Adobe After Effects
Compositing Secrets Everyone Can Use Pt. 4 - Advanced Alphas
When most people hear the words "alpha channels", they think "transparency", but that's not exactly accurate. The truth is more complex, and a quite bit more interesting! Join longtime VFX artist, editor, software developer, and business owner Simon Ubsdell for Part 4 of the best look behind the technology of compositing that you've ever seen, packed with practical advice for applying the secrets of alpha channels that's simply not possible before understanding these underlying principles. No matter which applications you're using for editing, compositing, or visual effects, this one is a must-see!
Tutorial Simon Ubsdell |
Adobe After Effects
Compositing Secrets Everyone Can Use: Pt. 3 - Alpha Channels
When most people hear the words "alpha channels", they think "transparency", but that's not exactly accurate. The truth is more complex, and a quite bit more interesting! Join longtime VFX artist, editor, software developer, and business owner Simon Ubsdell for Part 3 of the best look behind the technology of compositing that you've ever seen, packed with practical advice for applying the secrets of alpha channels that's simply not possible before understanding these underlying principles. No matter which applications you're using for editing, compositing, or visual effects, this one is a must-see!
Tutorial Simon Ubsdell |
Boris FX
Mocha Pro 19 from BorisFX: Overview and New Features
Mocha is an academy award winning planar tracker that is widely used in the VFX and Film Making industry. Mocha Pro 2019 adds some exciting new features to this powerful software tool, starting with a much-streamlined interface and GPU acceleration. Join VFX guru Tobias Gleissenberger of Surfaced Studio for a closer look!
Tobias G |
Autodesk Maya
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Unveils Turing, Reinventing Computer Graphics
Ray-traced graphics offer incredible realism. Interactive graphics driven by GPUs offer speed and responsiveness. The two now come together in the greatest leap since the invention of the CUDA GPU in 2006, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced Monday. Speaking at the SIGGRAPH professional graphics conference in Vancouver, Huang unveiled Turing, NVIDIA’s eighth-generation GPU architecture, bringing ray tracing to real-time graphics. He also introduced the first Turing-based GPUs ??" the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000, Quadro RTX 6000 and Quadro RTX 5000. And he detailed the Quadro RTX Server, a reference architecture for the $250 billion visual effects industry.
Feature, People / Interview, Business Creative COW |
Adobe After Effects
Remove People from Moving Video in After Effects with Mocha
Learn how to remove a person from a moving video using the Remove module of the Mocha Pro plug-in for Adobe After Effects! In one of his most epic tutorial's yet, Surfaced Studio's Tobias Gleissenberger then adds a bonus Beam Up effect using some of the great filters from the Boris Continuum and Sapphire collections.
Tutorial Tobias Gleissenberger |
Adobe After Effects
Stabilize & Smooth: mocha 5 Plug-in for Adobe & Avid
Imagineer Systems and Boris FX product specialist Mary Poplin shows you how to stabilize with the new mocha Pro 5 plug-in inside of Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. This tutorial covers artistic stabilization, such as smoothing out camera movements or stabilizing around moving objects, completely locking down shots, and automatically replacing edge fill on planar backgrounds.
Tutorial Mary Poplin |
Boris FX
Boris Continuum Complete 10: A Winner For Every Creative
Walter Biscardi has been a Boris FX customer since 1995, and he calls Continuum Complete 10 a winner that belongs in every post creative's toolbox. With filters that nobody else has, customizable presets galore, multiple host support for one price, the watershed Title Studio, and the integrated power of mocha's Academy Award-winning tracking built into every filter, forget the cliche of Continuum Complete being a Swiss army knife, says Walter. Now, it's more like a cannon! Join Walter for some of the details on why you need this amazing package yourself.
Review, Editorial Walter Biscardi |
Boris FX
Walter Soyka On Boris Continuum Complete 9 NLE & AE Plug-ins
Creative COW's Walter Soyka has been using the Boris Continuum Complete plug-ins for years, and now takes a look at BCC 9. His conclusion: it's exactly what a plug-in set should be, adding power and creative options, saving time, and a strong value. Available for every major NLE, After Effects, and Resolve, you'll want to take a look at Walter's experience yourself.
Review, Feature Walter Soyka |
Boris FX
Boris FX Acquires Imagineer, Building VFX Development Dynamo
Boris FX, makers of VFX plug-ins and integrated workflow solutions including Boris Continuum Complete, have signed an agreement to acquire Imagineer Systems, makers of mocha Pro. The two will combine for a tremendous reach in the editing, motion graphics, and VFX communities, and have already begun work on joint projects and technologies.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview Tim Wilson |
Boris FX
NAB 2012: Boris FX
Boris FX came to NAB 2012 with new versions, each of which expanded the capabilities of the company's toolset of visual effects, compositing, titling, and workflow tools: Version 8 of its flagship Boris Continuum Complete, Version 2 of Soundbite and Version 6 of Boris Graffiti. The company also announced support for Adobe Creative Suite 6 and Avid DS.
Feature Debra Kaufman |
Boris FX
BCC 8: Create Powerful Messaging with Lights and Particles Play Video In this video tutorial, Kevin P. McAuliffe creates an end page for a commercial focused on tennis rackets. A tennis ball is thrown in the air, and once it is struck by the tennis racket, it turns into a flaming ball with particles shooting out behind it, creating a powerful message for the racket manufacturer. Kevin shows you how it's done with Boris Continuum Complete 8 AE's new Film Glow, Particle Emitter 3D, and Lens Flare 3D filters.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial Kevin P. McAuliffe |
Boris FX
Create a Realistic 3D End Tag in Adobe After Effects Play Video In this Boris video tutorial, Kevin P. McAuliffe creates an end tag with Boris Continuum Complete 8 AE's new Stage Light effect. BCC Stage Light lets you create volumetric lighting from any light that you add to your After Effects composition. What would normally take a high-end 3D application to create can now be done in minutes inside of AE!
Tutorial, Video Tutorial Kevin P. McAuliffe |
Boris FX
Keep Broadcast-Legal Colors with Boris Continuum Complete 8 Play Video Motion graphics designers have traditionally been at the mercy of video editors when it comes to making sure video levels in a shot are broadcast safe. Boris Continuum Complete 8 AE's new Videoscope tool changes the game. In this Boris TV episode, Kevin P. McAuliffe shows you how to ensure broadcast-legal colors of your final output or any individual element of your After Effects project. He then uses Boris Continuum Complete's 3-Way Color Grade and Safe Colors filters to fix a non-legal shot.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial Kevin P. McAuliffe |
Boris FX
Boris Soundbite: Dialogue Search for Apple Final Cut Pro Play Video Final Cut Studio Master Trainer Steve Kanter introduces Boris Soundbite, a software application that quickly and accurately finds any word or phrase spoken in recorded media. Video editors, producers, and journalists can instantly play all occurrences of a spoken phrase in their media, then insert the perfect take into their Final Cut Pro project, organize clips around keywords, and even find replacement words for problematic audio. Based on Nexidia's patented dialogue search technology, Boris Soundbite greatly reduces logging and transcription costs and lets you spend your time being creative instead of manually searching hours of video.
Review, Tutorial, Video Tutorial Stephen Kanter |
Boris FX
Color Match in Sony Vegas Pro Play Video If you have ever done a multi-camera shoot where you needed to match camera
colors, or if you have done a single camera shoot where the lighting
conditions changed, then BCC Color Match could save you hours and hours of
time. This Boris Continuum Complete filter quickly matches the color and
luma values from the highlight, midtone, and shadow areas of two separate
clips.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial John Rofrano |
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