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CoreMelt Plug-ins
CoreMelt Easy Slick FX
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Iain Anderson shows some tricks to add easy slick fx to an edit. Learn how you can use free effects to enhance your video -- first in a way that helps inject energy into an high-impact edit, and then in a more subtle way to change the look of a more serious piece. All the effects discussed here are part of the new CoreMelt Free.
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CoreMelt Plug-ins
CoreMelt Luminous
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Apple certified Trainer, Iain Anderson, shows us how to get the best looking glows and blurs around using CoreMelt's Luminous plugin pack. With new controls to help create awesome titles including alpha control, blending modes and new breakup options, Luminous 2.3.8 includes all the blurs and glows you will need.
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CoreMelt Plug-ins
CoreMelt Lock & Load X Pro
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Iain Anderson takes us through some of the new features found in the latest version of Lock & Load X, CoreMelt's video stabilisation and rolling shutter reduction plugin.
With new features like tracking area, you can track just the part of the footage you want to stabilize to have complete control of the stabilization.
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CoreMelt Plug-ins
CoreMelt VideoWall
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Iain Anderson demonstrates a wide range of video wall effects inside Final Cut Pro, including transitions, three dimensional stylised effects and slideshow transitions. All of these can be created in seconds on video or still images with fine control over placement and randomization of the various layers. Save yourself hours and hours of time over placing and animating layers by hand using these techniques. Iain also shows animating parameters to audio by sending a shot to motion, and some combinations that can create some unique looks.
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CoreMelt Plug-ins
CoreMelt Creative Transitions in FCP
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Iain Anderson takes us through adding variety to your edit in creative ways with transitions. Some unusual uses of transitions for text or product overlays are covered, instantly jazz up titles or pack shots using these simple techniques. We cover many of the transitions included in CoreMelt PolyChrome Transitions as well as simple FCP tricks.
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CoreMelt Plug-ins
CoreMelt Synced Video Montage
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Got footage from a multi camera shoot of an event or band recording and need some treatment ideas? Iain Anderson shows how to take footage from a multi-camera shoot, instantly synchronize it using Plural-Eyes software and then create synced montage animations in a variety of different styles. Using Plural-Eyes and ImageFlow together you can go from a stack of raw clips to a synced-animated montage animation in minutes not hours.
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CoreMelt Plug-ins
CoreMelt Video Stabilization
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Got shaky footage? In this video tutorial certified Apple FCP trainer, Iain Anderson explains the concepts of video stabilization, and how to smooth movement in jittery video. Using Lock and Load X, Iain quickly and easily stabilizes footage with obvious rotational, zoom and jitter movement. He also displays how to use keyframes to compensate for extreme movement.
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CoreMelt Plug-ins
CoreMelt Footage Cleanup
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In this video tutorial, Iain Anderson, certified Apple trainer, shows us techniques for cleaning up and finishing off video in a final edit. Using some of the tools available inside CoreMelt's Gadget, he takes us through the process of removing unwanted objects, smoothing out skin tones, and applying a witness protection effect on faces in your footage. Coupled with motion tracking inside Apple Motion, we also learn how to lock these tools to specific areas of your footage for a quick and easy result.
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CoreMelt Plug-ins
Coremelt Curves Color Grading
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Certified Apple FCP Trainer Iain Anderson shows us how to make the most of curves based color correction right inside Final Cut Pro. Learn how to correct common problems like flat footage, incorrect color balance and specific color problems by using CoreMelt's advanced plugins inside the Pigment Color Correction tools.
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CoreMelt Plug-ins
CoreMelt Kinetic Type Animation FX
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Freelance motion graphics artist, Harriet Birks, explains how she created the very cool kinetic typo introduction clip for CoreMelt, using After Effects and CoreMelt plugins. Using a number of different plugins including the completely free VeeYou audio reactive animation plugins, chromatic glow, explode and spinback and more, she builds up an impressive final animation.
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CoreMelt Plug-ins
CoreMelt Montage Animations
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Final Cut Pro editor and 3D artist, Paul Caggegi, takes us through the process of quickly, and easily creating professional looking montage animations based on folders of images, movies, or a mix of both, using CoreMelt's ImageFlow FX plugins. Paul shows us how to enhance your montage animations using stylish lower thirds with CoreMelt's Plasmatic Ribbons plugin and a lightwash transition.
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CoreMelt Plug-ins
CoreMelt Tilt Shift
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Certified Apple FCP Trainer Iain Anderson demonstrates how to create the popular Tilt Shift Lens look of miniatures from real footage on the FCP timeline. Includes a detailed run through of masking techniques in photoshop to help convincingly apply depth of field of any strength using the CoreMelt Depth Blur Z Mask plugin. We've also included some footage and a sample FCP project for you to work with, and you can try the technique out using our trial version of CoreMelt Luminous.
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Apple Final Cut Pro | Vee You: 8 Free Mac Plug-ins for FCP, AE and Motion
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VFX artist Roger Bolton has worked on films including The Lord of the Rings, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and Kingdom of Heaven. He has also created effects for his own use -- in this case, a wide variety of 2D and 3D VU meters, automatically animated by the audio in your project. He now offers these 8 plug-ins to artists using Final Cut Pro, After Effects and Motion -- with no watermarks, no time limits, no price tag. Please note: these plug-ins are MAC ONLY.
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Apple Final Cut Pro | Fast Flowing Montages for FCP & Motion
Alongside such compositing projects as The Lord of the Rings and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roger Bolton designs CoreMelt Visual Effects for Final Cut Pro and Motion. They take advantage of Apple's core video technology for amazing high-quality, real-time performance. This tutorial shows you how to harness that power to solve an age-old problem: how to quickly and creatively create image montages. Best of all, you'll find links to free effects filters, exclusively available to Cow readers!
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