Archive for the 'postproduction' Category

Plane flights


Totally off topic, but so cool I had to post it. Here are the trajectories of planes over a few days in March 2005.

Oh wait, it’s an example of motion graphics!

 

Why does audio sound bad, or need to be rendered, in Final Cut Pro, Avid, Premiere or iMovie?


Final Cut (and other editing apps) will accept many kinds and formats of audio for import into the Browser or Timeline.

However, just because they will, doesn’t mean you should! :)

If you import compressed audio, for example, in MP3 or AAC codecs, or audio in a different bit or sample rate than your Timeline (such as 44.1 KHz, 32 KHz or …


DVcreators.net releases dvcCast!, a dream come true for web video publishers


dvcCast! box
What is dvcCast!?

dvcCast! is the killer app for publishing video, images and audio on the internet.

Watch a 3 hour job being completed in 10 seconds here:

 

Watch the SampleLab™ tutorial here

Check out TimeFreezer™ here

Watch the movies, then download a free 15 day trial


Final Cut Pro Foundations


DVcreators.net has been known as the world leader in Final Cut Pro training since the day Final Cut Pro 1.0 was released.

We were the training company Apple chose to help launch Final Cut Pro with training on disc, in workshops in over 60 cities and all major trade shows. We …


Warp Speed Workflow #6: First Look: Motion Tracker in Motion 3


Here’s a first look at the new motion tracking behaviors in Motion 3.

Click here to ask a question about Motion.

 

Final Cut Studio Warp Speed Workflow #3: Changing the font of all titles at once


Q: I have 10 zillion titles in my Final Cut Pro project. I just changed my mind and want to change them all to a different font.

How long before the wannabes rip this cool trick off? I mean, what is the DVcreators.net Warp Speed Workflow™ way to do this? …

 

Boris offers free snow filter


Boris Continuum Complete’s Snow filter is an auto-animated snow generator. The filter offers extensive options and allows you to create drifts or make flakes pile up along the edges of an alpha channel.

Download the Free Snow Filter for Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion

Download the Free Snow Filter for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects

The free …


A look at lights in Motion 3


Here’s a “first look” at lights in Motion 3.

These “first looks” are simply improvised explorations, and bear only slight resemblance to our tutorial products, which are painstakingly scripted and polished over many months for an optimum learning experience, then presented in our next-generation chunkalized™ hands-on learning environment. But they are cool, anyway. :)

To view (non-chunkalized) excerpts from our tutorial …

 

Final Cut Express Foundations


DVcreators.net has been known as the world leader in Final Cut training since the day Final Cut Pro 1.0 was released.

We were the training company Apple chose to help launch Final Cut Pro with training on disc, in workshops in over 60 cities and all major trade shows. We have taught alongside Randy Ubillos, the …

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Rayz O Lite - free half-hour course on programming awesome light rays in QC


Ever since the release of our DV Enlightenment lighting course, people are always asking us, “How did you make those awesome light rays on your titles?”

In that case, we used an excellent plugin for After Effects called Shine. Shine worked for a bit in Final Cut Pro years back, but then Apple changed the …

 

Warp Speed Workflow #8: There you Glow


Here’s a quick tip (under 40 seconds) for instantly adding a soft glow to titles in Final Cut Pro or Express - without going into LiveType or Motion.

postcode: 3.45

 

Motion PowerStart


Michael Wohl’s Motion PowerStart is a comprehensive training course for Motion containing three clear, fun, and practical hands-on tutorials plus a section on integrating Motion with other Apple programs. It was written by Michael Wohl, a member of the official Motion documentation team, along with Josh Mellicker


Monitoring your work in Final Cut Pro


When you’re EDITING, you can make good decisions just watching the Canvas Window on your laptop.

But for color grading, it’s critically important to watch your show on a monitor that’s displaying an accurate image. Monitoring is important because all your color grading work is going to be off if the monitor you’re watching while you work is not telling the …