Entries Tagged as 'video'
Print contact sheets / thumbnails from video footage
November 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
This is a task I don't like doing, but it is certainly useful if you have a lot of footage to sort through and not everyone is very technically inclined. It allows you to print a contact sheet from every x frames/seconds/minutes of a video file. That helps when you are looking for a specific [...]
Tags: Final Cut Pro · video
8 tips for Time lapse photography
November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Here's a few things I have learned while sitting in fields waiting for my camera to finish working for me.
8 tips for shooting SLR time lapses
1) Put your camera on full manual - otherwise the still will flicker from one to the next.
2) Try to pick objects that are still, or are far away enough [...]
Tags: general geek · time lapse · video
time lapses - getting to know your intervalometer
November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
I've been inspired to shoot more pictures lately. Like everything else in my life I tend to go for quantity over quality, so I shot a LOT of pictures. I acquired a battery/intervalometer for my Nikon D40 a while back and didn't even notice the intervalometer settings until recently.
I've shot quite a few tests with [...]
Tags: photography · time lapse · video
Unserialize/Reserialize Final Cut Pro & Why does apple hate me?
January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Here's two quick video related snafu's I've run into today.
I have had to unserialize a copy of FCP and then put in a new (the correct one, technically) serial number. It turns out that unless you want to reinstall everything, then the file to find is located in Library/Application Support/ProApps and it is called "Final [...]
Tags: video
Some AFX tests
July 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
Here are some recent tests I did with vector line effects in After Effects.
This first one is from a tutorial I found by bill O'neil on the creative cow site using the shine plugin.
This is the simplest one, cloning out the tracing effect once I liked it, and tweaking to add depth.
This one [...]
Tags: video