October 29, 2017

Streamline Your Editing Workflow with These 5 Helpful Tips

If you want to cut down on your editing time, try using one (or all) of these editing tips.

Since editing a project from start to finish takes absolutely forever, knowing clever ways to speed up your workflow is an absolute necessity for editors. There are countless methods and techniques that will shave minutes, hours, and even days off of your total editing time, but here are a few to get you started. In this video from Pond5, learn how organization, proxy files, and master clip effects can save you tons of time when you head into post.

Here are the tips from the video:

• Organize from the start
• Set your defaults
• Use proxy files
• Conform your media
• Use master clip effects

Though all of these suggestions are great and will most definitely save you some time in post, perhaps one of the most critical things to get in the habit of doing is staying organized in both your physical and digital workspace. It’s not only crucial for efficiency, but for accuracy as well because, without well-managed files and folders, important media could will get lost in the shuffle easily.

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Source: NoFilmSchool

October 28, 2017

Horror movies don’t scare you? See if you can handle these VR freak-outs

Just in time for Halloween, Digital Trends has compiled a list of the scariest virtual reality experiences you can immerse yourself in. You will be looking for the boogeyman and trying to stay calm underwater in these horrifying VR experiences.

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Source: Digital Trends VR

October 28, 2017

5 Horror Lighting Setups You Can Do with One Light

Find out how to recreate the looks of some of the best horror films and TV shows using only a single light source.

Horror films are all about mood and one way to create one that spooks your audience is by using lighting. There are many different ways horror filmmakers light their most terrifying scenes, from creating silhouettes to casting dramatic shadows, but many of these approaches don’t require an entire professional lighting kit to pull off. In fact, you can light your horror scenes with a single light source. In this video, Jordy Vandeput of Cinecom recreates five different lighting setups from films and TV shows like Stranger Things, It, and The Exorcist using only one light and a few cheap or free accessories. Check it out below:

Here are all of the examples Vandeput shares in the video:

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Source: NoFilmSchool

October 28, 2017

Music Track Not Long Enough for Your Video? This Is One of the Fastest Ways to Extend It

You might as well call this technique a magic trick.

This is one of the most frustrating situations to be in when working in post: You’ve got your video—it’s beautiful, it’s gorgeous, and it’s longer than the duration of your music track. Damnit. But no worries, there’s a solution. You just have to figure out a way to extend it. So you go in, find somewhere in the song that can not only be easily looped but can also give you enough playtime to make all of the effort worth it. Then you do this again, and again, and again until your music track is as long as your video, finishing it off with a little crossfade to hide the cut. Boom! Five million hours later you’ve got a pretty decent loop of your desired music and all it cost you was a little bit of your soul.

Back when I was editing videos on the regular, I did this exact process constantly, not knowing that there was a better way. But there is, and it’s super simple and super fast and Peter McKinnon demonstrates it in the tutorial below.

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Source: NoFilmSchool

October 28, 2017

Watch: How to Blur Someone’s Face in Premiere Pro in Less than 5 Minutes

Here’s a super simple and fast way to add a pixelated mask to your subject.

Whether you’re hiding sensitive information or protecting someone’s identity, using a pixelates mask is the classic way to go about doing it. If you’ve never gone through the process before, our own Jason Boone shows you how to apply and animate masks in this tutorial for PremiumBeat. The best part about it all is that the entire process, from start to finish, is going to take you less than five minutes. Check it out below:

In the past, applying a mask and then tracking it with your subject’s movements in the frame was a tedious undertaking, requiring you to add keyframe after keyframe after keyframe while tracking your subject yourself. But the Mask tool is incredibly powerful and allows you to use the Mask Path option to make this process nearly automatic.

As you can see in the tutorial, it’s just a matter of:

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Source: NoFilmSchool

October 27, 2017

Watch: 5 Tips for Making a Perfect Action Scene

Action is a movie staple, but how do you do it right?

If you want to know how a clock works, take it apart. You look at the way one piece fits into another, the way the gears turn in relation to each other, how the parts become the whole. Then, whether you can put the same clock back together is irrelevant. You’ve learned something. Films work the same way. If you want to know how they work, take them apart, scene by scene, shot by shot, line by line.

Patrick Willems’s new video essay does just that with an action-packed scene from the short film The Wrong Trousers, in which the beloved Wallace and Gromit chase a duck named Feathers, who’s stolen some very valuable diamonds, to answer a question that’s probably on many young filmmakers’ minds constantly: how do you make a great action scene? Check out the video and read our top five takeaways below.

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Source: NoFilmSchool

October 27, 2017

Pimax ‘8K’ headset bests original Oculus in Kickstarter funding

Although the Oculus Rift might be a supremely successful VR headset, its predecessor, the DK1, has just been beaten by Pimax’s 8K VR headsets, as the most highly crowdfunded HMD to ever hit Kickstarter.

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Source: Digital Trends VR