VEGAS Creative Software announced today a major new upgrade to its flagship cloud-enabled software for video/audio editing, compositing and effects. VEGAS Pro 21 provides an improved, streamlined and more accessible content creation experience for the global creator community. The new version introduces a number of advanced features and workflow enhancements...
Free Silhouette Online Training (Rotoscoping/Digital Painting)
In film making these days, knowing the art of rotoscoping and digital painting tools gives you an edge. And things have come a long, long way from the early digital days of doing these processes frame by frame. One of the very best apps for it is Silhouette by Borisfx,...
25% Off BorisFX Products
BorisFX has announced a ‘flash’ sale. Until midnight Friday (US Pacific time), the company is offering 25% off across the board on the BorisFX Suite, Sapphire, Continuum, CrumplePop, Silhouette, Optics, Particle Illusion and Mocha Pro. You can get the full story (and purchase) here. Don’t forget to subscribe to my site (its...
Like the program – hate the name. Meet CrumplePop.
Many, many moons ago, I was involved full time in audio. I had graduated from being a grunt, hauling Hammond C3 organs with a Leslie, The Who-esque dirty big PA speakers, foldback monitors and guitar amps, a massive drum kit Alan White would be proud of, mics, light stands, and...
CrumplePop. Not mad about the name, but if this works, who cares?
There are any number of applications around to “fix” dodgy audio. Think MAGIX Sound Forge, Adobe Audition and the free app Audacity for starters. And there is a multitude of plugins for specialist tasks such as the very excellent Izotope products (which I love). Now as an aside, some of...
Special Effects and More!
Just a quick reminder that there are sections on the website catering for special subjects. On the Home page we have direct links to the obvious and more popular ones like those for GoPro enthusiasts, drone flyers, astronomy lovers and dedicated to the Blackmagic ATEM. But if you dig a...
Avatar: The Way of the Water. How to make an Avatar film.
I have dealt with Borisfx since w-a-y back in the late 90s. I first came across their products at a trade show in Sydney’s Darling Harbour where I had also been asked to speak about the then, new, Maxon Cinema 4D modelling and motion graphics 3D program. For those not...