How to Repair and Retime Video Footge

February 27, 2011, 11:42 AM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/4331/how-to-repa...

There are several reasons that footage might need repair. Archival sources (especially those that are tape-based) can wear with time or equipment failure. Rushed crews or poor preproduction can also impact the quality of a shot through inadequate lighting.

CMG Hidden Gems: Chapter 13 - 3D Space

February 26, 2011, 09:52 PM

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

As you are aware by now, we’re going through our book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects 5th Edition ("CMG5" for short) and pulling out a few "hidden gems" from each chapter. These will include both essential tips for new users, as well as timesaving gems that experienced users may not be aware existed.

Larry Jordan answers questions about the new FCP

February 26, 2011, 06:06 PM

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2011/02/larry-jordan...

Greg was bored last night while I was at Alpha Dog’s Editors’ Lounge and started exploring Xtranormal and came up with this.

Rotoscoping Images using After Effects CS5

February 26, 2011, 06:04 PM

http://charlesheureaux.com/2011/02/26/rotoscoping-...

Today is my birthday but that hasn’t stopped me from exploring my imagination. Now while Rotoscoping is no secret nor is it new, it isn’t easy and graphic and video editors are always looking to learn advance editing techniques. Earlier I created an awesome picture of my University with a mountain view. I am sure you have seen people add these types of effects in movie, television shows and graphic designs but did you know it is really easy? Well of course it is...

Media Copy

February 26, 2011, 06:02 PM

http://splicenow.com/2011/02/26/media-copy/

With cutting rooms more and more portable, many of us like to take a portion of a project’s media home and work on it from there. In Media Composer this can be a real pain because it’s so hard to identify the media files that go with a large group of clips. There’s a way to do it that I described in a previous post, but it’s complicated, and Avid should have simplified it long ago.

Graphs and Charts in After Effects, Part 2

February 25, 2011, 06:23 PM

http://library.creativecow.net/mize_rob/AE_graphs_...

In Part 2 of Graphs and Charts in After Effects, Rob Mize shows how to use particles (both Trapcode Particular and Particle World) to expand your creative options when generating and animating Bar Graphs, Line Graphs and Pie Charts in 3D space.

After Effects Advance Animation Techniques

February 25, 2011, 06:22 PM

http://charlesheureaux.com/2011/02/25/how-to-after...

Continuing last weeks tutorial, today’s video will highlight animating inside a 3D space. Now most of what you will learn are branches of basic animation techniques in the previous tutorial. Also I’d like to mention, I am testing the waters with a video I put inside the tutorial. It is a special 40 second video that hypes up the tutorial even more than it should be. This is all in good fun and I’d like to know what you all think about both the tutorial and special video.

Ki Pro Mini - The Results

February 25, 2011, 06:21 PM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/4323/ki-pro-mini...

We decided that today (Feb 24) would be a good day to shoot some test footage with our recently required Ki Pro Mini. The weather is clear, cold and windy. Okay, cold for us on the west coast but for anyone visiting it's just cool-ish. We went back to the same spot to shoot that we used when I bought my first EX1 back in January 2008.

Avid Elevates Home Video Creation

February 25, 2011, 06:19 PM

http://www.videoguys.com/Blog/PL/0xecfe5ccb66e5ada...

Quicktips 2011 Day 25: Two Avid tips for Friday

February 25, 2011, 12:45 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/st...

Today we have two Avid Media Composer Quicktips that come to us from Ra-ey Saleh, a Symphony Online Editor working in Sydney. There’s two tips here, one for the ever popular Avid Paint effect and one great tip for playing back the edit while in Color Correction mode.