If anyone wants to have some festive fun and make a Christmas video for their loved ones. Microsoft do a Festive download (I am not too sure if it works for certain versions though);
http://windows.software.informer.com/download-windows-movie-maker-movie-templates/
You can also download Christmas Clip art and import them into your movies; Clipart Link
Here are a few links for some Freeware Photo Editing Software;
Here is a really good post about Freeware. Click here!
I have just downloaded GIMP which is a bit of freeware for both Mac & PC which looks quite good. You also have PAINT for the PC.
Great on-line Photo editing; http://pixlr.com/
Finally got round to playing with PFTrack for an hour thisevening with a short clip of a NYC subway someone shared for public domain use on mograph.net for the purpose of tracking. Just wanted to run through the workflow so I wasn’t daunted when I tried to do something of worth with it. The solve’s a bit shaky and the huge drop in the camera plus the lack of a decent floor made it tricky to sort the perspective out on my first go. Going to shoot some of my own footage next week I think and try again properly but I can definitely see the huge potential with this. The manual looks good and some of the stuff it can do is scary.
(Couldn’t figure out the vimeo embed, link below)
A great app from The Mill, Mill Colour is a primary grading suite in your pocket! Perfect for throwing a few ideas around on the move or on location, you can take a shot with the iPhone’s built-in camera, or upload stills to your photo library and start experimenting.
Mill Colour comes with ten pre-set Looks that can then be further tweaked, or you can start from scratch to create a brand new Look for your shot.
Download it from the iTunes Store for free! (Link opens in iTunes)
Just working on some credits for the film we shot last year called Vacuum! Its an urban psychological drama and uses a CCTV as the POV for one of the characters. This is a little sample of things to come; Using multiple layers and compositions of twitch in After Effects. The Director, Neil Alderton, wants to keep the credits on black but I am going to try and convince him to layer the typography over a really stylised POV shot from the film. Watch this space….
Created this little sting for Evolve using After Effects CS3 and a combination of Video Co-pilot’s Evolution
and Trapcode’s Shine . Anyone recognise the music track? Enjoyed the process a lot but in hind sight, the textures
at the back could do with a little ‘push-in’ a few seconds in to give the film a bit of movement!
Any constructive comments? Answers on a postcard to Jim’ll Fixt it…….
