Orson Welles on Film Editing
Only one of the greatest Directors waxing poetically about editing…Read More
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The Joy of Color Correction in After Effects
Genevieve Landry explores some of the basic color correction tools inside After Effects without using any plugins.Read More
Head in the Clouds – Adobe Officially Unveils New Creative Cloud
Today at Adobe MAX, an annual celebration of all things Adobe, the multimedia production company launched their vision of what a future Adobe landscape would look like: First the press release: LOS, ANGELES — May 6, 2013— At Adobe MAX, The Creativity Conference, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today accelerated its shift to the cloud with a major update toAdobe® Creative Cloud™, the Read MoreRead More
Chroma Subsampling Techniques
The folks behind the Red camera break down the techniques that cameras use to compress color data in this explanation of Chroma Subsampling. This became a central motivation behind early forms of analog and digital compression. Video signals would be separated into a lightness or “luma” component and two color or “chroma” components, similar to how images Read MoreRead More
Sneak Peak at Photoshop’s New “Camera Shake Reduction”
Here’s a quick peak at what the Adobe Wizards are cooking in the next version of Photoshop. As cameras sensors get bigger and bigger (both for photography and video) motion blur is becoming more problematic but Photoshop may provide a software solution.Read More
Closing NAB 2013 Thoughts: Why Adobe Anywhere is the Only Tool That Will Actually Make You a Better Filmmaker
I have a confession. This is not so much a post about the Adobe Anywhere product as it is about my own recent revelation after going through a rather major and important change in my life and career. I recently expanded out of the comfort of my home office and into an industrial space with Read MoreRead More
A Basic Introduction to Time Remapping in After Effects
This episode of Bammo Basics introduces the Time Remapping process in After Effects – a tool which controls the timing of your footage. It’s demonstrated here as a ramp up and down of speed of footage but it can also be used to control how animations play in a composition.Read More
How the Next Generation of Adobe Video Apps Will Change the World of Editing
The next version of Adobe’s video apps are coming soon, and with the NAB convention less than a week away, Adobe is giving everybody a “Reveal” at some of the newest updates to Production Line. While Adobe has been committed to vertically integrating their products to serve your workflow (such as adding dynamic link to Read MoreRead More
5 Ways the Camera Department Can Help Avoid “Fix It In Post” Headaches
Evan Luzi covers 5 ways that the camera assistant can make the editorial process as simple as possible. Have you looked around on a film set lately? You might notice that production and post-production are beginning to merge. Walter Murch, the “Yoda of editing,” often talks about how he doesn’t think editors belong on set. He thinks Read MoreRead More
The History of Rotoscoping with Adobe After Effects
After Effects has evolved throughout the past 20 years to make rotoscoping a less eye-bleeding task. Check out how After Effects has changed throughout the years and get a sneak peek at the evolution of rotoscoping.Read More
Badlands and the Art of the Voiceover
Terrence Malick’s editor Billy Weber talks about using voice-over in their classic films Badlands and Days of Heaven and their inspiration (Truffaut) for how to use it well. Via Creative PlanetRead More
Exploring the World of Color Theory with a 3D Modeling Program
Mark Meyer renders out 3D models of colorspaces to compare different ways color is recorded. From time to time I post plots of color gamuts like the one above. Each time, I get emails asking how I make them, leading me to assume that the world’s thirst for color nerdiness is going unquenched. I’m setting Read MoreRead More