Here’s an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how Pow! Pix, a New York-based post production facility, created various features, promos and teaser segments from the figure skating and short-track speed skating venue at the Vancouver Winter Games using an Avid workflow.
Create a transition that looks like a broken projector image flicker. http://www.avidscreencast.com/asc18
Check out how you can use the Avid Pan & Zoom plugin to preserve all the detail in your hi res graphics when using them in Media Composer.
Create a moving filmstrip effect for Avid Media Composer. This is a great lesson for using keyframes and compositing techniques. You can view the entire transcript of this Media Composer video tutorial by visiting: http://www.geniusdv.com/news_and_tutorials/2010/02/moving_filmstrip_effect_fo…
Use Avid Media Composer’s Marquee Title tool to create a sequence of 3D characters that fade up one at a time. You can view more information related to this Avid Media Composer’s Marquee tutorial by visiting:
So you have a bunch of subtitles or lower thirds to do. They all look the same, except for the contents. You’re not seriously considering doing them all by hand in Title Tool, are you? Enter Marquee’s Autotitler, which is here to make your life easy. Honestly, if you didn’t know about this one, you…
Create a secondary color correction in Avid Media Composer. http://www.avidscreencast.com/asc16
Learn how to create the Pleasantville effect with Avid Media Composer using the SpetraMatte keyer.
Sometimes the good, old title with static text just doesn’t cut it. In this episode, we’ll make the text be another layer of video.
Create a visually interesting photo slideshow by stacking the photos on top of each other and animating them!
PLEASE NOTE: This is a special Christmas Episode, so… be prepared for that 🙂 Sometimes, you need to obscure the face of a person, be it for legal or aesthetic reasons. In this episode, we’ll do just that using a very special technique. Check out the blog entry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc10
Telling a riveting, end-of-the-world story can be challenging when theres over 1,400 visual effects wreaking apocalyptic chaos on screen. But for the editing team behind 2012, Media Composer® helped them pre-visualize sequences and collaborate across two countries, from the productions beginning to end, to craft the intricate storyline.
In this episode, we’ll create the Pleasantville Effect – everything is black-and-white except for one color – using a Spectramatte and an Animatte for creating a garbage matte. Check out the blog enry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc05
In this episode, I’ll show you how to remap your keyboard and give you a couple of ideas on what functions to map to it. If this does not make you at least 10% more productive, I’ll refund your money. Check out the blog enry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc06
Create a high-contrast colorized look to your image to make it pop! Check out the blog enry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc07
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