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Post Production

Post production begins when your camera stops rolling. The following articles will help you make the most of the footage you captured by providing you with plenty of tips and tricks, as well as picture and sound editing techniques to help with your post production needs.

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Post Production

  • VideoStudio Pro X6 is a Fast-Moving Editor from Corel Corporation

    Jackson Wong - March 05th, 2013

    Software box with cliff jumper
    Edit video with VideoStudio Pro X6, an $80 software program designed for anyone that wants video editing software between the program that comes pre-installed with your computer and professional programs that cost upwards of $600. Corel's newest VideoStudio possesses some features that will pique the interest of any editor. Motion tracking, is one of those techniques you might associate with large-scale productions, VideoStudio Pro X6 shatters that notion by providing tracking tools, multiple simultaneous trackable visual effects. Your video can go picture-in-picture and mimic a motion path later. There are times you want to use motion tracking without a moving subject, and custom motion tracking makes this possible. If you've ever wanted to blot out a license plate for a road shot, try your hand with VideoStudio Pro X6's security mosaics. On the more exciting spectrum, you can simulate images on a screen by tracking motion with keyframes.

  • 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.

  • Audio Location Scouting

    Jordan Claverie - Tue, 02/26/2013 - 11:21am

    Scouting for audio
    Here’s the scenario: You recently replied to an audio gig posted on craigslist. It’s set to shoot next Tuesday and the producers just hired you. In your email information packet, they list three locations and the addresses. One is indoors, one is an urban downtown setting and the last is on a wooded walking trail just outside of town. A quick look at Google Maps verifies the locations and now you’re wondering what challenges each will bring, and how to deliver the very best quality audio. You need to do a location scout, only this time it’s for audio.

  • Time-Lapse Photography

    Jordan Claverie - Tue, 02/26/2013 - 11:10am

    Have you ever seen a day’s worth of freeway traffic race by in the blink of an eye, or a rose burst into full bloom in less than a minute? With time-lapse photography, you can compress an entire day into a short video clip.

  • 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.

  • Boris Continuum Complete Units Now Sold as Individual Products

    Luis Maymi - February 22nd, 2013

    Boris Film Style, Image Restoration, Key Blend, Light, Match Move, Particles

    Previously sold as a $1000 bundle, Boris Continuum Complete filters are now available as separate Boris Continuum Units, allowing artists to choose toolsets that are geared towards their specific needs. Over 200 comprehensive filters across 16 categories of effects, can be purchased separately for Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, and Sony Vegas Pro.

  • Winter Doldrums: 3 Video Tips to Fight the Winter Blues

    Jennifer O'Rourke - January 25th, 2013

    Closeup of a camcorder lens
    The winter blues are upon us and the world is awash in cloudy cover and cold colorless terrain.There's nothing to shoot, nothing to do, and nothing to inspire. Here are three tips to help you get through the winter doldrums and prepared for some great spring shoots.

  • Thunderbolt or USB 3.0--Which is the Better Option?

    Mike Wilhelm - January 23rd, 2013

    Cables connected into the back of an iMac
    This year at CES, we heard quite a bit about products coming out using USB 3.0 and/or Thunderbolt. Hard drives, card readers, monitors, even laptop docking stations. Thunderbolt is becoming more and more common in PCs, while the USB Promoter Group plans to update USB 3 in order for it to reach 10Gb/s, virtually eliminating the speed gap. Many devices come in one flavor or the other, but for some, you have a choice.

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