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December 7, 2011, 10:02 am
Welcome to this week's Tip of the Week! After Effects has great tools for character animation called the Puppet tool. The Puppet Pin tool places a mesh over your footage using the alpha channel. You can add points to this mesh that allow to distort it and animate it, using gestural animation with your pen or mouse.
April 6, 2018, 4:20 am
Stephan Schütze has worked in game audio for nearly 20 years, and, based on his extensive research and experience, he's just published a book on sound for VR, AR, MR and 360 video. In this interview, he looks at the current state of spatial audio, lessons learned writing the book - and why immersive sound matters.
April 6, 2018, 4:20 am
(San Jose, CA--April 6, 2018) Ahead of the 2018 NAB Show, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced a major update in Adobe Creative Cloud, giving video professionals new tools to automate and expedite time-consuming production tasks without sacrificing creative control. Available today, the updates include powerful new capabilities for refining color, creating graphics and crafting audio, along with enhanced VR tools, improved collaboration, integration with Adobe Stock and advanced artificial intelligence powered by Adobe Sensei.
April 6, 2018, 4:20 am
The newest version of FCPX (Final Cut Pro 10.4.1) includes a new video format called ProRes RAW which offers the optimum combination of both the compressed ProRes format and lossless RAW. Furthermore, the update finally includes a closed captioning solution.
April 6, 2018, 4:20 am
Apple is introducing a new update to Final Cut Pro X, the most popular version of its professional video editing software, with more than 2.5 million seats. Final Cut Pro 10.4.1 introduces a groundbreaking format from Apple, ProRes RAW, which combines the visual and workflow benefits of RAW video with the performance of ProRes. The update also adds advanced closed captioning tools that allow video editors to easily view, edit and deliver captions from right within the app. Apple is also adding complementary new features to Final Cut Pro companion apps, Motion and Compressor.
April 5, 2018, 12:48 pm
Well there goes my plans for finally jumping ship altogether to the “PC Master Race” and getting rid of my ProRes addition once and for all… just kidding, I am still considering leaving the Apple ecosystem altogether (after all, I am in the shittiest position possible – editing with Premiere Pro on a Macbook Pro), but this latest bombshell announcement from Apple has got my world turned upside down once again and put a wrench in my plans (once again). And for the first time ever, I am probably going to be buying Final Cut Pro X… I’ve dreaded even uttering these words for so long, but with the latest Apple announcement I am about to tell you about, I will probably be joining the Dark Side soon.
April 5, 2018, 12:48 pm
ProRes RAW is here, a new high-efficiency codec that enables instant playback and editing without the need for any conversion. ProRes codecs have been an industry standard for a long time, but the codecs themselves are getting a little long in the tooth. A testament to how good the ProRes codecs are is that they are still widely used by ARRI as their primary compressed codec options in the Alexa.
April 5, 2018, 12:48 pm
Final Cut Pro X gets ProRes RAW in the 10.4.1 update coming from Apple on April 9. It combines the flexibility and advantages of RAW with the performance (data rates, speed, ease) of ProRes.
April 5, 2018, 9:24 am
This technology recognizes patterns in shape, color and composition, and compares them to the tons of images and clips that already exist on the Pond5 platform in order to find similar results.
April 5, 2018, 9:24 am
Chris White began his visual effects career more than 23 years ago at Industrial Light & Magic. He has worked on films such as MARS ATTACKS!, THE LOST WORLD, JURASSIC PARK, THE PERFECT STORM and STAR WARS: EPISODE II – ATTACK OF THE CLONES. In 2003, he joined Weta Digital and worked on KING KONG, AVATAR, RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES and THE HOBBIT trilogy.
April 5, 2018, 9:24 am
The headline feature is a new ProRes RAW format, which combines the visual and workflow benefits of RAW video with the performance of ProRes, a lossy video compression format developed by Apple for use in post-production.
Gordon Burkell sits down with Joe Letteri to discuss his Oscar-nominated work on War for the Planet of the Apes.
Gordon Burkell sits down with Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira to discuss the sound design of The Shape of Water, for wh ...
Gordon Burkell sits down to talk to Bruno Verdoni, who plays Pat in Molly's Game, about acting, working with Aaron Sorki ...
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