Random musings and what's cookin' at Adobe TV
In this era of social media, fast/faster/fastest and so many ways to communicate information, I find myself sometimes at a loss. There's too much to twitter here and yet it's not really a blog entry. What to do?
Anyway, a few random thoughts here for your input and consumption.
- Thinking of doing an Adobe TV class on creating semi-realistic fog in After Effects. I've looked around and surprisingly didn't see anything good on it. If you see something on it, pass it on. On that same idea, I know that fog isn't all that exciting, but its a super great element to add to a composition to give it a TON of depth.
- Always looking for more ideas on Adobe TV and/or blog. I've got to go back to some of my entries where I've asked the question before to review them, but if you're so inclined, please place a comment and tell me what you'd like to see. Generally, I'm trying to keep the topics pretty digestible (meaning easy) but I'll listen to anything.
- Really, really, REALLY liking the new aescripts.com website. If you're a regular AE user, do your level best to support these guys because the work they do is good for all of us.
- Also spending some time learning the AE and Mocha trackers a bit more. Hopefully can turn it into some kind of tutorial in the future.
Comments
Fog sounds like a great one - I hope someone sends you something.
I'm also always on the lookout for how to create the best dust particle effect...
[DR - Some other people have responded about fog, but even so, I may end up doing something as it can add a bunch of depth to your composition. As for dust particles, I will keep that in mind - thanks for the suggestion!]
Posted by: Brian | August 11, 2009 11:36 AM
How about an in-depth look at Multi-camera editing? Maybe include best practices on mixing audio within a multi-camera edit. (For that matter, a how-to on audio mixing itself would be nice. Should this process involve going out to Soundbooth?)
[DR - Hey Chuck, thanks for commenting. As for multi-cam, there is already something available on Adobe TV. Check out http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f1522v1187 where Terry White gives an overview of multi-camera features. If you come back with some questions then ping me with another comment on this entry and I'll see what I can do.
Audio mixing - ay carumba! That's a tough topic as it is often a subjective matter and I say that as an audio expert who got his college degree in music. I've got a couple of audio centric tutorials on my Adobe TV program (http://tv.adobe.com/#pg+1520) Take a listen and get back to me with any specific questions.
hope this helps,
Dennis]
Posted by: Chuck | August 11, 2009 12:04 PM
There's a link to a free chapter from Mark Christiansen's book about creating fog, clouds, smoke, and similar things in this section of After Effects Help.
Posted by: Todd Kopriva | August 11, 2009 12:29 PM
Steve Holmes has several tutorials on integrating fog, fire, and smoke into environments in his Artbeats video podcasts:
http://www.artbeats.com/podcast
There's a lot of different techniques to summarize or emphasize, so it seems like a good topic to explore and share.
[DR - This is true and I didn't know Steve was doing these on Artbeats, so I'll mention it in a future blog post. However, I'm talking about the creation of Fog when you don't have any Artbeat clips handy! ;-) Oddly enough, I think I may have gotten a few tips from something else Steve did years ago. Either way, thanks for the comments and let me know what you think if I end up publishing something on Fog.]
Posted by: rich | August 11, 2009 2:49 PM