This happens a lot: I’m budgeting a script and I get to this crowded street scene, or a basketball game, or a really killer dance set piece. I figure out as best I can how many extras are needed, and budget all the related costs accordingly. Then I present the budget to the producer and […]
Month: July 2014
Color Grading for the Masses
Color Grading is an advanced video editing technique used by all professional film makers to inject mood and energy into productions. Color Grading was, in the past, almost a science practiced by a few selected, but in fact, these days, it is accessible to almost anyone, either through specific programs or with plugins that extend […]
Adobe Premiere Pro and the evolution of the NLE
Al Mooney, senior product manager for Adobe Premiere Pro, has a long history in digital video editing and has played his part in the evolution of the NLE. Mooney grew up in the Southwest of England and studied music and sound recording at the University of Surrey. Starting out as a broadcast engineer, he went […]
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Using CycoreFX plug-ins in Premiere Pro and After Effects
Over the last several years a few users have experimented with using CycoreFX (“CC”) plug-ins built into After Effects inside of Premiere Pro. The current version that ships with AE, the only supported host app for the product, is CycoreFX HD (AE Bundle Only). CS6 saw an upgrade of dozens of the effects to 16-bpc […]
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After Effects Menu Command ID’s
Largest list of Command ID’s available for After Effects. […]
Renaming and Relinking Files in Final Cut Pro X
Keep your filenames – and find them more easily. This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve and Mark from Ripple Training continue their exploration of the new features in the 10.1.2 update to Final Cut Pro X. Today, they explore two improvements: file import and file relinking. In previous versions of FCP X, when […]
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Being a Videographer in Virtual Worlds
I continue to test PowerDirector 12 as an option to edit my videos, and this is a new article about the program and what I am doing with it. It is also a mix of different technologies in use, from nVidia's ShadowPlay to a PC game that will be launched this year, Elite: Dangerous, from […]
Blackmagic Design to Hold Live Seminars in Los Angeles and New York City
Blackmagic Design today announced it will host live seminars on July 24 in Los Angeles and August 13 in New York City, featuring hands on demonstrations of the company’s newly announced NAB 2014 products, including the new Blackmagic URSA and Blackmagic Studio Camera product lines. At both events, Blackmagic Design will showcase its complete range […]
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3D Technology Revolutionizes Advertising and Distribution for Everyone
San Francisco-based DMAX Imaging creates high-end visualizations and animations for leaders in design and innovation such as Beats, Mini and Nest. Founded by three partners who wanted to reinvent the prepress experience, DMAX focuses on meeting customer needs instead of selling a particular product or technology. McKay Hawkes, CGI Director at DMAX Imaging, talks to […]
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After Effects Icons
Do the After Effects CC icons confuse you? Try these replacement icons for After Effects 7 – CC2017 […]