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Craig Steven Wilder reflects on the case: "what happened [in April 1989] ...is a mirror on our society...I think what we really need to realize is we're not very good people. And we're often not."

also a basic overview of video compression and how it works

There are a multitude of rain plug-ins and particle generators that can create rain, and some look more realistic than others.

"a virtual catalogue of iconic images of childhood fears"

The best directors plan and direct shots in such a way that they can be cut together smoothly and coherently

attempting to simulate missing pixels comes at a cost; all methods incur some combination of blurring, blocking and halo artifacts

Sensate, a peer-reviewed, open-access, media-based journal for the creation, presentation, and critique of innovative projects in the arts, humanities, and sciences.

As the sound designer on the brand-new "Star Trek Into Darkness," as well as 2009's "Star Trek," along with five of the six "Star Wars" films (including the original "Star Wars"), there may not be anyone alive today with a better sense of what it takes to put a major sci-fi movie's sound together.

Adobe Audition can quickly clean up audio and fix problems that Premiere Pro cannot.

Premier Pro noise reduction filters leave much to be desired

Lets stop complaining about "Ownership," ... many of us are asking the wrong questions and making assumptions without understanding the bigger picture.

Adobe Premiere Pro product manager Al Mooney talks Rich Harrington about the advantages of Adobe Premiere Pro and Creative Cloud.  Claims updates will be easier to roll out under CC but updates were always delivered online to your local computer so not sure how CC will actually differ.

(Some) complaints .. result from a lack of information about what, exactly, this "Creative Cloud" stuff means to users.

how the latest version of Premiere Pro is ideal for broadcasters and other media houses

It's obvious from comments all over Social Media there are a lot of folks disappointed by this but many of the discussions have degenerated into name calling and accusations of greed towards Adobe.  There's also a LOT of misinformation about what the Cloud is and is not.

Adobe announced the end of its Creative Suite offerings, moving to its all-subscription model, Creative Cloud effective this June.

Welles ...still held a grudge against Wise for "Ambersons" more than thirty years later.

TalkShoe is a service that enables anyone to easily create, join, or listen to Live Interactive Discussions, Conversations, Podcasts and Audioblogs.

the process of selecting the images that "make the cut" and discarding the ones that don't