Filmmakers Podcast

VFX and compositing artist Steve Wright talks to us about the VFX industry, tools, techniques and explains when you should use After Effects and when you should use Nuke. He also goes into great detail about Nuke techniques.

Motion tracking remains the most time effective way to animate a good number of effects, including screen replacements, object concealment and match-moving. In this episode, Ben Brownlee shares strategies to perform those tasks inside your NLE.

Join us as we speak with lead colorist Emery Wells about the ever-advancing role of Digital Intermediate in today's era of digital productions. From image acquisition, to editorial and VFX integration, to color grading and finishing, we cover it all!

Veteran TV news editor and cameraman, Gary Buzel, gives us an insider's look at the broadcast news industry and what it takes to become an editor in this competitive field.

If you are proficient in Final Cut Pro 7 and are considering the move to Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5, then this episode is for you! Alex Udell tells us the good, the bad and the ugly of transitioning between NLEs.

Indie filmmaker D.L. Watson talks to us about how he saves time and money creating a previz of the scene he wants to shoot before production day. He also goes in depth on how to use Moviestorm, an accessible animation and previz application.

We speak with Oliver Peters about the missing elements that have caused FCP X to be considered less-than-ready for the daily tasks currently tackled by Final Cut Pro 7 and professional editors.

Ben Brownlee is back in his 10th appearance with us, talking about After Effects and how to use expressions within it. He goes in-depth on dot notation, camel casing, functions and how to use them to minimize keyframing.

Scott Carrey is back and this time he shares his experience and expertise with dealing with challenging productions and clients. He tells us about the varied personalities we as filmmakers need to deal with in a production, plus many other topics.

MIchael shares his thoughts on cinematic storytelling and helps us understand how to unlock its secrets to transform an idea into a great piece of non-fiction drama. His emphasis is on documentary filmmaking, but his tips apply to all filmmakers.

Barry introduces us to the DaVinci Resolve for Mac and gives us some great tips and techniques for using DaVinci with FCP, Adobe Premiere Pro or Avid Media Composer. He also talks about the differences between the free and paid Resolve versions.

Scott Carrey shares with us some tips and techniques on what interactive web videos are, why we should be thinking about creating them for our business or next film and how we can create them using Adobe Encore CS 5.1.

In this episode, Final Cut Pro guru Larry Jordan joins us to talk about GenArts' latest plug-ins, Sapphire Edge. He also answers many questions about FCP X, it's new meta data features, plus much more.

Knowing how to compress video for efficient playback via iDevices, such as iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad is something that most producers need to know how to handle. In this interview with Jan Ozer, we get some great tips & tricks for video compression.

Misha Tenenbaum talks to us about the collaborative partnership between the director and editor and how to keep it smooth and collaborative. In addition, he gives us tips on how to diagnose and solve story problems in the edit bay.