Chapter: 24P Film or Video
Topic: Editing 24P Source
Film can be shot at either 24fps or 25fps for a PAL finish. There are two ways to transfer the film to tape.
http://zerocut.com/tech/pal/pal.html
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Chapter: Audio
Topic: Basic Audio Technology
Because video isn’t a perfect 30 frames per second, but rather 29.97*, syncing audio with a film transfer gets a little more complicated. Now you’ve got a video version of the film which is ALMOST real-time, but not quite. The difference isn’t noticable by watching the picture only, but it presents a problem when trying to syncronize the sound track to the picture. If you don’t slow down the sound accordingly, you will notice that the sound seems to drift away from the picture after 30 seconds or so. The difference in the rates is exactly the same as the difference between DROP FRAME and NON DROP FRAME video time code (0.03 frames per second). The drift would add-up to 18 frames every ten minutes.
http://zerocut.com/tech/2_3_audio.html
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Chapter: Distribution
Topic: Interactive
We’re going to turn our attention this time to a program that doesn’t just enlist QuickTime as part of a larger interactive authoring solution, it makes QuickTime itself the entire interactive authoring solution, exporting fully interactive .mov files, ready for playback in the QuickTime player on Macintosh or Windows. The guilty party? Totally Hip’s LiveStage Professional 4.
http://siggraphnews.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=14081
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Chapter: Compositing Tools and Techniques
Topic: Scripting or Expressions
In this tutorial we?re going to explore the wonderful world of the powerful new expression controls which Adobe introduced with After Effects 5.5. We?ll look at several different ways that expression controls can be useful in your projects. First we’ll examine the most straight-forward use of expression controls, which is to use them as a manual adjustment ?master? control to help you set up a comp just the way you want it. Then we’ll explore using expression controls as master animation controllers. Next we’ll examine how you can use an expression control as a limited type of global variable to distribute information to expressions in other layers. Finally, we’ll have some fun using expression controls to create the world?s greatest cameraman. That’s a lot of ground to cover, so let’s get moving!
http://www.creativecow.net/articles/ebberts_dan/expression_cont/index.html
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Chapter: Titling
Topic: Titling Animation
This video demonstrates simulating handwriting using Adobe Premiere 6.5 and Photoshop 7.†A custom Gradient wipe is created in Photoshop to achieve this effect. This technique can be used to create a route being drawn on a map. This exact technique does not work in PPRO. PPRO requires a white/black gradient rather than a black/transparent gradient.
http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial/tutdes_handwriting.htm
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Chapter: Titling
Topic: Roll and Crawl
This video demonstrates creating crawling text using the 6.5 titler and a modified lower third template. Note that this tutorial shares the same demo as the Wrigley Video Productions Stop n Glow tutorial.
http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial/tutdes_crawlingtext.htm
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Chapter: Distribution
Topic: Interactive
Welcome to Part 2 of our Interactive QuickTime Authoring series (as I now belatedly realize the title already told you). From now until we just don’t feel like doing it anymore, we’re going to spotlight various programs from various vendors that use QuickTime in some way or other to help developers author their interactive projects.
http://www.digitalwebcast.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=13968
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Chapter: 24P Film or Video
Topic: Digital Cinema Workflow
It’s been a while since my last article, but just recently I finished shooting and editing a 32 minute, DV short film called We Have Your Daughter, (which, honestly I wrote about a year ago before the latest wave of abductions). I wanted to have something in the festival circuit this year and I knew I wouldn’t get my 35mm film, PsyClone, even funded in time, so this seemed like a good idea; a sort of stepping stone on the way to bigger budgets and even bigger nightmares.
http://www.dvformat.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=14523
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Chapter: Distribution
Topic: Digital Cinema
Where digital cinema is concerned, Peter Wilson belongs to what could be called the ?don?t rush it? school of thought. Wilson, manager of HDTV and advanced technology at Snell & Wilcox, chairs the European Digital Cinema Forum?s technical group and has become a big ally of the Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI), which comprises the major Hollywood studios. ?The problem today is that we haven?t decided what we want, so we have to do that first,? says Wilson. ?The processes are being driven by people waving numbers in the air without knowing what numbers they need from a creative or aesthetic point of view.
http://www.dvformat.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=18512
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Chapter: Compositing Tools and Techniques
Topic: Speed Effects
This video demonstrates creating a Stop and Glow Effect, where a person is isolated, frozen while a short glow occurs, then movement continues. Note that this tutorial shares the same demo as the Wrigley Video Productions Title Crawl tutorial.
http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial/tutdes_stopnglow.htm
TAGS: cut-out, isolate, still, Queer, Eye
