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Develop your creative media workflow with productivity tips, profiles on emerging tech, and interviews with creative specialists.
What is File Transfer Protocol?
Most people know or have a decent understanding of what File transfer protocol (FTP) is. The word is often thrown around as a blanket term for file transfer…which is not the case. So, what is file transfer protocol exactly? How does it work and how do people use it? We offer these answers below.
Jim Donnelly
Feb 15, 2022
How To Create Glitch Animations in Premiere Pro
A glitch effect mimics the distortion of playback errors from the video technology of yesterday. There are different kinds of glitches but in general, they have these elements: An RGB distortion, Pixel errors, Scanlines, and Digital noise
Alexandra Marriott
Feb 11, 2022
Speed Ramp. How to Speed Up A Clip in Adobe Premiere Pro
Want to know how to speed up your footage? Make slow motion videos and create a smooth speed ramp in Adobe Premiere Pro? Check this out. Videos can be sped up, they can be slowed down. But a speed ramp is a technique used to combine different speeds on the same clip.
Alexandra Marriott
Feb 4, 2022
Remote Production in 2022: Things to Consider
If 2021 was the year remote production became normalized, 2022 is when it becomes the de-facto way of work for Media and Entertainment (M&E). The “big” projects in M&E have been moving in this direction for sometime. Albeit slowly. In 2021, all aspects of production moved from the facilities to the WFH model making everyone a remote worker.
Gary Adcock
Jan 31, 2022
We Spoke with Hollywood’s Most In-Demand Photo Retoucher
MASV sat down with Nick to get the inside dope on why he loves refining and fine-tuning images for final presentation, his workflows, his preferred tools, and how he got into the professional retouching game in the first place.
Jim Donnelly
Jan 28, 2022
Why ‘Turnaround Time’ Matters More Than Upload Speed
What is the turnaround time of your large file transfer solution? No idea? It’s important to test large file transfer solutions based on total turnaround time. In other words, how long it takes sent files to be ready for use by the recipient.
Jim Donnelly
Jan 20, 2022