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by Sophie Carapet on Aug 17, 2008 at 7:15:59 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
layers, made up of jpegs and mp4s/.mov files, I am cutting out shapes from the mp4s/ .mov files using toms 50 point bezier matte, then laying these over jpegs that have a color key added to them, the final result ... | | | | |
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by Les Stuck on Jul 26, 2008 at 10:14:36 pm
in the Apple Shake Forum
Shake would be ideal for this kind of shot. You could set up a four-point tracker for each screen, comp the four display images together, then use the *inverted* color key as a kind of four-paned "window" for the display ... | | | | |
| | | | move black background
by Phil Beastall on Jul 29, 2008 at 10:45:26 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I have a moving image on a plain black background. Is there a way to get rid of the black so that it can become transparent. I've tried using a luma and color key but both didn't work as well ... | | | | |
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Adobe After Effects
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Basic Color Keying Techniques
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Andrew Kramer shows you the basics of green-screening using Keylight. This is a sample of the training found in Andrew's Creative Cow Master Series DVD: "Serious Effects & Compositing - Advanced Techniques for After Effects 7," available soon.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Andrew Kramer |
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| | | | moving background color
by Ryan Cooles on Jul 9, 2008 at 2:23:37 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
them in 3d. I am new to After Effects but usually pretty good at this stuff but Im stumped. I tried loading the image as a *.png theN removing the background color using the color key effect but there is ... | | | | |
| | | | How do I make people small.
by Ron Lindeboom on Jun 17, 2008 at 12:42:23 am
in the Motion Graphics - How Do I? Forum
Shoot them against a blue or green screen. Then you can do a color key that drops out the blue or green and overlay them onto whatever background you want. If you set up the strategy of the shot and ... | | | | |
| | | | Movie clips not rendering
by andrew mcbride on Mar 3, 2008 at 5:07:22 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hi there, Im using CS3 AE and havng trouble wth rendering movie clips I've imported. When I import the movie I then put effects on it such as color key to make the background transparent. The movie plays through out ... | | | | |
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AVID Editing
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Boris Continuum Complete AVX 5: Unleash Your Avid!
Emmy Award-winning editor Vivek Narayan takes a closer look at the latest version of Boris Continuum Complete, a comprehensive set of filters and effects for leading NLEs as well as After Effects. Although it works largely the same in all hosts, Vik digs deepest into BCC operating inside Avid. He finds that the 180 filters here more than give others a run for their money: it beats out some of the industry's favorites. See why he calls buying BCC AVX 5 "a no-brainer."
Review
Author: Vivek Narayan |
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| | | | shatter effect problem/design
by Tim Garber on Jul 30, 2008 at 7:36:31 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
no light use the drop shadow set the distance to 0 & check shadow only. then adjust the Opacity to suit. If you have a green screen use Keylight (my favorite) or any other color keyer and get your best ... | | | | |
| | | | Surfing Footage Effects
by Jack Leto on Aug 2, 2008 at 8:42:02 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
What exactly do you mean by key out the ocean and create a matte? Basically you would cut out the surfer from the ocean using a color keyer (like 'keylight'). Barend has a great tutorial on the process of matte ... | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects CS3 Question
by Davey Smith on Apr 11, 2008 at 6:02:58 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Basically, I have a small issue, when im editing in after effects CS3 on an intel imac and im dragging the slider of a particular effect's controls, say im trying to change the tolerance of the color key effect on ... | | | | |
| | | | Still more green screen woes!
by Thomas Rupp on Jul 6, 2008 at 2:38:36 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
of that initial error. I re-exported some footage as an MOV file with no compression, brought that into AE and after reviewing the great Andrew Kramer tutorial on basic color keying techniques, got much improved results. The images are sharper, ... | | | | |
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Adobe ULTRA
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Serious Magic's Ultra2
CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Joaquin 'Kino' Gil writes a review on Serious Magic's ULTRA 2 Professional Keying Software with Vector Keying Technology and tells readers, ''[Before ULTRA2] each matte had to be calibrated separately and the values adjusted almost on a frame by frame basis in order to get details like loose strands of hair, bluish shadows and reflections, grains of sand and other minutiae. Yes, it took forever [and] no motion tracking software, either. All of that effort, [and hours of work] very seriously done, is made moot today with this software tool from Serious Magic. ... The key is perfect to the extreme of perfectly keyed fine strands of hair, transparency and translucency.''
