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CoreMeltFREE! – 33 Free plugins for FCP, FCE, Motion and AE

Mar 18, 2011 at 8:42 pm in editing, post production, post visuals by Josh Mellicker · Leave a Comment »

CoreMeltFREE! Offers 33 plugins from all our products including:

Click on the plugin names for more info.

ImageFlow FX:
Multipop ForwardFilmstripCarouselContinuous Random PanImage Grid

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Why are my titles and graphics pixelated in Final Cut?

Jun 1, 2009 at 10:51 am in editing, post visuals by · 9 Comments »

This is a common question and there are several answers:

First, the Final Cut Pro Canvas usually shows titles and graphics more pixelated and lower quality than the actual quality. Render a title and play it on a real monitor – or render and export a 10 frame test to disk and view to see the true picture.

Read these articles on monitoring: http://www.dvcreators.net/tag/monitoring/ for more info.

If you are rendering to the DV codec, you will see an instant drop in  [read more →]

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How does Motion compare with After Effects?

Aug 3, 2007 at 11:27 am in digital video news, post visuals by · 7 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?

  • projects involving interaction between elements (attracting, repelling, orbiting, bouncing much easier in Motion)
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After Effects PowerStart

Jun 28, 2007 at 12:41 pm in digital video news, DVD, post visuals, self-paced training by · 5 Comments »


After Effects 7 PowerStart is the world’s best learning experience for mastering After Effect’s unique and sophisticated motion graphics creation environment, whether you are a professional graphics artist, video or film editor, or new to digital media. Written by After Effects guru Stephen Schleicher and Josh Mellicker of DVcreators.net.

 

$79.95

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How do I cut a subject out of the background?

Oct 14, 2006 at 5:38 pm in editing, post visuals by · 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 are darker and/or lighter than the background, so there there will be holes in your subject that must be “patched” with a garbage matte. If your  [read more →]

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Optimizing After Effects 7 for Intel Macs

Sep 13, 2006 at 9:46 pm in Uncategorized by · Leave a Comment »

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

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After Effects 7

Jan 18, 2006 at 10:35 am in post visuals by · Leave a Comment »

creativecow.net review

creativemac.com review

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

After Effects 7.0 intro

After Effects Graph Editor

After Effects HDR Demo

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

Jan 3, 2006 at 2:58 am in post visuals by · Leave a Comment »

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.

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

Oct 31, 2005 at 2:52 am in digital video news, post visuals by 22-02-1989 · 9 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!

http://tutorialblog.org/25-places-to-find-awesome-stock-photos-%E2%80%94-free-and-cheap/

Here is a monster list of sites with free photos:

Wikipedia Commons
Stock Exchange
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