Start With the Client
Quite often, a client will have a set of colors that are part of their corporate branding: IBM blue, Xerox red, the feathers in the NBC peacock, and so on. Ask if they have a "style guide" which goes over which colors they prefer, and what you can or cannot do with them - for example, the Xerox "X" cannot be a color other than their own red. This may give you your starting point; you can then use what you learned about analogous, complementary, warm, and cool colors in the previous article to choose additional supporting or contrasting colors (more on that later).

    

     11-11-2008: Pan & Scan

     The best way to move around large images.

     Chris & Trish Meyer, Cybermotion

     You've heard the saying "you can never be too rich." Well, you can never have too many pixels, either - especially when                   you're looking for some extra flexibility in customizing how you put a a shot to work. With Artbeats starting to offer                               RED-sourced footage with frame sizes up to 4096 pixels across, you suddenly have a lot more flexibility in how you tell a               story with already-shot footage, whether you're working in a high-def or standard-definition project.

     There are two subjects to think about when you employ these large frames:
     1)Do I have enough pixels?
     2)What's the best way to move around the frame?

08-11-2008: Using HDV cameras with Wirecast
With the popularity of HD cameras on the rise, many people have asked if it is possible to use HDV cameras with Wirecast. Yes you can!

To use HDV sources with Wirecast, you'll need to buy a Wirecast 3 license and an HDV Pack.

You can evaluate HDV camera performance in Wirecast without purchasing the HDV upgrade, the output will just be watermarked.

Please be aware that HDV decoding requires significant system resources. As such we recommend that, on the Mac, you use at least a dual processor G5 system or dual core Intel CPU. On the Windows side, we recommend a modern graphics card and a dual processor (or core) system.

     

     08-11-2008: Episode for Windows - coming soon
      We have released Episode for Windows for Beta, and we expect the public release of this product to be early                  December.

      Episode for Windows takes our already popular Episode desktop product cross-platform. Some of the key features          of this product include:

            Stay tuned for more in-depth product information, as well as materials and resources that you can easily                         customize to promote this product to your customers and prospects.

       08-11-2008:  Seeing RED

       How Artbeats is using the RED One camera to create high-resolution clips for its stock footage library.

      

       Chris & Trish Meyer, Cybermotion

      The RED One digital video camera has captured the imagination of many videographers and filmmakers. It provides           film resolution in a digital format at a price point that is cost effective compared to film and other high-end digital             video cameras. The RED One also captured the imagination of the folks at Artbeats. They already used film as well         as high-end digital video cameras to capture source material for their stock footage library; the RED looked like an          intriguing alternative. Therefore, they ordered a RED One camera in January 2007.

      After a long wait plus extensive work in the field as well as in the studio, Artbeats is now releasing their first                    RED-originated stock footage clips. In addition to offering the resulting clips in the normal high definition, standard           definition, and web resolution clips, Artbeats is also releasing 2k, 3k and 4k (4096 pixel-wide) versions of the clips           depending how they were captured, in both color-corrected and full dynamic range "camera raw" variations. Phil               Bates - president and founder of Artbeats, who is still very much hands-on when it comes to their technology as              well as their footage shoots - shared with us some of the details behind their transition to the RED.