Harry Potter tutorial fix!!

In my Harry potter tutorial, I forgot to explain a little part where I made the jagged look on the stroke. Here are all of the effects you need to use to create the same look:

NOTE: the red values have expressions on them To make an expression, just hold "ALT" on your keyboard while clicking the stopwatch. In your timeline, you will see a box to type in it. In the picture, the first "evolution" value had this expression: time*300. The last one had: time*200.

Quick tip: Easy DSLR handle

Shooting handheld videos on a DSLR is quite a pain. But with very few pieces of harware, I was able to make a pretty good handle for my 7D. In fact, here are some pictures:

As you can see, I've only used two L shaped metal pieces and a bolt. It's so simple yet very effective. You can also use these metal pieces to create a top handle to shoot some low angle shots. I'm gonna try to improve my design and come up with other ideas!

4:4:4 codec with DSLR's!!

DSLR's are awesome, but their codec is not the best to have. Fortunately, there is a converter called 5DtoRGB that converts your video with 4:4:4 chroma subsampling!

http://rarevision.com/5dtorgb/

 If you don't know what chroma subsampling is, here is the explaination. In each pixels of a regular image, there are 2 values: a color value and a luminance value. Chroma subsampling is basically using the same color value for multiple pixels. For example: most HD camcorders these days record 4:2:0 videos. This means that there is only one color value for each 2x2 pixels squares. This is the case for all AVCHD cameras. On the other hand, some camcorders can record 4:2:2 videos, wich gives twice as many color informations. This is the case for all of the canon XF cameras and many pro models. On the higher end, there are even some cameras that record at 4:4:4, wich has no chroma subsampling whatsoever. This is very rare.

Of course using a video converter will not give the same quality as a pro camcorder that can do it natively, but it can be useful if you do greenscreen stuff and you have a low budget for example.
Oh and as a side note, a guy at the video store yesterday told me that you can get superior results using Adobe Media Encoder. Haven't tried this options yet, but I will soon and give you some feedback.

A re-birth!

So, It's been a long time since I've posted here. But now I feel like ready! I've updated my youtube page and all that stuff, so i'm gonna post reagularly here! Stay tuned!