Effects and Stunts Streaming Videos

• Blood Effects
• Green Screen
• Horror
• Pyrotechnics

• Tutorials - 4 Simple Steps for Professional Stop Motion Light Painting
  February, 2010
  How to create stop motion animation, using stills with light painting. Learn the step by step process to mastering this special effect.
• Tutorials - Special Effects: Day-for-night, Fake Rainstorm, Sped-up Background
  February, 2010
  We show you how to pull off three simple special effects using just the camera and the subject's reaction to sell the illusion. Learn how to make realistic…
• Tutorials - Green Screen Setup
  January, 2010
  How to properly set up your green screen backdrop, lighting, and camera. We will go over some common errors and their solutions.
• Tutorials - Create Top Special Effects with Outdoor Green Screen
  December, 2009
  How to use a green screen outdoors for chromakey. Learn about the lighting, obstacles and proper usage of the elements outdoors to add to the effect.
• Tutorials - 4 Steps to Build Your Own Green Screen
  December, 2009
  In this DIY tutorial, we show you how to make your own green screen with frame. Learn how to build the frame, attach the cloth and prep the materials for your…
• Tutorials - Using a Full-body Green Screen to Create a Website Spokesperson Effect
  December, 2009
  The steps that you need to follow to be able to create a website video spokesperson walk-on effect.
• Tutorials - How to Make Flying Special Effects with Green Screen
  December, 2009
  Learn how to use a green screen to show your subject launch off the ground and fly through the air.
• Tutorials - How to Light Green Screens for Simple Special Effects
  November, 2009
  In this tutorial we show you how to light a green screen, look for common errors and fix them along the way. This will make it easier to pull a key when…
• Tutorials - How to Set Up a Green Screen at Home
  November, 2009
  In this green screen video tutorial, we show you how to set-up a green screen for chromakey and how to best sell the green screen effect to your viewers.
• Tutorials - How to Use Rotoscoping to Create Video Special Effects
  July, 2009
  How to fix on-set goofs, change virtual sets, or make your action heroes fly through the air amidst gunfire, snowflakes, or magic dust. Rotoscoping is one…
• Tips and Techniques - Videomaker's Favorite Greenscreen Effects
  December, 2008
  How to enhance your video with greenscreen effects you can use in your studio.
• Tips and Techniques - How to get Hit by a Car
  November, 2008
  This shows 2 methods for faking a person being hit by a car. One uses Adobe Photoshop and editing software, requiring time & effort to add realistic detail…
• Tips and Techniques - How to Simulate an Earthquake for Video
  October, 2008
  Some simple tips on re-creating an earthquake.
• Tips and Techniques - How to Add Bullet Holes to Your Videos
  October, 2008
  How to make realistic bullet effects using Adobe Photoshop and Premiere instead of explosives.
• Tips and Techniques - Gun Muzzle Flashes & Blast Sounds
  October, 2008
  Adding gun muzzle flashes and blast sounds to your shootout scenes is easy to do in post production. Learn how to build intensity using post-production editing…
• Tips and Techniques - How to Create Fire
  October, 2008
  Tutorial on how to create fire using Adobe Premiere and Particle Illusion.
• Tips and Techniques - Sped-Up Background Effect for Video
  February, 2008
  John demonstrates how to evoke "calm in a chaotic world" with this easy effect.
• Tips and Techniques - Have an Out-of-Body Experience with Ghostly Special Effects
  January, 2008
  Today John demonstrates an easy way of creating an out-of-body special effect.
• Tips and Techniques - Special Effects for Visual Dynamics
  January, 2008
  This week Brandon demonstrates how to perform a few special effects that can improve the visual dynamics of your videos.
• Tips and Techniques - How to Make Fake Blood
  November, 2007
  In this week's episode, Brandon Pinard will show you a cheap and easy way to create a fake blood special effect.
• Tips and Techniques - How to Stage a Realistic Fake Fall
  January, 2007
  Jennifer and John showing you realistic ways to fake a fall.. and some of the props and skills you'll need to pull them off.
• Tips and Techniques - Use Deceptive Shooting to make Fire, Rain and Earthquakes
  January, 2007
  Jennifer and John go out on location to experiment with making a sunny day look rainy, a studio look like a fire-lit setting, and creating some "camera shake"…
• TV Show - Make Fog, Blood, Sunburns with Easy-to-do Special Effects
  January, 2000
  Videomaker demonstrates some low-tech, easy-to-do physical special effects.
• Tutorials - Learn Horror Genre Basics to Make Your Own Scary Movie
  February, 2010
  We show you the ins and outs of the Horror film genre. Everything from the history, to how to shoot it, to the unique dark silhouette lighting style. We teach…
• Tutorials - Stage a Light Saber Fight a la Star Wars
  January, 2010
  We show you the step-by-step process of how to pull off the Light Saber special effect. Everything from building the Light Saber to Rotoscoping.
• Tutorials - How to Make Fake Blood
  January, 2010
  We show you the step-by-step process for creating realistic looking blood with the use of corn syrup, red and blue dye, cocoa powder and corn starch.
• Tutorials - Create Realistic Gunshots for Video
  July, 2009
  Stop, or I'll Shoot! Have you ever wanted to have a gun in your film? What about a cool action scene with guns blazing, people running, dishes exploding and…
• Tutorials - Replace any Green Screen Background Using a Chroma Key
  July, 2009
  Without a doubt, you see chromakeys used countless times - probably every time you watch the news on TV - and perhaps you aren't even aware of it…
• Tutorials - Create the "Star Wars" Light Saber Effect
  July, 2009
  With the immense popularity of the Star Wars franchise, the light sword seems to have become the most recognizable special effect in cinema history. Immense…
• Tips and Techniques - How To Get The Perfect Greenscreen Key
  January, 2009
  Learn how to get the perfect greenscreen key in Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro and Sony Vegas.