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I’ve always been a big fan of Noise Industries and their flagship software, “FX Factory” which has a ton of useful plug-ins for Final Cut Studio and Adobe After Effects CS4. FX Factory also supports 3rd party plug-ins from companies like Sugar FX and iDustrial Revolution .
The cool thing about Noise Industries (as well as [...]

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Many people do not use Motion Blur because they do not know in which instances to use it. One really great thing you can do with Motion Blur is smoothing out any slow motion effects that have signs of strobing. If you do not want to jump over to Motion to create an optical flow [...]

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I completed another color correction job for Threshold Studios in Santa Monica. This was a live concert video featuring Moby for Nissan Live Sets, a concert series which you can see on Yahoo! and MHD, MTV’s HD music channel. Take a look at the above video or click here, to see this stripped down version [...]

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I was reminded today on LAFCPUG’s Café LA forum that people often want their video to look like aged film. There are a variety of Final Cut Pro techniques and third-party plug-ins which can fulfill this request, but many people do not have the time to invest in technique or the money to invest in [...]

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I recently completed color correction on a “Jewel” live concert video for Nissan Live Sets, which you can see on Yahoo! and MHD, MTV’s HD music channel. Take a look at the above video if you are curious about the work.
The job entailed matching audience shots with the onstage shots as some didn’t match due [...]

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