Great news! Just put up the latest webisode of 7SoL… go check it out on: http://www.7shadesoflenity.com/ It’s a bit late right now, but in the coming days I’ll post some updates about the journey it was getting it cut! Enjoy, and let me know what you think! Share on Facebook
And in keeping with the recent trend of folks giving cool stuff away for Xmas, Acoustic Samples, who make instruments for use in the Kontakt 4 sampler (if you only have the free Kontakt 4 player, you can only use these for a few minutes at a time, and then have to restart your DAW [...]
It’s that time of the year, and yet another company is giving away some stuff for free: audio and video clips, and an After Effects project. Click on this link to see what they’re giving away: http://www.pond5.com/holidays?utm_source=studiomonthly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=holidaypromo You’ll have to create a free account with them first, but then you can go right ahead and [...]
Howdy everyone, just some really great Xmas news! Native Instruments, one of my favorite VST instrument manufacturers of all time (Kontakt 4 is the best sampler, and Evolve Mutations is my favorite instrument for composing film music — I love the quality of their sounds, and their interfaces are friendly and easy to use, and [...]
We just posted a new update on the Sunset in McDade short film site. Basically, we have a new composer attached to the project, and we’re moving ahead with Sound Design. Also, I should be posting up a new episode of my web series 7 Shades of Lenity (part 3) here in the next couple [...]
Ok, this is a really short tip, but since I spent a good amount of head scratching on it, I figured I might as well share the experience. So, right after watching a tutorial about the cool feature that Adobe Premiere CS5 has of searching through your video files, and, more or less successfully, transcribing [...]
Regardless of your video editing or compositing platform of choice (After Effects, Premiere, Final Cut, Nuke, etc.), Red Giant have the tools to simplify your work, and make it explode off the screen… and they’re having a huge sale… get your wallets ready: Today Only. Our 40% Secret Sale Sale! Happy holidays! Here at Red [...]
This comes from personal experience working on the short film Sunset in McDade (which was shot in McDade, Texas, 30 minutes outside of Austin, Texas). The editor, Joe Handley, worked in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 with the Mercury Playback Engine — and he loved that, by the way. When it came time to send the [...]
Here’s Eric Sherman’s analysis of the Paranormal Activity phenomenon, and a light at the end of the tunnel for us indie filmmakers… now, and perhaps going forward, indie films have the greatest return on investment! The giants have crashed their economies with payola and huge sums of money. Now that the corporate lawyers and bean [...]
Hey everyone, if you’re an After Effects user, and have never been to videocopilot.net, you’re in for a heck of a treat! First of all, they have a long list of free motion graphics tutorials, specifically for After Effects, coupled with project files you can download and examine, tweak, after watching the videos. They also [...]
