April 1917

As you will know this week has been proclaimed to the four winds the new version of the Adobe software package. We will not list here the new Photoshop or After Effects since there are already many blogs that deal with it.
What did I leave is the impressive work of the Brazilian company Seagulls Fly in charge of making the video presentation of the famous suite from Adobe.

Ingluye one is making it.

Do not fail to visit the website of this company because they have really exceptional work.

Adobe CS5 - Production Premium from Seagulls Fly on Vimeo .

Making of Adobe CS5 - Production Premium from Seagulls Fly on Vimeo .

 

 

Jan 25

Thanks to Matt Silverman, Creative Director of Bonfire Labs , we can enjoy the video series Masters of Visual Effects, published 10 years ago originally on VHS and now are no longer for sale or available in digital format.

Matt has published on its space Vimeo digitized the tapes, which deal with concepts of composition, rotoscoping, tracking, keying, etc, and that despite the years are just as current. Some teachers like Ron Brickmann, Stu Scott Stewart Mashwitz or teach these concepts in these interesting chapters.

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Masters of Visual Effects 2.1 - Compositing Concepts one from Matt Silverman on Vimeo .

Masters of Visual Effects 2.2 - Composting Concepts 2 from Matt Silverman on Vimeo .

Masters of Visual Effects 2.3 - keying from Matt Silverman on Vimeo .

More space Vimeo Matt Silverman

 

 

Dec 10

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A spot recorded with an iPhone. This is the spot produced by an NGO that seeks to raise New York on the amount of food wasted in New York and the number of hungry in the city. Here are the piece:

Beneath the apparent simplicity that implies that this spot is recorded entirely with an iPhone, there is a substantial technological framework. The prestigious studio The Mill , responsible for the audiovisual work as detailed in its web was made this spot.

Indeed the base sequence shot of the spot was shot entirely with an iPhone in a New York subway station. Later in postproduction CGI should be incorporated in this case was the crowd of apples that come in an avalanche of wagons of the train. presente en toda la escena provocan una distorsión difícil de salvar por los softwares de tracking así que The Mill ideó un “rig”o armazón de cámaras , en cocreto  tres Canon 5D MKII, que situadas fijas en la estación grababan sincronizadas en todo momento la posición del iPhone. For this integration was needed to make a tracking of the whole scene, which was quite difficult to do directly with the material recorded with the iPhone. The compression artifacts and the CMOS rolling shutter present in the whole scene cause a distortion difficult to save for tracking softwares so The Mill devised a "rig" or frame cameras, Canon 5D MKII cocreto three, which still placed at the station recorded synchronized at all times the position of the iPhone. This in turn was easy to locate by tracking software thanks to LED lights clearly marking its position in space. In this way the tracking is greatly simplifició although it was necessary to correct by hand, frame by frame as it happens almost always.

For realistic textured apples used an HDRI map generated by a camera 360 ° x180 °, in particular a SpheronVR which also has an amazing 26f stops, camera any day deserve an article on this blog.

This whole process can be seen in detail in this "breakdown"

Finally, post-production to mimic the compression artifacts and color correction did the rest to provide that sense of realism.

So, yes, a spot shot with an iPhone, but there is more behind it to get that "look random" cinéma vérité.

Dec 9

081209 Although this blog is dedicated mostly to everything related to technology and audiovisual postproduction, today I present a useful tool for pre-production processes. y en definitiva todos los recursos propios de cualquier producción audiovisual. This is Celtx , a free software that allows you to organize all tasks related to the preproduction of any audiovisual or entertainment. Celtx is an organizer that allows us to handle scripts, breakdowns, storyboards, filming dates, records of locations, actors, technical, etc ... and ultimately all own resources any audiovisual production.

It is a kind of production schedule allows us to keep on hand and updated each of these resources. Contains tools to make sketches of the shots and camera setup, tools for creating story boards, shooting schedule, script editor ... all this is recorded in a project that we can share with other users or recycled for new projects. It is available for Mac and PC and also in Spanish .

