Associate Publisher of Creative COW Magazine and the Associate Director of the Creative Cow community website. Tim's reputation as one of the foremost leaders in the professional video market traces back to his years as a documentary filmmaker whose work has aired on major cable networks and other outlets, to his years with Ron & Kathlyn where Tim built such a reputation that he became the Marketing Director and Product Manager of RED while at Boris FX, then onto his years with AVID as their Senior Product Marketing Director for products like Avid Xpress and Media Composer. In a move that brought him full circle back to working with Ron & Kathlyn, Tim brings his wide knowledge and experience to Creative Cow readers and members.
Sitting tight through changing times isn't a solution. It's the opposite of a solution. Great ideas are a dime a dozen. The challenge is finding a way to earn more than a dime from them. As encouragement, here are some insights for success that I've come across lately.
One project took four years, and included unprecedented interactivity, Java-enabled delivery of new material to network-connected Blu-ray players, and auto updating interfaces. This is not a problem solved by a $1000 software suite.
An Introduction to the Stereoscopic 3D Creative COW Magazine Issue - From the time we first heard stories as humans, we have wanted to be persuaded by illusions. When we are, we never say, That could never happen, because it just did.
An animated show that completes an entire episode, from writing to air, in only six days? Delivered to the network with only minutes to spare? Meet the producers and editors of South Park, winner of 3 Emmys, a Peabody Award for Excellence and many more, as they take you inside the tools and technologies enabling one of the most pressure-packed workflows imaginable.
In this Adobe Illustrator review from The Creative COW Magazine, Tim Wilson looks at the ways that Adobe's Illustrator CS3 is designed with video and film artists in mind.
Portable media is quickly becoming one of the most popular arenas for video production and broadcast. In this Creative COW Magazine article Tim Wilson discusses the insights about multi-platform media revealed from his interview with Evan Schechtman, CTO of Radical Media and explains how to get the tools to utilize this expanding marketplace.
Adobe's Simon Hayhurst, Director of Product Management for Dynamic Media, takes Creative COW inside the Production Studio's journey across platforms. How much of it? Premiere Pro? Encore DVD? Yes, ALL of it! The Adobe Production Studio software bundle finally comes to the Mac.
In this software review of Microsoft Expression Studio, Tim Wilson takes a look at what sort of leverage Microsoft could put behind its new software package, Microsoft Expression Studio... Adobe is the 800 pound graphics gorilla, with massive market share among designers. Meet Microsoft, the 8 thousand pound gorilla. They're coming - and they're going to keep on coming. Microsoft's Expression Studio includes Expression Media, Expression Web, Expression Design and Expression Blend. Microsoft says the suite is targeted at creative pros, not business.
Industry pros reveal how they got ahead and ways to stay there... Tim Wilson reveals some professional business secrets video and effects artists have shared with him over the years of how they have come to make money doing the work they love to do.
No matter what a television series is about, producing a series is all about workflow. The credits at the end of an episode list who did a particular task, but how they all work together is a story in itself. For a small part of that story on one show, meet -Good Eats-, the top-rated Food Network series.
Rating product-line integration reviews for software companies such as Adobe, Apple and Avid and how well they accomplish workflow enhancements for smaller teams and one-man shops.
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Associate Publisher of Creative COW Magazine and the Associate Director of the Creative Cow community website. Tim's reputation as one of the foremost leaders in the professional video market traces back to his years as a documentary filmmaker whose work has aired on major cable networks and other outlets, to his years with Ron & Kathlyn where Tim built such a reputation that he became the Marketing Director and Product Manager of RED while at Boris FX, then onto his years with AVID as their Senior Product Marketing Director for products like Avid Xpress and Media Composer. In a move that brought him full circle back to working with Ron & Kathlyn, Tim brings his wide knowledge and experience to Creative Cow readers and members. 
