As you will know this week has been proclaimed to the four winds the new version of the Adobe software package. We will not list here the new Photoshop or After Effects since there are already many blogs that deal with it.
What did I leave is the impressive work of the Brazilian company Seagulls Fly in charge of making the video presentation of the famous suite from Adobe.

Ingluye one is making it.

Do not fail to visit the website of this company because they have really exceptional work.

Adobe CS5 - Production Premium from Seagulls Fly on Vimeo .

Making of Adobe CS5 - Production Premium from Seagulls Fly on Vimeo .

Although this blog is dedicated mostly to everything related to technology and audiovisual postproduction, today I present a useful tool for pre-production processes. y en definitiva todos los recursos propios de cualquier producción audiovisual. This is Celtx , a free software that allows you to organize all tasks related to the preproduction of any audiovisual or entertainment. Celtx is an organizer that allows us to handle scripts, breakdowns, storyboards, filming dates, records of locations, actors, technical, etc ... and ultimately all own resources any audiovisual production.

It is a kind of production schedule allows us to keep on hand and updated each of these resources. Contains tools to make sketches of the shots and camera setup, tools for creating story boards, shooting schedule, script editor ... all this is recorded in a project that we can share with other users or recycled for new projects. It is available for Mac and PC and also in Spanish .

This is one of those little applications that may become indispensable for any editor. This is VideoSpace of Digital Heaven, a company specializing in applications and plugins for Final Cut. Although already an old acquaintance through plugins like Loader , this company has just released version 3 of this application free of charge. With it you can calculate the space it will occupy in our record any video clip showing the codec, duration, fps and the type of audio. The novelty is that include new codecs supported by Final Cut 7.

It can also be installed as a widget on your Mac, iPhone or iPodTouch or can be accessed online at this link: http://www.videospaceonline.com/

Sometimes small software utilities can be very helpful. Is the case with this little free script for After Effects created by the company Popcorn Island . Is able to translate just a timeline of Final Cut on a timeline in After Effects. y los keyframes de animación de escala, posición y rotación . Albeit with limitations. It does not recognize the sound or blend modes or filters, but is able to interpret the cast and the animation keyframes scale, position and rotation.

It can be downloaded from this website.

, hay que ir a File/scripts y seleccionarlo de la lista que aparece (PI_FC2AE.jsxbin). The mode of operation is very easy in Final Cut sequence must be exported to XML and then After Effects, after saving the downloaded file and copy it into the Scripts folder of the software itself, must go to File / scripts and select from the list that appears (PI_FC2AE.jsxbin). This opens a browser window that will allow us to select the saved XML.

Automatically opens our project to be an interpretation of the timeline of Final

I hope you find it useful

Surely we all ever happened. … We tried to open a precious video file, saved with special affection in the hard disk because it is a recording that we can not repeat or a master of that we have no other copy is corrupted and ... ... or after an intense day of recording in wondrous P2 cards, Compact Flash or the light, we will download our running and ... all the files are corrupted ...

It seems that there is a possible solution to this evil drink. Hand in hand with the company Aero Quartet , which also is located in Barcelona, offers an interesting service to repair damaged files: Movie Repair Service .

. The basic service costs $ 89 and accepts files up to 500Mb. The mode of operation is as follows: you have to download a diagnostic software called Treasured which analyzes the file and sends the information to Aero Quartet. There is evaluated by the technicians who guarantee a 90% success in repairing. If the volume of files to repair is greater, the fee rises to $ 149.

The file formats that can be repaired are:

• MPEG4 family (MPEG-4 Video, DivX, Xvid, 3ivx)
• MPEG-1, MPEG-2
• DV (PAL, NSTC)
• DVCPRO50
• DVCPro HD (main profiles, 720p, 1080i60, 1080i50)
• JPEG family
• HDV
• H264
• Intermediate
• ProRes422
• XDCAM

. Beedocs is an interesting and simple application designed to create "timelines." This software is primarily a teaching tool that can be used in presentations, classes, events and exhibitions.

In a very simple, Beedocs helps us to organize events with dates and images are automatically sorted in a visual timeline, interactive and animated 3D effect.

. It also allows export to broadcast formats, and even uncompressed with alpha channel.

Here is the real value in professional video editors and visual. In a simple way could be to compose an informative video layer and enough current design, which used in combination with other composition software, we can easily serve to illustrate documentaries and other audiovisual format l. In short it can serve to organize information in a very visual and attractive then we can "decorate" with other layers in After Effects or other compositing software.

You may download a trial version which gives an idea of what software can do. The videos available on their website are fairly representative of what can be done with this software.

At the moment there is only for Mac and its price is about $ 65.

One of the weaknesses of Final Cut is the way to organize files of each project. There is simply no method of organization. de Final). When we include a file in the gallery, it is imported from its original location and each time you start the project is loaded from that directory, but if it has moved, too bad, plays reconnect (of course, wonderful to reconnect Final) .

There are other editing applications that create structures of directories to include external files, so that the risk of losing files is quite difficult.

While a good organization of the project manual from the outset avoids this problem by copying each medium we use in the corresponding directory, the circumstances do not always allow us to be so methodical. So a utility like Digital Heaven Loader we can help.

Loader is one of those plugins that can make impresindible if you get used to using. It consists of a small slate-shaped apliación that starts with Final Cut once installed and is just one area where you drag and drop drag our means to automatically organize themselves into directories that we have defined.
Instead of using the drag and drop directly onto the gallery project, now we will revise Loader and this will copy the files in local directories, so that rescue and archive old projects will be more comfortable.
Loader also discriminate between different types of files and subfolders sorted in GRAPHICS / AUDIO / MOVIES.

Through this new plugin I discovered the Digital Heaven website where there are other plugins for Final Cut which seem quite useful such as <span class = "highlight"> BIG TIME which embeds the current time code on the screen to keep it always visible or VIDEOSPACE that calculates the required disk size by duration, codec and frame rate of a file (it is also freeware)

Digital Heaven seems it tries to make it a little easier for video editors. Do not lose the trail.

After almost a month without posting because of summer holidays, back to an interesting news from Apple.
. Finally launched a version (if only decoder) of the compressor popular ProRes, valid for the version of Quicktime for Mac and PC. This is great news, because this codec that Apple launched last year has become one the most widely used compressor due to the low weight of the files it produces virtually no loss of image quality, but yes, processors older may look a bit exhausted by the work of relief, especially in HD version.

We can share and view files created in ProRes universally, only installing the codec and using, yes, QuickTime. Must wait and see.

Here is the link for download.