| | | | rgb to yuv and back
by Matt French on Nov 5, 2008 at 5:59:58 am
in the Apple Shake Forum
Check the Shake Tutorials and there is a great tutorial on keying DV footage and why you are doing it. There is also a good example of how to key hair shot with DV footage (basically, ColorSpace RGB>YUV, lumakey on ... | | | | |
| | | | I'm shaking...
by ideaspring on Jul 11, 2006 at 12:26:28 am
in the UG: Denver FCP Forum
go through FCP, if that part gets a little confusing. It might make sense to just do the clips individually, but the FCP round trip sure saves a lot of steps. Not all of the Shake tutorials are necessary, but ... | | | | |
| | | | FCP/SHAKE WORKFLOW NEWBIE
by filmasart on Oct 15, 2007 at 8:54:01 pm
in the Apple Shake Forum
of it like a missing assest prompt in FCP. Start with these leads I'm giving you and see what you can find in the manual. If you haven't already I would suggest doing the Shake tutorials and check out FX ... | | | | |
| | | | Combustion OR Shake for Mac?
by Rayk Hemmerling on Aug 23, 2005 at 5:26:13 am
in the Autodesk Combustion Forum
to paint tools is that you have a very clever paint-on in shake. if it comes to image processing or maybe it's the workflow you are refering, i can tell you that most of the shake tutorials you can translate ... | | | | |
| | | | I've Had It...
by Serious Lee on Aug 1, 2007 at 2:11:28 am
in the Autodesk Combustion Forum
I bought Shake and I am getting to know it. Need an alternative to C4 'cause it is pretty awful. BUT While doing the Shake Tutorials it did crash about 3 times in one long day. So .. waddya supposed ... | | | | |
| | | | Help with an expression
by Brian McGovern on Feb 21, 2007 at 2:12:11 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum
I looking for an expression for an egg (just before the chick is about to break open the egg) to shake up and off the ground a couple of times before the egg cracks open. I know of a lot ... | | | | |
| | | | Morphing Tutorials??
by djLeary on Dec 9, 2005 at 9:31:59 pm
in the Apple Shake Forum
I've spent the last 1 1/2 hours searching the Shake tutorials and the internet. I cannot find a simple "How To" run through of the Warp Tab- specifically Morphing. Can anyone tell this total beginner to this application how I ... | | | | |
| | | | Shake Podcasts
by David DuBois on Feb 23, 2007 at 10:46:42 am
in the Creative COW podcasts Forum
tutorials live on my ipod incase i need to refresh myself on a technique that I've not used for ages. BRILLIANT! Just one question though. Andrew Shanks has been releasing shake tutorials which I'd love to be able to download ... | | | | |
| | | | Send to shake problem
by Piotr Janowski on Oct 17, 2006 at 8:06:26 pm
in the Apple Shake Forum
Hello Thank You, Captain Mench for Your reply. I really enjoyed Your Shake tutorials by the way. Well, coming back to the problem: what I did initially was in fact sending a single clip from the Timeline and not the ... | | | | |
| | | | help applying a depth map
by Burt Hazard on Apr 8, 2008 at 6:40:48 pm
in the Apple Shake Forum
Blur node and adjust the Blur Node and DepthKey parameters to your liking. (I'm basically still a Shake newbie myself; I can highly recommend working through the included Shake tutorials...Chapter 3 (p.91) has a whole tutorial devoted to Depth Compositing.) ... | | | | |
| | | | Apple Shake | Morphing in Shake
IIn this third video in the series, Shake is Money, Creative Cow Contributor Michael Mench demonstrates a brief overview of the Morpher Node in Shake.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Michael Mench |
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| | | | Apple Shake | Smooth Cam Node
In this Apple Shake video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributor Michael Mench begins a series called Shake is Money in which he will discuss how Final Cut Pro editors can quickly learn how to integrate Shake into their workflow for added flexibilty in the studio. In this first video in the series, Michael demonstrates the Smooth Cam Node in Shake.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Michael Mench |
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| | | | Apple Shake | Smoothing DV Jaggies
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Andrew Shanks demonstrates cleaning up DV/HDV chroma compression artifacts in Shake to allow for better keying.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Andrew Shanks |
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| | | | Nuke | Nuke - An Introduction for After Effects Users
Nuke, the new compositing tool from The Foundry, is rapidly becoming a favorite in high-end film production. Its price also offers an easy entry for indie producers who want to create better work, faster and more powerfully. This guided tour of Nuke for AE users, along with tips for leveraging your AE experience in the brave Nuke world of VFX creation will help you discover Nuke.
