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Visual Effects

You can mimic Hollywood movie effects by chroma keying, using green screens, creating your own titles, adding mattes and time remapping. By learning how to create graphics and composite video you will be able to take your videos to the next level.

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Visual Effects

  • 3 Things I'd Buy at NAB (If I had $10,000)

    Greg Olson - April 15th, 2013

    There is a ton of cool stuff to see at NAB, no doubt about it. From brand new companies to well established industry veterans, there are new and old products abound and many of them had me itching to max out the credit cards. So let's pretend for a moment that somebody handed me $10,000 dollars, and said I could only spend it on 3 things at NAB. Well, here's what I'd buy.

  • NAB 2013 - Autodesk Refines Tools in the 2014 Entertainment Creation Suite

    Jackson Wong - April 09th, 2013

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    With workflows for film and animation distributed, big productions have become decentralized. To help understanding, the major software producer - Autodesk gave us a brief outline of the life of a 3D model. A 3D model will have an example in reality, this would be: 

    1) a photo or video of someone or something

    2) that media would then be recapped via a cloud service that allows viewing and commenting

    3) this image gets its structural base in the Mudbox

  • Explode with Trapcode

    Screen Shot of Videomaker Logo Exploding

    Particle generators are a powerful tool for motion graphics.  Go behind the scenes as we recreate the exploding Videomaker logo used in the open of some of our web videos.  We use Red Giant's Trapcode Particular to create this effect, which is a third party plug-in available for Adobe After Effects.

  • Video Graphics Cards

    Jordan Claverie - Tue, 02/26/2013 - 3:07pm

    You may have the latest eight-core-or-more computer sitting on your desk, with massive amounts of RAM and the fastest solid-state drives available, but if your graphics card isn’t up to snuff, your gaming or editing endeavors will eventually hit a snag and leave you hanging. Graphics cards used to be little more than devices for putting text and images on a screen where you could see them, and were given little consideration. Given their importance in today’s computing, however, they are definitely worth a closer look.

  • Creating the Tilt-Shift Look in Post

    Jordan Claverie - Tue, 02/26/2013 - 8:39am

    A finished tilt-shift video is even better than a photo, but you get the idea that we made a grand set of a waterfront scene entirely to scale, complete with moving vehicles and intelligent people.
    Visual aesthetics ride the roller coaster journey of trends. Currently the process of making video look like miniature toys is a popular look, and why not? Called tilt-shift photography, this stylized look takes real world footage and turns it into a visual toy box. Expansive landscapes and steel behemoths are rendered to tabletop playthings; a world in the palm of your hand. Video builds on this photographic illusion, changing real-time motion into a false staccato of stop motion animation. The popularity of the tilt-shift look is in part due to the accessibility of 35mm lenses, the ability of DSLR cameras to shoot video and the software capabilities of editors to simulate the look in post-production. This article is about the latter: how to create the tilt-shift look in post. It’s a process that can be done in most editing software and visual effects packages. With a little bit of effort, the virtual effect can be hard to discern from the practical tilt-shift image.

  • Directing Stunts for Green Screen

    mhageman - Wed, 10/10/2012 - 3:15pm

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    Hollywood creates realistic stunts and effects using green screen tricks. Using shots with dynamic motion and perspective, you can make movie stunts just like the pros.

  • Motion Graphic and Animation Buyer's Guide - Body In Motion

    Anonymous (not verified) - Mon, 10/01/2012 - 12:00am

    Motion Graphic and Animation Buyer's Guide - Body In Motion
    From animating title text to enhancing a scene with lens flares, vignettes and special effects, motion graphic applications give video producers the power and freedom to effectively express their vision.

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