Showing posts with label Video editing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Video editing. Show all posts


Prelante is a web design and development, motion graphics and vfx firm from Goa, India. Yes they provide excellent service and their quality of work just amazes me. And this is the reason why I am writing this post. High quality work is what sets it apart from other Indian firms. Another thing why I choose Prelante is that their rates are very low. 25 % to that of any other similar firm.


Most of my web projects were delivered with 3 – 6 days and all vfx ones the next day itself. But ones I had a project which required a heavy 3D scene modeling and compositing. They took hell long time to deliver it. The reason given was that they don`t own a render farm and these high quality realistic 3D scenes take days to render. But best thing was that the compositing part was done within minutes in front of me –me giving feedback and making few adjustments every time. Though they don’t mention anything of sound or music on their website, they do deliver my motion graphic videos with audio or music when needed. I guess they don`t do it by themselves. May be some third party sound mixing Studio. So this might be the reason why they don`t mention anything about it on their website. Anyway Prelante provides great quality work at a minimal cost.

With increase in computing power day by day in normal computer, it is becoming easier to make hollywood style videos. Now anyone can create Hollywood style special effects with the available tools. Among these are tracking and Matchmoving softwares which is must for compositing. Matchmoving is mainly used to detect the movement of the camera, so that the same can be used on the virtual camera in a compositing or a 3D program. When new elements are composited back into the original shot, they will perfectly match the perspective. Wondering which software to use? Then read A BREAKDOWN OF BEST MATCHMOVING AND TRACKING APPLICATIONS.Yes some of them are dam costly like Boujou. But there are also free alternatives to start.


Most motion graphics designers, animators and visual effects artists, who use After Effects regularly, must have sometime encountered horrific nightmares with their software. Adobe After Effects is as fragile as a brittle glass. Once it crashes, it is not going to get back on its track.


Parsing properties list is an error usual occurs when the software was not quit properly. Solution is pretty simple. All you have to do is delete the after effects application data files.


On Windows Vista


C:\Users\* Username* \AppData\Roaming\Adobe\After Effects\9.0

Change * Username* with your account username. The version number 9.0 can change according to your software version.


On Windows XP


C:\Documents and Settings\...

Delete all the files and folders in this folder or you could just move them to some temporary location for backup. After deleting run After Effects and it should start. It will re-create all the files and it will be like the day you installed the after effects, with all default settings.


Avid Liquid 7 is an video editing and authoring software created by Pinnacle Systems.Though they have mentioned support for only Windows XP, it is possible to use Avid Liquid 7 on Windows Vista and Windows 7. Tip is very simple. You just need to run it under compatibility mode. To do this

  • Right Chick on Avid Liquid 7 Shortcut
  • Open file location
  • Right Click on exe file
  • Properties
  • Click compatibility tab
  • Tick mark ‘Run this program in compatibility mode’ and choose Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
  • Apply and run the software.