Product Description Motion graphics experts Trish and Chris Meyer provide solutions to the world of motion graphics and alpha channels, the pitfalls of incorrect frame rates, removing pull down from film to video transfers, managing fields to reduce roto and masking work, setting rendering variables, dealing with non-square pixels and avoiding image quality "gotchas". Discover a wide variety of valuable concepts and insight that will save you time, money, frustration and give you happier clients. With examples using such popular programs as Adobe After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator, Puffin Designs Commotion, Maxon Cinema 4DXL and others. These system-independent concepts are essential to beginner through advanced level video editors, compositors, and 3D animators alike. VideoSyncrasies is "The Money Tape". Review VideoSyncrasies is a tutorial and reference designed for video editors, compositors, and 3D animators. It explains and demonstrates solutions for the most common problems associated with desktop video special effects. If you want to learn how to create better quality videos, VideoSyncrasies is an excellent place to start. This video shows you how to successfully handle alpha channels, image formats, timing, interlacing, conversions, aspect ratios, color space, and compression/decompression for video output. If you have ever wondered what all those options in LightWave's Camera and Render panels are for, this video will enable you to figure them out. -- Doug Kelly, Keyframe Magazine issue #13 July/August, 1999 P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); From the Contributor Desktop Images was formed in 1992 by owner / producer, Rex Olson as a division of RAVE Video Production Facilities, a broadcast television production studio located in Burbank California. RAVE provided television production and post production services for NBC, Warner Bros. Television, MTV, Comedy Central and others as well as television commercials and independent commercial and industrial projects. RAVE, Remote Audio & Video Enterprises was formed in 1983 providing mobile video production specializing in music video. RAVE was chosen to provide production services for the long running Star Licks instructional music video series now a subsidiary of Hal Leonard Publishing. Producing over one hundred instructional projects, Star Licks featured guitar, bass, drum and keyboard video instruction by many top rock, jazz and country musicians such as Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath, Jeff Porcaro of Toto, Chris Squire & Trevor Rabin of Yes, Joe Walsh of the Eagles, Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and many others. RAVE also provided production services for many broadcast, corporate and industrial projects as well as providing the worldwide broadcast feed of President Regan's first speech after leaving office at the University of Southern California. In 1987 RAVE moved into a 4000 square foot production facility in Burbank, California and became RAVE Video Production Facilities. In it's new home, RAVE provided broadcast production studios & equipment, location production services and post production for Commercial, Infomercial, Industrial and Television production. RAVE's production studio hosted the likes of Charlton Heston, Leonard Nimoy, Loretta Switt, Magic Johnson, Bruce Jenner, Jacklyn Smith, Randy Newman and Quincy Jones, to name just a few. With the advent of the NewTek Video Toaster in 1992, Rex Olson formed Desktop Images to provide the high quality training video tapes for the revolutionary production tool, "I wanted to take our experience in broadcast television and apply it to instructional tapes, providing a high quality product that would meet the needs of the many new Video Toaster users. It was important to me to create a product that was not only informative, but was presented in a professional manner". Desktop Images won a Silver Cindy award for it's "Creative Magic of Ron Thornton" special effects series in 1997. Today Desktop Images continues to produce training video for NewTek's New Video Toaster, LightWave [6] & Aura, as well as Adobe After Effects and Photoshop. Desktop Images will continue to expand it's product line to meet the needs of the expanding digital video production market. About the Actor Authors of "Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects: High Impact Animation for Video and Film" Miller Freeman Books See more
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