 

 

Dec 3

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This is one of those little applications that may become indispensable for any editor. This is VideoSpace of Digital Heaven, a company specializing in applications and plugins for Final Cut. Although already an old acquaintance through plugins like Loader , this company has just released version 3 of this application free of charge. With it you can calculate the space it will occupy in our record any video clip showing the codec, duration, fps and the type of audio. The novelty is that include new codecs supported by Final Cut 7.

It can also be installed as a widget on your Mac, iPhone or iPodTouch or can be accessed online at this link: http://www.videospaceonline.com/

 

 

November 1924

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Motion Exchange is an initiative of Harry Frank (Graymachine) . It is a social network of professional motion graphics that tries to connect freelancers around the world devoted to these duties.

This portal integrates thematic forums, blogs and video gallery of members of the community. Also proposed collaborative projects, the first one, proposed by Frank Harry himself is a animated header for the portal, anyone is encouraged?

 

 

November 1916

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By now surely you already know the boys Malviviendo . . Just a year ago, this group of youths decided to create their own online series and with only 40 € and talent launched its first chapter online. Word of mouth did the rest and a year later and eight chapters later, is a true revelation of the Spanish audiovisual, with numerous awards under his belt and thousands of fans eager to see the adventures of The Black and Lefty.

de la serie. Today we interviewed Javi Leri, responsible for editing and post production of the series. The techniques of "guerrilla", its low budget and especially the talent look also at the post in the series, always careful with his personal touch. . It can be said in this sense are the Stu Maschwitz Spanish therefore have much to say here in EfectoHD. Without more, this was the conversation we had with him:

  • y cómo llegó a ser encargado de la edición de Malviviendo? EfectoHD: Who in Javi Leri and how he became responsible for editing Malviviendo?

y tras terminar mis estudios audiovisuales conocí a David Saínz montando un documental en el que él era el director allá por 2006, tuvimos un “flechazo” profesional y desde entonces siempre hemos hecho muchas cosas juntos hasta que surgió la idea de Malviviendo . Javi Leri: Well, I have 23 years, I'm from Seville and after completing my studies I met David Sainz audiovisual mounting a documentary in which he was the director back in 2006, we had a "crush" professional and ever since have done many things together until the idea of Malviviendo.

  • EHD: What you describe recording equipment and in what format is recorded Malviviendo?

, que es con la que se ha grabado toda la serie, menos nuestro último capítulo en el que ya nos hemos pasado al HD con una Panasonic HVX200 y por fin hemos podido olvidar las cintas para grabar en tarjeta P2 . JL: Well Malviviendo we had two cameras, a Panasonic AG-DVX100 in miniDV, it is with which he recorded the whole series except our last chapter in which we have already passed to the HD with a Panasonic HVX200 and we have finally able to forget the tapes to record onto a P2 card.

  • EHD: Any special reason why you chose this format?

JL: Well the truth is that at first we had no choice, was the only camera that we had, but always think to make the jump to HD from the start, we have finally done.

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  • - cost usáis ? EHD: What other technical resources for low - cost you use?

JL: From the beginning we have always had to look for life in that sense .. de sonido y como no, la típica tela verde sujetada con pinzas para hacer nuestros cromas. disco lights illuminate with borrowed, used as a boom mic sound and of course, the typical green cloth secured with clamps to make our cards.

  • en la postproducción y edición? EHD: What software or platform you use in post production and editing? Pros and cons of this choice?

, sudando mucho y teniendo interminables problemas… editando en Avid y After Effects para la post . JL: Well, for the first six chapters have used PC for editing and post, with a computer rather normalito, sweating profusely and having endless problems ... editing in Avid and After Effects for the post. en la edición . But from the seventh chapter we have been able to get a good Mac assembling station, switching to Final Cut editing.

  • en postproducir un capítulo? EHD: How long you delay a chapter in post product?

en apenas dos días. JL: It usually takes a week or ten days, sometimes even less, for example chapter 5 was edited and post product in just two days. más en ese sentido, introduciendo efectos 3D cuando lo requiera el guión con el consecuente aumento del periodo de postpro . It also depends on whether the chapter requires more or less effect, although it is true that we are trying currarnoslo ever goes in that direction by introducing 3D effects when required by the script with the consequent increase in the postproduction period.

