Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
Today is the first day of availability for Adobe Photoshop CS6 and all the other new CS6 products. You can download CS6 apps from Adobe’s website.
If you’re ordering a boxed copy, it should ship today.
Also, student and teacher editions are available from Adobe’s website here.
The full list of new CS6 products is below. [Read more…]
Planet5D picked up the below video (crafted by Jeff Farmer) in Apple Motion using a 3D composite of 4 still images of clouds captured with a Canon Rebel T2i.
This is a great little technique that’s doable with basic 3D compositing skills in Motion or After Effects, or any other editor that gives you access to z-space adjustments. The great thing about working with still images in 3D composites is the ability to reframe the massive images for delivery at 1920 x 1080 resolution. The T2i delivers a 5K still image, so there’s a lot of room to work with or only to use a portion of the image for no loss of quality in an HD video.
If you are interested to learn more about this kind of work, there’s a great tutorial on some very basic 3D compositing at VideoCopilot.net.
Adobe will unveil Production Premium CS6 at NAB 2012 next week. Production Premium CS6 wil feature the following products from Adobe:
The new SpeedGrade CS6 was teased in late 2011 on Adobe TV with very little about it revealed since then. SpeedGrade will be a pro grading tool, while Prelude is a new solution for the process of ingest, logging and transcoding.
I’ll have a better look at Production Premium CS6 next Monday. In the mean time, the full press release teaser from Adobe is below. [Read more…]
If you use Final Cut Pro X, Motion or After Effects, this video is worth a watch. FxFactory offers a ton of plug-in options for FCP X and has a very slick integration and installation. There are several plug-ins that are free and useful, so it’s worth a look even if you only spring for the free plug-ins.
Take a look at the above video, which was completely edited in Photoshop (CS6 maybe?).
Right now, you can edit videos in Photoshop CS5 Extended. I’ve done it in the past even with plug-ins applied to video footage. However, if I can get the look I’m after in Premiere Pro or After Effects, I’m going to do that because the process is more streamlined (for now).
However, I’m excited to see what Adobe has up its sleeve because of the following statement at the Photoshop blog from Photoshop Senior Product Manager, Bryan O’Neil Hughes: [Read more…]
Here’s a short video that takes you behind the scenes of ‘Act of Valor‘, which was shot on the 5D Mark II, and shows how Adobe products were used to help make the film. I knew that Adobe products were used quite a bit on the film; however, I was still surprised to hear that most of the visual effects in the film were done in After Effects.
It looks like most/all of the Adobe products that Bandito Bros used can be found in Adobe Production Premium.
[via Adobe TV]
The above video was captured with a Canon Rebel T2i (aka 550D), along with the nifty-fifty 50mm f/1.8, 18-55mm kit lens and Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 lens, and it was edited using Premiere Pro, After Effects and Twixtor.
When Adobe bought IRIDAS’ tech earlier this year, colorists ears perked up at the idea of Adobe implementing SpeedGrade into its Production Premium suite of video products. It’s been crickets since then though.
Last week, however, Colin Smith published the below video on Adobe TV entitled “Introduction to Speedgrade.” [Read more…]
Stereo3D Toolbox LE v3.0 has been updated to work with Final Cut Pro X for your 3D editing needs. The effects plugin offers a number of powerful features, including the ability to adjust convergence points and auto-crop based on those adjustments. [Read more…]
Adobe Evangelist Jason Levine posted a pair of samples demonstrating the power of the new Warp Stabilizer in After Effects CS5.5.
Check them out below. [Read more…]