Category Archives: After Effects

Matching Film Stocks with Film Convert

Posted on March 29, 2013 by jonny

Matching Film Stocks with Film Convert If you’re looking for a simple way to match your digital footage to what you might get out of a film camera then Film Convert is a New Zealand based company which believes its … Continue reading →

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Creating the sound design for a promo for Sound Design

Posted on January 14, 2013 by jonny

The Sound Design for a Promo for Rampant Design Film Editor’s Sound Effects Packs Alan Pfiel from Rampant Design has a good tutorial on how he created the sound design for the promo film for Rampant Design’s SoundFX for Editors … Continue reading →

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Indie Feature Film School – How to fix it in post

Posted on January 11, 2013 by jonny

Editorial & VFX tricks to fix your Indie feature in post production Editor/Director Ken Simpson has put together an hour long look at the raw, unvarnished truth about fixing your indie feature film in post production. Ken walks through examples … Continue reading →

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Editing Tips from the Editor of The Amazing Spiderman

Posted on November 10, 2012 by jonny

Editing Tips from Alan Edward Bell Alan Edward Bell editor of The Amazing Spiderman and 500 Days of Summer has added two more tutorials to his blog one (above) on how to do basic rotoscoping in order to create a split … Continue reading →

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How to create the perfect key

Posted on October 25, 2012 by jonny

Learning how to key green-screen correctly If your approach to keying green screen shots is to slap on a plugin and hope for the best then Splice Vine’s August series on keying and matting by Jeff Foster, author of The … Continue reading →

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Expand your skill set – Free Tutorials

Posted on September 22, 2012 by jonny

Video2Brain – Free Tutorial Archive If you’re looking to expand your skill set and be able to say ‘yes’ when you get the classic client question: “Can you use _______” (insert the name of a program you’ve opened a few … Continue reading →

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Amsterdam Supermeet Videos

Posted on September 12, 2012 by jonny

Michael Cioni Supermeet Speech Michael Cioni, CEO of LightIron Digital, spoke on the need for evolution or face extinction. Product demos from the Amsterdam Supermeet John Brawly demo of the Blackmagic Design Cinema Camera and DaVinci Resolve 9 Simon Walker … Continue reading →

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Editing Tips from Alan Edward Bell

Posted on September 11, 2012 by jonny

Editing Craft – Alan Edward Bell Alan Edward Bell editor of The Amazing Spiderman and 500 Days of Summer has started a blog where he shares some of his insights and tips into what it takes to shape a performance … Continue reading →

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Adobe Speedgrade CS6 Video Tutorials

Posted on August 4, 2012 by jonny

Learning Adobe Speedgrade CS6 SpliceNpost (via Jim Wicks) has a series of 8 good (and free) video tutorials on how to get started with Speedgrade CS6. Aimed at beginners, but useful for experienced users too covering things like layer compositing, … Continue reading →

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Round up of Adobe Tutorials

Posted on July 24, 2012 by jonny

Premiere, Speedgrade & After Effects Tutorials If you’re looking for free tutorials and training on using any of Adobe’s new Production Premium CS6 software then these links should get you started. Richard Harrington has a tonne of great stuff on … Continue reading →

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