Todd Gillespie
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You will find a LOT of great material here at the Cow/Calf for tutorials!!
https://www.creativecow.net/podcasts/
Aharon Rabinowitz
https://www.pillusionfusion.com
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Andrew Kramer
You will find a LOT of great material here at the Cow/Calf for tutorials!!https://www.creativecow.net/podcasts/
Aharon Rabinowitz
https://www.pillusionfusion.com
&
Andrew Kramer
VideoCopilot.netAndrew and Aharon both are AE forum leaders and do free tutorials for the Cow as well as sell independent tuts.
Dean Velez hangs around the COw and has a great CD-Rom tutorial subscription. They are layed out great and easy to follow, but create very cool and complex effects.
https://theanvel.com/There are more cow people that have tutorials, but those are a few that I can think of off the top of my head.
Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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Try to not double post for the same question.
Mac HD/Applications/Adobe After Effects/Plug-ins
That’s where they need to go.
Not in the Stardard folder. Just Plug-ins
Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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Mac HD/Applications/Adobe After Effects/Plug-ins
That’s where they need to go.
Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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[fonetikfilms] “I am considering shooting at dusk and dropping the exposure in post to give the effect of it being darker than it really is. Problem with this is obviously the limited time window shooting at dusk.”
You’re on the right track, but as you are aware it would take a lot of ‘magic hour’ days to do your entire shoot.
[fonetikfilms] “Am wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to shoot at day and do something in after effects (or other program) to make it seem like it is night? This may be wishful thinking…”
Yes you can and yes it’s been done for a long time. I wouldn’t recommend it since you really need to know what you’re doing and how the process is going to work in post.
But if you look at Cast Away, they shot their night shots during the day, then adjusted them in post.You seem to understand the basics of what you want and what you need. You can get away with alot by just using a couple of lights placed in the correct location.
If you’re after a specific ‘look’ rent some movies that do the same lighting, and think about how you could come close.Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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Hi,
If you are really interested in 3D work, then you would probably want to get 3DMax, Maya, Lightwave, Softimage or maybe Cinema 4D. Each has it’s plus and minuses. I believe 3Dmax is probably the most used, then Maya, Sofimage, etc. Cinema 4D isn’t as deep as the rest, but some say it’s easier to use, and probably cheaper?
Within AE you can do quite a bit with Zaxwerks Invigorator. You can get some really great looking stuff with shapes and text.
Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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Hi Richard,
Thanks for the tip.
[Richard Harrington] “The episodes won’t stay up forever, so be sure to download them within the next month.”
Curious…I don’t know iTunes protocol, so I’m a little surprise that podcasts would expire??
Cheers,
Todd at UCSB
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Hi Bob,
Tom’s idea’s are good and you should try them. But I think the issue you’re having is related to the ‘recipts’ folder. I didn’t see it in Tom’s post-if so, you can ignore this post. An install program looks at the recipts folder to see what’s already install.
I believe it’s in you Library FOlder on your HD-NOt you’re user Library. You’ll see a FCP recipts, DVD STudio Pro, as well as others, if you get them all, the next time you go to your installer none of them should be grayed-out.Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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Hi,
Unfortunately it’s hard to give you much help with the info that you gave us. It’s kind of like saying
“Oh my, I only have a half a tank of gas left! What should I do?”Well, where did you start? Where are you going? and What are you going to do when you get there?
A 1gig file might be perfectly alright for an uncompressed movie file. It all depends on what you are trying to do and what will you use the file for?
If you’re working with DV, then yes it’s a little big, but there are benifits and drawbacks for using either codec (DV or uncompressed).
Need more info.
Todd at UCSB
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The only ‘rays’ i notice in the video were coming from a lens flare effect.
Effects > Render > Lens Flare
play around with it.
Cheers,
Todd at UCSB
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Hi,
I just did a test on my Mac and everything looks fine. You’ll want to use the Cinepack codec for avi and the audio rate shouldn’t matter. But you will need to make sure that you render all before you export. That will get rid of your unrender areas.
You can’t really rely on choppy video as a problem. It might be a speed or performance issue with YOUR computer. Unless you’re running a top of the line Mac with fast drives. It might playback slow on your computer, but will be fine after it’s imported into their NLE. Although I got realtime playback.Unfortunatley it’s best to see the results of an export on the machine it will be used on.
Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
Television Production