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Hollywood Camera Work Free Plates Review

Decent free plates from Hollywood Camera Work Sometimes you need to practice your compositing skills but lack access to decent shooting equipment like a decent DSLR or good green screen. Fret not as Hollywood Camera Work offer free high quality footage that is more than enough for practice works.

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Nuke 9 – Quick Impression

Nuke 9 Quick Impression When The Foundry announces the Nuke 9 beta testing for current subscribers (I’m currently on the graduate licence), I quickly jump on it knowing the perils of potential bug for my the side project I’m working on. The beta started early September 2014 and I’ve been using every beta version save […]

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Exporting Nuke Camera Tracker to After Effects

06 February 2015 Update: Revised step by step instructions for clearer process and added things to look out for when using this ghetto method How can one export Nuke Camera Tracker to After Effects? Voodoo Magic? One of my pet peeves when working with Nuke is that… it is not great in dealing with motion […]

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Convert Footage to Image Sequence

Multiplying one to hundreds of files In my early days of compositing, I usually work directly from the video container instead of processing it into image sequence. Bad idea. Yeah really bad idea. Why work with image sequence? For starter, image sequence allows one to directly know the amount of frames needed when working for […]

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Comparing bit depth and format for Colour Grading

Biting some depth and formatting this post Regardless if you managed to composite a damn good shot in either Nuke or After Effects (or any compositing software), it will be real sad if the desire output got ruined due to poor choice of the final delivery file format for colour grading. This post will explore […]

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Nuke vs After Effects Workflow

The After Effects of trying to Nuke everyday compositing problem I started out with After Effects as my first compositing software and being layer-based, the learning curve was not that steep since I use Photoshop religiously since 2001. To be frank, my first exposure to node-based compositing is not through Nuke but with Shake. Not […]

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Quick Intro to Camera Projection in Nuke

Camera projection is akin to a projector use in daily office use and in theaters. As seen in the above GIF, you can easily use it to project a particular plate onto the scene geometry in Nuke. How does camera projection integrate into my workflow? The below list is a common use of camera projection […]

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VFX Compositing Books

Recommended VFX Compositing Books I grew up learning most of my one-pony trick by reading magazines and books (the technical stuff and rarely into story-based). As I got introduce to the wonders of  visual effects (VFX) by the kind folks from Double Negative Singapore back in July 2010, I was encouraged to read up the […]

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