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MAYA | Maya 2011: Assigning Invisible Faces
Michael Hurwicz demonstrates the new "Assign Invisible Faces" feature
in Maya 2011, making one face of a cube invisible but still very much
"there" when it comes to a smoothing operation performed on the cube.
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Michael Hurwicz |
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MAYA | Maya 2011: Camera Sequencer
In this tutorial, Michael Hurwicz shows you how to use the new Camera Sequencer in Maya 2011 to import an animatic sequence from Sony Vegas 9.0 using AAF (Advanced Authoring Format).
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Michael Hurwicz |
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MAYA | Maya 2011 Bezier Curves
In this Maya tutorial, Michael Hurwicz provides an introduction to
Bezier curves, a new feature in Maya 2011 which allow you to
create curves the way you do with the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator
or Photoshop.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Michael Hurwicz |
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Boris FX | Using BCC 7 AE's New 3 Way Color Grade Filter: Part 1
In this video tutorial, Kevin P. McAuliffe takes a look at Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE's new 3 Way Color Grade filter. BCC 3 Way Color Grade provides a professional color grading process complete with three custom color wheels for pedestal/gamma/gain adjustment. In part one of this video tutorial series, Kevin focuses on the basics of the filter. In part two, he will demonstrate the filter's built-in masking and keying tools.
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Kevin McAuliffe |
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CoreMelt Plug-ins | CoreMelt VideoWall
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.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Iain Anderson |
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RE:Vision Effects | Handling Twixtor Artifacts in Premiere Pro
This Tutorial shows how to mark segments in an edit in order to avoid warping across edits when speeding up or slowing down the overall edit. It also explains when it is appropriate to use Smart Blend and shows Twixtor and Twixtor Pro with Smart Blend and compares a panning shot with and without Smart Blend. This tutorial also explains how to use Motion Sensitivity to avoid unwanted warping in your re-timed shot.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Lori Freitag |
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Boris FX | Create Audio-driven Effects with BCC 7 AE's Beat Reactor Technology
In this video tutorial, Kevin P. McAuliffe takes a look at Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE's new Beat Reactor technology. Beat Reactor is a new BCC 7 AE filter that lets you sample specific bands of audio from a clip and uses the sampled audio levels to drive effect parameters. In addition to being available as a standalone BCC 7 AE filter, the new Beat Reactor technology has been added as a built-in feature for many other BCC 7 AE filters. Beat Reactor makes it easier to generate audio-driven effects such as adding a pulsing light, a glow, or even an image wipe that follows along with the beat of an audio track.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Kevin P McAuliffe |
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RE:Vision Effects | Lip-Synch with Twixtor in Premiere Pro
This tutorial covers the basic concepts of time-warping a video track to a different audio track using Twixtor in Premiere Pro. As an example, we lip-synch an outdoor shoot to a studio recording. This method could also be used to sync video to another video track.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Lori Freitag |
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Boris FX | Using Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE's Noise Reduction Filter
In this video tutorial, Kevin P. McAuliffe takes a look at Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE's new Noise Reduction filter and Compare Mode feature. BCC Noise Reduction safely removes unwanted video noise and artifacts from image clips while preserving all of the detail contrast in the original image. BCC 7 AE's new Compare Mode feature allows you to compare the filtered result with the unfiltered source via either a side-by-side view or a live split-screen view.
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Kevin P McAuliffe |
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CoreMelt Plug-ins | CoreMelt Creative Transitions in FCP
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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Iain Anderson |
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Blender | The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 12
In this episode of the Blender Survival Guide Paolo continues the design of a simple scene that will be used to create volumetric lights using LuxRender. In this Video Tutorial you'll see how to add LuxRender to your Blender installation and how to prepare your scene for export by setting the right materials in Blender and Lux.
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Paolo Ciccone |
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Blender | The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 13
Episode 13 of the Blender Survival Guide is the conclusion of the three-part tutorial on how to use Blender in conjunction with the Lux Renderer. This video tutorial shows, in very easy steps, techniques that can take several days to master if attempted without guidance. To make following the steps even easier the .blend file used in the tutorial is included.
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Paolo Ciccone |
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Red Giant plug-ins | Creating a Stitch Effect with Trapcode Particular
In this episode, Michael Park returns to RGTV, and shows us how to create the look of denim being stitched, using Trapcode Particular. This technique can be used for a ton of other stuff as well. Also, Magic Bullet Mojo will be used to add some cool color treatment to the final product.
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Michael Park |
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Blender | The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 11
This tutorial takes the opportunity to study how to create Volumetric Lights in Blender and in the process it shows some very useful modeling techniques. You will learn how to carve holes into planes, how to create new edges and faces and how to use the Array modifier to create multiple copies of the same geometry with speed and ease. This is a two-part tutorial.
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Paolo Ciccone |
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Adobe After Effects | Lens Flare in AE and Premultiplication Explained
Ben reveals not only the easy steps to giving a lens flare an alpha channel for exporting, but also explains what premultiplication means. With this understanding, you may more easily solve some of your trickier compositing problems. In most programs, such as Nuke, Fusion, or Shake, you control premultiplication and predivison manually. Since After Effects does this all for you, it can become very frustrating if you are accustomed to doing this manually and find that you cannot in AE. This tutorial will explain a little background information on how compositing applications create a composite.
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Ben Rollason |
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Boris FX | Introducing Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE
Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE brings over 200 filters to Macintosh and Windows versions of Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro CS5, CS4, and CS3. The new release features 11 new filters including a 3-way color grade filter with built-in keying and masking tools, a new video noise reduction tool, a spline-based warp filter, an audio-driven keyframe generator, a new OpenGL particle engine, and still and video morph technology. Each Boris Continuum Complete filter has been re-engineered to take advantage of 64-bit processing and OpenGL acceleration.
Watch this new video to learn more!
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Paul Ezzy |
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Adobe After Effects | Subtract and Divide Blending Modes in AE CS4
Ben Rollason demonstrates how to do subtract and divide blending modes in Adobe After Effects CS4 and below. CS5 now features the subtract and divide blending modes, which makes this process much easier, but if you are using an earlier version, Ben's tutorial enables you to accomplish these same effects with just a few simple steps.
Ben suggests that now that people are creating new CS5 projects with built-in subtract and divide blending modes, there may be a call to 'retrofit' these options to earlier versions.
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Ben Rollason |
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