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Adobe Premiere Pro: Multi-Matte Transition
Tweet In the amount of time I have spent learning the art of editing, compositing and motion graphics, I have come up with a way to breakdown how certain effects and transitions are created. They are...
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Track Matte Key Work Around in Premiere Pro
Tweet One of the things I love about editing is using transitions. Editing is much more than the bells and whistles you put into it, but when I have a cool transition that can give it additional...
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Sliding Page Transition in Premiere Pro
Tweet One of the many things that amazes and intrigues me are the animations that you can find in commonly used devices. Everything from your smartphone, computer and gaming system provide unique ways...
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Film Impact and Creative Impatience Review
Tweet Since making the transition from a Final Cut Pro 7 workflow to a Premiere Pro workflow, things have been great. I was able to modify my keyboard shortcuts to be more FCP friendly and I don’t deal...
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Using Photoshop for Matte Creation
Tweet One of the things I love about Photoshop is how deep and flexible it is. The industry standard image editing software has the ability to do a multitude of things that just listing them wouldn’t...
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Using the Camera Shake Reduction Filter in Photoshop CC
Tweet With the recent updates to Photoshop as part of the new line up released with Adobe Creative Cloud, there are several new features to explore. One of the most exciting features is the ‘camera...
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Create Panoramic Pictures in Photoshop CC
Tweet Panoramic pictures by definition are a series of images representing one continuous scene. From a photographers stand point, panoramic pictures are of a unique aesthetic that allows the viewer to...
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Creating Time Lapse Photography With After Effects CC
Tweet Time Lapse Photography is the process in which you take a series of photographs over an extended period of time centered around a dynamic subject and then combine the photographs together into...
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Color Keying an Image in Photoshop CC
Tweet As an editor there will be times that you receive green screen footage that needs to be keyed out and retouched in some fashion. The biggest obstacle of most editors throughout this process is...
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Using PNG Images in Visual Effects and Motion Graphics
Tweet Learning to search and utilize PNG image files can speed up any visual effects artist and motion graphics editor’s workflow. Whether it’s a quick pre visualization mock-up for a client, or the...
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Title Plugins/Resources for Premiere Pro
Tweet As strong of a non-linear editor as Premiere Pro is, not too many users know how to take advantage of one particular tool it possesses… Title Tool. Having worked in multiple NLEs, I have to say...
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Basics in Controlling Text Animation in After Effects
Tweet Text animation is everywhere in film and TV. Text controls exist in nearly every post production and image manipulation software ranging from entry level NLEs such as iMovie, to Final Cut Pro,...
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Animating Numbers in After Effects CC
Tweet Sometimes you need to create a motion graphic showing numbers increasing or decreasing for a percentage, calculation, statistic, or whatever the reason may be. There are many programs that can...
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New Features coming to Avid Media Composer and Adobe Cloud
Tweet With IBC taking place in Amsterdam last weekend, users of Adobe Creative and Avid Anywhere were greeted with a slew of updates from their favorite programs. These updates include an interface...
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Creating a 3D Opening Card in After Effects CC
Tweet The image of an opening book or card in a movie, TV show, or commercial is nothing new. With the advancement of visual effects, this can now be created in a variety of dedicated 3D modeling...
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Quick Blemish Removal in After Effects CC
Tweet Most people, including myself, have some sort of blemish, scar, or imperfection they wish they could keep from showing up on camera. After Effects CC has developed a new matte tracking process...
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Using Mattes in Your Edits
Tweet Using matte clips in my edits is something I’ve been doing for a very long time. With mattes, I can isolate a piece of footage and insert other assets. What would be an otherwise boring set of...
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Third Party Green Screen Keyers
Tweet Green screen, or chroma key compositing, has been around since the 1930s. Developed by filmmakers at RKO Radio Pictures, it was used as a method to create complex visual effects that were before...
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HUD & UI Tutorial Round-Up
Tweet With movies like Iron Man, Ender’s Game, and Star Trek featuring future technology, we’ve seen a lot of floating H.U.D.s (heads up displays) and UIs (user interfaces) that showcase the intricate...
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Motion 5 Tutorials
Tweet Since its creation in 2004, Apple Motion has been an application that has evolved quite nicely, despite the fierce competition it faces from other apps like After Effects and Nuke. In its current...
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