Compositing (181 Tutorials)

Tracking Masks: comparing Adobe’s Mask Tracker and mocha AE CC

January 29, 2015

Adobe Creative Cloud has a tool called “Mask Tracker” the is found in both Premiere Pro CC 2014 and After Effects CC 2014, that can be used to easily create masks.  After effects also has “mocha AE CC”, a dedicated planar tracker that is similar to Mask Tracker, but also allows keyframe control, and has advanced features for dealing with some of the more difficult masking or tracking situations.

Mary Poplin, from Imagineer Systems, shows you the similarities and differences between the “Mask Tracker” and the bundled “mocha AE CC.”  Knowing which tool to use in which situation can help you save time and be more creative.

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Re-creating the Lost Smoke Monster

December 19, 2014

In this Episode of Red Giant TV, Filmmaker/Motion Graphics artist Seth Worley will show you how to re-create the look of the Lost Smoke monster. Covered: Compositing, Masking, 3D tracking, Color Correction and some really cool Trapcode Particular techniques.

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Digieffects: Lightwrap from Aura #digieffects

November 3, 2014

Learn how to add a glowing background light around foreground objects with Lightwrap, one of the tools included in Aura.

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Digieffects: Glow from Aura #digieffects

November 3, 2014

Learn how to add a beautiful soft glow to your pictures or footage with Glow, one of the tools included in Aura.

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Head replacement with mocha and Adobe After Effects

October 21, 2014

Learn how to design, shoot and composite a head replacement shot. Think “Headless Horseman.”  This is a fast paced tutorial design for advances users of mocha and After Effects.

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Animated Cartoon Roto Shapes with mocha and After Effects

September 14, 2014

Mary Poplin, the Imagineer Product Specialist, shows how to make a cool animated cartoon look with Roto Shapes in mocha and After Effects. The tutorial uses a free script and the download link is below the video.

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Creating an Island Environment in Blender

July 25, 2014

This is a 3 part tutorial on how to create an island environment using Blender 2.6 and Chaos Group V-Ray.  It’s a long and complicated process, but the end result is stunning!

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Mask Tracking and Color Grading in Adobe CC 2014

July 25, 2014

In this episode of Red Giant TV, director Stu Maschwitz will show you how to use Creative cloud 2014’s mask tracking tools to color grade with Colorista II and Magic Bullet Looks 2.5.

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MochaImport+ for NUKE in depth tutorial

May 27, 2014

Mathias Möhl of Mamoworld has a tutorial to get you up to speed fast in MochaImport+ for Nuke.

Table of contents:

• Corner Pin+ w. Lens Dist. (at 0:30)
• Stabilized View+ (at 7:15)
• Tracker+ (at 25:40)
• Roto+ & RotoPaint+ (at 27:59)
• GridWarp+ (at 31:36)
• Transform+ (at 35:02)
• Full camera rig+ (at 40:54)
• Camera and Geo+ (at 43:56)

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Using Premiere’s Native Effects to Pull the Perfect Key Every Time

May 13, 2014

In this tutorial Robert Hardy covers some of the best methods for pulling a fantastic key using only the native Premiere effects.

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