Build it up to break it down again

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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