Building Projections – Preview & Testing

Written by Chris Zwar

October 5, 2015

When producing large scale video projections it’s important to establish some type of preview, to guage how the content...

Growing pains – the desktop video identity crisis

Written by Chris Zwar

November 12, 2014

Some of the most confusing aspects of a job have nothing to do with hardware problems or software upgrades. ...

Z-Depth from 3D After Effects layers

Written by Chris Zwar

September 20, 2014

I recently posted a video tutorial that demonstrates how to generate a z-depth map from Particular, and then use...

Z-Depth compositing with Particular – Part 2

Written by Chris Zwar

September 2, 2014

Trapcode’s Particular is probably the most popular 3rd party plugin for After Effects, and amongst its many powerful features...

Z-Depth compositing with Particular – Part 1

Written by Chris Zwar

September 2, 2014

Trapcode’s Particular is probably the most popular 3rd party plugin for After Effects, and amongst its many powerful features...

After Effects and Alexa – The Expurgated Version

Written by Chris Zwar

August 11, 2014

OK so you’ve got some Arri Alexa footage in Log C format, and it looks funny in After Effects....

After Effects and Alexa – Part 2

Written by Chris Zwar

August 11, 2014

The Arri Alexa is a hugely popular digital camera, but it records footage in a proprietary Arri colourspace called...

After Effects and Alexa – Part 1

Written by Chris Zwar

August 10, 2014

The Arri Alexa is a hugely popular digital camera, but it records footage in a proprietary Arri colourspace called...

Inventing the non-linear edit suite

Written by Chris Zwar

July 14, 2014

If you’re developing a groundbreaking new product, where do you start?  The desktop video revolution was driven by the...

The Desktop Video Revolution – Part 3

Written by Chris Zwar

June 10, 2014

The video production industry has radically changed over the past 20 years, a period of time that can be...