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Mike CurtisMike Curtis writes and runs HD for Indies, a consultancy and website dedicated to using affordable digital technology for independent filmmaking. Mike started HD for Indies after a 15 year digital media career making content for everything from cell phones to cinema screens for clients such as Ford, Dell, Compaq, etc.. As a consultant, he focuses on production and post production hardware, software, and workflows to achieve maximum results at a variety of budget levels. 
Red (finally) takes the wraps off new camera - Scarlet-XCanon’s new EOS C300 digital cinema line - competition for Red or Sony?Single Chip Camera Evaluation screening tomorrow morning at CineGearCome see my footage from F3 S-log & Leica Summilux-C lenses TONIGHT at CineGearMike finally gets to play with an Epic-M and HDRxMike’s NAB 2011 Day One Part OneComing to NAB? Come see results of our 12 camera test Tuesday nightYo, Creative Pros—Apple Doesn’t Love You Any More. Here’s why.Did Apple actually lame out on the new Mac Pros?New Quad Cores: iMac or Mac Pro?Apple Releases New iMacs - good enough for video editing?Apple Announces New 12 core Macs….for $5000I went and saw nitrate prints and Soderbergh on the same evening…Arri Alexa - look out Red!Mike’s iPad rant-good device, bogus marketingThe Return of BlogwadAperture 3.01 update released, update on my iPhoto ‘09 migrationAnother good article on color correction from StuOn iPhoto to Aperture 3 migration difficulties and new hard drivesGreat new blog to read - PostWorldGiz Explains: Why ISO Is the New MegapixelAperture 3 announced - time to upgrade from iPhoto ‘09?WOW! Here’s why to go cheap/fast/light!iPad Follow-up Thoughts - thoughts on v2 hardware and v1.5 softwareApple’s iPad - All the Details, What It Means For Us
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Band Pro 3D - roundup panel discussion on stereoscopicTim, Bob, Howard and Jeff discuss the good, the bad, and the misconverged of stereoscopic imagery
At the Band Pro 3D event today, some industry vets discussed tips, tricks, good, bad, and ugly of stereoscopic imaging and post production, with a huge number of useful tips and suggestions on how to successfully navigate the 3D minefield. My raw notes begin after the jump. more » Band Pro 3D - Technicolor 3D is 35mm film based stereoscopic projection solution24p over/under 35mm 3D projection - whaaaaaa????
At the Band Pro 3D event held at Technicolor today, Technicolor showed off their film based 3D solution - they wanted to speed up the 3D rollout with something dependable, affordable, and available- so they went back to the future with a film based 3D projection system. See below all my notes from the panel on it today - continues after the jump. more »Band Pro 3D - Element Technica shows off their 3D camera rigQuasar rig shown, future Pulsar and Neutron discussed, Q&A Element Technica, best known for their Red accessories, has been working on a 3D camera rig for some months, and was showing it off at the Band Pro 3D event today. The rig is called Quasar, and they discussed their future rigs called Pulsar and Neutron coming in the future (as well as hints of underwater 3D rigs). Lengthy Q&A included, all my raw notes after the jump. more »Band Pro 3D - Iridas’ metadata driven stereoscopic toolsetmetadata driven controls for realtime debayer and stereoscopic manipulation
Steve Crouch from Iridas gave an impressive demo of their current and future Speedgrade DI versions. Highlights: ...and more. Read on. more »Advertisement Band Pro 3D - Cineform - it is time to look at them again10/12 bit log/linear, uncompressed/wavelet compressed, single file stereoscopic recording, realtime FCP color and geometry, more
Cineform: My takeaway - I’d long admired their compression tech, but since it lived outside of the RT accelerated engine, whaddaya gonna do? It is still outside the engine, but they are making it do realtime color correction, realtime stereoscopic geometry corrections (X/Y offsets, keystoning, etc.) DAMNED impressive! Read on after the jump. more »Band Pro 3D - Silicon Imaging’s Impressive use of SI-2K for Stereoscopic (3D) cinematographySI-2K and SI-Mini new stuff - 2 streams, one box, one file; tiny computer for recording to SSD, and more
Silicon Imaging opened Band Pro’s 3D day with an impressive demonstration of their progress. While Red has garnered most of the attention in the last couple of years, Silicon Imaging has been busy making impressive improvements - some of the goodies seen today: Band Pro’s 3D Symposium - all the latest greatest for acquisition and post for stereoscopic imagingSilicon Imaging, Cineform, Iridas, Element Technica, Technicolor and others talk about their latest stereoscopic
Executive summary - tools are transitioning from the custom/proprietary to the commercially rentable/purchaseable - but expertise and precision is still required to do it right! I spent the day learning about the latest in 3D hardware and software for acquisition and post - read on for all the geeky details. more »Sony Introduces SR 2.0 Initiative in LAwent to the Sony event, saw solid state, upgradeable cameras, transcoding hardware
I went to the Sony event in Hollywood tonight where they introduced their “SR 2.0” initiatives, including the following: Details after the jump more »Page 1 of 1 pages Advertisement |
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Cinema 4D Finally Brings 3D to Motion
Here’s How To Do It
Cinema 4D’s friendly interface and robust motion graphics toolset have made it the tool of choice for creating 3D motion graphic elements for title sequences, bumpers, interstitials, and the like. And it’s ability to export multipass renders as well as 3D data to After Effects have made it easy for After Effects users to integrate 3D into their projects. Well, with release 11.5, Final Cut Studio users can finally do the same, because Cinema can now export 3D data directly to a Motion project. By taking advantage of Motion’s real time render engine and Final Cut Pro integration, you can now create professional 3D projects or even Master Templates for your projects.
There are a few tricks to getting Cinema 4D to play nicely with Motion. In the video, I step through the workflow for preparing a Cinema 4D project for Motion, and then preparing the Motion project, swapping in video elements, adding text, and finally creating a Motion template that you can use in Final Cut Pro.
Reapplying Keyframes in Motion
3 Ways to Copy Keyframes
I’ve been getting a few questions about copying and pasting keyframes in Motion. While you can copy-paste, there are a few other options that may work better for you. This short video looks at three different options for taking keyframes applied to one layer and applying them to another.
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