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Hi all!!
We’ve created a great new site with video tutorials covering everything to do with audio, video and multimedia.
There’s some great techniques for After Effects and FCP including how to create a Kung Fu Energy Ball and how to use the Knoll Light FX Plug-In to spice up the stage lights of a music video set. There’s heaps to come with new content being uploaded weekly.
You can check it all out at http://www.projuice.org
Pro Juice is a weekly presenter driven online portal and television series about music, video and multimedia for ‘guerrilla producers’ that want to make, distribute and market their media. An ever expanding demographic, ranging from industry professionals to the legions of creative types who dabble in all forms of digital media.
I’ll keep this thread updated as we put up more free tutorials and cool stuff.
Nick @ Pro Juice TV
http://www.projuice.org
http://www.animusindustries.com
Online portal and television series about music, video and multimedia for ‘guerrilla producers’ that want to make, distribute and market their media.In this new tutorial, I show you how to make a heat haze effect.
To make the heat haze effect was basically a 3 step process. Firstly I created a layer of fractal noise that evolved over time using an expression. I then used this layer as a displacement map for my main piece of footage. This essentially created the wavering, blurry look of a heat haze.
The second step was creating the watery reflections you often see in the forground. For this i used a range of masks, scaling and blend modes, along with a bezier warp.
The final step was colour correcting to make the warm reds and oranges associated with shooting in hot conditions.
Hope you find it useful.
Animus
Nick takes us through the steps of creating a fake lighting rig in After Effects to composite behind rocking out guitarists. He uses Knoll Light Factory to produce the lights which you can download via their website.
This is a cool tip for anyone wanting to make background elements for their music videos etc.
Nick takes us through 3 different ways to render a character unidentifiable in an interview situation.
In the first instance, he uses an image mask in Final Cut Pro to colour correct the image and applies a pitch shift to change the voice.
In the second instance he uses a blur filter and an 8-point garbage matte to blur out the characters voice. He then shows you how to use the ‘paste attributes’ setting in Final Cut Pro to apply an audio effect created on a previous clip to this new clip.
Finally, he uses After Effects to motion track a number of black bars across the distinguishing features of his witness under protection.
In preparation for a web series that Pro Juice have in pre-production, i’ve been playing around with some effects that are to appear in a number of the episodes.
The first effect is replicating the look of a large screen plasma TV. One of the characters appears on a screen mounted on a wall and then interacts with the characters in the room. It looks like we will achieve the effect in post, so in this tutorial i take you through some of the steps involved in creating this dot-matrix type pattern which is in effect a working style guide for some effects that will appear in the web series – The Science of Night.
I recently edited a TV special on the Australian National Junior
Motocross Competition. In the program they interviewed the current
world champion in the 85cc class. While were promised a series of
photos showing him with his winning bike and trophy… they never arrived.So at the eleventh hour I had to quickly make a graphic to end the
segment with him. With only about 45 minutes to make something from
scratch this is a tutorial showing what i came up with…So I just got hold of my brand new MAC and wanted to take it for a spin to see what I could do with it. Loaded on my new AVID software as well as the new FCP and downloaded a trial version of AE CS4… but what to make.
Well I saw The Wolfman at the cinemas on Valentines Day and although I wasn’t overly impressed I did see a couple of movie trailers that inspired me to do some motion graphics. So I’ve kind of combined two text treatments from 2 trailers and come up with this one. Check it out here along with a tut explaining a bit about the process!!
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