  • realizado? EHD: What has been the most complex VFX you have done?

y disparos en la escena del Kaki , hasta los cromas en todos los viajes en coche de la demás historias, y bueno más la cabecera de Expediente X que es la mayoría en Motion Graphics . JL: The more work so far as to post has been Chapter 6, all the stories chapter required a lot of work post, since the death of zombies and shooting at the scene of Kaki, to the chroma in all car trips of the other stories, and well over the head of X-Files that are most in Motion Graphics. , más que nada porque me resultó bastante difícil que un triángulo negro gigante absorbiera a Bill sin que quedara cutre. But the most difficult has been the absorbing black triangle Bill in Chapter 8, mostly because I found it quite difficult for a giant black triangle Bill absorbed without leaving a tacky.

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  • resuelto de una forma artesana y barata? EHD: Can you tell us some interesting VFX you've settled in a craft and cheap?

JL: There are stories rather curious, as that kills black fly in your arm in a parody of the head of Dexter's first chapter. After several failed attempts to make a realistic 3D fly I managed to catch a fly that came into my room when I was desperate and burn it to a chroma for hours. Unfortunately the fly died in the shooting. Also, our sound engineer likes to be seen and there is no chapter that does not have to remove a few poles and some reflection in crystals.

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  • : ¿ Usáis algún plugin , alguna referencia en la que os baséis …? EHD: Color correction and effect filmlook: You use a plugin, any reference in which baséis you ...?

, cuidando y retocando cada plano. JL: We have always wanted to give a cinematic touch to bad housing, and that from the beginning we gave great importance to grading, caring and touching up each level. , hemos querido desde el primer capítulo hacer uno propio, un retoque cálido que creemos que le pega al mundo malviviendo y que David Sainz define como: “Retoque Malviviendo” Although there are several plugins such as "Magic Bullet" we wanted from the first chapter to make your own, a warm touch we think that hits the world own citizens and that David Sainz defined as: "Touch Malviviendo"

  • que no podéis resolver en grabación os ayuda a resolver la posproducción ? EHD: What obstacles you can not resolve recording helps you to resolve the post-production?

en coche en condiciones, así que el croma nos esta sacando de muchos apuros. JL: We turned a lot of chrome on car trips, we have the technical means to record a conversation in the car in shape, so we are removing the chroma of many troubles. Also, the grading has saved us many times when the light was not enough.

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  • alguna intención de grabar con nuevas tecnologías tipo RedOne o 5D?¿Qué opinión te merecen esta nueva manera de filmar vídeo? EHD: Given the success of the series and the possibility of increasing the budget Do you have any intention to record with new technologies such RedOne or 5D? What do you think about this new way to shoot video?

a este tipo de formatos. JL: The truth is that we are willing to do something with the RedOne, is being the revolution in digital cinema and for a price "affordable" so we hope soon to jump to such formats.

última que habéis puesto, sois unos cracks Of course I already knew your site and is super interesabte, very good the last reel that you post, you are some cracks ;) . I have enjoyed the questions! is the first interview I do as well as specific and made me hope and more coming to you! ;)

haciendo las cosas así de bien y entrevistaros dentro de 8 capítulos más, con muchos más premios a las espaldas. Javi Thanks for your time, we hope that you continue doing things this good and be interviewing within eight chapters, with many more prizes to the back. Do not miss the freshness!

 

 

November 1911

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(2001, Dodot) así como en el primer spot rodado con RedOne también en España (Schweppes-Dr House, 2008). Gabi Garcia , oco / DIT / Technical Digital Film is one of the technical pioneers in Spain in the use of HD technology and the use of Red One camera has participated as a coach in the first spot shot in Spain in HD (2001, Dodot) as well as in the first shot with RedOne spot in Spain (Schweppes, Dr House, 2008). On its website you can find technical articles of interest about film and digital video technology very in tune with the philosophy of this blog, we highlight some such as:

In short, an interesting site with information first hand from someone who works every day with these new technologies and first person living in technological change between SD-HD-RAW

And thanks Gabi for putting this blog under the heading of technical interest links .

 

 


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