Chapter: Compositing Tools and Techniques
Topic: Compositing Tips or Shortcuts
Great workaround if you don’t own the spark
http://www.fxguide.com/fxtips-232.html
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Chapter: Compositing Tools and Techniques
Topic: Masking or Rotoscoping
There’s more to splines than simple image extraction. Sure they’re great for cutting mattes, but mask data in After Effects is based on Bezier paths that contain specific values which can be used for more than alpha channels. In this tutorial, we take a quick look at “lifting” the shape data for use in less obvious tasks, including position keyframing.
http://www.creativemac.com/2004/01_jan/tutorials/ko19spline2040119.htm
TAGS: spline, outline, separate, mask, isolate, extract, path
Chapter: Business
Topic: Career Development
Producers – AS WELL AS business owners, directors, editors, developers and designers?at independent facilities are often described as a breed apart. Self-starters, entrepreneurs, go-getters and creative types are just a few phrases that come to mind when describing those independents who log long hours and sweat equity in the interest of calling their own shots. Yet, despite those common monikers, this group as a whole is hard to characterize. The differences among them are often greater than those among the in-house producers we surveyed for the first Salary Survey installment that we published last month. Because of this, we went back out into the field to ask several independents how they planned to improve their earnings in the year ahead and, repeating one of the original survey questions, what was the hardest part of running their own shop.
http://www.avvmmp.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=24645
TAGS: salary, pay, remuneration, income,
Chapter: Video and Computer Technology
Topic: Production Codecs
The genesis for this technique came from a recent client installation in New York City where we were experimenting with different codecs to see which would be the best to use for high-quality off-line editing.
http://www.lafcpug.org/basic_codec_jordan.html
TAGS: “10 bit, 8 bit, DVCPRO-50, DV, DVCAM”
Chapter: Editing
Topic: Logging
A recent thread on LAFCPUG.org raised the question of whether one could use a spreadsheet, like Excel, to log timecode and have it automatically calculate duration for each clip, as well as overall duration. I volunteered to look into it, and here is the result. Now you can log shots and determine duration without having to run back and forth to a timecode calculator. Accompanying this document is an Excel spreadsheet with the formulas to accomplish this. Consider it a template, to be expanded and modified to your needs. Feel free to contact me with questions and kudos.
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/timecode_spreadsheet.html
TAGS: “logging, spreadsheet, import log”
Chapter: Color Correction
Topic: Creative
In the real world of compositing your set props cant always be the right color. Tis tutorial shows you how to adjust for such issues by using simple color correcting to isolate your props for client adjustment.
http://www.cmivfx.com/i/mov/carColor640.mov
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Chapter: Color Correction
Topic: Creative
In the real world of compositing your set props cant always be the right color. Tis tutorial shows you how to adjust for such issues by using simple color correcting to isolate your props for client adjustment.
http://www.cmivfx.com/i/mov/carColor640.mov
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Chapter: Audio
Topic: Recording
How come the audio is so soft when I record on a professional camera in auto mode? This article compares VU levels with digital audio levels and makes sense of the disparity
http://www.philpang.com/tips/minidv_audio.html
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Chapter: High Definition
Topic: HD Acquisition
Can you substitute DV tape for DVCPRO HD? Will it work? How long will it run? All this and more.
http://www.philpang.com/tips/dvcprohd.html
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Chapter: Image Acquisition
Topic: Shooting Tips
The how and why of shooting video underwater
http://www.philpang.com/tips/underwater.html
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