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VIDEO COPILOT | After Effects Tutorials, Plug-ins and Stock Footage for Post Production Professionals 3D Lens Flare Creation Studio Featuring: • 3D Lens Flares with AE Lights • Intuitive Design Interface • Live Visual Preset Library • Real Texture Support • Dynamic Triggering Animations • Chromatic Aberration • Up to 32 bpc color support What is Optical Flares? Optical Flares is a plug-in for designing and animating realistic lens flares in After Effects. Build, Edit and Customize Lens Flares with amazing speed and simplicity Custom Interface from inside After Effects Interface Features • 12 unique Lens Objects • 50 custom Lens Objects • Large Pop-Out Preview window • Rename, & Rearrange Objects • Show BG in Preview Window • Integrated Copy & Paste • Duplicate Objects & Undo/Redo Preset Browser • 60 Built-in Presets (included) • Real Lens Inspired Presets • Share & Swap Presets • Save All Settings in One Place • Save & Reuse Individual Objects • Expand and Build New Presets Mac & PC Compatible Compatibility Mac* (Intel only) & PC Compatible CS5, CS5.5, CS6, CC, CC 2014 & 2015 Plug-in License:

Need to Learn a Camera’s Interface Before You Use It? These Free Camera Simulators Can Help So you just got hired onto a production as an AC or a Camera Operator, and you know that you have the knowledge, talent, and skill to produce some beautiful images. There’s just one problem: You’ve never laid a hand on the camera that’s being used in the production. It’s probably not going to look too good if you have to spend a lot of time fiddling around in the menus to find the settings you’re looking for, but not to worry. Canon just released a camera simulator for the C300, and there are also simulators available for the Arri Alexa, and the Sony F65: Canon C300 Simulator Arri Alexa Simulator Sony F65 Remote As an extra bonus, you can save the Arri Alexa (and Alexa Plus) simulators to an iPad as a stand alone app. While these are great learning tools, I can’t help but wonder why there aren’t more camera simulators available. What do you think? Links: [via CineTechnica] Related Posts

Canon EOS 5D Mark II - Hotpixelproblem ein Report von Stefan Gross - Februar 2009 extreme Hotpixel an Ihrer EOS 5D Mark II ? Manch ein 5D Mark II-Anwender beklagt relativ starke Hotpixel bzw. Farbrauschen bei Langzeitbelichtungen und höheren ISO-Werten. Wann braucht man eigentlich so lange Belichtungzeiten, ausser für Astroaufnahmen ? Generell glänzt die 5D Mark II mit excellent niedrigen Rauschwerten, so auch unsere 2. 5D Mark II. Die 1. 5D Mark II zeigt zwar keine stark ausgeprägten Hotpixel, dafür aber einen regelrechten Teppich, der in dieser Stärke an keiner anderen Canon DSLR auftritt. Stellen Sie folgende Werte ein, die wir oben ebenfalls genutzt haben: Machen Sie am besten mehrere Aufnahmen um sicher zu gehen, dass es sich nicht um einen individuellen Ausreisser handelt. TIPP: Diskussionen rund um die Canon EOS 5D Mark II finden hier im Traumflieger-Forum statt ! >>>>Hier finden Sie den ausführlichen Traumflieger- Canon EOS 5D Mark II-Test !

Online image editor pixlr free - fix photos direct in your browser Pixlr for all your online ai image editing needs. Whether you’re up for classic desktop style photo editing or prefer something more modern, we’ve got you covered. Both Pixlr X and E are AI-powered online photo editors that let you unleash your creativity in one click to achieve professional photo edits more intuitively than ever. Remove backgrounds with the bg remover or create a transparent image for your design with a tap. Dancing Pieces of Paper in Stop-Motion Scraps of paper come to life, dancing and transforming in Steven Briand’s captivating short films. Also known as Burayan, the Paris based director uses combinations of live action and stop motion to create seamlessly flowing pieces of video art. Here we bring you two of his newest pieces, Friction and Protéigon. Friction, his graduation short film from l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, cleverly mixes blue screen live action with some very graceful Post-It Note resembling stop-motion paper… paper that covers not only the films white wall, but the dancer as well. Shot with a Canon 5D Mark II, the result is unlike anything we’ve seen before. If you’re curious about how the film was made, see the excellent series of making-of videos on Vimeo. In Burayan’s newest piece, Protéigon, a figure sits at a table, rhythmically folding and cutting paper with the slightest of hand. Via: ufunk.net

Magic Lantern Deutsch Restricted Areas – Danila Tkachenko’s photographs of Soviet ruins – Creative Review Danila Tkachenko’s haunting documentary series is featured in Dead Space and Ruins, the second instalment of the Calvert 22 Foundation’s Power and Architecture exhibitions series According to the Foundation, the wider season of exhibitions and events intends to focus “on utopian public space and the quest for new national identities across the post-Soviet world”. Along with Tkachenko’s images of deserted structures left to weather ice and snow, Dead Space and Ruins features the work of three other artists working within photography and film who have also been capturing the decaying architecture of the former Soviet Union: Vahram Agasian, Anton Ginzburg and Eric Lusito. Tkachenko’s project examines the “utopian strive of humans for technological progress,” he says, and involved visiting long-forgotten, deserted sites across the country. It includes memorials and monuments, observatories, disused aircraft and numerous abandoned buildings (the full series is here).

Starwars Uncut: The Full Film Now Online! Three years ago on a computer not so far away… a plan was hatched to create a completely open source version of Star Wars: A New Hope, using the members of the internet. Envisioned by Casey Pugh, that vision became Star Wars Uncut, a crowdsourced version of the cult-classic film created by fans around the internet. Casey invited them (and you) to create 15 seconds of the original movie, to be combined with other 15 second tributes into a full length internet extravaganza. The resulting film – Star Wars Uncut: Directors Cut. The incredibly mish-mashed film that resulted actually gives me hope for the internet community. Look at the massive collaboration and community oriented thinking that created this piece. See Also The Softer Side of Star Wars The film turns out to be surprisingly entertaining too, retaining its continuity while providing a heavy dose of ADD inducing changes in style and format.

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