Chapter: Editing
Topic: Music and Dialog
This tutorial demonstrates how create a photo montage timed to music.† This highlights the Automate to Timeline feature of the Adobe Premiere 6 storyboard utility.
http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial/tutdes_montagetomusic.htm
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Chapter: Video and Computer Technology
Topic: Monitoring Video
One of the best ways of speeding your work in AE is to use low- resolutions proxies to substitute your original footage. This will increase the speed while previewing or rendering your work tremendously, especially if you are working with 3D. A proxy can be a lower resolution still or movie and you can replace it by the original footage at any time just by clicking on the respective proxy button on your footage window. In this article, Serge Hamad explains the procedure while creating a 3d ride through a corridor.
http://www.creativecow.net/articles/hamad_serge/proxies/index.html
TAGS: 3D, draft, post, render, action, pre-render, element
Chapter: Editing
Topic: Effects
This video demonstrates adding the echo effect to an isolated area of a video frame
http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial/tutdes_motiontrails.htm
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Chapter: Production Crafts
Topic: Writing
Screenwriter Robert Olague interviews screenwriter Caroline Thompson about her screenplay for “Edward Scissorhands,” working with Tim Burton, and how she got started in Hollywood. Today, following the interview, she has gone on to direct, produce and write for her own films like Hallmark’s “Snow White: The Fairest of Them All.”
http://www.creativecow.net/articles/olague_robert/caroline_thompson/index.html
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Chapter: Compositing Tools and Techniques
Topic: Speed Effects
Have you ever looked at your rendered animation and just thought, ‘Something just wasn’t right?’ In this tutorial, Bryan Preston demonstrates the use of AE 5.5’s Time Remapping Filter to control the speed of an animation.
http://www.creativecow.net/articles/preston_bryan/time_remapping/index.html
TAGS: increase, decrease, slow, speed, up,reverse, slowmo, motion, backward
Chapter: Visual and Creative Effects
Topic: Lines, Blocks or Swirls
Glowing flowing lines following geometric patterns. Ayato’s tutorials are very advanced. Because English is his second language you really need to know After Effects moderately well to follow all the steps. Some additional plug-ins are needed, but most are available in demonstration form.
http://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae09_e.html#
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Chapter: Editing
Topic: Effects
An Avid-published guide posted as a pdf. Covers multiple chpaters of creating and working with effects in XpressDV.
http://www.damienbenoit.com/tutorials/Avid_Xpress_DV3_Effects_Guide.pdf
TAGS: Customizing, customize, effects, types, creation, tools, palette, third-party, previewing, playing, stabilizing, layered, layering, nested, nesting, titles, rendering.
Chapter: Visual and Creative Effects
Topic: Simulating Displays
Here is a receipe on how to create your own custom time-display for use in your movies. The typcal applications for this would be:
? Give your client a rough edit of your movie on tape or on a CD with a time overlay. Client uses this as a reference for comments.
? Imitate sports broadcasts or game shows that needs a time display.
? Scientific or educational purposes.
http://home.online.no/~bro-nes/premiere/create_a_clock.htm
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Chapter: Video and Computer Technology
Topic: Production Codecs
While these codec comparisons are with codecs no longer widely used, they show how different codecs can have an effect on the result. Similar differences will be seen between the current (September 2004) Avid DV Codec and Apple DV Codec. Those comparisons can be found in the article “Codec comparison images Avid and Apple DV” on 24P.com in the Editing category for Articles. (Also indexed under XpressDV and Final Cut Pro.)
http://www.adamwilt.com/pix-codecs.html
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Chapter: Visual and Creative Effects
Topic: Lines, Blocks or Swirls
Bezier Warp under the distort menu is a great tool for bending objects. In this third section of our light storm tutorial, Bill O’Neil demonstrates the use of Bezier warp to precisely bend the light storm to fit the scene.
http://www.creativecow.net/articles/oneil_bill/bezier_warp/index.html
TAGS: splotches, blips, smear, glow, distort, bend
