Dominic Deacon
Forum Replies Created
-
This might be a bit basic but for a super quick dirty effect, grab a metallic texture and lay it on top of the killbillet logo. Right click on the texture layer and select “create clipping mask”.
Then download some rough brushes, Blood brushes maybe, and then use them to paint in the rust in brown and red shades.
-
They don’t do greens very well. Red, pinks, and oranges are great. Blues are a bit limited. The conventional hue bulbs are built to do the white spectrum very well which leaves them a bit short elsewhere. The Hue striplights on the other hand aren’t great through the whites but produce a much better range of colours.
They’re not quite as bright as the 60w bulbs they replaced in my lounge so not hugely useful on set.
-
I have the Philips Hue lights throughout the house. People seem to get excited about ambilight setups that change with what is on the tv screen. I don’t see any reason why you would want that. But good call on videogames… For survival horror games that would be great. For now I’m just happy that when I press play on a film on the media centre all the lights switch themselves off except for a little blue one in the corner.
-
[Bill Davis] “X is the only NLE that by default, preserves the muxed nature of the original content during editing operations. To break apart these files requires editor action. It succeeds because the default describes something that is extremely valuable to a video editor. Video that preserves SYNC sound.”
Edius does this too but in a different way. The first track in a Edius timeline is a VA track. You can stick your footage there and it locks them together or you can stick it in a conventional track that seperates the two. There’s a lot about Edius default layout that feels similar to X. VA tracks lock the audio and video together, it’s by default in tracks locked, ripple mode which has the footage dancing in a way that is very similar to the magnetic timeline. Does make me wonder if the X team had a look at it before they built their own.
-
Gaming mouse and keyboard for me. The keyboards a logitech g510s which has 18 programmable keys on the left. The mouse is a Roccat Kova+ which has the standard three buttons plus two on the left and two on the right. The nifty bit is that it has a shift button that gives all of those buttons a second function.
I love this setup. To be honest I don’t video edit enough to remember the shortcuts I’ve set up but in photoshop- which is more my bread butter- it’s been an incredible timesaver. The only thought that bothers me is that one day when I need to get a new mouse and keyboard they wont be the same. I’ve built up a lot of muscle memory. It would be hard to adapt to a different mouse at this point.
-
Edius was left off this list. I used it everyday for about 2 years before I finally crashed it. I used to try to crash it for fun. Say, grab half a dozen filters and lay them on a couple thousand clips at once. It would just pin wheel for about 5 seconds and then go right on playing. Things a tank.
-
I don’t know how they did it but there’s a lot of different ways to achieve this. Firstly you could just select the ‘burn’ tool and then just run it over the text until you get the desired look. Or you could create a black shape, set it up over the ears and then lower the opacity slider on that layer until you get the level of shadow you are after. Add a bit of blur to shape to get it fading out realistically maybe.
-
Ahh right you are Sir. Found it.
-
I’m not quite following how this works yet. I have the photoshop deal. So I open up the creative cloud app and click update on the Photoshop CC (2014) icon.
Now that it’s done my undertanding is I should now have 2 seperate Photoshop CC applications on my computer. Is that correct? If so where is the new one hiding? Search program and files didn’t bring it up and it’s not hiding in the usual Adobe Program Files (x86) folder.
So I assume the old icon is the new app but it doesn’t seem to have motion blur gallery or any of the new additions. Could someone explain it to me? I’m feeling dumb.
-
I’d bet on hardware related. I had a similar issue once upon a time. It turned out I had some bad RAM which rarely caused a problem but in the intensive process of exporting it would be found and written to without fail.