After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Pixel Motion Blur

After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Pixel Motion Blur 1

When you shoot a fast-moving object with a longer shutter time (half of the frame’s duration is the typical “filmic” setting), you will get natural motion blur. However, if your shutter speed is too fast, or if you rendered a 3D scene with fast motion and no motion blur, objects will appear to jump from […]

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Performing swap edits in DaVinci Resolve 12

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On this week’s Under 5 from Ripple Training, Alexis Van Hurkman shows us how to perform swap edits in the newly release Resolve 12. Check out all the new features in Alexis’ new training. […]

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Capturing the aftermath of Nepal’s earthquake

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I got my start at Al Jazeera English/America. I remember my first digital photo camera – it was a Sony Alpha. Though I started my career as a photojournalist, I soon realized I wanted to move into video, so I taught myself to shoot on a DSLR. I never went to school for video production, so […]

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Screen replacement in Final Cut Pro X with TrackX

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This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin from Ripple Training shows us how he used CoreMelt’s TrackX plugin for Final Cut Pro X to track a video clip to an iPad for a recent project. Screen replacement is a common task facing many editors these days. And while the masking tools in Final Cut Pro […]

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Slamdance’s Film Festival: final deadline

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The Slamdance Film Festival accepts films in every genre or any topic from every country around the world. There is an entry fee, but that has not stopped the number of submissions from growing. For the 2015 festival, Slamdance received over 5,000 total submissions. The final program for one edition will include about 100 films […]

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Typhoon G multicopter: made for GoPro

Typhoon G multicopter: made for GoPro 6

The newest member of the Typhoon family is designed to provide smooth and stable aerial footage for the GoPro camera in a package that delivers Yuneec’s standard of being ready, easy and safe for consumers everywhere. “We believe the Typhoon G will be the aerial and ground imaging solution of choice for GoPro enthusiasts because […]

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Audio post workflow for the feature film, “War Room”

Audio post workflow for the feature film, "War Room" 7

This is the third and final article in the post production process for the theatrical feature film War Room which I co-edited with director, Alex Kendrick.  This article will walk through the steps from picture lock through the audio editing, sound design and final mix. […]

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