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Story CS5.5 (Review)
Story CS5.5 (Review)
Story CS5.5 (Review)
Posted 5 days ago

With CS5.5, writing with a partner is even easier than it was in CS5, and you can even set up permission levels to only allow them access to certain parameters.…

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Story CS5.5 (Review)
Software Reveiw – Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 with Adobe Premiere Elements 10
Premiere Elements 10 (Review)
Premiere Elements 10 (Review)
Posted 16 days ago

Premiere Elements 10 does a masterful job of just skirting the line between professional and consumer friendly. Enough elements for a seasoned pro to explore, but simple enough for someone…

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Premiere Elements 10 (Review)
Ozone 5 (Review)
Ozone 5 (Review)
Ozone 5 (Review)
Posted 20 days ago

Ozone 5 gives filmmakers access to mastering tools once available only to mastering engineers. Arguably, iZotope Ozone has single-handedly opened musicians, sound engineers, and filmmakers to the world of mastering…

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Ozone 5 (Review)
Vegas Pro HD 10 (Review)
Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 (Review)
Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 (Review)
Posted 22 days ago

As with version 10 before it, Vegas Movie Studio HD is an incredibly priced software suite. At below $100 you WILL NOT find a more feature-packed piece of software for…

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Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 (Review)
Interview with MFM's Editor, Jeremy Hanke, about Creative Community "World of Depleted"
Interview with MFM’s Editor, Jeremy Hanke, ab…
Interview with MFM’s Editor, Jeremy Hanke, ab…
Posted 23 days ago

Today, I had the opportunity to be interviewed by Professor Chris Hansen, the director of Baylor University's Film & Digital Media division (and director of Best of Show Winner, Care…

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Interview with MFM’s Editor, Jeremy Hanke, ab…
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Story CS5.5 (Review)

Posted on February 17, 2012 by avatar
Adobe Story CS5.5

With CS5.5, writing with a partner is even easier than it was in CS5, and you can even set up permission levels to only allow them access to certain parameters. This is done very simply and becomes important when working with multiple partners or producers that you don’t want to directly edit your work. You can even access your scripts on your iPhone! (You can read them for changes and make comments, although, as of yet, you can’t actually change the script directly.) Read the rest of this story…

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Premiere Elements 10 (Review)

Posted on February 6, 2012 by avatar
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Premiere Elements 10 does a masterful job of just skirting the line between professional and consumer friendly. Enough elements for a seasoned pro to explore, but simple enough for someone to slap together some footage and get it rendered quickly. Read the rest of this story…

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Ozone 5 (Review)

Posted on February 2, 2012 by avatar
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Ozone 5 gives filmmakers access to mastering tools once available only to mastering engineers. Arguably, iZotope Ozone has single-handedly opened musicians, sound engineers, and filmmakers to the world of mastering due to its affordable price tag. And the program continues to become more professional with every new release. Ozone 5 sports seven mastering effects filmmakers can apply to their film audio: Equalizer, Reverb, Harmonic Exciter, Dynamics, Stereo Imaging, Post Equalizer, and Maximizer. Each mastering effect has been revamped, reworked, and redesigned to make it even easier for you to make your films sound better. Read the rest of this story…

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Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 (Review)

Posted on January 31, 2012 by avatar
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As with version 10 before it, Vegas Movie Studio HD is an incredibly priced software suite. At below $100 you WILL NOT find a more feature-packed piece of software for editing. I’ve been using Vegas Pro pretty exclusively for the past few years and have always found it surprising in its efficiency and quality, so to get so much of that power for hundreds less, you can’t beat it. Read the rest of this story…

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Interview with MFM’s Editor, Jeremy Hanke, about Creative Community “World of Depleted”

Posted on January 30, 2012 by avatar
Jeremy Talks to Baylor

Today, I had the opportunity to be interviewed by Professor Chris Hansen, the director of Baylor University’s Film & Digital Media division (and director of Best of Show Winner, Care & Feeding of an American Messiah), and his graduate media class about World of Depleted, the creative community that MicroFilmmaker Magazine has helped launch. It was great to share what changes in technology and society it’s inspired by and what it is part of the groundwork for in the future. Read the rest of this story…

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Something Startling Happens (Review)

Posted on January 27, 2012 by avatar
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Using films as diverse as “Juno” and “The Godfather” (and pretty much everything in between) Mr. Klick shows how each film – in their own way – has the same beats. Even if the genre is completely different, or the director is George Lucas or Woody Allen, there are similarities in place here that you may not see (and probably DON’T see). But they are there. Read the rest of this story…

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Ozone 4 (Review)

Posted on January 11, 2012 by avatar
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iZotope Ozone is a killer mastering plug-in, and the value of six mastering effects in one plug-in continues to amaze me. It would be well worth your money to buy this program just for the presets, especially if you simply cannot afford to pay an audio engineer to master your film. Simply using the presets with minimal tweaking will place your film in front of so many other independent films. This plug-in would benefit any filmmaker looking to make their work a step above of the rest. Read the rest of this story…

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Digital Publishing Suite (Review)

Posted on January 2, 2012 by avatar
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As if dominating the market with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver (just to name a few) weren’t enough, Adobe has stepped into the realm of digital publishing with some amazing tools for both designers and filmmakers. Adobe Digital Publishing Suite gives creative folks with little to no experience programming software the ability to publish interactive apps for tablet devices such as the iPad, Android, and BlackBerry Playbook. Read the rest of this story…

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Alloy (Review)

Posted on January 1, 2012 by avatar
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Finding a program that will make your film audio sound better does not have to be a confusing process. Most companies sell audio effects separately. You can buy this EQ for 100 dollars or that compressor for 200 dollars. But wouldn’t it be nice to have all of your basic audio processing tools in one intuitive program? Wouldn’t it be even nicer to buy all of these tools together for a reasonable price? This is where iZotope Alloy comes in. Read the rest of this story…

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