Here's another summary of the last few weeks or so of news on After Effects- this time with Mocha and tracking, track mattes, organic lines in Particular, point clouds, HDR, and assorted tutorials, expressions, and plug-ins new and old.{C} VFX Bro released Beginning and Advanced Rotoscoping Tutorial in 2 parts. Here's part 1: Mary Poplin explained How Mocha Thinks, as we find […]
Valley Cottage, New York: March 29, 2012 – Vinten Radamec®, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, will showcase its brand new next generation heads at NAB 2012, April 16-19, Las Vegas, stand C6425. The FH-145 and FHR-145 pan and tilt heads will be shown alongside the recently released FHR-35, and will demonstrate Vinten […]
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I’ve shot a lot of web and broadcast spots on the Canon 5D and while it makes pretty pictures the controls are very limited. It’s also not a camera that can be used quickly. At the moment the Canon C300 is a bit of a mystery to me: before my recent tests I didn’t know […]
Read More… from CANON C300: Trimming White Balance, Plus a Look at Daylight vs. Tungsten Color
Recently, Adobe and our partners sponsored “Adobe Tips & Flicks”, a seminar in which luminaries from the video production and post-production industry shared tips about their workflows using Adobe tools. Here are links to the individual recordings for the sessions: Overview of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium, with Colin Smith Beautiful Graphics for Video […]
Libec Camera Support Equipment at NAB2012(Booth # C9519) 28th March, 2012 – Libec, a brand of the HEIWA SEIKI KOGYO CO., LTD. based in Japan, is pleased to announce a wide range of new products at the upcoming NAB2012. Libec presents our new SWIFT JIB50 Telescopic Jib, REMO30 Remote Head, ZFC-5HD All-in-One Zoom and Focus […]
mamoworld.com has today released MochaImport+, the successor of the popular After Effects tool MochaImport. The new version allows to launch Mocha directly from inside After Effects. You can send clips from After Effects to Mocha in a single click – even masks, in- and outpoints are transferred. A second big change is the new stabilization […]
BenQ America Corp. today announced that the next-generation LX60ST and LW61ST – the first short-throw education projectors to feature the company’s cutting-edge blue core light engine – are now available in the United States exclusively from AVI-SPL and Projector People through the end of April 2012. AVI-SPL is a leading provider of video communications and […]
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Telecast Fiber Systems today announced the launch of the Terrapin FTR-D6, a 3Gb/s fiber optic video transceiver that also incorporates a six-output distribution amplifier. With four modes of operation, the Terrapin is a compact, bidirectional throw-down device that is ideal for distributing an HD video signal to several locations within a large venue. “In a […]
This is the second in a series of interviews with the pioneers and masters in the compositing/VFX film & television industry. I originally recorded these interviews for my published book “The Green Screen Handbook” (Sybex/Wiley, pub) and had intended to produce one full-length documentary from the materials. But after a couple of years past now, […]
Read More… from The Masters of Compositing Series – Part 2: Paul Vlahos
Not so long ago the toughest choice we had to make was which film stock to use. It was possible to learn one or two stocks really, really well and use them predictably over the course of many years. Now a game-changing camera comes out every year, introducing us to new strengths and weakness. Not […]
