Here’s a cool tutorial about how to create the Dark Knight Logo shatter using After Effects.The techniques utilized could be adapted to student film projects to make stunning title scene credits. Watch the tutorial here.As seen on MotionWorks.
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Noise Reduction in Soundtrack Pro
Are you finding that there is unwanted noise in a portion of your Final Cut Pro video project? This is a problem that’s been popping in the New Media Center during this busy time when final project deadlines are approaching. Depending on the depth of your noise problem, here’s one method that may work well […]
Continue readingAre you working in After Effects? Check out Video Copilot
Video Copilot is an After Effects haven with lots of great ideas and plenty of free tutorials for both special effects and motion graphics. You can download the source files and follow along, or use them as stock footage and make your own changes. They also have a lot of great products for sale, such […]
Continue readingNeed a photo for a project? Try stock.xchng – the leading free stock photography site
stock.xchng Whether you just want to browse their huge image gallery or want to share your own photos with others, this is the site for you! Browse through the categories of our huge gallery containing over 350.000 quality stock photos by more than 30.000 photographers! Need a wallpaper for your desktop or illustration for your […]
Continue readingHow to Import a Final Cut Pro 7 Project into Premiere Pro (Because You Can’t Open It in FCP X… )
Robbie Carman, co-author of the just-published An Editor’s Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro, presents a tutorial perfect for those editors switching from Final Cut Pro to Premiere Pro.As seen on the NoFilmSchool blog. Here’s how to do it: Importing a Final Cut Pro Project into Adobe Premiere Pro
Continue readingAn Introduction to the New Puppet Warp Tool In Photoshop CS5
The puppet warp tool can be the craziest, most fun tool you have ever used. Photoshop Cafe TV host, Colin Smith, explains what practical uses there are for this tool and proceeds to totally ignore them and just has fun with it. This cool tool allows you to manipulate an image in a whole new […]
Continue readingNeed to download a video for an editing project? – Try Downloadhelper
Looking for ways to download videos online to your computer for your editing projects? Here’s a simple and easy way to do so (via firefox): – Open your Firefox browser and go to Downloadhelper-Download the plug-in when prompted.– Find the video you’d like to download using your Firefox web browser.– Let it load COMPLETELY.– A […]
Continue readingNeed to send a large file online? – WeTransfer
WeTransfer is a free service that enables users to send large files online. It’s handy if you find yourself in the New Media Center (NMC) with an unexpectedly large file, one too big for the 25 mb limit of most email attachments. WeTransfer allows any file type up to 2 GB, without any cost or […]
Continue reading7 After Effects Tips and Tricks
Here are some useful tips from ProVideoCoalition.com thanks to Trish Meyer. The first tip is about re-timing key frames. Tip 1: Retime a set of Keyframes Ever have a bunch of keyframes that you want to spread out in time or condense in time? Select them and press Option on Mac (Alt on Windows) and […]
Continue readingHow to combine multiple PDF files into one multiple page PDF
Do you have multiple single page PDF files that you’d like to convert into one larger multiple page PDF document? This is something that comes up a lot in the NMC, and here’s how you do it: 1) Open the first page in Acrobat Professional 2) Document –> Insert pages 3) Select the next page […]
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