Jim Tierney, Digital Anarchist Creates Amazing Plugins for Editors

Jim Tierney is a pioneer in the development of plugins for motion graphics, animation, and video editing. During the 1990s, Jim worked for software companies like MetaTools, Atomic Power, and Cycore. He helped create graphics products like Bryce, Evolution, and Final Effects. After working on After Effects plugins for six years, Jim thought it was finally time to get out there and do some of his own. So he did, and Digital Anarchy was born in 2001. For more information about our amazing sponsor, Other World Computing, go to MacSales.com or OWCDigital.com, where you’ll find hardware and software solutions and tutorial videos that will get you up and running in no time. For more about our host, filmmaker, tech maven and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Cirina Catania, visit cirinacatania.com. If you enjoy our podcast, please subscribe and tell all your friends about us! We love our listeners. And, if you have ideas for segments, write to [email protected]. Cirina is always up for new ideas! In This Episode * 00:09 - Cirina introduces Jim Tierney, Chief Executive Anarchist and President of Digital Anarchy.* 7:19 - Jim Tierney talks about the Beauty Box as one of the first plugins of its kind to be released and Digital Anarchy’s most popular plugin.* 13:48 - Jim explains the changes of Digital Anarchy’s Flicker Free version 2.0 plugin.* 22:07 - Jim describes the best features of the PowerSearch and Transcriptive plugins to optimize your NLE workflow. * 29:22 - Jim shares the efficient work setup of Digital Anarchy’s team, where they don’t need to go to an office daily.* 35:45 - Visit Digital Anarchy’s website at digitalanarchy.com to check out their awesome products and solutions. Jump to Links and Resources Transcript This is Cirina Catania with OWC Radio. Jim Tierney hasn't talked with us in, boy, it's been a year Jim, it was last NAB. Jim is president of Digital Anarchy, and he has a lot of amazing solutions for people who work in the media. So Jim, how have you been? I haven't talked to you in a year. Good. My April is much calmer than it's been in probably 25 years with no NAB. Does it feel weird not to be going to NAB, or are you kind of happy about it? It feels pretty weird. I certainly don't miss setting up the booth and all that nonsense, but I do miss the people. That's the important part about the show, it's like who cares about the booth, but it's the people that you see once a year. There's just a lot of people that I just love to catch up with and nice to see folks that you know. Yeah, I do too. I'm missing everybody. It's the one chance every year, NAB and IBC, I think are the two big ones for me. I always complain about them because there's so much work in preparation. It takes at least a month in advance, and I'm not setting up a booth, but it's just crazy. It's full time for at least a month in advance, and when you get there, and in those days that you're at the convention, you're exhausted by the time you get home. But as much as I complain about it, sometimes they say you don't miss it till it's gone, and I'm kind of missing it.