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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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Aug 19, 2008 at 12:22 pm in post visuals by · Leave a Comment »
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 automatic and no manual labor is required from the user. The major limitation [read more →]
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Motion PowerStart is an extensive training course for Motion containing a to-the-point interface orientation and three clear, fun and practical hands-on tutorials written by a member of the official Apple documentation, Michael Wohl, along with Josh Mellicker of DVcreators.net.
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Sep 27, 2007 at 10:41 pm in broadcast, cinematography, DVD, editing, film, post visuals, web video by · 12 Comments »
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 [read more →]
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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.
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Notable points:
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Mar 1, 2007 at 9:08 pm in digital video news by · Comments are closed.
Nattress Big Box of Tricks includes the existing filters from the discontinued Nattress Set 1 and Set 2, as well as several new filters.
The package consists of eight groups of filters, one group of generators and one group of transitions:
Blurs: These filters give you several different ways to blur your image, or parts of your image. Includes: G Cool Blur, G Directional Blur, G Horizontal and Vertical Blur, G [read more →]
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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 [read more →]
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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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If you’ve had any problem with After Effects and Intel Macs, this article might help.
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Free morphing software for OS X here.
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Jun 24, 2006 at 5:02 pm in post visuals by · 2 Comments »
50 Point Bezier Matte is a filter for Final Cut Pro (and Final Cut Express) that lets you create a garbage matte with up to 50 points. Unlike the 4 and 8 point garbage matte filters that come with Final Cut Pro, 50 Point Bezier Matte lets you create curves between the points instead of straight lines. This allows you to easily create a mask to extract almost [read more →]
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Mar 7, 2006 at 3:19 pm in digital video news, post visuals by · Comments are closed.
Maya Personal Learning Edition is a special version of Maya® software, which provides free access to Maya for non-commercial use. It gives 3D graphics and animation students, industry professionals, and those interested in breaking into the world of computer graphics (CG) an opportunity to explore all aspects of the award-winning Maya Complete software in a non-commercial capacity.
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Features:
* Deinterlace movies (half height/normal height/double frame rate/blend,adaptive/simple). * Change field dominance (for PAL films with fake interlace). * Reinterlace from one or two movies. * Standards conversion (PAL< ->NTSC or custom). * Inverse telecine. * Trim, shift, simple color correction, noise reduction. * Change encoding (RGB gamma, video range/full range). * Fix jagged edges. * Pitch preserving sound track for half speed. * Change movie speed, reverse movie. * Interlaced in/out, progressive in/out. * Includes utility to view and [read more →]
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