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Editors Embrace The Uniﬁed
Autodesk Smoke Toolset
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ince the radical redesign of
Smoke professional video
editing software at last year’s NAB,
Autodesk say that video editors
have enthusiastically embraced
uniting editorial and effects together
to tell compelling stories.
Mark Strassman, Vice President,
Media & Entertainment Industry
Strategy and Marketing at Autodesk,
said: “Community engagement
has been crucial to the ongoing
development of Autodesk Smoke,
and our goal is to continue to work
with the editorial community to
meet the growing need for quality
content by creating an efﬁcient and
ﬂexible all-in-one professional video
editing toolset.”
At NAB, Autodesk highlighted a
trio of short ﬁlms crediting Smoke
2013 for helping to realize their
visions for both editing and effects:
Freelance filmmaker Anthony
Brownmoore’s ‘REP 5091’; Jeremy
Hunt’s (Screaming Death Monkey)
‘Fix It In Post’; and ﬁlmmaker, post-

A scene from Brownmoore’s short ‘REP 5091’ which was ﬁnished in Smoke

production specialist and technical
writer, Alexis Van Hurkman who is in
post on ‘The Place Where You Live’.
Autodesk point to the extended
trial period which has allowed users
time to experiment with the software,
provide feedback and actively take
part in its evolution. Between the
first free trial and its December

2012 release, Smoke underwent
ﬁve iterations.
An Autodesk survey of North
American Smoke trial downloaders
found that 57% were new to Smoke:
39% were new to Autodesk software;
13% were Autodesk animation
customers; and another 5% have
used other Autodesk software.

Red Giant Pledges ‘BulletProof’ Workﬂow
ed Giant announced BulletProof
at NAB 2013 – an ofﬂoad, prep
and delivery solution for footage
that simpliﬁes some of the tedious
tasks facing ﬁlmmakers daily.
Bridging the gap between camera
and editor, BulletProof combines
backup, organisation, colour and
delivery tasks while handling
footage from multiple cameras
and media cards.
Whether shooting with a Canon
DSLR, Nikon DSLR or GoPro sports
cam, Red Giant say that ﬁlmmakers,
videographers and data wranglers
can now quickly and easily transform

USA: At NAB, the RED
DRAGON Upgrade Station
saw cameras upgraded to
the latest sensor technology.
In what was hailed as a trade
show ﬁrst, RED performed openheart surgery to upgrade cameras
to the RED DRAGON sensor in a
clean-room production facility.
After the installation, the camera
was tested – temperature cycling and
vibration tested and given a long-run
burn-in – to ensure camera reliability.
On successful testing, the
cameras received a full audit
guaranteeing the upgrade.

Broadcast Pix
Adds Granite X

Precision Surgery
RED DRAGON

their capture into edit-ready footage.
BulletProof eliminates the need for
risky, tedious processes of manually
copying media cards to hard drives
by including a reliable, checksumverified process for backing up
valuable footage.

Specialising in DSLR and sports
cam workflows, BulletProof is
hailed as “the ﬁrst affordable prep
software that provides professional
colour controls”.
The BulletProof workﬂow presents
a series of ﬁve views that mirrors
what ﬁlmmakers do on set every day.
The user interface is designed to
be intuitive – with a workﬂow based
around an import once and export
once paradym.
A Windows version was shown at
NAB and version 1.0 (initially for Mac
OS) will be available this summer.

BulletProof helps DSLR workﬂows

USA: Broadcast Pix unveiled
its Granite X Series of live video
production systems at NAB.
Each of three new Granite X models
supports 22 cameras and seven
channels of ﬁles, which ﬂow into
the system through watch-folders.
Enhanced monitoring with
more full motion windows across
four monitors complements the
integrated production toolset.
Up to three composited outputs
with low constant latency can be
delivered for multi-screen broadcast,
streaming and live events.

RTW Moving Coil
Software For TM3
USA: RTW unveiled the TM3SWMC Software for its TM3
series of TouchMonitors at NAB.
This expands the functionality
of the TM3 TouchMonitor series,
which includes the TM3 and TM33G, with PPM, VU and the new
loudness moving coil instruments.
The selectable display can be
vertical or horizontal orientation,
numeric level information and
peak indicators.

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