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Busy working…

Eran Stern — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:22:15 +0000

Hi guys, a short post just to let you know that my plate is pretty full these days. So updates are a little slow for the English site. I’m working on a few projects, trying to juggle, or should I say wiggle, work and family at the same time. I am working on a new Hebrew training DVD, nurturing the new Hebrew Post Production Forum at the site, and also organizing a user group meeting for my Israeli talented crowd which will take place, for the first time, in Tel Aviv next week.

There’s more happening, but at this stage this is what I can reveal. Anyway, just to let you know, I’m planning to publish a new cool tutorial for Creative COW which hopefully will be ready for the holiday season and maybe another one just after that, who knows?! I guess only god.
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Hi Everyone, Meet Alma

Eran Stern — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:34:52 +0000

Last night after 100 hours of painful contractions (we probably broke some record) Alma Stern was born and she’s amazing. Alma is one day old and apart from being a daughter of Natasha and myself she’s also a sister to beautiful Michal (12) and lovely Ruth (10) already famous for their charming glow. We’re all excited and happy and also a little tired.

I saw quite a few effects in my life but there is nothing that can compete with the magic of life - this is the most amazing effect which easily wins over everything else.
Mazal Tov!

NAB Warp up

Eran Stern — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:46:28 +0000

Another NAB ended and it’s time for summaries. There’s no doubt this was the quietest show I’ve been in and this is my tenth NAB. So it was good and bad at the same time. The up side is that it gave me a chance to catch up with many of my friends and colleagues including John Dickinson, Maltaannon, Aharon Rabinowitz, Jayse Henson and Mark Coleran just to name a few.
My sessions at the Post Production World conference were very successful (I hope) and I wish to thank everyone who took the time and money and participated. I hope it was worth it I sure had a great time teaching, and really appreciate the w

arm feedback you all gave me. It was pleasure to meet you all in person, and I do hope to see you next year and/or at up coming events during this year.

As for the show floor itself, I must say I haven’t seen new ground breaking products that will impact my digital life. Though, I will point out these 4 products which I found most interesting:

Trapcode Particular 2 which should be available this summer from Red Giant Software. you can watch a demo of the product here.
3D Serpentine - A new plug in from Zaxwerks that create fanciful 3D noodles.
Matrox Compress HD accelerator board which encode H.264 video faster than realtime.
Adobe Story - a collaborative scriptwriting tool. There’s no product yet, but it does look very interesting, watch for a beta software soon at Adobe Labs.