Category Archives: Tutorials

Nuke VFX Cleanup Tutorials

By jedypod | Published: June 23, 2010
A big part of visual effects work is removing or altering unwanted items in shots. Wires or rig, blemishes on actors or in the set design, text or signs on buildings, all of these things are prime candidates for visual effects cleanup work. There are many possible techniques to use for cleaning up a shot, [...]
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Roto Tutorial #2

By jedypod | Published: December 17, 2008
Up until this point in time, I have only created one “screencast” video tutorial on this blog. I have really been meaning to create some more of these type of tutorial videos, because they not only help me in my ability to communicate effectively and teach effectively, but they might actually be interesting to some [...]
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HV20 Workflow, Processing, and Image Quality

By jedypod | Published: November 9, 2007
In a previous post, I briefly discussed some of the specific concerns of working with footage from the Canon HV20. In this post, I will talk about these things in a little more depth, and with some example pictures to more fully demonstrate what I’m talking about. Here is a full resolution frame-capture of a [...]
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A List of Essential Windows Software

By jedypod | Published: May 31, 2007
Often I have come across very intense opinions about the superiority of the Mac user interface. While true with “stock” software options, it is my opinion that when bolstered with certain amazing freeware applications, the Windows XP user interface experience can surpass osX in terms of efficiency of operations. Thus, in the style of those [...]
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After Effects Workshop v3.0

By jedypod | Published: April 30, 2007
This last Friday, I taught the third After Effects workshop that I have been a part of, for the benefit of a few students from the Mediaworks program. Myself having been in Mediaworks last year, and having attempted to put together a similar workshop for Mediaworks then, it was great to see all of the [...]
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Suppress Control and All Cocks Plaster

By jedypod | Published: March 23, 2007
These are two short videos that I created for Safe Harbor. The process that was used to create them is an interesting and likely somewhat unique one, so I thought I would write a bit of an explanation here. First, here are the videos for you to experience firsthand. Suppress Control All Cocks Plaster These [...]
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Keying Experimentation

By jedypod | Published: April 13, 2006
Tonight I performed an experiment with chroma keying the circuit board footage as a test to see how much of an arduous process I am in for over the rest of my post production. This is a still from my footage: As you can see, the chroma screens are underexposed, as are the subjects, and [...]
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