When Should You Make Things By Hand? – Vlog 06

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When should you make things in post? When should you make things live? These are some deep subjects to think about and I sure don’t have all the answers. But maybe we’ll figure it out together. Also these are just things you should think about when planning your shoot. Don’t default, give it some thought, save yourself some time in the long run.

Let me know what you feel about making things by hand? When should you? When shouldn’t you? Tell me in the comments!

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Cross Process Colour (color) Grading – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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Let’s cross the streams with Cross Processing, a lovely colour grading rick to make people think they are looking at film. but they sure are not. We’ll look at a couple easy colour grading tricks to get you started with that lo fi look in no time. Your mediocure trip to the beach just got a while lot more indie!

This is part of #lofijuly. So see other things in that series check out the playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL79TBmLa4lTQIwnNBLT0zvJqckyaKYDoT

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Lofi Camera Tips For DSLR Cameras – Vlog 4

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In today;s vlog we’re talking tips to make your footage coming out of DSLR cameras a little more lofi. We’ll be taking the default compression off the camera. Looking at how to play with depth of field. And ways to get RAW footage on the cheap.

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Things mentioned in this vlog:
MagicLantern 3rd party firmware: http://www.magiclantern.fm/
Black magic Cameras: http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagiccinemacamera/
Red Cameras: http://www.red.com/

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LoFi (Hand Made) Titles – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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use new fangled technologies to make old time titles. Complete with all the hand made imperfections you know and love. It’s pretty simple and you can apply this effects stack to ANYTHING. And I mean that. Logos, animations, whatever. And it’s just as simple as doing it once and forgetting about it.

Also check out more video in the #lofijuly series this month. It’ll be rad. If people still stay rad. I do, and I’m people, so I guess they (I) do. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL79TBmLa4lTQIwnNBLT0zvJqckyaKYDoT

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The Lo Fi Aesthetic – Vlog 3

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What is lofi? what is an Aesthetic? Well learn all this and more. Lofi is esentially a response to hifi and is typified with dirty, textured, rough, and otherwise raw materials. You can see what they’re going for in things like Instagram, or ads for levis jeans, or that mooshead commercial where they take an old bus (retro) and fix it up (hand made) and tour around making music (authentic) and make a video with what is supposed to look like very little processing and true to life real, gritty, and original stuff.

That’s all bullshit because it’s just a new way of carefully crafting an image and I’ll show you how to do some of those tricks all this month in LOFIJULY!… hash tag!

Tell me what you feel about lofi in the comments below! And if you have a thing you want to hear me talk about ask away. I love suggestions.

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Procedural Forest – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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How to make many layers that are similar but unique really fast with expressions. Never make and place more things than you have to if you can make a computer do it for you! we’ll make a quick trip through the woods, but you should think about how you can use these techniques to save time with other things too.

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Top 5 NEW Features of After Effects CC – Vlog 2

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What’s so great about this Adobe After Effects CC anyway? Well here are the top 5 features according to me! Because I think I know best. But you might feel otherwise. Maybe there are features you like better. Let me know in the comments what you are most excited about with this new update.

Watch last week’s Vlog to hear about the change to Subscription based pricing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moXzSi63BTY

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Bubble Gum Pop – Adobe After Effects tutorial

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In this week’s quality after effects tutorial you’ll learn how to animate shape layers into a bubble gum bubble, pop it, and all without any hand drawn animation. We’ll use effects like the roughen edges for the look, the turbulent displace for the shapes, and the shape layer tools like merger paths and wiggle paths to combine and change shapes automatically. Puff Puff POP!

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Adobe CC Woes – Vlog 1

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There is a low of talk about the move to subscription based software. Adobe CC is totally subscription based and it’s a huge problem for some. But the old way was a huge problem for some to. Surely you can’t make all the people happy all the time but boy is change scary. Adobe CC is out and available for download but will you buy in?

Let me know in the comments you feel… with your feeling. Or what you think… with your thoughts.

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How To Use: Chromatic Aberration Template

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This is how to use the Chromatic Aberration Template from EvanAbrams.com available now HERE: http://goo.gl/UvBWH

You can customize the amount of the distortion, how blended the effect is with the original image, and how often the distortion occurs. And I’ll show you briefly how to sync up some of the attributes to audio.

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