Adding motion blur in After Effects

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Joren Kandel posted 2 short videos on adding motion blur to footage: Free Motion Blur in AE and Reel Smart Motion Blur in AE, looking at built-in options and the surprisingly fast 3rd party plug-in. Adding blurs or motion blur to something animating in After Effects is involved in itself. See Adobe AE Help: Motion Blur (or Ray-Traced […]

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IMAX Licenses Kodak’s Laser Projection Technology

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IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) and Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) announced today a relationship that will broaden the application of digital cinema technologies in theaters and enhance the consumer’s movie-going experience. The companies announced that IMAX has licensed from Kodak certain exclusive rights in the digital cinema field to a portfolio of more […]

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A lesson learned from my FCPX to Resolve roundtrips

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I learned a hard lesson today about Final Cut Pro X after doing some roundtrip testing between FCPX and the newly released Resolve 8. That lesson was to be very careful when using clips that FCPX is referencing in other video applications. If some piece of metadata is modified in the file, even if the […]

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Adobe MAX 2011 Technology Sneak Peeks

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Adobe’s big annual MAX conference finished a couple of weeks ago, and as part of it they included a series of technology sneak peeks. I’ve gone through the videos posted on AdobeTV and pulled out the ones of most interest to us video folks: Video Meshes In this video, Sylvain Paris will show you a […]

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Phottix’ New Odin Off-Camera E-TTL Wireless Trigger

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Let me set the record straight right here; I am not a strobist. Ninety five percent of the time I shoot with available light, the other five percent I shoot with my flash set to rear curtain sync (It’s fun. You should try it!) I really don’t like the ugly flat light that on-camera flashes […]

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