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Tutorial by Dan Harmon
I ended my last "tutorial" by saying that next, we'd start examining some 101 videos. But it's been such a long time since then, I thought I might respark first with a total review- with an emphasis on the 5 minute time limit.
When I talk about "story structure" I'm talking about something very scientific, like "geometry." Your story could have "perfect" structure, in that it hits all the resonant points craved by the audience mind, but that won't make it a... (more)
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Bring the clip into a composition in After Effects.
Go to the last frame and "export" that frame as any graphic file. I guess the easiest would be to export it as "photoshop layers."
Open that graphic file in photoshop.
In the layer window, duplicate the "background" layer, so you have two identical layers.
Turn the visibility of the bottom layer off,
and in the top layer, carefully erase everything but the foreground character.
Turn the visibility of the... (more)
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Tutorial by Jeff Crocker
Hopefully this will make pretty clear sense. If you have any questions, please post them here as other people may have the same problem you are having.
Muzzle flares for gun shots are relatively simple to make and you will improve your own technique with time.
Open AfterEffects and import the footage you want to add the muzzle flare into the bin. For this tutotrial we will use the lovely Paget Brewster shooting the even more lovely Zombie Kurt from... (more)
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Tutorial by David Hartman
The fire wipes were part of a stock footage library I purchased from www.vce.com. It's a reasonably priced collection ($250 for 4 CDs) but I've only found a few usefull shots in the entire collection. However, compared to Artbeat prices, if it has one useful shot it's worth the $250.
On the CD the wipes existed as pict sequences with an alpha channel. To use them in Final Cut, I converted them to dv quicktimes in commotion, but After Effects would work the... (more)
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Tutorial by David Hartman
I'm keeping this in the visual FX topic, because the nature of the shot. Not to mention when shooting a baby there are all kind of visual FX going on, except they are behind the camera.
The shot originally intended to be my character (Ernesto) talking to Dr. Julius about how it is time to go to war and that we must gear up. Ernesto turns and picks up my baby daughter wearing a monkey outfit and says "Oh sweet, sweet monkey. The war has begun." For some... (more)
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