Take a look at this video: These are animated mattes from visual effects artist Sean Mullen. His company Rampant Design offers a free sample at his website. You could make animated mattes like these yourself using Adobe After Effects or simply buy them from Rampant...
Capturing the screen goes by various names such as screencast, screen recording or screen session recording. There are quite a few screencast programs around such as BB Flashback Express, Screencast-O-Matic, Jing and the standard - Camtasia which is a bit pricey....
I've written about the VLC Media Player before. See A Better Replacement for Windows Media Player and Apple Quick Time. I swear by it and I'm not alone. Many video producers consider it their primary video viewer. On the surface it is a straightforward video player,...
Have you noticed that this folder is always empty? The AUDIO_TS folder was specified by the DVD standards as way to hold a future audio format that would use DVD discs instead of CDs. That future format later became DVD Audio. While you can still find some music in...
When you're dealing with lots of video files, you may not want to watch a video clip in your Non-Linear-Edit Program. You want to just click on the video and quickly watch it without a big production. Windows Media Player or Apple Quick Time simply won't play all the...
One Hour of San Diego Surfing Time Collapsed: San Diego Study #4 By Cy Kuckenbaker "There are no CG elements in the video. It’s all documentary footage arranged and collapsed together with After Effects. Compositing water is difficult. The basic strategy I worked out...
In an ideal world the best way to show a video to clients is to bring the client into your office. This facilitates communication and allows you to control the viewing for best effect. If you have some kind of screening room, they'll see it on your best screen while...
After Effects, also called AE is the flagship program for motion graphics. It can animate, alter and composite media in 2D and 3D space. 2D designs created in a program like Illustrator can be brought in, animated and manipulated to create a motion graphics piece. If...
The Apple Mac Pro certainly looks different. This futuristic shiny new cylinder is aimed at video editors and others who work in graphics, and music. Apple considers it to be portable and even thought it has a built in handle, the shape of it just doesn't seem that...
What you can do using ONLY Stock Footage? There have been many TV shows, mostly docs, some about World War II that were created entirely with stock footage. The following is a commercial. You may want to watch it first without sound. It may seem simple enough to...
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