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Mar/10

22

The Importance of Drive Letters

In my last post, I talked a bit about organizing and managing media.  For this post, I thought I would continue in that vein and talk about drive letter assignments.

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In this tutorial, I explain how to create a cool Pan and Zoom effect over Documents or Newspapers. I show how to use a blur effect to create the feeling of Depth of Field and how to use masks to give the illusion of lighting.

Document Scan Move

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In this tutorial, I explain how to create the “Kid Stays in the Picture” effect using Photoshop, Boris Red, and Avid. I also show how to accomplish it with only using Boris Red and Avid.

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For a follow up to my last tutorial, I cover using the Ease In/Out Keyframes in Boris Red to create smooth moves on hi-resolution still photos.

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In today’s blog, I provide a Video Tutorial with instructions on how to use Boris Red and Avid Media Composer to perform Pan and Zoom type moves on high resolution still images.

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Feb/10

2

RGB, CMYK…WTF?

As a video editor I often find myself using elements that begin their video-life as imported stills.  Sometimes the stills are photos in something like JPG or TIF form.  Sometimes they are vector graphics like those from Adobe Illustrator.  Sometimes they are complicated images with multiple layers such as Photoshop files.  In short, stills come in a number of file formats.

Since the file format is often right there in the name of the file (“aPicture.tif”), I am usually aware of the format being imported.  But, one detail that can slip through the cracks is the color mode.

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