Tag: Tutorial

Trapcode Shine plugin with Adobe Premiere Pro

by davidhague178181403, posted in Today, Tutorials: Creating Special Effects, Tutorials: Software

Want to create a misty forrest, moody underwater scene or a dazzling sunrise or sunset?

Well then Trapcode Shine is just for you.Trapcode Shine is a plugin for Premiere Oro that the makers say “brings light and life into your motion graphics and visual effects” This tutorial takes you through a typical Trapcode Shine session as an introduction to what the plugin is capable of.

You can view the tutorial here

 

Red Giant Trapcode Tutorial

by davidhague178181403, posted in Today, Tutorials and Training, Tutorials: Creating Special Effects

I’ve been using Red Giant tools for years. Plugins like Trapcode, MagicBullet and Plural Eyes are staples that every serious filmmaker should have in my opinion. Even if you just get Red Giant Universe, you’ll open up a whole new world of creativity.

So, I thought it might be a good idea to regularly feature a Red Giant tutorial to show just what is possible with their tools. Admittedly, having Adobe After Effects is a necessity most of the time, but I am working on the basis that if you ARE a serious filmmaker, you already have this as a part of the Creative Cloud subscription. After Effects is, after all, treated as a definite must have.

If you don’t, and still want to follow these tutorials, you can get a trial version of After Effects at https://www.adobe.com/au/products/aftereffects/free-trial-download.html or as a part of the Creative Cloud system get the whole suit for AUD$79.99 per month or just After Effects for $29.99 per month.

For the first tutorial, I have chosen one forTrapcode Particular. Get a trial version from Maxon One here.

GoPro and Drone Tutorials

by davidhague178181403, posted in Action Cam Tutorials and Techniques, Drone Tutorials and Techniques, Today

Whilst I enjoy writing and creating tutorials, there is little point in reinventing the wheel in  many cases, unless there is a particular angle I want to cover in my own style, or more rarely, it has not been done before (or more likely I can’t find one).

The same goes for drone tutorials.

BUT. There are a lot of tutorials out there covering these two subjects and I have looked at many of them. To me, whilst there are some very good ones, there is also a heap of very bad ones that have little or no production value, terrible audio, are not concise enough or are w-a-y too verbose, badly shot or incomprehensible.

So I have decided to wade through a bunch of ’em see what I think are ones that will be useful to my readers and put links to them. If I find that there are gaps missing in content, I’ll write some to fill it.

So I’ll have a separate section by the end of today on the Home Page that is there purely for GoPro (and other action cams) tutorials and another for drone tutorials – which let’s face it, basically means DJI these days.

Comments and suggestions are welcome of course!