[Noisebridge-discuss] Proposed After Effects / VFX compositing class

Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 15:44:47 UTC 2009


oh yes! i've used cinelerra a tiny bit, would love to learn more from a 
master at the art, if not the program itself.

Martin Bogomolni wrote:
> Slim!
> 
> I still have a copy 'o Silicon Grail that works fine under Linux (The
> old Cineon suite pretty much.)    There's also Cinelerra (used to be
> bcast2000) whose source code and releases all the way up to last year
> are still available on sourceforge-
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13554&package_id=50184&release_id=619071
> 
> Cinelerra even has a good take on Ultimatte, support for
> multi-point-stabilization, rotoscoping, and of course manual
> copy/clone cleanup tools (it may even have automated speckle removal).
> 
> -Martin
> 
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:02 PM, sfslim <sfslim at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I encourage you to research this if it is of interest to you. I am
>> personally unaware of any free or open source VFX compositing packages at
>> present. (That does not mean than one does not exist of course. In fact, I'd
>> be rather surprised if one didn't.)
>> It may be worth noting that my expertise lays chiefly with After Effects.
>> I've used other compositing apps, but AE is where I've spent the bulk of my
>> time over the past thirteen years. It's where I'm a gunslinger.
>> I could, of course, teach an application-agnostic VFX compositing class,
>> focusing more on basic comping operations and theory, but such a class
>> doesn't nearly take full advantage of my skills, and the same information
>> could be acquired by most Noisebridgers (who are generally smarter than the
>> average bear) by spending a few nights with any one of the several excellent
>> intro to compositing texts that are available.
>> This class, at least as currently envisioned, arose largely in response to a
>> number of Noisebridgers who've been asking me to teach them about AE
>> specifically. And, unavoidably, much of what such a class would have to
>> contain would need to be AE-specific.
>> I should say that I have absolutely nothing against free or open source
>> options. And I certainly welcome users of any package to attend my class; I
>> will endeavor to make as much of the lesson content as possible broadly
>> applicible, and support people in achieving successful photo-real composites
>> in whatever package they choose. Tool agnosticism is a very useful skill for
>> a working compositors, and I encourage all my students to practice it.
>> Lastly, it may be of use to note that Adobe offers a full version of AE CS4
>> on their site as a free download with a 30 day trial. That may be enough for
>> non owners of AE to accomplish a fair bit in this class before making a
>> purchase decision.
>>
>>
>>
>> [Sent from a mobile device, with apologies for brevity]
>> On Mar 25, 2009, at 11:45 AM, William Heath <wgheath at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Aaron,
>> Can you pretty please respond to the use of free tools like blender for
>> this.  Is that realistic or not?
>> -Tim
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Star St.Germain <thisisstar at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I am very into this idea & would show up in the proposed timeslot if
>>> things could work out with the scienceyfolks.
>>>
>>> <3
>>> Star
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Aaron Muszalski <sfslim at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> This is a fairly new event so it's hard to say if it and your class
>>>>> would easily coexist or only with some difficulty.  What do the
>>>>> planners
>>>>> of the SciEnDesHud think?
>>>> Though I'm not a SciEnDesHud planner, my sense (based on my
>>>> impressions of the NB space) is that holding two concurrent groups is
>>>> possible, one upstairs and one downstairs. And as the calendar fills
>>>> up (well done everyone - Go Enthusiasm!) this issue may become
>>>> increasingly harder to avoid.
>>>>
>>>> That said, I am entirely open to alternate options, be it spaces or time
>>>> slots.
>>>>
>>>> My schedule is open all day Tuesday and Thursday (I teach Mondays,
>>>> Wednesdays and Fridays) and I assume that an evening time slot is
>>>> preferable for most people with day jobs. The NB meeting is on
>>>> Tuesdays, which is why I proposed Thursdays.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, and I suppose I should mention that my class would work much
>>>> better if we had use of the projector. So if SciEnDesHud already has a
>>>> claim on that, that would be a good reason to consider relocating the
>>>> VFX class.
>>>>
>>>> Again, thank you everyone for your continued input (and also the
>>>> gnashing)!
>>>>
>>>> - Slim
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