January 14, 2010

Color Managed Workspace

Johan Steen has posted a Amazing article on color management, that if you consider your self to have even slight bit of a video enthusiast in you, you should read it. Its one of the many gotchas that plague the post production work and if you don't know how to handle color you will be left scratching your head when you actors are so red and over saturated they end up looking like the cast of Jersey shore.

Article is here

Brought to us courtesy of AE portal

January 12, 2010

Tamper: The future of Editing

Tamper is a cool new software program, that lets you interactivity edit footage and elements using only simple hand gestures. Yes people rejoice, for the future is now.

More here:
http://makingof.com/insiders/media/john/underkoffler/john-underkoffler-tamper-s-with-the-future-of-editing/94/209

Obviously this is still in its infancy, but you can see the idea there. And in all honesty lets be real with our selfs. It was only a matter of time be for someone made this. I mean we are all ready headed in that direction ever since the mass production of wacom tablets and consumer touch screen laptops. This very well might be a small glimpse in to the future, and i like it. Editing video a la Xbox Natal.. sounds nice.

-Tony

Trapcode users rejoyce


If you haven't already checked out Trapcode's new site GO check it out here:


Its a web site dedicated to users or Trapcode Particular. You can share tips and tricks, and of course... presets. If you where sad to see trapcodepeople.net go this will put a smile on your face.

-J

January 10, 2010

News segment

As you all know I have been absent from the blog for a while. Reason being is that work has flooded my life as well as family and life in general. However as you might have noticed Tony is also helping me run this site and has been very generous with his time.
There are many things to come this year so expect changes. One of them being that I will hopefully post more around here. In the mean time, tony has put up some great tuts, so make sure you check'em out.

Now as far as Actual news goes many of you must know something about CS5, unless you have been living under a rock for the past couple of months. To re-cap here are some things:


Adobe CS5 will come in one flavor only, thats 64-bit. Good news for everyone, bad news for plug-in makers. Since plenty of code will have to be ported to 64-bit. The decision is clear though and its the right move. If you want that better performance and more stability then 64-bit is the way to go. Speaking of performance, adobe's new Mercury playback engine is said to give Premiere PRO real-time editing capabilities. However according to sources the Mercury engine is CUDA based and so to run it you need a Nvidia card. Sorry ATI people, but you will be left out this time. Which is a shame because ATI makes some very powerful cards. Over all adobe is moving in the right direction. News on AE cs5 is scarce, but i do hope they have listened to our suggestions.

If you want to add suggestions, report bugs or make a wish your self hop over to:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

Have a good one

-J

January 09, 2010

AE: Greenscreen Tutorial


Second in depth tutorial, and this is on chroma keying. Since the last one covered compositing more I thought this time I should focus more on greenscreen work. These tutorials are a bit more advanced and require some knowledge of AE and greenscreen work already since the focus is more on the workflow and its more in depth, so the basics will be flown over by pretty quickly.

I will let you know that im running CS4 right now and i apologize to all of my CS3 and below users. However if you follow the PDF's you should be just fine and I do provide you with the project file and footage.

This one is also courtesy of Umesh, and I want thank him for the awesome work he has been doing for a while providing everybody with free HD footage for a while. If you want to play with footage go check out his site.


Download the project file:



AE: Compositing tutorial



Learn how to create a jet fighter flyover shot using only 2D elements. The result is a very realistic yet easy (if you know what you're doing) way of doing these types of shots. We will also cover some good compositing techniques and tips for color matching.

After having had some time off I decided to put up a tutorial on actual compositing, a subject skipped by most tutorial web site about After effects. You find a good amount of Nuke and Shake compositing tutorials but not many AE ones. Well I plan to change that. You can bet there are going to be more compositing tutorials for AE coming up soon. So stay tuned for those.



The footage is a free clip courtesy of Umesh off his website here:



Download the Project file and PDF here: