We have all seen them, sometimes on prime time commercials and tv spots (and of course in our own work. I'm talking about gradient steps or gradient banding, where a color gets lighter or darker but leaves noticeable "bands" or "steps" between each. This often happens with lighting effects and backgrounds. I recently saw a large insurance company's ad on TV with this problem.
ONE EASY TRICK GETS RID OF IT!!
When you are ready to render: Add an Adjustment Layer, then add NOISE. Leave it as color noise and at around 4-5%. When you render to PHOTOJPG it will come out looking just like you need it to, perfect!
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So what's the deal with this SWAT shoot? I have been asked this several times....so I will get you in the loop!
Ridgeline Creative along with being a corporate, visual effects and short film production video company are producers of After Effects projects, Tutorials and Stock video.
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We are currently starting a company called "RidgeStock" or RidgeStock.com that will launch by May 1st, 2010. Here we will feature collection based media for purchase. For instance, if you are looking for some "SWAT TEAM" video you can go to a website such as ISTOCK (We also sell clips here) and purchase a single file for around $50.....Or, you can buy our "SWAT COLLECTION" which includes pre-keyed clips, composited clips ready for use like the one below as well as live action shots as we used to put together "RUN".
THE BEST PART IS...we charge between $200-$500 for the entire collection (Around 40 clips!) all completely royalty free, or you can buy them for $50-$70/per clip on stock resellers.
Well, that basically sums it up!
Post processing is a pretty tricky thing sometimes. I took our greenscreen clip of the two swat guys and masked out the edges of the screen. From here I keyed in after effects using Keylight.
When I am compositing it always comes down to two things; realistic lighting effects and color matching. For the lighting in this scene I used Video Copilot's Optical flares to add some glow. For the color grading I took down all the saturation and used Magic Bullet Looks.
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So recently I did a test to see the power of facebook ads, I have to say I am impressed! I put a $10/day max and targeted users with "filmmaking" as a keyword. In 2 days I had 14 new friends, 4,600 page impressions (name recognition) and 328 web hits. From a filmmaker standpoint this is amazing how targeted these results are, from promotion to investing it really is an amazing asset. Just thought I would share.
Here are some more examples of some of the techniques we will cover in our upcoming Image Alterations tutorial, links will be posted here and on our facebook fanpage soon.
TOPICS COVERED:
We will go over the proper ways to light a greenscreen for post effects as well as shooting the video and photos correctly. Then we will move on to simple keying, mattes, edge corrections and spot removal. Last we will cover depth, lighting effects and texturing to give it that cinematic look we all like. Keep an eye here for these tutorials as we will be launching them soon!!!
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Ridgeline will be featuring on our next tutorial how to take greenscreen footage and add some style to it, we will post a link here soon.
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