Chapter: Motion Graphic Design
Topic: Backgrounds and Stock Footage
Move through a 3-dimensional gride. Great background or computer effect. 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/ae29_e.html
TAGS: fractal
Chapter: Compositing Tools and Techniques
Topic: Speed Effects
Constant speed changes and variable speed changes with the Time Remap tool
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_4_time_remap.html
TAGS: speed, time remap, frame blending, motion tab keyframe graph
Chapter: Visual and Creative Effects
Topic: Space
One of the trippiest effects of all time has to be the Star Gate sequence at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Originally, Kubrick and the rest of the crew didn?t have the benefit of computer technology to assist in the creation of the movie. Instead they relied on a ?Slit Scan? machine created by innovator Douglas Trumbull. This created the illusion of two planes of infinite proportions. Some of the shots that went into the final effect included aerial landscape footage and chemical interactions.
http://www.creativemac.com/2003/07_jul/tutorials/stargatess.htm
TAGS: time
Chapter: Color Correction
Topic: Creative
The effect that we are going to create will extract the colour of an entire piece of footage except for one item. This is similar to the effect that was used in the movie Pleasantville. The “Pleasantville” Effect – if you have ever seen the movie, in some of the black and white sequences, some items start to become colour.
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_pleasantville_look.html
TAGS: color corrector
Chapter: Editing
Topic: Trimming
The subject of this article is using Media Manager to ‘trim’ a sequence in the offline/online editing process.
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/FCP_4_trim_dang_it.html
TAGS: “uprez, trim, recapture, offline to online”
Chapter: Music
Topic: Composing for Film or Video
For those of you who may be just starting out with video editing and Final Cut Pro, let’s go over, in order of expense, the methods most video editors use to obtain music for their projects.
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/soundtrack_editors.html
TAGS: “composed, library, custom, buyout”
Chapter: Editing
Topic: Editing Workflow
Apple has really changed the face of Post Production with the power and affordability of Final Cut Pro. In Creative Cow leader Walter Biscardi’s view, the real power of the product is its flexibility. From offline to uncompressed HDTV, from laptop to desktop, FCP gives unparalleled flexibility to production creatives. Recently, Walter took FCP on the road for a three day corporate shoot and found it to be a major tool in the project. Here’s his report…
http://www.creativecow.net/articles/biscardi_walter/fieldediting_fcp/index.html
TAGS: “Powerbook, location, portable”
Chapter: Compositing Tools and Techniques
Topic: Displacement
Doing your own superhero movie? How the heck do we ‘Normals’ summon our heroes in the time of need? Batman used the Bat Signal. In this Adobe After Effects Pro exercise, we?ll create our own Bat Signal reflecting off the clouds.
http://www.creativemac.com/2003/07_jul/tutorials/displacess.htm
TAGS: Displace, bend, distort
Chapter: Audio
Topic: Equalization Settings
There are very few absolute “Rights and Wrongs” when it comes to EQ. Basically, if it sounds good to you, it’s right. There are some generally accepted thoughts on the matter though, so we’ll go over some of them as starting points.
http://www.getimo.de/linkpage2/html/tuts.php?/linkpage2/html/tuts_common_eq101.php
TAGS:
Chapter: Editing
Topic: Basic Skills
This article is a suggested method of project setup for an NTSC Firewire FCP editing station. It was developed in a busy multi-user college editing lab. It is a system for ensuring that individual projects are properly configured and that each editor’s work is safe and secure in a lab where many hands pass over one FCP station every day.
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/ambitious_fcp_4_x.html
TAGS: “multiple users, configure drives, scratch disks, preferences, audio sample rates”
