April 29, 2018

LUT Video Guide: Learn What Looks Can and Can’t Do for Your Images

LUTs aren’t magic. They only enhance the magic you’ve already created.

LUTs can be powerful tools to use when calibrating a monitor or grading your footage, but many new filmmakers aren’t quite sure what they are or what they’re limitations are. Many beginners I’ve talked to think of LUTs like they do an Instagram filter: they make a boring image awesome by giving it a vintage, vibrant, or dynamic look, but that’s not really the best or most mature way to approach applying these things to your footage.

In this video, colorist Casey Faris goes over some LUT basics, explaining what they are, how they work, and how they can be used properly to enhance your footage. Check it out below:

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April 27, 2018

This Effect Is Bananas: Learn How to ‘Copy and Paste’ Any Object in Your Scene

Turn a single car into a fleet, a single soldier into an army, or a single banana into a bunch with this sweet effect.

If duplicating objects in real life were as easy as it is in post-production, we’d all have a 100 chairs like Jacqueline White. But even if centuplicating our single-seat furniture will never be achieved in our narrow human reality, it can be in our films if you know how to do a little masking and rotoscoping. In this tutorial, the team over at Film Riot walks you through the steps of “copying and pasting” an object (any object) that appears in your scene and making it look realistic, natural, and friggin’ amazing. Check it out below:

The entire process is too lengthy and intricate for me to summarize here in words, but if you take the time to set yourself up in After Effects and follow along with the tutorial, you shouldn’t have much trouble, especially if you know your way around masking and rotoscoping.

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April 27, 2018

Got Noisy Audio? Here’s the Fastest and Easiest Way to Clean It Up

You recorded some audio, huh? You forgot to turn off the AC, didn’t you? Come here, buddy. Let’s clean it up.

It’s the dumbest, most aggravating mistake that I made constantly in my early days of filmmaking: forgetting to turn off fans, AC units, washing machines, and other humming, beeping, annoying electronics. It almost ruined one of my college documentaries, because, like a genius, I decided sitting next to a dishwasher mid-cycle was a good time and place to record audio, and instead of being able to hear this WWII veteran’s emotional account of being stationed near Pearl Harbor during the 1941 attack, all you can hear are friggin’ sprayers blasting dirty dishes.

There are ways to fix this, though, and many post-production apps have very powerful tools that can help you reduce the amount of noise in your audio. In this video, Logan Baker of Shutterstock shows you how to do it in Adobe Audition in just minutes. Check it out below:

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April 25, 2018

Bernard J. Tyson on Re-Connecting the Mind to the Body at SXSW 2018 [Video]

At the 2018 SXSW Featured Session, Re-Connecting the Mind to the Body, Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, Bernard J. Tyson, speaks on the connection between physical and mental health, and how we can advance mental health initiatives in the future.

At the beginning of the Featured Session, Tyson polls the audience with a few questions about mental health which indicate the majority are affected by related issues. These answers serve as the framework for the conversation exploring mental health in our society.

Delving into the deep research being done on suicides, Tyson states that one of the most striking findings has been that “over 50% of the individuals who commit suicide actually show no signs whatsoever to loved ones, to family members, in the health system, before they commit suicide.”

Critical of the models that we have used to treat these issues in the past, Tyson suggests that they are inadequate to advance healthcare further, and suggests that improvement will only occur once we reform our health systems in the United States, and internationally.

“For whatever reason, we decided to detach the head from the body…So when something went wrong with the brain, we built a whole separate healthcare system over there – separate records, separate resources, separate ways of thinking about it. We’re gonna start a revolution around mental health and mental wellness, we’re gonna transform our organization, and we’re gonna reconnect the head with the body.”

Watch the video above for the full 2018 SXSW Featured Session Re-Connecting the Mind to the Body, where Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson discusses a revolution in the treatment of mental health in our society.

Learn from a diverse group of thought leaders at SXSW – browse more 2018 Keynotes, Featured Sessions, Red Carpets, and Q&A’s on our YouTube Channel. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and SXSW News for the latest SXSW coverage, recaps, announcements, and stay tuned for information on SXSW 2018.

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April 25, 2018

SXSWfm 2018 Showcasing Artist Interview: Yoke Lore

SXSWfm had the opportunity to interview Adrian Galvin, previously known as a member of Walk The Moon, as he joined SXSW 2018 to showcase his solo project, Yoke Lore. They sat down on the roof of the Austin Convention Center to talk about his time in Walk The Moon, being in a dance company, and what’s next to come for his new EP. Read an excerpt of the interview below, and listen to it in full on our Mixcloud.

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Yoke Lore Interview Highlights

Welcome to SXSW 2018!

