At IBC 2014, Square Box, a U.K. software company specializing in digital media asset management (DAM/MAM) systems and production workflow, is announcing CatDV for Adobe Anywhere for video, a new product supporting the Adobe Anywhere real-time collaborative editorial platform. This makes CatDV’s powerful media management features available to the Adobe Anywhere platform, enabling content to be shared seamlessly by Adobe Anywhere productions, and supporting a huge range of efficient production workflows. The new product builds on the long-term, robust technology integration between CatDV and Adobe that has already enabled Adobe Premiere Pro CC editors to maximize creative productivity for many years.
Simon Williams, director of strategic relations at Adobe said, “Adobe Anywhere, with its ground-breaking production capabilities that enable true collaboration, and CatDV, which solves the perennial problem of finding materials, make for a compelling combination.”
Adobe Anywhere provides a production environment with all content centrally managed and streamed over a standard network. Users do not need local content, or even to know where content is located. Harnessing the powerful search, preview, tracking and media management features of CatDV, content can be seamlessly shared and managed in Adobe Anywhere productions directly from CatDV, or via a CatDV control panel that is integrated within Adobe Premiere Pro CC. Adobe Premiere Pro CC is included in Adobe Creative Cloud along with the most up-to-date versions of other favorite Adobe desktop apps, such as Photoshop CC, After Effects CC, Illustrator CC, and more.
The rich feature in CatDV allows new Adobe Anywhere projects to be initiated, and CatDV assets can be added to an Adobe Anywhere production from CatDV desktop and Web clients, as well as Adobe Anywhere and Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
Alternatively, Adobe Premiere Pro CC users can access CatDV, via an integrated Premiere Pro CC panel, to undertake powerful searches and previews. CatDV assets can be added to an Adobe Anywhere production at the press of a button. CatDV also tracks when media has been sent making it easy for users to see which assets are being used and where.
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More