We geeks are pixel pushers, and we love charts and scientific testing of camera systems. It’s an essential part of understanding where the system breaks, and it informs your creative freedom on-set. That said, it is sometimes refreshing to see a comparative test from a common real-world shooting situation – working with available light. This […]
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When Adobe introduced CS4 they also introduced a new feature that many thought would be the suite’s first real killer feature: Speech Transcription. I think the fantasy might have been this: gone was the day of paying a human to transcribe footage as the machines could finally do it for us. That wasn’t the reality […]
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The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Sony’s BVM-E170 and E250. The place: Palm Springs. The time: February. The audience: a generous portion of the world’s best informed, most demanding users of professional monitors all gathered for the HPA Tech Retreat 2011. It was here that Sony chose to introduce our second-generation […]
Steve Forde, Adobe product manager for After Effects, shares a tip for object removal (roto) using the Warp Stabilizer options for Synthesize Edges as a pseudo content-aware fill in After Effects. See also Using Photoshop’s Content Aware Fill for After Effects by Luisa Winters. For older techniques see posts on the AE Portal archive. For […]
