The iPhone is revolutionizing how we live our everyday lives. From finding our way around town, to the jobs we are employed at, there is an iPhone app for just about anything. Then I actually got thinking, “I wonder what kind of apps there are so far, geared towards cinematography and production work?” I have scoured the web and found a bunch of apps that are going to make your life a little bit easier when you get to your location and get ready to shoot.
As you all know, we are running a collection competition across all marketplaces. Entering is super simple. Choose a theme for your collection and name it appropriately. Then go through the marketplaces, and bookmark up to 30 files that match your collection’s theme. Once you feel your collection is as good as it can be, copy the link to the collection and paste it into the comments of this post: Win $3,500 To Spend On The Ultimate Graphic Design Setup
Just a quick reminder that the first half of the project file competition is coming to an end soon. The submission half will be officially closed on June 7 2009 at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time. I will be reviewing up until the last minute so make sure to submit any and all submissions before that time!
Following that time, all submissions will be recorded, and the following 30 days will be for sales. Whichever file gets the most sales will win the grand prize and as I said earlier, there are two runner up prizes for 2nd and 3rd place!
For more details on prizes, and rules please check out the original post here: $2,000 Project File Competition
Good luck everyone!
Personally I think that the whole “updating your status” part of Twitter is ridiculous. There, I said it. I don’t care what you are eating for dinner, or if someone is being annoying in the movie theatre. Keep it to yourself. The thing that keeps me addicted to Twitter is the people that tweet the cool stuff: The behind the scenes of Terminator Salvation, The VFX breakdown of Fast and Furious 4, the new tutorial that Aharon Rabinowitz just put onto Red Giant TV. Those are the reasons why I use Twitter, and these are the people that you should be following.
Hello everyone, I just wanted to announce that we have updated the watermark file on the author upload page. You can download the new set here: Video Watermarks
The main difference with these new ones is the way they are set up. Originally the watermark was a large vector file, and we left it to you, the author, to decide how small to size it down to, what opacity to make it, and placement. Now that we have decided to standardize the process we are providing three pre-built, transparant PNG files that will aid in not only watermarking, but also the whole preview process overall.
First, I’ll explain them. As I said they are transparant PNG files. These files are all the size of an average resolution, with the watermark already scaled, and the opacity lowered. The graphic file will now fully fit the standard preview resolutions. And by doing this we have also made the process of preview creation really simple. You first select the PNG that matches the resolution of your file and import it into After Effects or your program of choice. Create a new composition that matches the size of the PNG graphic ( If you’re using After Effects, drag the watermark layer into the new composition button ). Then import your file, and place it below the watermark layer, scale it down to get everything within the composition and then export your FLV.
The watermark comes in three sizes:
You can grab all three in the one ZIP. Hopefully this should help standardize the watermarking process and prevent any future rejections due to files incorrectly watermarked.
If you have any questions feel free to write directly, or post on the forum.
Thanks!
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