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Getting Organized in Final Cut Pro by Shane Ross
For every version of Final Cut Pro, from FCP 1.0 to Final Cut Studio 2.0: a broadcast editor shares project set-up and media management secrets for real-world success.
Maybe you're just getting started with Final Cut Pro. Maybe you're a big project veteran who just wants to be more efficient. Either way, this disk is for you.
In this in-depth series of 9 video tutorials spanning over 90 minutes, CreativeCOW.net leader Shane Ross will show you time-saving techniques that the manual
left out! Learn more...
Introductory special: $39.95 through June 1!
After Effects: The Next Level by Aharon Rabinowitz
Full-size versions of the world's most popular AE podcast offer 50 tutorials to set your work apart. Over 6 hours in all!
As the creative director of All Bets Are Off Productions in New York City, Aharon knows what you need to know to get the most out of this very powerful program. Whether you're a working AE pro, or a student who hopes to become one, these 50 tutorials are for you.
Best of all, it's a chance to say "Thanks!" to Aharon for all of his great work. Learn more...
Introductory special: $29.95 through June 1!
Back in stock! Andrew Kramer's Serious Effects and Compositing: Advanced Techniques for After Effects
Join host Andrew Kramer for a look at how to put After Effects into action. You'll learn special effects including explosions and muzzle flashes, and compositing techniques such as 3D camera movement, selective color correction, and advanced keying.
You'll also see why Serious Effects and Compositing" is among the industry's top-selling AE training DVDs.
Learn more....
Only $49.95!
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The new episode of Creative COW's "All Things Apple" Podcast with Walter Biscardi!
Host Walter Biscardi, Jr. talks a little Apple Green, hands out a 'special' tip of the day, puts a period on NAB 2007 with special guest Shane Ross, and tosses out the first Question of the Day.
After only 2 weeks online, "All Things Apple" joins COW podcasts for
After Effects and
Final Cut Studio in the iTunes Software How-To Top 20!
For more details about this week's episode, as well as links to everything Walter and Shane discuss, check out Walter's
Creative COWBlog!
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CreativeCOW.net's Jim Harvey looks at The Harbortronics DigiSnap 2000 Series Intervalometer!
In this article, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Jim Harvey takes a look at the The Harbortronics DigiSnap 2000 Series Intervalometer, for easy, gorgeous to time lapse photography. He concludes that adding a DigiSnap 2000 series intervalometer to his equipment kit is just good business sense. Will it work for you?
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A Creative COW VIdeo Tutorial: After Effects Scribble Technique, Part 2
CreativeCOW.net's Aharon Rabinowitz shows
even more ways to take advantage of Auto-trace and Adobe After Effects to create truly striking variations on this
popular technique. This video tutorial includes AE 7 project files, and, thanks to The Creative COW
After Effects podcast, is also available in convenietn
travel sizes.
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COWs "In Search of a Midnight Kiss" at The TriBeca Film Festival
Although Stuart Ferreyra and the team at Timecode Multimedia completed color correction, finishing and mastering of "In search of a Midnight Kiss" just two weeks ago, it was the only film to sell out all three of its screenings at last week's Tribeca Film Festival.
"In Search of a Midnight Kiss" is a black and white romantic comedy directed by award-winning comic filmmaker, Alex Holdridge. Produced by Seth Caplan and Scoot McNairy, its Executive Producer is Anne Walker-McBay ("Before Sunset," "Dazed and Confused").
Shot on HDV and treated for a progressive look, Stuart, a leader in The COW's Apple Color community, was faced with the challenge of color-correcting 1500 shots in HDV's limited color space. "The desaturation process to make the movie black and white was easy," he says, "but that step alone makes the image flat. My job was to bring out the beauty of specific elements while hiding others. Each one had several carefully placed masks (vignettes) on characters, frame corners and background elements. We were careful to placed the vignettes on strategic places according to the move of the shots because we did not want to track them due to the tight deadline we had. It was a slow and painful process.
"After we finished and rendered the first half of the movie, Alex was really concerned with the results of the new progressive look. He had made new tests that he applied to the second half and was really happy about. He decided to scrap the work we've already done and got us a brand new timeline to re-color grade.
"At our facility, we use FinalTouch (now Apple's Color) and because of the way the application works, we could not just copy paste all the hundreds of different grades we had. So we had to start from scratch, which at the end was great because it allowed us to get to an even greater level of detail on each edit.
"We also added a customized organic grain to the HD video to give it a clean 16mm film look. It took about 45 hours of rendering over 3 nights to complete the color grading.
"After that, we still had to go back and retouch a few more shots to then put the movie together, do an up-conversion to uncompressed 10bit HD, add titles, credits and output to tape.
"We pretty much finished with enough time to take the tape overnight to the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
"This was the second black and white project I've had the chance to work with. It's challenging and demands a very different approach than a color project. The use of vignettes to create the sense of depth is extremely important. Apple's Color and all of its fantastic tools allowed me to creatively color grade a beautiful black and white digital film.
"I could not be any happier with the results. The success of 'In Search of a Midnight Kiss' is a great example of this revolution of independent desktop film making.
Stuart Ferreyra is Senior Colorist and Co-Owner of Timecode Multimedia in Santa Monica, Ca.
Timecode Multimedia is a post production boutique specializing in
HD color correction, finishing, mastering and is specially dedicated to service the independent film maker and the film making community. You can find him in
The Creative COW's Apple Color community.
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