Diana's Top 10 FCP 7 Features #8 - iChat Theater Preview

In the past, if you wanted to share some portion of your work with another set of eyes, it was a somewhat time-consuming business of exporting a QuickTime file or transferring a sequence or a portion of a sequence to another drive or server for someone else to access. That's no longer the case. Welcome to iChat Theater Preview-the quick and easy way to share and discuss your sequence with someone down the hall or around the world in real time.

Sorenson Squeeze 6

Not just THE choice for video compression, it's what everything else will be compared to

These days, it seems as though every company has an application for taking your edited files and processing them for the web, and many of those applications are included with the editing bundle you purchased. Adobe has Adobe's Media Encoder, Final Cut Studio has Compressor, and there are the standalone applications such as Episode, and even QuickTime can do it as well.

Buster Design Creates Show Open for DJ AM's MTV Series, "Gone Too Far"

MTV's "Gone Too Far" documentary series features the late Adam Goldstein, aka DJ AM, counseling other addicts in recovery, as he, himself, had dealt with his own addiction problems. "I got so lost in my disease, I was gone," he once said.

Asylum Helps Draw The Porsche Family Tree

Asylum, in collaboration with ad agency Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago and @RadicalMedia Director Jeff Zwart, completed a major VFX feat for a new TV spot introducing the Porsche Panamera - the first four-seat sports car from the iconic carmaker. The elaborate, technically challenging commercial was the perfect showcase for Asylum's vast VFX capability.

NAB 2008: GridIron Shows Flow

New professional workflow management solution from GridIron Gang

GridIron, a relatively small company showed up with a massive booth for a massively comprehensive management solution. GridIron, previously known for its memory and processor management application: NucleoPro now offers to help us with our file management as well.

Cleveland Clinic Foundation

A massive Final Cut and After Effects move to Facilis

At NAB, it's easy to find sales people and marketing teams who want to tell you all of the selling points of the different products on the floor, but it's really nice to meet the other users who are working on similar projects and in similar pipeline structures who can tell you about their experiences.