Harry Frank’s lack of tutorials lately on the After Effects scene comes with a damn good excuse: Video Rock. His newest product is a huge packet of 200 graphic elements, stills and movies alike that help to give your productions that 80’s & 90’s flair. This is chuck full of “hand-drawn” looking animations, glints, lightning bolts, clouds and everything that you see when you watch those shows from the era when motion graphics, and titles had that retro-esque look about them that we all seem to love.
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So Digieffects have had a few new products out this month, one which is quite a useful tool in working with still imagery and 3D space, and the other which can give you some nice looking old film effects, as if it were from the Super 8 era. Both of these plugins are quite useful in their own ways, and even better than that… we got some copies of them to give away to YOU! That’s right, check out my review on CameraMapper and Aged Film, leave a comment down below with your Twitter username, and you will be entered in to win a DigiEffects Bundle with the two plugins in today’s review!
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Red Giant has another awesome plugin out called Magic Bullet Mojo! Developed by the ingenious Stu Maschwitz, the creator of the famed Magic Bullet line of products (Frames, Looks, Steady, etc…) Stu and his team have yet again developed an amazing extension for your favorite editing and vfx applications. The plugin works in After Effects, Motion, Final Cut Pro, Avid and Premiere systems, and provides an easy set of presets and control to replicate some of the looks that you see in hit blockbuster movies.
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While sitting online yesterday I experienced an onslaught of tweets about the iPod Nano being announced to include a camera with the new 5th Generation model. Now my first initial thoughts were: “How freakin small are these cameras going to get?”, but then I started to think… are these going to be the new thing, is it going to ward off the Flip and Vado lovers of the world, because now you have a camera, which also plays music and has video effects and syncs with iTunes, holds photos, and all that other jazz. I decided to investigate further.
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Panasonic recently stepped into the ring with their take on a 1080p DSLR. I have to admit, I’m pretty impressed with the footage I’ve seen come out of this puppy. Shooting 1080p at 24fps, and 720p at 60fps, it provides users with a few options to play with when creating their own video masterpiece.
The one thing I really love about this camera is its price point. It’s in the range that I like to call obtainable by the masses. Of course $1,500 is not a drop in the bucket, by any means. But when compared to some higher end cameras the price of the new Lumix makes the purchase a bit easier to swallow. Including a pretty well-rounded, solid lens to the standard package doesn’t hurt either.
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