by Jeffrey P. Fisher
Confession time. This tutorial's subject remains one of my favorite effects to use with titles. The essential look is to animate a light streak that travels across the surface of the title. You've seen this a million+ times, yet it's still an effective way to add a touch of pizzazz to otherwise static graphics.
Read more Asylum Delivers Unwanted Package for Teleflora
Just in time for Valentine's Day, Asylum, under the guidance of lead animator Mike Warner and lead inferno artist Rob Trent, with Go Films Director Tim Hamilton and Fire Station, created a nefarious cluster of anthropomorphic flowers promoting Teleflora's beautifully hand-arranged bouquets.
Read more Tool Creates Content for Feature Film Repo Men via Goodness
Geordie Stephens and Erich Joiner of bicoastal Tool of North America have directed several morbidly humorous spoof spots, via Goodness Mfg, which will be interspersed throughout the upcoming feature film Repo Men, and are currently being featured on the film's promotional site: www.theunioncares.com. Repo Men is based off a novel by Eric Garcia and directed by Miguel Sapochnik via Universal Studios.
Read more Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Moving markers
by Abba Shapiro
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro specifies how precisely move markers to where you want them to be. He details several ways to move them, the first of which is numerically via the Edit Marker window, (which was the procedure to move markers in Final Cut Pro 1-6) as well as dragging them on the Timeline via the command key and dragging them on the Timeline, new in version 7. He also details how to remove markers from the Timeline.
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