tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53722799083441991712012-02-16T06:07:15.427-08:00Kalika's Post-Production Blog tips-links-tutorialskalikanoreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372279908344199171.post-42272508905447531842010-04-27T14:31:00.000-07:002010-04-27T14:32:04.344-07:00

Found this great widget for Mac:http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/calculate_convert/timecodecalculatorwidget.html

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Open a new After Effects Project:-Drag the mov in Proj window onto the Comp icon to make a comp the same size and duration-View menu/Show rulers -drag from the rulers down to get horizon line (guide lines)Window/Tracker -select the layer and click "stabilize motion" button -outer box: how far from frame to frame the computer's going to look for your unique pattern -inner box: the unique

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Maya's Dark Theatre ShowSebastian's Anime-inspired VideoZach's Water DropletsCandice Text Animation

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I try to teach my classes so everyone can see what my little mouse cursor is doing.This movie shows how to set up both Mac and PC so you can do the zooming in thing I do when I teach at Pratt and NYU!And learn about Mouse Finder/Mouse Locator here: Mac only, unfortunately:http://2point5fish.com

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style="font-weight:bold;">The BasicsFilm scratchesCreate Colorful ConfettiShatter glassMaking a crowdAnd the famous ones:Video CopilotMaltaanon.comGreyscale Gorilla's Blog & Tutorials

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When I see stuff like this I want to be a particle.let yourself feel. from Esteban Diácono on Vimeo.Trapcode Training video tutorialsHow to use the Cycore effects that ship with AETrapcode Particular: create an illuminating light painting effectAE tuts on Toolfarm WebsiteParticle Playground basic tutorialAudio to Sound WavesMore Soundwave stuff

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Congrats on graduating college. And to put it in the words of one of my best clients/colleagues, "Sure, there's a recession going on. But the way I see it, it's up to me whether I choose to participate in it or not." To answer your question, "What path did you take after you graduated, did you launch into having your own studio right away?" – I'd say that my career path was a bit winding. At the

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-Production process-Requirements for your finalHomework:-present your final project idea and work in progress-Title page with Elevator Pitch statement-Idea boards: color, type style, references, texture-Color palette-Reference movies: have your YouTube links ready and cued!-Style frames: 3 frames of what your animation will look like-Finish the in-class Affirmation Animation (I know, it's like so

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Outputting a high-resolution format from QT Pro: Open your movie in QT Player Pro Export: Movie to QT Movie Use: Default Settings Click the OPTIONS buttonThis opens a new window.From the top: Video: Compression Animation Keyframes All (how many frames are perfect: higher # means that many are crap betw frames. every 100 means it's only perfect 1/100 frames. Depth Millions Quality Best Size

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Screenings: Michel Gondry-Hardest Button to Button   Making of -Sugar Water Making of -Kylie Minogue "Come into My World"  Making of FCP:Sequence menu/Seq settings/Timeline options -Show audio waveforms checkboxFCP time remap -Constant speed: change the duration or speed of your clip uniformly throughout -Variable speed: keyframe your clip's timing. -3rd tool in Slip edit (in FC toolbox) is your

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Screenings: -Michael Jackson's "Thriller" -Michael and Janet Jackson's "Scream" -Bambi sings Soulja boy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdi48oUdZP0 -Lasse Gjertsen's "Amateur" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo Morphing tutorialhttp://library.creativecow.net/articles/zwar_chris/morph.php to change your DVD footage to usable MOVsMPEG Streamcliphttp://

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Particles & explosions:you can use footage for this (shoot your own, go to detonationfilms.com)And/or you can use a particle generator, such as Particle Playground or Trapcode's Particular (particular costs extra)with Detonation films, you can key out a black background using linear color key, experiment with blending modes, duplicate the layer, use masks, animate Scale and Opacity, apply blurs,

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Tracking=following 1 thing in your video with a separate element.Uses: -Stabilizing -Matchmoving: change the view out the window, to match a moving shot -Tracking: stick something to someone. -Girls gone wild (or Barbie) -Big blur spot on COPS -Horns, fire on hair, wings, clown nose -Arrows "no smoking campaign" -or use for rotoscoping by tracking a matte -info graphics: pointing out areas

