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ProVideo Coalition is a resource where pro video creators, post production editors and other like minded individuals go to for tools, tips, and techniques
Review: Red Giant PluralEyes 4 - ProVideo Coalition
Feb 18, 2016 — What looked to be a bit of clip chaos in the top unsynced image makes perfect sense once you see it completed. PE 4 identified the three different cameras, three different talking heads and moved the media accordingly.
TS/TRS/TRRS/TRRRS: Combating the misconnection epidemic
Aug 30, 2015 — There are at least four different varieties of 3.5 mm plugs and jacks, each with its own purpose and application. In the last 60 days, several friends have had severe problems by not understanding the differences and innocently plugged the inappropriate plug into the jack on their recording device, which caused them severe problems.
Using EXRs and DWA in After Effects - ProVideo Coalition
Sep 29, 2021 — Codecs aren’t the most exciting thing to write about, but a recent update to After Effects included a tiny note that caught my interest. The DWA compression option for EXRs now includes a quality setting.
Saber: a new FREE After Effects plug-in from Video Copilot
Mar 5, 2016 — Saber is a new FREE After Effects plug-in from Andrew Kramer and friends at Video Copilot. After a few hiccups, the free filter is now available, vastly improving on AE’s ancient built-in Beam effect. VCP Saber can be used to create energy beams, lightsabers, lasers, portals, neon lights, electric, haze, etc. It features: Create High quality energy & lights beams
Chaos announces Corona 9 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D
Oct 24, 2022 — Procedural clouds, memory-efficient patterns and scatter edge trimming now available in artist-friendly renderers, with the new version of Corona 9, from Chaos, available for Windows and Mac.
About Us - ProVideo Coalition
ProVideo Coalition brings together the film industry’s best writers, bloggers and video experts under one URL. Each writer / filmmaker / contributor writes based on their personal knowledge and experience. PVC has become the leading resource for video professionals working in major studios and post houses, independent filmmakers, educators, students and storytelling enthusiasts as the ...
Review: VEGAS Pro 17 by Oliver Peters - ProVideo Coalition
May 18, 2020 — With a modernized interface, unified grading panel, and GPU acceleration – VEGAS Creative Software brings improved power features to its veteran Windows editing application, VEGAS Pro 17.
“Unmult” with and without special plug-ins - ProVideo Coalition
Jun 27, 2014 — As noted, info on alpha channels was collected in a recent post, Alpha channels: premultiplied vs straight, but there are other more comprehensive and coherent resources available. Mark Christiansen has a good succinct advice and discussion of alpha channels in his book Adobe After Effects CC Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques.An excerpt of an earlier edition is still available ...
The Secret Art of Slating: 25 Tips to Help You Slate Like a Pro
Mar 1, 2011 — The only time it’s acceptable to shoot a slate out of focus is when the shot is locked off for visual effects. 16. If you’re simply ID’ing a take, which happens when it is being recorded without sound or if the sound is being recorded single-system with the picture onto tape or a hard drive, put the slate into the shot with the clapper closed.