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Monday, April 19, 2010
Motion Blur Studios has Pre-Ordered CS5
Motion Blur Studios will be using Adobe's CS5 on release day some time in Mid-May. The new rotoscoping tool in Adobe After Effects CS5 seems to solve a lot of the headache from rotoscoping, which will help in both Disillusion and Xibalba. In preparation for CS5 since it is nVidia accelerated only, we've decided to get the new GeForce GTX 470s to replace the ATI Radeon 5850 HDs in our workstations. It is sad Adobe couldn't use ATI's Stream Processors with OpenCL, our only hope is that they do add it later in the year so we can switch back. With any luck Red Giant SOftware who makes some awesome plugins for Adobe After Effects and Premiere will have available updates/versions that support CS5.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Adobe After Effects CS4 Brainstorming Feature
In addition to just blogging about Motion Blur Studios projects, I will start to provide Adobe After Effects CS4 (and CS5 once it is released April 10th) tips and tricks that I have come across. Today's blog post will be about the Brainstorm feature in After Effects CS4. When you are working on an abstract or special effect, for instance a cool looking background for your opening title sequence, but you are drawing a blank of how to take it to that next level or make it look unique. Here is where the Brainstorming feature can really help out. Brainstorming randomizes the effect parameters you have on a solid, text object, footage etc. The more effects you have the bigger differences in the Brainstorm as the number of variations become exponential. In the first screenshot, I show where you can find the Brainstorm icon, after clicking on the icon a new window will appear, as shown in the second screenshot. Notice the Spread slider, I like keeping this at 100% so I can get the most diverse range of options. Hope that helps someone out there that has After Effects Block :)
Saturday, March 20, 2010
ATI and Adobe CS5?
After watching several of the videos on cs5.org on the new Mercury Engine in Premiere CS5 I am very excited about what that will mean for working with 1080i/1080p footage going forward. If everything Adobe is claiming in the videos is true, the community might actually have a real-time HD video editor. My question though is only nVidia cards were shown off in the videos, where do ATI/AMD cards stand?
Motion Blur Studios uses Radeon/FireGL cards exclusively, while working fine in CS4 (especially in Photoshop), comparing render times in After Effects between nVidia and ATI cards was always a lot different. I guess time will tell how the CS5 Suite affects the industry next month.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Received Canon XL H1
Motion Blur Studios has acquired a Canon XL H1 High Definition camcorder for both internal and commercial projects. The XL series from Canon is especially nice as all of the parts are interchangeable with another. Our XL 2's batteries, lenses, viewfinder etc all will work on the XL H1. Our XL 2 will still be used for Web Content and Master Shots as it's 3 1/3 CCDs in 16:9 Anamorphic 24p format is still very nice.