Tip: Measure Drive Performance for Video on a Mac with HD Speed Test
If you’ve ever searched for downloadable tools to benchmark drive performance on your Mac, you have probably ended up...
Tip: The Feature Most Missing Until After Effects CS4
Here’s a tip that won’t be news to any hardcore After Effects CS4 users, but lately I’ve encountered artists...
Tip: Monkey Extract Painlessly Converts R3D to QuickTime or Sequences
I have advocated that – in most cases – when working with R3D files you should convert them to...
Tip: Shift Habits, Control Energy Use, Eject Waste
It’s unfortunate for those of us doing the processor-intensive work of video and computer graphics that we typically disable...
Tip: Track a Mask in After Effects with TrackerViz
. It’s Script Sunday, and today’s script is so useful it made the cut and was included in the...
Tip: Display Timecode or Frames in QuickTime Pro
What if QuickTime Player Pro gave you other options than that counter in seconds? Think of the options –...
April Showers website a treasure of information
I was looking at some of the films coming to our local film festival, the Nashville Film Festival, (which...
Tip: CS4 Update Actually Gets You All the Way from FCP to After Effects
Last week Matthew Jeppsen posted an article to this Adobe TV video entitled “Import FCP Projects into Adobe Premiere...
Rosco Shows New IR Filter (and other goodies) at NAB
Not too long ago, after writing a series of articles on HD cameras and IR contamination, I published my...
Tip: Render the Impossible via Proxies in After Effects
True story: I was animating a design that involved multiple “filmstrips” of HD video: 6 or 8 of them...
