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!
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.
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