I don’t want to dwell too much on the struggles of last year, but one of them was just keeping up with personal projects, including both of my YouTube channels. While I did get some videos done at various points, not all of them got plugged here, so this is going to be a mass catch-up post. Clever Tagline The last video posted to theRead More »January 2021 Updates
A couple years ago, when I was still a young YouTube punk, I made a very short tutorial on how to zoom in on a tracked subject. Little did I know that my “shorter is better” approach would not be appreciated by all viewers. To remedy that, I just published a new video that goes into the kind of detail that I should have includedRead More »New Video: Zoom into a Track Redux!
Time for the conclusion of my in-depth look at animating lines in HitFilm! If you haven’t seen Part 1, check it out. And if that wasn’t enough, I’ve released an in-depth (with a strong emphasis on depth) tutorial on how to rotoscope in HitFilm: Thanks again to FXhome for inviting me back as a guest on their channel, and to Jay Haynes (Film Sensei) forRead More »More Animated Lines in HitFilm!
A few months ago the fine, friendly folks at FXhome approached me about delving into the hitherto largely-untapped possibilities of using HitFilm to make animated lines. Inspired by a tutorial shared by Jay Haynes of the Film Sensei channel, I dove in and had fun. So much fun, in fact, that there’s too much stuff to share in just one video, so we’re splitting itRead More »Guest Tutorial: Animated Lines, Part 1
I’ve seen lots of examples of people taking text and distorting it based on a black-and-white photo, with the photo merged into the text, so I decided to try it in HitFilm with my good buddy, Mr Rogers. It’s actually quite easy, so I’ll probably do a HitFilm TipFilm about it one of these days.
The crew at FXhome invited me back to produce another guest tutorial. This time I dove into the Clone effect, showing how to create both matte and overlay style transitions with it. The Clone effect was added to HitFilm Pro last fall, and also became available for users of HitFilm Express version 8+ as part of the Composite Toolkit add-on pack.
After quite a long lapse in posting to my Clever Tagline channel, I finally managed to squeeze in work on another short HitFilm tutorial. This one is in response to a question from last fall on the FXhome forum, where a user asked how to make a curving 3D arrow over a map. After a quick think, I came up with a surprisingly easy solution,Read More »Tutorial: Curving 3D Arrows in HitFilm
You buy a car, but don’t follow recommendations on the proper types of fuel and oil to put into it, or keep it regularly maintained. It’s not going to perform well. You build a garden, yet ignore basic care and feeding instructions. Your garden won’t last very long. You use professional editing software, but disregard recommendations on how to best “feed” the program. You’re notRead More »“I shouldn’t have to…”
I gotta give major props to the folks at FXhome, makers of HitFilm VFX and editing software. Not just for the updated software (which I still haven’t had time to touch since it’s release a couple days ago), but for the new short showcasing what can be done with HitFilm Express. When this short was posted, I was in the middle of a busy workRead More »New short by FXhome also works as a silent movie
My third tutorial for ProductionCrate.com went live a little over a week ago. I was issued the challenge of turning text into smoke, and with the help of several ProductionCrate assets — mostly from the small mist and smoke collection — I came up with this: I’m a little behind in sharing these tutorials I’ve done for ProductionCrate, as well as others I’ve been invitedRead More »Text to Smoke using HitFilm Express