How To: After Effects Green Screen Key

March 18, 2011, 01:50 PM

http://charlesheureaux.com/2011/03/18/green-screen...

The long-awaited tutorial, How to key a green screen as arrived. In todays lesson will spend roughly 7 minutes learning a three-step technique to properly key a green screen. If you follow these steps below you should be able to do so.

Final Cut Friday

March 18, 2011, 10:30 AM

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/blog/2011/03/17/fi...

Thunderbolt!

March 18, 2011, 10:29 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/editingpost...

You’ve likely heard about the new interconnect technology called Thunderbolt. With two 10 Gbit/sec channels this has some interconnect power, at budget pricing. It’ll make a big difference when momentum gathers.

BEHIND THE EDIT – SMR VS FACEBOOK

March 18, 2011, 10:28 AM

http://www.elskid.com/blog/behind-the-edit-smr-vs-...

I’m pretty pleased with the way the latest episode of SMR turned out and there’s quite a lot in it that’s quite interesting so I thought it’d make a good case study looking at the way post-production can bring a project to life. It’s fair to say that the post in SMR is labour intensive, mind-numbingly, insanely post heavy. Each of these episodes is turning into a mini visual FX-laced short film now and we’re looking to push the production value up much higher in the coming months.

Archiving Dilemma

March 17, 2011, 09:37 PM

http://lfhd.net/2011/03/17/archiving-dilemma/

OK, it has been a while since I did a spontaneous blog post...dealing with an issue I am faced with at this moment. But, it is one that has always been in the air, and has driven me to make the decisions I have made. ARCHIVING TAPELESS MEDIA

Adobe’s Mercury Playback Engine & Apple’s

March 17, 2011, 09:32 PM

http://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/

Recently I’ve been getting a lot of performance questions from Mac users about using Premiere Pro editing systems with ATI/AMD graphics cards. No question this has been "sparked" by Apple’s recent series of MacBook Pro Laptops featuring Thunderbolt and a 1GB AMD Radeon 6750 graphics card. Below is a link (Click picture) to show the Mercury Playback Engine running on the new Apple MacBook Pro 17" Thunderbolt laptop in 64 bit CPU mode or what’s also known as Mercury Software mode.

Edit Bay Episode 30 - Killing Babies

March 17, 2011, 02:11 PM

http://lfhd.net/2011/03/17/the-edit-bay-episode-30...

This one is about killing babies. No, not ACTUAL babies. Segments of shows that you worked really hard on...poured your life into...don’t work. You have to kill them.

Beware of (Some) YouTube FCP Tutorial Videos

March 17, 2011, 09:53 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=5693

A couple of weeks ago I came across a YouTube Final Cut Pro tutorial about how to edit a music video. It popped up in my RSS feed, as the "tutorial" was embedded on a website. As one who often edits music videos and is always looking to pick up tips or a better way to do things, I clicked over to watch. What I saw was one of the biggest train wrecks of a FCP tutorial I’ve ever seen. Not just because it was badly produced but because a lot of...

Shooting Tips From The Editing Suite

March 17, 2011, 07:56 AM

http://dylanreeve.com/general/2011/shooting-tips-f...

Before I decided that editing was the way I wanted to go, I was pretty keen on shooting. In fact at the age of about 16 I saved all the money I had a bought a second-hand Sony ENG camera (a DXC-325/EVV-9000 Hi8 camera, if you were curious).

Avid Supporting Drivers

March 16, 2011, 08:06 PM

http://dylanreeve.com/videotv/avid/2011/avid-softw...

Media Composer (and Symphony and News Cutter) can be pretty picky about versions when it comes to supporting software. Specifically Quicktime and the NVidia drivers.