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Past Issue: September 2009

The articles below were included in the September 2009 edition of the PVC Pipeline | Post newsletter. If you haven’t already subscribed for the PVC newsletters, we suggest you do so now to ensure that you are notified as soon as they are available.

The articles in the third PVC Pipeline | Post newsletter included (click on the “more” link):

Greenscreen Primer Part 2

by Alex Lindsay

In the first installment, we looked at the basic set up for shooting Greenscreen. Most of what I covered is exactly what we see people skip everyday. What I’m going to talk about next is what everyone else ignores at their peril. We’re talking about capture systems and codecs.

Moving Footage From Final Cut Pro to After Effects

by Richard Harrington

Getting your footage from Final Cut Pro to After Effects is a very common workflow. In fact, so many people choose to work this way that there are several free and for sale workflow tools on the market. While the task may seem as easy as a batch export, there is often precious metadata and organizational work that you’ll want to take from Final Cut Pro into After Effects.

Speech Search Meets ScriptSync

by Steve Hullfish

Anybody remember that classic commercial for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups? “Hey! You got peanut butter on my chocolate! No! You got chocolate in my peanut butter!” Then the two injured parties in the commercial realize that peanut butter and chocolate are really two great tastes that taste great together! They shouldn’t be kept apart. They should be celebrated in a joyful, delicious and nutritious union of flavors!

Well folks, today I’m getting Adobe in my Avid and Avid in my Adobe. Now most of you are probably thinking, “Duh. Everyone combines Photoshop and After Effects with Avid. That’s nothing new.” But I’m taking my Adobe cravings one step beyond the ordinary. I’m going for a Media Composer and Premiere Pro sandwich!

Online Post-Production Management with ShotRunner

by Mark Christiansen

The days of cobbling together a database to track shots, assets and progress are numbered. Although nowadays it has become common for many post-production projects to be managed with Basecamp, it’s an application hardly specialized to our industry.

Two web based tools currently in late beta anticipate the needs of post production more directly. Shotgun has been adopted at large facilities around the world and will be profiled separately; this article focuses on ShotRunner, and my own experiences using it as a visual effects supervisor on a pair of feature films.

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