Tag: visual effects
Anything that can avoid me opening yet another program during my editing is great. Working in Premiere Pro and having to move over to After Effects for a single …
Noise is a pesky problem with modern digital video cameras. Sometimes your hand is forced and your location or subject are not well lit meaning you need to push …
Learn from professionals is always good advice. One of the most well-known working directors today has to be Christopher Nolan, especially for these epic action sequences and desire for …
Chroma keys get all the attention. Sure, pulling off a great green screen effect is an amazing feat and can bring together a special effects sequence to elevate your …
When you are out and about shooting clips in public areas it is probably often you’ll have a good take that could be even better if something or someone …
It’s always great if you can learn from the best, and one of the best things about filmmaking is a lot of the tricks that filmmakers use can be …
Green screen work used to be completely outside the realm of what indie filmmakers or creators could do. Now with our powerful computers and free software you can actually …
Add some spice to your next videos by using some stylized transitions. Doesn’t seem like much and only takes up a fraction of the video, but it has a …
One thing that makes a video look professionally made is adding in some tracked effects. Moving subjects and VFX that line up with elements on screen is difficult, but …
I’ll say it again, one of the best improvements to your workflow is finding ways to speed up common tasks. This could mean learning or programming a couple of …
Keyframing animations by hand is a tedious task, but this example of how to keep a moving object centered in Premiere by Javier Mercedes is well worth the extra …
There was a time when if you wanted to get serious about video editing the choices were Final Cut Pro or even Avid. Oh, how much things have changed. …
Green Screening, or chromakeying, even in a studio can sometimes present unforeseen complications. The wrong shirt color, glasses, or a bad, frizzy hair day can cost you hours in …
Sometimes you want the light to be somewhere it just can’t be otherwise you will ruin the shot. Moving a soft light just a hair closer to your subject …
Replacing an actor with someone else is a really cool trick if you can pull it off. You can do it to create some fun scenes or shots that …
The best way to start learning the process of visual effects and video editing techniques is to learn how to recreate the ones that you think are amazing, and …
To cut your chops, new editors need only one thing – practice. Even if you’ve attended the world’s most prestigious film school or interned with an academy award winning …
Noise, flicker, scratches, and all other types of problems have probably shown up in some of the video you have shot and edited over the years. These are also …
Over the years Adobe has been packing a lot of features inside Premiere Pro. It’s not the After Effects level of VFX or compositing, but there’s a lot of …
The journey into VFX and 3D modeling can be a long, expensive, and difficult one. You likely have to learn a new program, such as Cinema 4D or Blender, …