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NOW AVAILABLE AS AN IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD THROUGH DVcreatorsUniversity!
Includes $180 of objects and textures from LiveType Central. (See examples below.)
 LiveType PowerStart excerpt 1 |
LiveType PowerStart excerpt 4 |
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This innovative research into using high resolution photos in conjunction with lower quality video leads to some very interesting possibilities… the depth mapping conjures visions of adjustable depth-of-field in post, for example.
Check out the video examples:
The work presents a system for automatically producing a wide variety of video enhancements and visual effects. Unlike traditional visual effects software (e.g., After Effects, Shake, Boujou, etc), the system is completely …
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!
| Downloads 1370This exploration of lights in Motion 3 is now available for free download through DVcreatorsUniversity.
Click here to ask a question or make a comment about Motion.
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 plugin API, and Shine no longer worked in Final Cut. (It works now, however!)
I’ve always liked the super-dramatic light rays effect, but the light rays filters in Motion and Final Cut Pro take too long to render… and frankly, …
| Downloads 3034Here’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
| Downloads 761
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 of DVcreators.net.
Motion PowerStart excerpt 1
Motion PowerStart excerpt 2
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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 truth.
Think of all the ways viewers might watch your project. If you’re delivering on DVD, your show might be watched on plasma or LCD TVs, projectors, or older CRT TVs - but they also might be watching the DVD on …
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 Effects hands-on course. Final Cut Pro editors have delved into LiveType, then Motion, but many are finding they are still seeking an industrial-strength motion graphics and compositing environment. There are many great reasons After Effects continues to be the …
Have you ever found yourself changing the file names of a whole folder of clips, graphic or other files on your hard drive one by one? Here is a Warp Speed Workflow showing how to change hundred of files names in one click.
| Downloads 490Click here to ask a question about Final Cut Studio workflows.
Notable points:
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Here is a packet of freebie FX from the DVcreatorsFX labs… a snowy blizzard!
Just add a windy sound effect from Soundtrack Pro and you’ll want to huddle around the fire.
These animations are each a minute long and include an alpha channel so you can drag it right into Final Cut Pro (or Motion) over your video to add swirling snowflakes to any scene.
They utilize OpenGL and CoreVideo so they play in real time on most recent systems!
We’ve included versions for many video formats:
blizzard DV-NTSC
blizzard DV-NTSC 16:9
blizzard PAL
blizzard …
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