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Keying out bad footage

Hey! Just wanted to say hallo. My name is Jerzy Drozda Jr, but you may also know me as Maltaannon. From this day forward I’ll be also posting at AEFreemart. Today I want to present you this brand new tutorial on a subject as old as digital post-production itself. You will learn how to work with poor quality footage to pull out a decent chroma key.

Please note that this tutorial uses Key Correct Pro - a set of plugins from Red Giant Software designed to help you with your everyday chroma keying.

I’d also like to point out that our host - Michele Yamazaki - is currently working on a book that focuses on keying in detail. Make sure to have an eye out for “GreenScreen Made Easy: Keying and Compositing Techniques for Indie Filmmakers”

I hope you will enjoy the tutorial.

Free Presets from LME: Card Dance

Here’s a free Card Dance preset/comp set from LME. Download the free presets here (.zip).

Buy LME 30 Super Card Dance Projects & Matching Presets. The presets works in After Effects 7.0 and higher on Mac or Windows. They are set up for SD and a few flavors of HD. Enjoy!

2008 05 06 Michele Yamazaki Preset
LME
After Effects
Adobe
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Mixing different video formats in Premiere Pro CS3

The Creative Suite Podcast has a new one up: Mixing different video formats in Premiere Pro CS3.

2008 05 06 Michele Yamazaki Podcast
Premiere Pro
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Tutorial: Text Ramp

Check out the newest tutorial from Maltaannon.com, the Text Ramp. It doesn’t look like much, but it overcomes a huge problem with Ramps in After Effects. It shows how to build a preset that solves the problem with Ramp effect applied to text layers. After applying the preset, the ramp effect will follow the layers position. Normally you have to reposition everything each time you make a change to the text position, which is a huge annoyance.

2008 05 02 Michele Yamazaki After Effects
Adobe
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Tutorial: Create a Credit Roll with Boris Plug-ins

What is the oldest text animation effect in film history? You guessed right: the credit roll. Traditionally, a long page of text is rolled from the bottom of the screen revealing line after line. In the early days of cinematography, a paper print was physically rolled before the film camera to produce this effect. Hence the name: Credit Roll.

A complete set of tools for creating credit rolls is included with Boris Graffiti, Boris RED, and Boris Blue. The same functionality is available in Boris Calligraphy which is bundled with Apple Final Cut Pro and Apple Final Cut Express and Boris Title Toolkit which is available for Adobe After Effects.

Learn How to Create a Credit Roll with Boris Plug-ins

2008 04 29 Michele Yamazaki Boris Red
Boris
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Luxology Modcast interview with John Knoll

Brad Peebler, president of Luxology, interviews John Knoll, Father of the Lens Flare and a creator of Photoshop. Listen now!

2008 04 29 Michele Yamazaki Luxology
Adobe
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Good News from Andrew Kramer @ Video Co-Pilot

Andrew says:

In an effort to bring more content and information to the Video Copilot world or wonders, I will be releasing a new series of free tutorials in addition to the free tutorials you are so generously accustomed to

These new tutorials will be shorter (1-5 minutes) and focus on cool techniques, follow-up advice on previous tutorials, workflow and even design tips. I’ve been collecting dozens of great ideas and I’ll be releasing these tutorials in between our featured tutorials you know so well.

This will also help us release new content on the site, even when we are busy working on big projects. (Like right now). It’s win win.

The first episode will be online May 02, 2008.

2008 04 28 Michele Yamazaki Video Copilot
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AE Tutorial - Another Simple 3D Text Example

From Dennis Radeke’s The Genesis Project. Another Simple 3D Text Example. Download the project file from the site.

2008 04 28 Michele Yamazaki After Effects
Adobe
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Freebie from Eyescream Factory

Eye Scream Factory is currently offering a cool Free Download of the Month. Add the hope and renewal of spring to your DVD production with Yellow Orchid, this month’s free DVD menu and packaging design template set. The template set includes main and chapter DVD menus in HD, NTSC, PAL, and DV - along with matching disc labels, case inserts, and background images.