Yoke Lore: Thank you so much. It’s great to be here!

How many times have you played at SX?

YL: This is my second year.

Why was important for you to come back?

YL: SX is a place that I really get to connect with people that I don’t usually get to connect with. I have a label in Germany, a label in Australia, and people working my music in the UK, and radio people in New Zealand, and I just know them as names on an email. It’s nice to have eye contact with them, and one – to express my gratitude to them, and another – to make the connection stronger so we can do more… So it’s good to connect with them. And I’m always on tour, and a lot of my friends are in bands that are also on tour, so it’s nice to see homies that I don’t usually get to see often.

You were in a band called Walk The Moon. What was your relationship with that?

YL: I met Nick Petricca in an acapella group my freshman year of college, and he was a senior. We began Walk The Moon, and I dropped out of college to tour and write with them, and that was a ton of fun. Then, at some point, it was getting very, very serious and there were other people involved and lots of money involved, and the music got a little bit away from what I really wanted to do, but that was right for Walk The Moon. It was the path that Walk The Moon was on, and who am I to stand in the way of that. So I was like, I would rather go back to college, finish my scholarship, and then start something myself.

When did you start this [solo] project?

YL: Roughly two years ago.

And how did you get that name, Yoke Lore?

YL: I very much believe that value in life kind of occurs when things come together. The value of a life can be measured in its relationships. And I know it’s true because it’s true everywhere. You can measure the integrity of this beam by how well it’s connected to the fucking screws that are hooked into the other beam. It’s not about how strong the metal is, it’s how strong the connection is, and that’s true in everything and everywhere. So I want to tell stories about how things are connected. A yoke is something that holds oxen together as they tail the fields. Or it can be the yoke of an empire, holding peoples and makes them one. But whatever it is, it’s a vice of sorts. And lore is obviously stories in a verbal tradition, and I’m trying to verbalize some stories about my connections.

You just released a new song. Tell me about that – what does that song mean?

YL: The song is called “Fake You,” and it’s pretty much about those moments when you have to contend with the fact that your perceptions about the world might not actually be how the world works. In those moments, it can be really, really jarring. it’s kind of the story of my experience with that idea, and that sensation that happens pretty often if you are an aware person. You often come up to the idea like, oh shit this isn’t what I thought I was. Or oh shit, this person is not who I thought they were. Or oh shit, I’m not as good as I thought I was at this, or anything like that. Those moments can be jarring but it’s important to know that your perceptions aren’t reality, and to have that in the back of your mind when you do things.

What’s next for you? Is this [single] kind of a teaser that you’re about to release more things – an EP, and album?

YL: An EP is going to come out this summer called Absolutes. “Fake You” is the first one. All of these songs are about conflicts of absolutism that come up, where things that were seemingly pure are not pure… Fake You is the first, and I’m going to release a video for Fake You next month, and then another song and a video. I’m going to stagger back and forth.

Tune in to hear the full interview with Yoke Lore below. Keep checking our Mixcloud page in the coming weeks as more interviews with 2018 SXSW Showcasing Artists are released. You can listen to SXSWfm 24/7 via our online player.

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2018 Showcasing Artist, Yoke Lore – Photo by Shelby Magness

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April 24, 2018

Creation and Connection: A Conversation with Keith Urban at SXSW 2018 [Video]

“It’s mystical and magical that you can create a song out of nowhere.” – Keith Urban

In this 2018 SXSW Featured Session, Creation and Connection: A Conversation with Keith Urban, Vice President of The GRAMMY Museum Scott Goldman facilitates a conversation with Australian country music star, Keith Urban, about the songwriting process, interesting moments in his career, and experiences from his childhood that informed his musical development.

Early in the conversation, when Urban is asked about early influences, rather than mention the usual suspects of rock and country history, he calls out the local gigging musicians that inspired him during the formative years of his music career, and speaks highly of the musicianship of this type of relatively “unknown” artist that can be found in every music hub. This moment in the conversation highlights Urban’s love of music as a live performance medium and informs his artistic process. Later in the dialogue, Urban speaks to this when he talks about how he was able to overcome the stuffy environment of the recording studio. Toward the end of the Featured Session, the conversation is opened up to include an extended Q&A with members of the audience about a broad range of topics.

“What I like about playing live is the ability to bring everyone together in agreement.”

Watch the video above for the full 2018 SXSW Featured Session Creation and Connection: A Conversation with Keith Urban, where country music star Keith Urban discusses his creative process and experiences the developmental stage of his career. Learn from a diverse group of thought leaders at SXSW – browse more 2018 Keynotes, Featured Sessions, Red Carpets, and Q&A’s on our YouTube Channel.

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Keith Urban and Scott Goldman – Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for SXSW

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