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How does Motion compare with After Effects?

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at August 3, 2007 5 Comments

After Effects is the software from whence a new art form, motion graphics, was born.

Motion offers many advantages and disadvantages to AE. The two can work together, AE users can use Motion to generate layers for their AE compositions.

Owners of both, before starting many projects, will have to pause and consider which program to use.

So when would you use Motion?

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Article found in post visuals, After Effects, Motion and DV news.

After Effects PowerStart

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Josh

at June 28, 2007 4 Comments

Some of you may be wondering what we’ve been up to lately. Well, we have many top-secret projects cooking up in our lab, buried deep within the Hollywood hills (yes, we’ve taken over Dr. Evil’s lair after his retirement).

One thing is that we’ve collaborated with the great Stephen Schleicher on the world’s finest After …

Article found in post visuals, gear, DV Revolution Report #23, motion graphics, After Effects, tutorial DVDs, postproduction and DV news.

How do I cut a subject out of the background?

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Josh

at October 14, 2006 1 Comment

To separate a subject from a background, you can either:

1. shoot in front of a greenscreen/bluescreen, then key out the background in postproduction

You can also key out a background that is much darker or brighter than your subject, but it usually takes a little more work, because often your subject will have pixels that …

Article found in editing, post visuals, motion graphics, After Effects, Motion, postproduction and Final Cut Pro.

Optimizing After Effects 7 for Intel Macs

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Josh

at September 13, 2006 0 Comments

If you’ve had any problem with After Effects and Intel Macs, this article might help.

Article found in motion graphics, After Effects and postproduction.

After Effects 7

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Josh

at January 18, 2006 0 Comments

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Demos at MGLA (Motion Graphics Los Angeles) meeting, courtesy of the Pixel Corps:

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Article found in post visuals, motion graphics and After Effects.

How did you get the cool light rays in the DV Enlightenment DVD titles?

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Josh

at January 3, 2006 0 Comments

For the light rays (and you can see them in the demo movies here), we used After Effects and a plug-in called Shine. Check it out here.

Article found in post visuals, After Effects and postproduction.

Why are my titles and graphics pixelated in Final Cut?

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Josh

at December 31, 2005 3 Comments

This is a common question and there are several answers:

1. First, the Final Cut Pro Canvas has a low quality playback engine that will not show the original quality of the clip. (Why? On slower machines, you can play layers, title overlays, real time filters etc. a lot better.) So, the Canvas will always show titles and graphics more pixelated

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Article found in editing, post visuals, graphics, Final Cut Studio, motion graphics, LiveType, Final Cut Express, Motion, postproduction, After Effects and Final Cut Pro.

Where can I find stock photos for use in video projects?

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Josh

at October 31, 2005 7 Comments

When moving footage is not available, don’t forget about still photos! You can animate still photos with motion and scale, crop them, apply filters (like sepia, B & W, color tint) and sometimes stills can fill empty spots in your timeline as well or even better than a video clip. Also, many stock photos are automatically HD res!…