A single picture reveals all the colors of a movie

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If you compress the colors from The Grand Budapest Hotel in a single graphic, the result is one image which shows much of the tones used in the film and through them the mood of the story. But other films will not easily reveal their mood through the colors. The process is not new, but […]

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After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Automatic Fades

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As we’ve said many times, After Effects is not an NLE – but often, it’s easier to keep everything inside After Effects instead of splitting a project across multiple programs. One of the biggest issues for editors coming to After Effects is that video segments have to each exist on their own track, each with […]

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Magic Leap: a future without screens

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Magic Leap is, as stated on their website, “an eclectic group of visionaries, rocket scientists, wizards, and gurus from the fields of film, robotics, visualization, software, computing, and user experience”. They want to change the way people will interact with the world tomorrow. If they have it their way, screens can vanish from our daily […]

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Blackmagic Video Assist Review

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With the $459.00 SDI/HDMI Monitor/Recorder does Blackmagic have a hit of a product with the Video Assist on their hands? […]

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Jayse Hansen helps movie audiences suspend reality

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Jayse Hansen is a sought-after fictional UI designer and animator who learned his trade not in school, but through books and from other great designers. After working in print and web design, he taught himself Adobe After Effects and set his sights on a career in the film industry. […]

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