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Keying : selecting part of an image to keep or remove, based on colorTracking: following the mov't of something on-screen, with another thing. (based on movement)SinCity: Selective color keying.Selecting 1 color to keep, and all the rest will be black and white.1-Matte: everything black except for our color element, which will be white. -White is our window. Anything white will stay, anything

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Week 6 keyingColor channels: red, green and blue.in 8-bit color, 256 shades of red green and blue.combining the 3 colors makes all the others.computer breaks down each color channel into shades of grey White=the pixel is at 100% ON of any color. Black=the pixel shows none of that color Grey=the pixel kinda shows some of that color.Keying is a way to avoid excessive roto -selecting an area of the

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Review of MasksMasks are best worked with in Layer window-Composition/New Comp-NTSC/DV, 5:00 duration-Layer/New/Solid-Doubleclick the Solid: this opens the layer window.-Why is Layer window Best?-This way we don't accidentally re-position or rotate or scaleour layer.-All we want to do is create Mask Shape keyframes.The rules of masks & mask animation-mask keyframe: is the diamond-shaped thingy in

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IllustratorP=penA=white arrowV=black arrowAfter EffectsM=mask shapeMM=all mask propertiesF=mask featherApY=New SolidApG=Go to TimeG=Pen Tool

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Masks-Glorified AI paths. -Paths with motionpath: line or curve between 2 pointsWorking in IllustratorDraw in AI: using the path tool (pen tool)-Triangle -Square-Star-Circle (using 2 points only)-Swiss CheesePS: based on pixel information -Making stuff bigger here, makes it look bad...AI: based on math 2x+1=y -punchline: you can make stuff bigger in AE or AI that started as an AI file, and you

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By Andrew Kramer, there's like 60 of them! For both Motion Graphics and Compositing. Some require specialty plugins, contact your local hacker for details.Here you go.

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A buncha great lipsynch info hereAnd charts...

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Any chicken who uses Final Cut or is shooting DV should receive this important information. 1. Run tape before your first shot, or add bars and tone 2. When taping, make sure you record a few seconds after all the action you want captured has stopped 3. If you stop or take out the tape, make sure you roll back a couple of seconds and record over that extra few seconds of footage instead of

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3D Multipass Compositing in ShakeDownload the files used in the 3D Multipass comping Tutorial hereAdvanced 3D & ShakeA whole page of Tutorials herehttp://www.fxphd.comKeying Tutorial DownloadShake Tutorials for purchase here

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look what i found! free greenscreen footage!!http://timelinegfx.com/freegreenscreen.htmlyou just have to email them at FREE@TIMELINEGFX.COM to get a link to the downloads, which are huge. please use the ones that are not pre-keyed to practice your keying skills.xo,TeacherPants

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Motionographer: lots of links on the left-hand side.Those that are not listed on Motionographer, I'm including below.Buster DesignMograph: Community of motion graphics, job listings etc...Designinmotion: Tells you what's new in the land of MoGfxDesignOMotion: a studio with a misleadingly similar nameSmuggler Studiofluid studioartichokebeehivehornetPark Avenue Posteditional effectsPoint of Origin

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A former student o' mine asked me the following question:I have problems exporting my senior project from After Effects. I render my imagesin maya and then import them into after effects. While I work in AE everything looks fine, however when I render movie from After Effects the quicktime result comes out darker and more red (more saturated). I export it with animation compression set to Best

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Here's some info I gleaned from the interweb. In addition there's a DVD by Gnomon Workshop called "Expressions and Scripting with Matt Linder." That guy is a genius.Any parameter can be an expression. You just type the expression into where the number would go, and you get a little + sign which you can expand to show the text of the expression.the noise() function is a good one for you here. It

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Doc Copenhagen's Top 50 Music Videos of 2006Pitchfork Best of 2006Spike.com's Best of 2006Coffee and TV by BlurPitchfork Best of 2007Director File Best of 2007Regina SpektorDirector Stephane Sednaoui

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