As the saying goes, the best camera is the one that’s in your hand at the moment – and more often that not, that camera tends to be a small, flat rectangle that happens to look a whole lot like a smartphone.…
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Category: Post Production
Music Magic: How to License a Song
Imagine, if you will, the infamous shower sequence in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Psycho. In the scene, we see Janet Leigh’s character Marion Crane lathering up in relative silence when suddenly the shower curtain is thrown aside and violence begins, set to the world’s most recognizable violin stabs.…
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Music Magic: Finding the Right Song
Music is all around, it seems – from terrestrial radio to the satellite kind, from iTunes to Spotify, from shopping mall speakers to barroom jukeboxes.
There’s so much of it, in fact, that it can feel a bit overwhelming when it comes time to search for the perfect song – the one that’s going to score a scene or set the tone for your project.…
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Andrew Kramer & Video Copilot Visual FX
As the host of over 100 tutorials and creator of title sequences for TV’s Fringe and the film Star Trek, Andrew Kramer has participated in many forms of production and has greatly influenced the visual effects industry with his innovative plug-ins and tutorials.…
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How to Choose Music for Your Video – A Few Tips to Get You Started
For me, one of the hardest parts when editing a video is determining what music to use. This process usually takes almost as long as the process of capturing and editing the footage combined! In this post, I want to breakdown a few different things to consider when choosing your music as well as offer a few solutions that I have found helpful.…
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