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Crumple Pop’s ‘Revealer’ and ‘Metal’ , review by Steve Douglas

zak — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:32:14 +0000

Another great review from Ken Stone Website:

“Crumple Pop must have an ambitious staff as for the last couple of years they have been regularly producing interesting and useful plug ins for Final Cut Pro and Motion.”
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/crumple_pop_revealer_metal_douglas.html

Judith Lyons @ Amateur Photographer

zak — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:41:06 +0000

Judith Lyons creates her ethereal images entirely in the darkroom by shining the enlarger light through flowers. Gemma Padley finds out
what she does and explores an alternative technique using a scanner.

Mark Spencer’s Controlling Camera Video Tutorial

zak — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:24:42 +0000

I have a new Motion tutorial movie for you by Mark Spencer.

“Motion 4 has some great features for controlling the camera. Mark Spencer from Ripple Training will show you how to change the camera’s angle of view to create interesting visuals”.

Found in the New Releases and Motion sections.

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_homepage_index.html

Enjoy,

–ken

Movie shot and edited in Ipone4

zak — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:33:32 +0000

This is a beautiful example of the creative power of Iphone4:

See this: http://vimeo.com/12819723

Photographer Judith Lyons

zak — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:39:15 +0000

I was privileged to be teaching this year amazing Photographer “Judith Lyons”. She has some amazing inspirational work on her website.
This is what she says about herself:
Judith Lyons is a photographic artist. A graduate of both the London College of Communication and Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, for the past two years she has been working exclusively with camera-less methods of photographic image production. Her work, which often combines historic analogue and contemporary digital technologies, displays an engagement with the natural world and has been exhibited nationally in institutions and galleries. Examples of her work can be seen at www.judithlyonsphotography.co.uk

Zak Peric on Mac Break Studio

zak — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:26:28 +0000

Hi all,

Just to tell you that Mark Spencer have completed a video tutorial i originally invented I year ago (Optical Flow). I really appreciate Mark did this and it feels nice to get some recognition for all the hard work I am doing in regards to pushing Apple Motion as a software.

You can see the tutorial here. http://pixelcorps.cachefly.net/mbks_087_540p_h264.mov

Once again thank you Mark…

Digital Rebellion by Ken Stone

zak — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:28:52 +0000

“For some time now, users of FCP and FC Studio, have had a friend watching their backs. His name is Jon Chappell and he runs the ‘Digital Rebellion’web site, which offers us is tools, tools that help us with running Final Cut Studio.”

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/digital_rebellion_stone.html

Photoshop CS5 Extended Review by David A. Saraceno

zak — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:27:01 +0000

Hi Everyone,

Adobe’s Production Premium CS5 – Part One – Photoshop CS5 Extended Review by David A. Saraceno

“The release of Adobe’s Production Premium CS5 bundle brings a refined interface, dozens of under-the-hood improvements and several “wow” features to the integrated application suite.

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/cs5_part_1_saraceno.html

Seagate “Best 2.5in Hybrid Hard Drive”

zak — Mon, 31 May 2010 09:39:50 +0000

For all of you who have laptops this news will hopeful make you all very happy. The 2.5in drive coming soon in 250GB, 320GB and 500GB flavours, features traditional hard-disk platters that spin at 7,200rpm, a 32MB onboard cache and a SATA 3Gbps interface. The magic ingredient, however, is the addition of 4GB of quick SLC NAND Flash memory designed to store regularly-accessed files using Seagate’s own Adaptive Memory technology.
See more at this address: http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=24768

P.S I already ordered one.

Final Cut Pro 7 Core Training by Ripple Training

zak — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:17:20 +0000

Ripple Training
DVD Edition $109.00
iTunes download version $99.00

Review by Ken Stone

With every major update to Final Cut Pro, there is always a flurry of tutorials to go with the update. However, not all tutorials are create equal. Some simply have ‘What’s New’ added, folding some new information to an existing tutorial or, in the case of books, one is sent to a web site where you get an ‘Addendum’. The new FCP 7 DVD tutorial from Ripple Training by Steve Martin was built from the ground up.

Thanks Ken