Posts by: Aharon Rabinowitz
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Red Giant BulletProof
No commentsMy peeps at Red Giant releases a new product today called BulletProof – an on set solution for media prep and delivery. It’s a fantastic tool for managing all of the footage you create while filming, so that you can prepare it for your editor while you’re still on set. We recently put BulletProof to [...]
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New Film: Spy vs Guy
No commentsIntroducing Spy vs Guy – a new original short film from director Seth Worley and the awesome team at Red Giant Films. A retired Russian spy hunts down sensitive technology after it falls into unsuspecting hands. Spy Vs Guy was made with the help of Red Giant BulletProof – a complete offload, prep, and delivery [...]
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Creative Cloud
128 commentsLet me start off this post by saying that I do not work for Adobe. I have never been an Adobe Employee, and probably never will be one after this article goes out. I don’t owe Adobe anything… other than my career, as their software has allowed me to support myself and ultimately start a [...]
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Stepping out of After Effects New York
4 commentsHey folks – just a heads up that after our February meeting of After Effects New York with guest speaker Andrew Kramer, I am stepping out of a leadership role there. Over six years ago, I was approached by Dennis Radeke at Adobe about starting a New York After Effects user group. I sorta said [...]
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Red Giant TV Episode 89 – Tempo: Up in Flames – Realistic and Slow Motion Fire Effects
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 18, 2012
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2 commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz walks you through the workflow used to create realistic fire for our film Tempo. He’ll be using a combination of real fire footage, Trapcode Particular, and some 3rd Party plug-ins. Note from Aharon: One thing I did not mention – the particles’ life is set to [...]
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New Film – Tempo
No commentsRed Giant presents Tempo, a new short film from the creators of Plot Device. (I’m one of those guys) Description: In this sci-fi action thriller, a scientist must prevent a new, powerful technology from falling into the wrong hands. Learn more about filmmaking and visual effects at http://redgiant.com/films. Credits: Director: Seth Worley Executive Producer: Aharon [...]
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Red Giant QuickTip #77: Handheld Camera Look
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 29, 2012
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No commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shares a few tips for giving a handheld camera look to video that was shot locked down on a tripod. This is useful for situations where you need to shoot locked down for an FX shot, and want to add in shake later.
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Some Fire Tests With Trapcode Particular
5 commentsUsing a single fire movie (one for each test) as the sprite for the particles, in conjunction with the time sampling method called Random Play Once, this effect can be achieved. This is a fairly simple particle system with no Aux particles. Just a good source video. ReelSmart Motion Blur, from RevisionFX, was used to [...]
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New Film: Form 17
1 commentThis has been a long time coming. Never got around to posting. Below you can find our latest film, Form 17, which I executive produced and co-wrote with Seth Worley (Director) and Neil Hoppe (Producer). This is our 3rd film working together, and in my opinion, the best, in terms of story and flow. Don’t [...]
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Red Giant QuickTip #75: Creating Compound Clips for Combined Effects in FCPX
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 13, 2012
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No commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to combine clips on your timeline in FCPX. You might use this to add an effect to all clips at once (ex.: an 8MM film look) or to effect clips that are being composited (ex:. light leaks over video). LINKS: Red Giant Retrograde: 8MM & 16MM film [...]
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Red Giant QuickTip #73: Old Film – Working with Retrograde and Looks (FCPX)
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Oct 30, 2012
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No commentsIn this QuickTip, Aharon Rabinowitz gives you some ideas for adding mood and additional effects to Retrograde’s old film look, without ruining the authenticity of the effect. Get Red Giant Retrograde from our friends at CrumplePop HERE. Watch this video to learn more about why Retrograde looks so convincing in creating 16MM and 8MM film [...]
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Free Shatter Object Presets for Element 3D
16 commentsHey folks – so I’ve been Playing around with Videocopilot’s Element 3D, and really enjoying breaking objects apart. Since I realize that so many of the people getting started with Element are new to 3D, I wanted to give you all some fun stuff to shatter. These are just some basic primitives that I have [...]
