Archives: 2009
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Tutorials at FinalCutUser.com
No commentsAbout fricken time. I’ve been begging my buddy (And After Effects New York co-leader) Jim Geduldick at finalcutuser.com to get some video tips up on his site. If you’re a Final Cut Studio user, you should definately check these out. Lots of cool tips including how to export a QuickTime video with a surround track. [...]
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The Force Field…
6 commentsThe After Effects Force Field tutorial is done. The only thing keeping me from putting it up is an overnight compression job. But here’s a video to keep you happy in the meantime… We’ll be covering how to create the forcefield itself, and some basic color corrections. The rest (camera shake, explosion) is for another [...]
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Magic Bullet Looks Commercial
5 commentsHi Folks – I just finished working on an awesome commercial for Red Giant Software’s Magic Bullet Looks. This was a ton of fun to do. Magic Bullet Looks – Helping you Tell your story from Red Giant Software on Vimeo. I wrote and directed it, and did some of the compositing, but all of [...]
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After Effects New York – May 28
2 commentsHey there folks- Just wanted to let you know I’ll be presenting some cool motion graphics and compositing techniques at After Effects New York on Thursday, May 28. The meeting is FREE, and you don’t have to let us know a head that your coming. Just show up! At the time I write this, there [...]
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After Effects Force Field
17 commentsFor a long time I’ve wanted to do a force field tutorial. But I had trouble finding inspiration. I started to look around the web, and found this trailer for Halo 3: After watching that, I was inspired to find a way to create an effect that didn’t feel random but that did have some [...]
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Digital Production Buzz
No commentsI just appeared on Creative Planet’s Digital Production Buzz, to talk about All Bets Are Off productions and Crowd Control. It was a lot of fun. Every once in a while I’m asked to do an interview – for some reason people think I might actually be interesting to talk to. If you know me, [...]
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Doug Medlock: The Deepest Voice You Definately Want to Hire
4 commentsI’m working on a commercial and need to find a voice over actor. In searching through Voice 123 (a great resource for VO talent), I found Doug Medlock, one of the deepest voices I’ve ever heard. He’s done plenty of ads you’ve seen on TV or heard on the radio. I’m not going to lie [...]
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NAB – What it means to me…
4 commentsJust got back from NAB, and boy are my arms tired. Actually, the NAB (The National Association of Broadcasters) show was really light this year. But the truth is, light or heavy on the traffic, I really do enjoy seeing my friends – especially the ones that live across the country, like Ko Maruyama, or [...]
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Creating 3D Cloud Motion From a Still Image
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Apr 27, 2009
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Views: 53367
37 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to take a 2D image of clouds and use it to create realistic 3D cloud motion, in just a few simple clicks. No cutting up of the image needed! This Tip was sent to us by Noel Powell after he watched our weather replacement tutorials.
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More Techniques for Better Light Wraps
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Apr 20, 2009
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Views: 47432
16 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz continues his exploration of Light Wraps, focusing on improving Maltaannon’s free light wraping method (ceLightwrap), as well as covering a light wrapping technique for emergency situations.
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Big-Ass NAB sale on Crowd Control!
1 commentGet 40% off on Crowd Control from 4/19/09- 4/26/09 Hi everyone- I just wanted to thank all of you for your interest in Crowd Control. We at All Bets Are Off Productions hope you’re enjoying the library, and we thank you all for your support so far. This week I’ll be at NAB, and while [...]
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RGTV Ep. 16: Better Compositing with Light Wraps
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Apr 14, 2009
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Views: 6642
7 commentsIn this Episode, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to get better compositing results with Light Wraps – an effect used to blend the background light and foreground elements more convincingly during a composite.
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Getting Ready for NAB
3 commentsJust some stills from a presentation I’m doing for Red Giant @ NAB, focusing on Trapcode Form -although it also uses particular, warp, and knoll light factory. Of course, the women in the image are from Crowd Control. I’ll be presenting this at 10:00AM on Tuesday Apr. 21, at the Red Giant Software booth SL2529H. [...]
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Major Site Improvements Coming!
3 commentsHi folks- Just wanted to let you know that we have major site improvements planned for All Bets Are Off Productions – specifically with the speed of the Crowd Control site. Over the last 3 weeks (since we launched Crowd Control) we’ve been receiving your feedback about the way the site works and what you [...]
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Light Wraps
1 commentNot sure if I’m obsessed or just really bent on trying to help people get better compositing results, but if I can get these done before I head out for 3 weeks (2 for the holidays, 1 for NAB), I’m going to be putting out 2 tutorials on better Light Wraps. If you’re not familiar [...]
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RGTV Ep. 15: Better Compositing with Particles
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Mar 31, 2009
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Views: 14442
7 commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a technique for placing layers inside the middle of a particle system – crucial to truly integrating your CGI effects with your live action footage or motion graphics.
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Crowd Control Takes on Adjustment Lights
2 commentsEran Stern just did a great Creative Cow podcast tutorial on the subject of adjustment lights. And I’m proud to say that in it, he uses Crowd Control to help illustrate it. And if you’re more of a “Full-res” tutorial kind of person, it should be up this Friday in all of it’s full-sized glory. [...]
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Andrew Kramer at After Effects New York
13 commentsLast night, Andrew Kramer paid a visit to After Effects New York, the group I co-run with Jim Geduldick. We had an awesome turnout – over 300 people. His training was, of course, fantastic. I especially enjoyed his use of Windows Paint to show some high-end compositing techniques (if you think I’m kidding – I’m [...]
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Crowd Control is Here!
20 commentsOK folks- You’ve heard a few rumbling here, and our library of keyed out footage is finally here… but as of today, what was called “All Footage Keyed Out” is now called “Crowd Control.” 45,000 keyed out clips ready for use in all of your projects! This was a tremendous undertaking, and we at All [...]
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Frame Rates: Conforming from 25P to 24P
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Mar 09, 2009
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Views: 17395
30 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to take 25P footage (PAL) and quickly conform it to 24 P (Film Frame Rate) using eithe Adobe After Effects or Final Cut Studio. Also covered are some workflow tips for After Effects for quickly setting up Renders.
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RGTV Ep 10: Creating Traffic Patterns
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Feb 24, 2009
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Views: 9728
1 commentIn this episode, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create a realistic traffic pattern backdrop – great for a scene in which the camera overlooks a low lying, but developed area – perhaps looking down from a high hill onto a residential neighborhood.
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RGTV Ep 09: Creating a Watercolor Painting Look
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Feb 17, 2009
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Views: 5746
2 commentsIn this episode, Aharon shows you how to turn your video into an animated watercolor painting, and shares some techniques in varying the look and color.
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All Footage Keyed Out!
18 commentsIf you watch this week’s tutorial, you’ll see that I make a reference to a new product we’re working on bringing to you. A huge library of pre-keyed alpha footage – actors filmed on a green screen and then keyed out – so all you have to do is drop it into your projects. If [...]
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If you subscribed to any of my RSS feeds…
1 commentHi folks- If you subscribed to any of my RSS feeds, please re-subscribe. There was a bug in the feeds and it was fixed today. I want to make sure you get the most up to date tutorials…etc. Sorry for the trouble. the site is still in beta.
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That Baby DVD
3 commentsYou may have caught in one of my recent tutorials (Creating looping Particle System) that I’m a new Dad. In that tutorial, I mentioned creating a DVD to entertain my daughter Noa (now 6 months old). Well, I was contacted by an animator named Rob Wolf to say that he had, in fact, made a [...]