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
I’m a little behind in promoting these, but here they are! First up, a video showing a series of tips for using Airtable’s date fields, including an undocumented trick: This one contains a quick fix for names that aren’t capitalized correctly. Using a single formula, you can go from BOB to Bob, or from arnold to Arnold. Learn more here:
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
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
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