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Behind the Creepy Screaming of the Prometheus Trailer

Posted on May 24, 2012 in Music | 2 Comments

Joe Berkowitz interviews Paul Dinletir of audiomachine about how he writes music from film trailers and where that electronic scream on the Prometheus trailer came from.

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Get Editing Quickly with Premiere CS6

Posted on May 22, 2012 in Editing | 1 Comment

This lesson provides new editors with an overview of the editing process in Premiere Pro. A lot of this video applies to previous versions of Premiere as well.

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What’s new in After Effects CS6 in under 6 minutes

Posted on May 14, 2012 in Digital Effects | No Comments

VFXBro runs down what’s new in the latest iteration of the popular compositing software from Adobe.

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Build a Planetary Scene inside After Effects

Posted on April 25, 2012 in 3D Graphics, Digital Effects | No Comments

VinhSon Nguyen walks through some basic tips on creating a earth or space scene using CC Sphere and a texture map.

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A Glimpse at the New Plural Eyes 3

Posted on April 24, 2012 in Sound Design | No Comments

Dan Chung, the DSLR Newshooter talks to Bruce Sharpe of Singular software about the newly improved Plural Eyes – a plug in designed to quickly sync audio files and video files.

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Real Camera Shake: Free After Effects Preset

Posted on April 19, 2012 in Digital Effects | 2 Comments

“Real Camera Shake,” by VFX BRO, is a preset unlike your traditional camera shake because it uses real world physics rather than a wiggle simulation in After Effects. Use this preset to add shake to your still shots.

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Color Grading and finishing in Premiere Pro CS5.5

Posted on April 17, 2012 in Digital Effects, Editing | 3 Comments

This video tutorial, by Jarle Leirpoll, teaches how to do primary, secondary and some pretty advanced color correction in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. You’ll learn how to create masks for color correction inside of Premiere Pro, and to tweak parts of the image without affecting others.

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Mr. Foley: A Man Stalked By A Personal Soundtrack Team

Posted on April 16, 2012 in Audio, Sound Design | No Comments

Mr Foley is an award winning short film directed by Dublin directing duo Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman aka D.A.D.D.Y. It’s a darkly funny but nightmarish scenario, a man wakes up in hospital with a group of sound artists soundtracking his life.

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Evil Dead 2 Trailer – Rotoscoped!

Posted on April 13, 2012 in Digital Effects, Trailers | 2 Comments

The Trailer for Evil Dead 2 rotoscoped by “Pretend For Real.” Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films. It’s an extremely tedious process that took these creators 3 years to complete.

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6 Ways Directors Screw Sound Editors

Posted on April 6, 2012 in General Production, Sound Design | No Comments

Christian Bell outlines some of the bad sound habits of directors and how it makes post sound that much harder…

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Food for the Ears – Sound Designing “The Hunger Games”

Posted on April 5, 2012 in Sound Design | No Comments

Movie Director Gary Ross and his sound team including Supervising Sound Editor Lon Bender, Re-recording Mixer Michael Keller, and Re-recording Mixer Mike Prestwood Smith discuss their approach to creating the lush soundscapes for this highly anticipated film adaptation.

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Content Aware Wizardry in Photoshop CS6 (Sneak Peak)

Posted on April 4, 2012 in Digital Effects | No Comments

This new Content Aware Tool in Photoshop might as well be from the magicians at Hogwarts…

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Auto-ADR in Adobe Audtion CS6

Posted on March 29, 2012 in Sound Design | 1 Comment

Automatic Dialogue Replacement or Over-dubbing may get a considerably easier as demonstrated here in this sneak preview of Adobe Audition CS6:

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Understanding Professional Grade Video Monitors

Posted on March 28, 2012 in Editing | No Comments

Panasonic Post Expert Peter Putnam talks about the what to look for when comparing professional grade video monitors.

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How Color Affects Black and White Photography

Posted on March 28, 2012 in Digital Effects | No Comments

Sure you could set your camera to black and white, but you could potentially loose a lot of creative control if you don’t shoot in color for Black and White Conversion in post. Mark Wallace demonstrates specific techniques that can be applied in Lightroom or similar editing software to make your black and white images more impactful.

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