Tweet As we keep moving forward technologies come and go but one thing is certain: filmmakers need to collaborate. This is especially true in the post production process. I know this firsthand. On my last film I would send MOV file to my executive producer and call him up to go over the cut. It was painstaking about this was we had to basically say go at the same time and try and be synced as we watched the cut [...]
Tweet Shopping for someone who shoots video or stills either professionally or on the side, is a daunting task. Buying camera gear for someone is a bit like shopping for a teenage girl. The type of gift is as important as the name brand. Get the wrong thing or the wrong name and you can expect an instant request for a receipt. Most gift givers concede defeat almost immediately and go for a gift card from Best Buy or Walmart. [...]
Tweet Last month, I was introduced to the superb Keylight plug-in for Final Cut Pro (see And, The Academy Award® Goes To… An Instruction Manual!?! and Enter The Foundry: Visual Effects Software That Is Unbeatable!). After completing my examination of that excellent add-on, I began to study FurnaceCore, which is another superb plug-in for Final Cut Pro that was created by the Academy Award®-winning software-developer, The Foundry.* This plug-in provides tools for image restoration, correction, and stylization, all of which [...]
Tweet If you do not have the time to read this entire review, then here are the vital statistics: Product Name: FurnaceCore Product Manufacturer: The Foundry Product Type: motion-picture repair, improvement, and time-adjustment plug-in for Final Cut Pro Price: 500 United States Of America Dollars Is It Worth The Price? Definitely. It would still be worth the price if it cost 7,000 USD (which would be 1,000 USD per function). Available From: www.thefoundry.co.uk Rating: 5 Stars!
Tweet One part of the post process I have grown to embrace is colorizing my footage. There are so many tools out there for the filmmaker to use nowadays. This is a good thing! All distributors will love it when you show up with a movie looking like the latest blockbuster. The best part about it is there are awesome new tools such as Magic Bullet Mojo, priced at a mere $99, that will boost up your ordinary hd or [...]
Tweet Image by mickiky via Flickr Shallow Depth of Field For the filmmaker, HD camcorders gave us the freedom to shoot without the expense of film and development cost. The drawback was the inability to achieve shallow depth of field. With a fixed lens HD camcorder, everything is in focus down to the smallest detail. In the late 90s, filmmakers using HD video, were forced to use tricks such as lighting in layers with the subject lit the brightest. Without [...]
Tweet If you do not have the time to read this entire article, then here are the vital statistics: Product Name: Keylight Product Manufacturer: The Foundry Product Type: matte-extraction and visual-effects compositing plug-in for After Effects, Autodesk, Avid DS, Combustion, Final Cut Pro, Fusion, Nuke, and Shake Price: 250 United States Of America Dollars Is It Worth The Price? Definitely. It would still be worth the price if it cost 1,000 USD. Available From: www.thefoundry.co.uk Rating: 5 Stars! My 3 [...]
Tweet Last week, I was introduced to a superb plug-in for Final Cut Pro (I use FCP 6.0.6). It is Keylight, which is a set of compositing-tools that was created by the Academy Award®-winning software-developer, The Foundry.* My platform is a 2005 Dual 2.7 GHz Macintosh PowerPC G5, with 8 GB of DDR SDRAM, controlled by OS X 10.4.11.
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