Review
Author: Joaquin Gil |
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| | | | Color Key filter not working in 10-bit
by 5thwall on Sep 12, 2007 at 1:53:02 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
in any format that supports 10-bit rendering... ie ProRes or 10-bit uncompressed. However... There are a couple of greenscreen shots where the original editor used FCP's Color Key filter to remove the green. The key looks fine when rendered at ... | | | | |
| | | | Can FCP do this?
by walter biscardi on Jun 26, 2008 at 4:47:25 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
possible. I'm pretty sure Aharon Rabinowitz has green screen type of tutorial here on the Cow for After Effects. You can pretty much apply the same theory to FCP using the Color Key. Walter Biscardi, Jr. Biscardi Creative Media HD ... | | | | |
| | | | invigorator crashes (tiger?) report
by Neil Harris on Aug 9, 2005 at 5:27:47 pm
in the Zaxwerks Forum
0x179a1000 - 0x179a2eb2 Time Reverse Keyserse Keyframe PEF binary: Time Reverse Keyserse Keyframe 0x17bd3000 - 0x17bd39d1 Paint PEF binary: Paint 0x17dbb000 - 0x17dbd38d Color Key PEF binary: Color Key 0x18c82000 - 0x18d3b273 T_LensBlur PEF binary: T_LensBlur 0x18dcd000 - 0x1907c551 3D ... | | | | |
| | | | iPod commercial tutorial?
by Chris Smith on Aug 17, 2005 at 10:56:40 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I would not light your person as a sihlouette if you want it to be closer to the original spot. There is detail in the person that would just be mush if you didn't light them. Use a color key ... | | | | |
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Adobe After Effects
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Creating Super Tight Junk Mattes
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shares a method of quickly and automatically creating extremely precise junk mattes/gargabe masks for use in the keying process.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Aharon Rabinowitz |
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HDV Format
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Building the Perfect HDV Key
In the first of our Creative COW Magazine Web Extras, we begin with Stephen Smith's outstanding article on setting up an area for proper keying from the May-June 2007 edition. His article covers every option for setting up and lighting perfect keys. Here, we look at the best advice around The COW's online communities for pulling keys from HDV footage.
Tutorial, Feature
Author: Tim Wilson |
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Adobe After Effects
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Creative Adobe After Effects 5 by Angie Taylor
In this article, David Bogie explores Angie Taylor's ''Creative After Effects 5.'' In his review David looks at reasons why he thinks the book is of genuine value as a resource and points out areas where he feels the book missed the mark and could have been better. But overall, David concludes that this one is definitely worth the money and gives it a strong buy recommendation. Sprinkled with sub-headers athat are drawn from classic Beatle lyrics, it is also one of the funniest articles we've ever posted over the years. During his comments regarding Expressions programming in After Effects, we were laughing so hard that tears were running down our faces. Thanks for both a great article, Bogiesan, and the laughter!
Review
Author: David Bogie |
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Adobe After Effects
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Keylight
Adobe has announced that The Foundry's Keylight will be bundled with the upcoming release of After Effects 6.0 Professional Edition. In this article, Creativecow leader, Barend Onneweer gives us a sneak peek at Keylight.
Review
Author: Barend Onneweer |
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Adobe After Effects
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Rotoscoping with Vector Paint
Vector paint, introduced in Adobe After Effects 5.0 has many uses but most people don't think of it as a rotoscoping tool. In this tutorial, Bill O'Neil demonstrates how to rotoscope with Vector Paint to create a ''supercharged'' sports spot.
Tutorial
Author: Bill O'Neil |
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Adobe After Effects
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Creating an Invisible Man
Alan Hamill demonstrates using some keying techniques and the Displacement Map Effect to simulate a transparent, yet textured dancing man. You'll need the Production Bundle for this one.
Tutorial
Author: Alan Hamill |
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Podcasts | | | | adobe after effects tutorials podcast
Basic Color Keying Techniques
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Andrew Kramer shows you the basics of green-screening using keylight. This is a sample of the training found in Andrew's Creative Cow Master Series DVD: "Serious Effects & Compositing - Advanced Techniques for After Effects 7," available soon. | | | | |
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