Review, Tutorial
Author: Pete O'Connell |
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| | | | Apple Shake | Slow Motion
In this second video in the series, Shake is Money, Creative Cow Contributor Michael Mench demonstrates Slow Motion in Apple Shake.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Michael Mench |
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| | | | Adobe After Effects | Flying through a tunnel in After Effects
Flying through a tunnel can be useful for everything from 'wormholes' in sci-fi movies like 'Contact' to the transcontinental phone line in '3 colours red', or even the optic nerve of Edward Norton in 'Fight Club'. To create a Hollywood-level tunnel effect requires a true 3D application, with sophisticated modeling, rendering and 3D camera interaction however, in this tutorial, Chris Zwar mocks up a quick & dirty 2D imitation with the 'Polar Coordinates' filter in After Effects.
Tutorial
Author: Chris Zwar |
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| | | | Adobe Premiere Pro | An Adventure in Photogrammetry
Strictly speaking, photogrammetry is the process of measuring and extracting data from photos, but in the film and video world there is a more exciting twist to the idea - if you've seen Panic Room you'll know what I am talking about. Photogrammetry is used to create or replace real-world objects with CGI models - in the case of Panic Room, the camera was able to swoop through banister railings and through the handle of a coffeepot because these objects were created digitally. In this tutorial, Lucas Young gives us a quick example.
Tutorial
Author: Lucas Young |
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| | | | Genarts Sapphire | Peter Wiggins looks at Sapphire Plug-ins from GenArts
Peter Wiggins takes a thorough look at the new Sapphire plug-ins from GenArts. One thing is for sure, you will have seen many examples in film and television already as Sapphire is used on a daily basis by large film effects and post production houses. Many compositors and editors swear by them, myself included! I've been using Sapphire with Shake for over a year now, and every job has used at least one plug-in. Now, they're available for Final Cut Pro, Combustion and After Effects.
Review, Tutorial
Author: Peter Wiggins |
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| | | | Apple Shake | How to become a Feature Film Compositor by John Lafauce Jr.
Have you ever wanted to contribute to building a twenty thousand man army in "Troy", make a mouse fly a plane in "Stuart Little 2", or launch a doomed luxury liner in "Titanic?" You can achieve visual feats you never dreamed possible and accomplish them all through the magic of compositing. Read this article written by John Lafauce Jr., and see... How to become a feature film compositor. A note just to clarify: this article is about high-end 2d/3d compositing for long form media such as films, where the goal is to make the work seamless, integrated and "invisible". Not to be confused with compositing for motion graphics, where the objective is to make the object or design stand out and be "visible" to the viewer.
Tutorial, Feature
Author: John Lafauce Jr. |
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| | | | Adobe After Effects | Getting Jiggy With the Wiggler
One of the problems that may plague animators is that their animation is too perfect - too clean. In this article, Jim Tierney demonstrates how to add in a little randomness to your animation with the Wiggler tool in After Effects 5.5.
Tutorial
Author: Jim Tierney |
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| | | | Adobe After Effects | Designing Content for a Multi-Screen Video Display
Matt Hall reveals an easy method for creating multi-screen display video presentations for use in trade shows, concerts and other events and situations.
By following Matt Hall's instructions in this article - and cross-checking your own settings in Adobe After Effects against Matt's settings - you can learn the secret of multi-screen display presentations.
Tutorial
Author: Cowdog |
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| | | | Autodesk Combustion | The Importance of Digital Color Correction
Paulo de Andrade is an accomplished video effects artist whose work includes 19 years in broadcast television where he has worked on hundreds of major international series and films. In this article, Paulo looks at the importance of digital color correction and explores some of the ways that he uses to create visual magic in his own work. As the founder of MacProNet.com, a site dedicated to Macintosh media professionals, Paulo focuses on tools like Final Cut Pro and Discreet Combustion in this article.
Tutorial
Author: Paulo de Andrade |
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| | | | Boris FX | Boris Red Tread Secrets
Longtime COW member Vivek Narayan is the Investigative & Special Projects Editor KNXV/ ABC 15. This project won Vik an Emmy for Editing and, an Emmy for Investigative Report at the 2006 Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards. To create it, he used Boris Red plugged into his Avid Xpress Meridien -- but you can do the same with any of Boris Red's host NLEs.
Tutorial
Author: Vivek Narayan |
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