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autotrace in AE

Justin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:39:13 +0000

Quicktip to help you speed up your mask creation in after effects.

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use AE to render from premiere

Justin — Thu, 27 May 2010 00:19:01 +0000

CS4 media encoder sucks, so what's a motion designer to do??! Watch this video and find out a better way to render your projects. It's pretty simple, I just never thought to do it until someone reminded me.

maya tips and tricks-part5

Justin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:29:30 +0000

maya tips and tricks-part4

Justin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:47:14 +0000

maya tips and tricks-part3

Justin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:25:40 +0000

maya fluids using mental ray

Justin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:28:45 +0000

I've had problems with mental ray and fluids for as long as I can remember. I finally figured out what I was doing wrong and thought I'd pass it along. I'll warn you...it's super simple. Don't judge me.

More Mental Ray

maya tips and tricks-part2

Justin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:45:50 +0000

maya tips and tricks-part 1

Justin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:52:28 +0000

flv encoding tips

Justin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:43:35 +0000

Over the past year and a half I've spent a considerable amount of time encoding videos for flash. Since videos are usually huge, it's always a delicate balance between good quality and good user experience. As subjective as these "standards" may be, I thought I'd share how we in the biz encode our videos for online use.

flv encoding specs

VBR, 2 pass

Video target bitrate: 850 (something around 1000 is a good place to aim)

Audio bit rate: 128

Keyframe rate: usually 25 (more keyframes = better quality...but be careful)

You can find a more detailed explanation here: Encode to FLV

alternate uses for dropbox

Justin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:31:24 +0000

Wow, check out those bird feathers on the side of my head (eyes rolling)

Links:
Dropbox
Cyber Duck (FTP client)
ira-soup.com (my portfolio)