Time Lapsing Around Italy with Flicker Free
Stephen Smith, a long time videographer, used a recent trip to Italy as an opportunity to hone is time lapse skills. The result is a compilation of terrific time lapse sequences from all over Italy. He...
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Why Doesn’t FCP X Support Image Sequences for Time Lapse (among other reasons)
In the process of putting together a number of tutorials on time lapse (particularly stabilizing it), I discovered that FCP X does not import image sequences. If you import 1500 images that have a name...
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How Final Cut Pro X Caches Render Files (and how to prevent Beauty Box from...
What causes Final Cut Pro X to re-render? If you’ve ever wondered why sometimes the orange ‘unrendered’ bar shows up when you make a change and sometimes it doesn’t… I explain it all here. This is...
View ArticleVFX Students: Get Ready to Work for $600/mo.
I was talking with the owner of a mid-sized effects house in LA last weekend. They’ve always done most of their work where they could get subsidies to pay for part of salaries… Canada, Singapore, etc....
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Samsung Galaxy S5 Does NOT Shoot 240fps. It Shoots 120fps and Plays It Back...
Apple’s iPhone 6 and the Samsung Galaxy S5 both shoot 240fps (or so you might think… 1/8th speed at 30fps is 240fps). Since we make Flicker Free, a plugin that removes flicker that occurs when shooting...
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iPhone 6 vs Sony FS700: Comparison of Slow Motion Modes (240fps and Higher)
Comparing slow motion modes of the iPhone 6 vs the Sony FS700 The Sony FS700 is a $6000 video camera that can shoot HD up to 960fps or 4K at 60fps. It’s an excellent camera that can shoot some...
View ArticleFCP 7 Is Dead. It’s Time to Move On.
It’s been almost 4 years since the last update of FCP 7. The last officially supported OS was 10.6.8. It’s time to move on people. Beauty Box Video 4.0 (due out in a month) will be our first product...
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4K Showdown! New MacPro vs One Nvidia GTX 980
For NAB this year we finally bought into the 4K hype and decided to have one of our demo screens be a 4K model, showing off Beauty Box Video and Flicker Free in glorious 4K. The Digital Anarchy NAB...
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Odyssey 7Q+ .wav Problem – How to Fix It and Import It into Your Video Editor
We have a Sony FS700 hanging around the Digital Anarchy office for shooting slow motion and 4K footage to test with our various plugins ( We develop video plugins for Premiere Pro, After Effects, Avid,...
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Creating GIFs from Video: The 4K Animated GIF?
I was at a user group recently and a video editor from a large ad agency was talking about the work he does. ‘web video’ encompasses many things, especially when it comes to advertising. The editor...
View ArticleCreative Cloud 2015 and After Effects, Premiere Pro Plug-ins
All of our current plugins have been updated to work with After Effects and Premiere Pro in Creative Cloud 2015. That means Beauty Box Video 4.0.1 and Flicker Free 1.1 are up to date and should work no...
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Using a Nvidia GTX 980 (or Titan or Quadro) in a Mac Pro
As many of you know, we’ve come out with a real time version of Beauty Box Video. In order for that to work, it requires a really fast GPU and we LOVE the GTX 980. (Amazing price/performance) Nvidia...
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Beauty Box Video 4.0 Released for Avid and OpenFX Apps
We’re excited to announce that Beauty Box Video 4.0 is now available for Avid and OpenFX Apps: Davinci Resolve, Assimilate Scratch, Sony Vegas, NUKE, and more. This is in addition to After Effects,...
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25% Off Everything for 72 Hours! (ends 7/17)
The Digital Anarchy Summer Sale is on! For 72 hours get 25% off all Digital Anarchy plugins and bundles! Video plugins, photo plugins, bundles, it’s all on sale NOW. Get some of the best plugins...
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Easy Ways of Animating Masks for Use with Beauty Box in After Effects,...
We have a new set of tutorials up that will show you how to easily create masks and animate them for Beauty Box. This is extremely useful if you want to limit the skin retouching to just certain...
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Stupid Photographer Tricks
If you’re going to hang over the side of a boat to do underwater photography, it helps to have a leash/lanyard attached to the housing/camera. One might ask, with good reason, why you would hang over...
View ArticleRules for Interns
This is a repost from the Final Cut Pro List. While I can’t take credit for it, it definitely has similar sentiments to some of the things I’ve posted about education. I think internships are a huge...
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Beautiful Example of ‘In-Camera’ Motion Graphics
BDDP Unlimited has created a beautiful spot for Solidarités International about the dangers of dirty water. While not a CG piece, it looks like real water and ink were used, it’s still inspiring both...
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Sometimes Commercials Are Good
Seen a lot of commercials over the last two weeks watching the NCAA tournament. Here are the outstanding ones (yep, just two… the rest were crap): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qf8OGLqE1s Brilliant...
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Wedding Photography and Money
For all the talk about cheap cameras and everyone becoming a photographer, there certainly seems to be a fair amount of money still being spent on Weddings. Although judging from the success of WPPI...
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