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 Kareem Sultan // Senior Compositor // VFX Showreel 2011
I made a collection with all my latest work for 2011 I worked much more with movies than ever before. When you watch this demo keep in mind that this is a collection of my work in 2011. Please check my other work in portfolio section. Looking forward for your...
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 Jonathan Rosenberry Demo Reel 2013 - Video Editing, Videography and Compositing
This demo reel combines my skills as a videographer, video editor, motion graphic artist and compositor. The demo reel is a collage of clips edited into an exciting and engaging video. • I am the videographer for every single clip in this demo reel • The first set of clips...
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 Extraordinary - Touch Screen TV commercial
Doug Smith Autoplex sells 7 brands of vehicles. The Ad Agency Welti-Call teamed up with Lone Peak Productions to create a series of fun spots to show off the new Dodge Dart. Lone Peak Productions filmed, edited and added the motion graphics to the spot. The touch screen look was...
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 Advanced AECC Techniques: ONE - Extruding Text in CINEMA 4D
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe gets you up and running quickly inside of Cinema 4D lite by showing you how easy it is to not only extrude text, but texture it and give it a quick animation, and get it back into After Effects before your client even knows you left!
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 Learn Apple's Motion: Lesson 14 Text Part 1
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe begins his look at creating basic text inside of Apple's Motion 5. This lesson is essential as most of the work you do inside of Motion 5 will have some kind of text element in it, and it's important to have the fundamentals down, before tackling your first project.
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 Learn Media Composer Lesson 84: Creating DVDs Part 2
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about encoding your exported Media Composer timelines using Apple's Compressor. This lesson is specifically focused on Editors who have made the switch from Final Cut Pro/Studio to Avid's Media Composer, but still want to get the most out of the applications in the bundle, and not have to use a new third party encoding application. Compressor has some huge workflow enhancements like Droplets, that will make the encoding process a breeze.
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 Star Trek Into Darkness & the Dolby PRM-4200 Monitor
On Star Trek Into Darkness, VFX producer Ron Ames was concerned about standardizing color information between production company Bad Robot and the VFX companies ILM and Pixomondo as well as DI facility Company 3. The solution was installing Dolby's PRM-4200, a professional reference monitor that can be calibrated so that every one shows the exact same color. In this article, Ames and Pixomondo VFX supervisor Ben Grossman talk about how the Dolby Professional Reference Monitor improved the workflow and gave them the confidence that everyone was seeing the same thing.
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 How Editors Shaped The Story of Star Trek: Into Darkness
The old saying is that the edit is the final version of the script. For editors Mary Jo Markey, A.C.E. and Maryann Brandon, A.C.E, their work on Star Trek: Into Darkness began far earlier than that -- when they were asked for their advice on how to shape the script in the first place! In conversation with Debra Kaufman, they describe the role they play in the storytelling process itself, in a way that far transcends the cutting of scenes.
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 WorldStage Collaborates with ESPN Studios for LED Displays
WorldStage, of New York City, has recently designed and integrated 'First of It's Kind' Live, Moving LED display installation for ESPN's premier show, the KIA NBA Countdown, recorded at the Los Angeles Production Center.
This article describes the design and integration requirements implemented by WorldStage, including a unique systems design process and subsequent hardware and software integration coincident with a new studio upgrade for ESPN's studios at the Los Angeles Production Center in Los Angeles, California.
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 Learn Apple's Motion: Lesson 13 The Canvas Part 8: Particles
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe gives you an introduction to Particles inside of Motion 5, and shows you how, with a little bit of forethought, you can create 3D particle elements in your compositions. Normally this type of element is created with a third party plug-in, but everything you see in this lesson was created with only the tools you have when Motion 5 is installed.
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 Learn Media Composer Lesson 83: Creating DVDs Part ONE
In this first of a multi-part tutorial series, Kevin P McAuliffe takes a look at setting up your Media Composer or Symphony timelines for creating SD DVD's. He covers formatting issues you need to keep in mind, as well as the proper way to export your sequence in three important, but very different ways.
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 Prime Focus Brings The Last Emperor into 3D
Rumors had buzzed for two years that director Bernardo Bertolucci was interested in converting his masterpiece The Last Emperor to 3D. That became a reality when the 3D version debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. The sensitive job of handling the conversion went to Prime Focus in London, which dedicated hundreds of rotoscope artists, proprietary tools and artistic intention to uphold the intention of the original version. The verdict? Bertolucci called it "beautiful and magical."
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 Behind the Lens: Rachel Morrison Receives Kodak Vision Award
Cinematographer Rachel Morrison, who photographed the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner Fruitvale Station, was presented with the Kodak Vision Award at the 2013 Women In Film (WIF) Crystal + Lucy Awards in Los Angeles on June 12. The award is given annually to a female filmmaker with outstanding achievements in cinematography who also collaborates with and assists women in the entertainment industry. Fruitvale Station, directed by Ryan Coogler, tells the story of the 22-year-old Oscar Grant, who is killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) policeman on the Fruitvale Station platform.
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 Blogs:
 New Adobe Creative Cloud Applications Now Available
Significant upgrades to Adobe Premiere Pro CC and other pro video tools The wait is over: the new Creative Cloud applications are now available. Creative Cloud members can download all the latest Creative Cloud video tools including After Effects CC, Adobe Audition CC , Adobe Prelude CC , Adobe Premiere...
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 Writer Mildred Lewis on Web Series
Developing the Web Series Etiquette Mildred Lewis and her writing partner Adam Fox collaborate on a web series titled Etiquette. “Both Adam and I were shocked,” Lewis says, “to find out how many people are passionate about etiquette. We saw it everywhere.” The idea for their series came from a...
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 3D Television Networks: 3 Years Later
By Chris Blair I published the original post below in July of 2010, saying I couldn t imagine how 3D television networks could find an audience, and more importantly, lure enough advertisers to survive. Predictably, ESPN3D announced on Wednesday that it would soon be shuttered. Their official statement cited, limited...
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 Podcasts:
Learn Apple's Motion: Lesson 14 Text Part 1
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe begins his look at creating basic text inside of Apple's Motion 5. This lesson is essential as most of the work you do inside of Motion 5 will have some kind of text element in it.
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Learn Media Composer Lesson 84: Creating DVDs Part 2
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about encoding your exported Media Composer timelines using Apple's Compressor. This lesson is specifically focused on Editors who have made the switch from Final Cut Pro/Studio to Avid's Media Composer.
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Learn Apple's Motion: Lesson 13 The Canvas Part 8: Particles
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe gives you an introduction to Particles inside of Motion 5, and shows you how, with a little bit of forethought, you can create 3D particle elements in your compositions.
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Learn Media Composer Lesson 82: Consolidate/Transcode
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe answers the question, "What is the difference between Consolidating and Transcoding?". Not only does he explain the difference and show you how easy both are to use, but he also discusses Batch Importing.
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Learn Apple's Motion: Lesson 12 - The Canvas Part 7
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe continues his talk about navigating around the canvas by looking at the Replicator, and how you can use it to not only create video walls quickly and easily, but also to create awesome 3D text right inside Motion.
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