Joel Holland has offered up some free footage in both High Def and Standard Def formats - so why not use them? But if you don't know how to composite in Apple's Final Cut Pro, don't worry that these free graphic elements don't come with alpha channels, you can use transfer modes to drop out the darkest parts of the movie without keying.
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Once you've successfully transferred all your emails, contacts, documents, and media files on to your Mac you can turn to your software - and our next Gotcha! There are the obvious problems, such as your favorite PC program or utility not being available in a Mac version but with a bit of searching on sites like www.MacUpdate.com I'm sure you'll find something that does a similar job. ...Read More »
In this Lynda.com video training series, host Christopher Breen discusses the first things you need to do before you get comfortable with you new Mac and one of them is to go to the store to get an external USB/FireWire hard drive to take advantage of Time Machine, which enables you to essentially reset your computer to a different day, restoring your files, how your system loooked and so forth. ...Read More »
As producers and editors know, the one thing that can completely tank your promo, show or short film is a bad piece of music. The problem is that having a piece of music composed for your show can be expensive, and picking a piece of music out of a stock library can be hit and miss. You could find an awesome track, and then go home and hear the exact same piece of music on the new "Burger Joint" commercial....Read More »
If you've been using Avid, Final Cut, or After Effects for any amount of time, you probably know the Boris FX filters, but in the event that you've missed them, Boris wants you to check out their glittery offering from the Continuum Complete set. In other news, Boris now offers sparks for Autodesk products. The glittery plugin is great, but you might notice a couple of gotchas. This might help....Read More »
For the second of my three part article series, I will look at the second most important part of your edit, and that is the sound mix. In many cases, the sound mix can make or break your show. Avid has always been the leader when it comes to taking an edit from the Media Composer (MC), and sending it via OMF to ProTools for a mix, and then sending it back to MC for the final output. ...Read More »
In my " Quick Look " at Left 4 Dead I hadn't yet played the Player vs Player mode in my little review, but I have since been to the dark side as the infected and my laughter could not be contained.
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The seventh book in the d'artiste series?Matte Painting 2?features
Master Artists, Yusei Uesugi (the first digital movie matte painter),
Max Dennison and Chris Thunig. With more than 30 Hollywood blockbuster
movies to their credit, they sh...
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While its original camera has been out for a year - the newest offering in the Flip line up is now HD. And, while this tiny camera offers a simple version of the HD spec, the 1280 video does give you the option to easily feed the clips into your HD timeline without difficult scale manipulation.
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I just finished testing the new Canon prosumer DSLR, 50D and its one nice camera. It offers many improvements over the previous model, the 40D. Its easier to use than the 40D, is the same size, actually weighs less yet outperforms it in almost every category. For the price ($1,399- just $100 more than the list price of the 40D when it was introduced last year) the 50D offers a a whole lot more bang for your buck.
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Altec Lansing has been building iPod speaker systems for quite a while now, and before that was a purveyor of PC speaker systems in various price ranges. As Apple has offered multiple generations of its iPod music and video player, Altec Lansing has offered a speaker system to take advantage of what the iPod can do.
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Once you've successfully transferred all your emails, contacts, documents, and media files on to your Mac you can turn to your software - and our next Gotcha! There are the obvious problems, such as your favorite PC program or utility not being available in a Mac version but with a bit of searching on sites like www.MacUpdate.com I'm sure you'll find something that does a similar job.
...Read More »
In this Lynda.com video training series, host Christopher Breen discusses the first things you need to do before you get comfortable with you new Mac and one of them is to go to the store to get an external USB/FireWire hard drive to take advantage of Time Machine, which enables you to essentially reset your computer to a different day, restoring your files, how your system loooked and so forth.
...Read More »
As producers and editors know, the one thing that can completely tank your promo, show or short film is a bad piece of music. The problem is that having a piece of music composed for your show can be expensive, and picking a piece of music out of a stock library can be hit and miss. You could find an awesome track, and then go home and hear the exact same piece of music on the new "Burger Joint" commercial.
...Read More »
If you've been using Avid, Final Cut, or After Effects for any amount of time, you probably know the Boris FX filters, but in the event that you've missed them, Boris wants you to check out their glittery offering from the Continuum Complete set. In other news, Boris now offers sparks for Autodesk products. The glittery plugin is great, but you might notice a couple of gotchas. This might help.
...Read More »
For the second of my three part article series, I will look at the second most important part of your edit, and that is the sound mix. In many cases, the sound mix can make or break your show. Avid has always been the leader when it comes to taking an edit from the Media Composer (MC), and sending it via OMF to ProTools for a mix, and then sending it back to MC for the final output.
...Read More »
In my " Quick Look " at Left 4 Dead I hadn't yet played the Player vs Player mode in my little review, but I have since been to the dark side as the infected and my laughter could not be contained.
Read More
The seventh book in the d'artiste series?Matte Painting 2?features
Master Artists, Yusei Uesugi (the first digital movie matte painter),
Max Dennison and Chris Thunig. With more than 30 Hollywood blockbuster
movies to their credit, they sh...
Read More
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