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Episode 84: Trapcode Mir – Amplitude Mapping
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Aug 14, 2012
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No commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to take Trapcode Mir in a whole new direction using Amplitude Layers. You’ll learn to create looping animation, cityscapes, audio-triggered displacement and more.
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Need for Speed
5 commentsThere’s a revolution in the After Effects world – a revolution of speed. Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you caught that VideoCopilot and Red Giant released some ridiculously fast OpenGL powered Plug-ins that promise to change the future for AE users. Moving from the CPU to the GPU is clearly the wave of [...]
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New Film – Order Up
1 commentHey folks – I’m proud to share ‘Order Up,’ a new short that I co-wrote with director Seth Worley. We also worked together on Plot Device and are working on a new film as well. The Plot: A pizza is delivered to a creepy, abandoned location. Then it gets weird. Made with Knoll Light Factory [...]
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Red Giant QuickTip #68: Seamless Tunnels in Trapcode Mir
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Aug 02, 2012
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No commentsIn this QuickTip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how close up the mesh to create a seamless tunnel in Trapcode Mir.
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The Webby’s
3 commentsSo I went to the Webby Awards this week, to celebrate Plot Device’s win for Best Editing. Yeah… I’m not an awards show kind of guy, but it was pretty fun. I walked the Red Carpet, which was just bizarre. Honestly, the part I most enjoyed was getting these great photos of my wife and [...]
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Episode 79: Soylent Screen – The Secret Ingredients for a Filmed Computer Screen Look
- By Aharon Rabinowitz May 17, 2012
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No commentsIn this Episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create the look of a filmed computer screen (what it looks like when you film it with a handheld camera) using After Effects and elements created with screen capture software. Expression for Creating Wiggle with Ease: freq=.5; //frequency: fill in or tie [...]
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Plot Device wins the Webby!
2 commentsYou may have heard that the short film I executive produced and co-wrote with Director Seth Worley, won a Webby for “Best Editing.” Other than finding Seth to direct the film, I really had nothing to do with it. It was all his talent once the shoot began. Still, I’m feeling pretty good about it, [...]
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Plot Device Was Nominated for a Webby!
1 commentI’m on vacation, and then heading out to NAB, so I won’t belabor this… Plot Device was nominated for a Webby award. The award is for Best Editing, and so, the nomination really goes to Seth Worley. Read more about it HERE in my post at the Red Room Blog. It’s all in that post, [...]
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Episode 75: Video to Cartoon – Getting Better Results
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Apr 03, 2012
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No commentsOften people apply ToonIt as a last step in their video process, and wonder why the end result doesn’t look all that cartoonish. In this episode, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to plan and shoot for video-to-cartoon, and get a convincing result.
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My Schedule at NAB 2012
2 commentsHey folks – if your coming out to NAB, I’ll be there on Monday and Tuesday, working at the Red Giant Booth in the South Lower Hall – Booth # SL2124. Please stop by and say hello. Here’s my schedule: Monday 4/16 10 AM -12 PM 1 PM – 2 PM IMPORTANT: I’ll be giving [...]
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Ruin – Go Watch This Now!
3 commentsSome of the best 3D work I’ve ever seen. Great action and fantastic virtual cinematography. Just wow. Do me a favor, after watching this, check out all of the extras at the film’s site and then head over to Wes Ball’s site and learn more about him and his work.
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Oh Crap… I Forgot to Hit the Render Button!
3 commentsHave you ever been on the bus/train home and said the above, knowing you would either have to go back to work, or accept hours of lost time? Recently, my wife called me and said that she couldn’t be home on time, and asked me to pick up the kids from a birthday party. I [...]
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Red Giant QuickTip #61: Adding Digital Distortion to Your Footage
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Mar 01, 2012
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No commentsIn this QuickTip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to add some digital distortion/displacement to your footage.