Big Changes for Cinema Spice
Big changes for Cinema Spice Crazy month! We just moved to a new location. It's bigger and better and we are expanding!!! We also redesigned the website, as you may have noticed. With the help of our intern, we have more time to do cool things. Working on presets and new After Effects plugins (mo...
Read MoreHow To Start Editing a Feature Length Documentary
One year ago I was sitting in a ice cream shop with my two friends from college, John Meier and Tanner Shinnick. We met up to talk about 2014, the year that we finally make a feature film. We started out by pitching various ideas we had ranging from a quirky apocolypse comedy, time travel, [&hell...
Read MoreHow to touch up skin easily in After Effects
One of the things that I hear the most while on set while filming non-actors (people representing their company, customer testimonials, etc.) is, “you can photoshop me to make me look better, right?” I used to just kind of laugh and say, “Don’t worry, you look great and do...
Read MoreSo this is the next big thing Samsung has been talking about, a 4k DSLR with h.265
Canon announced the sequel to one of the most used DSLRs for video today but I can’t remember what it was. I know that mark two was involved and something about 60 frames at 1080P, but after I heard about Samsung’s new camera I forgot about what they announced. You can understand why ...
Read MoreSony Releases FS7 and C100 & C300 Prices Drop
If you haven’t heard yet, Sony announced their newest camera the PXW-FS7. I mean besides the fact that it shoots 4k(UHD), has 14 stops of dynamic range, can shoot 180 fps at 1080, built in ND filters, and records 4k XAVC 10-bit 4:2:2 – it isn’t that exciting. Except that it is g...
Read MoreFive After Effects Tips To Speed Up Your Workflow
If you remember the first time that you opened up After Effects I am sure that you will remember thinking how confusing everything seemed. There were so many buttons that you had no idea what they did. Key frames seemed to never work how you wanted them. Masks worked on some sort of sorcery for [...
Read MoreInterview With An After Effects Guru – Mikey
Our very own Mikey had the chance to be interviewed by Video School Online about Mikey’s After Effects tutorial YouTube channel. In it Phil asks Mikey about how he got into making After Effects Tutorials, why filmmakers should learn After Effects, and what his favorite thing to do in After ...
Read MoreThe After Effects Camera Tool Simplified
Just as soon as I think I understand After Effects I try doing something new and go back to feeling like I have no idea what I am doing. The latest part of After Effects that humbled me was using cameras. A lot of people who I have talked to have told me that cameras in […]
Read MoreThe 13 Best After Effects Tutorial Resources Most People Don’t Know About
If you do a Google search of After Effects tutorials your results will probably come from three different websites: Video Co-Pilot, Tuts+, and Creative Cow. These websites can be great resources for After Effects tutorials, but you can’t help but wonder if there are more options out there t...
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