Philip Hodgetts: Creative COW contributing editor

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Articles by Philip Hodgetts

	Adobe After Effects Displacement Mapping in After Effects Two of the less well known features of After Effects Production Bundle are the Time Displacement Filter and the Displacement Filter. Both use the values of one image to affect the target image. In this tutorial, Philip Hodgetts first looks at the affect of the Displacement Filter first, then moves on to Time Displacement before discussing a source of gradient images suitable for Displacement and Time Displacement Mapping. Tutorial

	Adobe Premiere Pro basics Great Titles with the DV Codec In this article, Philip Hodgetts gives us a few hints on how to make great titles with the DV Codec. In most cases, if you're using the DV Codec, you'll find that your titles at best will be good. If you want great quality, then you will need to follow most of these guideliness that Philip discusses but NOT compress to the DV Codec. Tutorial

	Apple Final Cut Pro How2 Upgrade to Final Cut Pro 4 -- the Right Way! In this article, Philip Hodgetts walks you step by step how to upgrade to Apple Final Cut Pro 4 -- the right way so that you'll save yourself mistakes and headaches. Tutorial

	Media 100 844/X Media 100 lowers price and expands 844X line-up On November 5, 2002, Media 100 announced that their 844/X product had become a product line... The original 844/X now becomes 844/Xe and a new, lower-priced model is identified as 844/Xi. Along with the new model, Media 100 have unbundled the 844/X from the host computer and storage, offered Media 100's dual stream customers a loyalty bonus (a.k.a. discount) and repositioned the 844/X family as editing software with exceptional compositing skills. Editorial

	Media 100 844/X Media 100's Pegasus - 844/X It's official. Media 100's new 'Pegasus' 844/X has been announced and Philip Hodgetts has given us the definitive analysis of the new product. You won't find a more in-depth report. Editorial

	Apple Final Cut Pro Final Cut Pro 3 Philip Hodgetts presents the definitive 'hands-on' preview of Apple's new Final Cut Pro 3. Read on for everything you wanted to know, and some things you hadn't even thought of yet. Review

	Media 100 844/X Media 100 & Pegasus In 1994 Media 100 revolutionized the video post production industry by bringing broadcast quality finishing to the computer desktop for the first time as the initial step in democratizing video. Can they do it again? How does the new Mission and Vision fit with the original vision that drove Media 100? Or was the sale of Cleaner and other software products to focus on the "Pegasus" project a mistake? Editorial

	Apple Final Cut Pro Technique - How2 Canvas & Viewer with Waveform & Vectorscope With a little careful arrangement, it is possible to monitor the Waveform and Vectors of a Clip or Sequence for quality control in Apple Final Cut Pro. Tutorial