There are a few nice pieces of software around at the moment that I want to share with you. The first is Beauty Box from Digital Anarchy. An incredible plug-in for video applications (like After Effects, Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro). If you shoot interviews or wedding videos and don’t have a good make [...]

I’m busy preparing to leave on a mammoth journey to San Fransisco to speak at the Macworld 2010 conference for the first time.
I’ll be talking about production workflow, specifically broadcast production as that’s where I spent 12 years of my life freelancing as a motion graphic designer/ animator.
I’ll also share some of the challenges I’ve [...]

I’m hoping to see a few of you at MacWorld 2010 where I’ll be speaking next year. I love San Fransisco so will be taking a little extra time out to hang out with my old friends, Amacker and Nina at the Lucky 13 bar on Castro. I also hope to catch up with all [...]

I’ve been doing a bit of research into video formats for the web and wanted to get some feedback from viewers on what are perceived pros and cons associated with the different formats available.
I’ve always like Quicktime as it’s easy to encode and embed, plus, you can allow viewers to download the QT and view [...]

by Angie Taylor - Creative Director (Europe), Gridiron Software
Well, I’ve just left Broadcast Video Forum 2009 after a successful launch event for our new software, Flow. And I must say I’m pretty exhausted, I don’t think I’ve ever talked so much in my life!
I’ve only been with the Gridiron Software for three months but already [...]

Creative Director > Gridiron Software
With desktop software being so accessible it means that a growing number of jobbing designers are self-taught. In many cases they are great at design but lacking in areas such as project management and development.
We have all experienced situations where our work gets challenging so we distract ourselves and procrastinate by [...]