Vegas”, “Internal Affairs”) offers
Cinemagic is an international film festival for young people based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was established in 1989 and over the years it has developed a worldwide reputation for excellence in children’s programming and is currently the largest award-winning children’s film
Anyone who knows DigMo! knows we love the Fxhome suite of CGI software. Effects lab is a low cost CGI application that offers effects such as light sabre, muzzle flare, fog etc with only a few mouse clicks. If you don’t know Effectslab then head over to
Apple have released a guide to producing podcasts for the TV device. The information covers increasing the resolution of your standard video podcasts so that they still play on iPod as well as TV. Obviously there are implications for the amount of disc space required but the quality improvement is definitely noticeable.
TubeSock 2.0 downloads YouTube or DailyMotion videos from the web and saves them to your video iPod, Mac, or PlayStation Portable. TubeSock knows how to convert the video using the codecs and bitrates best for each device.
Boinx Software is going to preview brand new products at NAB 2007. If you happen to be at the show, come by booth C8828J to chat with Boinx Software Executives and staff about a brand new iStopMotion 2 and a couple of cool plug ins for Apple’s Quartz Composer
Queen’s Film Theatre has announced that it is to be the first cinema in Northern Ireland to install a digital projector. Courtesy of a grant from the UK Film Council and support from the Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission, the Stella Artois Screen 1 will now be able to screen state-of-the-art high definition digital films as well as standard celluloid films.
Apple Quicktime now officially supports the xVid video format. The Xvid component for QuickTime allows users to play & encode Xvids in QuickTime Player. Xvid is a video codec library following the MPEG-4 standard.
