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Archive for March, 2010
Final Cut 2 After Effects
Mar 31st
The Popcorn Island Final Cut 2 After Effects Script is a simple way to move sequences in Final Cut into Compositions in After Effects. Not only does it allow you to work faster, it also saves storage space. The normal work flow of rendering out from Final Cut and opening in After Effects causes one to create temporary files to pass back and forth between the programs. The Final Cut 2 After Effects script will allow you to bypass that and simply use the footage that has already been imported into Final Cut.
NEWS: Gerard over at strypesinpost.com has put up a tutorial on using this script to move over project to windows! check it out
Links:
- Tutorial: Final Cut 2 After Effects Tutorial
- Download:
Features 1.0.9
- Marker Import
- Cross Dissolve Transitions (v1.05)
- Basic Editing Translation
- Segmented Clips
- Basic Keyframes
- Time Remapping
- Nested Sequences
- Multiple Frame Rates and Aspect Ratios
- Audio Channels
- Name Length Error Checking
- Support for PAL25 and 60
Version Info
- Version 1.09 Update
- Center Point bug Fix, footage of different sizes using center point effects now import properly
- setValueAtTime bug Fix, Rounding errors in speed changes addressed.
- NOTE: I could use any community help debugging
this problem, though I now have a fix in place, I cannot be sure of the 1:1 frame matching between FCP and After Effects when using speed changes,
if anyone can run tests it would be extremely helpful. thx!
- NOTE: I could use any community help debugging
- Version 1.07 Update
- Markers are now imported into a marker layer in after effects. Name is used for flash events, comment for comment (thanks @Guillaume)
- Version 1.06 Update
- Updated Frame Rate bug for 50fps (and other unknowns) thanks @daniel
- CS3 Version 1.05 Update
- There is an issue with scripts compiled for CS4 using Extendscript toolkit CS4 that causes problems in CS3, the script will fail instantly. So I have had to split this project into 2 scripts. You will now see a script built for CS4 and one for CS3, these have been been confirmed working. Thanks to Kevin Brock for going back and forth with us on a couple scripts as we don’t have a good CS3 work flow here. We hope this helps everyone out! Thanks!
- Version 1.05
- FIX: Rounding Error on 23.976 footage causing Single Frame difference from original.
- UPDATE: Top Level Folder will now follow XML Filename, and not “FCP_Import”.
CABLES, CABLES, CABLES!
Mar 30th
I thought I would pass this place along. PCH Cables makes all kinds of audio video cables and sells them for cheap. They sell cables some times less than half the price as best buy. Plus, they are located out of Hillsboro out by Intel.
The Free Sound Project
Mar 30th
The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. New to this site? Read the What is Freesound page to learn more!
The DSLR Cinematography Guide
Mar 29th
nofilmschool blog has a great post everyone should read on shooting video with a HDSLR.
Intro
That “movie mode” hidden in the menu system of your new DSLR? It’s not just a novelty feature. It’s nothing short of a revolutionary, democratizing, disruptive moviemaking technology, as important as the invention of color film, 16mm, or HDTV. Not convinced? I’ve written more about how the DSLR is affecting the future of not only cinematography but also photography, as well as how their low-light sensitivity enables a whole new generation of international filmmakers to tell their story. However, the proof is in the pudding, so here are ten examples of stunning DSLR cinematography.
As for my own DSLR qualifications, I recently shot two episodes of the WBP Labs/Babelgum show RADAR on a Nikon D90; several behind-the-scenes videos for Focus Features on a Canon 5d Mark II; some other DSLR footage I can’t yet talk about publicly; and I’ve lensed plenty of pre-DSLR projects (e.g. The West Side, or a music video I shot when I was 19).
Digital cinematography is changing so rapidly these days that a printed book on the subject will likely be outdated by the time it reaches store shelves; this is especially true when it comes to the rapid release cycle of DSLRs. Up-to-date information can be found on online forums, but forums lack the organizing principles of a book, and as a result it can take a ludicrously long time to piece together reliable information (I spent months forum-surfing to assemble my own camera package). Thus, this guide: I hope it saves readers money they would’ve otherwise spent on an out-of-date book, and I hope it saves forums from so many newbie — sorry, “n00b” — questions.
Read the whole thing here nofilmschool blog
The Rat King Trailer
Mar 26th
‘The Rat King’ Trailer from benjamin parslow on Vimeo.
An art film set in the distant future, where all out nuclear war has wiped out most of mankind and left the Earth uninhabitable. Those who survived live underground in a brutal and oppressive society. After a satellite crashes somewhere on the earth’s highly toxic surface, a scavenger is sent to retrieve it by any means necessary. But what he doesn’t know is that he may not be alone out there.
Casting….. Casting….. Hook Line and oh wait more casting.
Mar 25th
Casting….. Casting….. Hook Line and oh wait more casting.
Portland, Oregon, April 10, 2010
Revolver Digital Media Studios latest project “Planning to Fail (Spectacularly)” is the story of an independent and ambitious gaming store that’s drowning in debt and inadvertently gets bought up by a corporate gaming conglomerate. Many have called it Empire Records meets Clerks and we haven’t stopped them. Filming for the series will start in early July with an aggressive marketing campaign and a Spectacular Premiere and Launch party taking place in the winter 2010. Several parts are being cast and all who work on the project will be paid for their time. We’re currently looking to cast the following roles:
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