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March 2016

Anamorphic

Anamorphic Chop Shop - Fixing Mumps

March 27, 2016

Use Photoshop's Spherize filter to fix the uneven stretch noticeable in some anamorphic adapters. Also, how to export an image sequence from Premiere, record an action in Photoshop, run it on a batch of images and re-import back into Premiere. USEFUL LINKS: Use the Anamorphic Mumps Corrector for a …

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Finnegan!

March 22, 2016

I've come to realize I haven't been posting anything about life lately, just anamorphics and and technical things. Time to fix that! Langara has gotten less worrying than it was in the beginning and we're heading towards the end of the first semester. - I wrote this sentence a week and a half ago …

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Films and Sound: an Unbalanced Relationship

March 21, 2016

Modern cinema follows a strict set of rules, a long preestablished language composed of conventions and agreements employed and accepted respectively by both the filmmakers and the audience. For example, when we see a close up of a character’s face followed by another close up of his or her hands …

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Anamorphic Chop Shop - Cropping in Post

March 20, 2016

Continuing the Chop Shop series on post-processing, I'll explain how to properly crop your footage and do digital pans in case you have resolution to spare! USEFUL LINKS: Watch my video on how to set the proper aspect ratio for anamorphics Adobe Creative Cloud All the RED links on this post are …

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Anamorphic Chop Shop - Proper Aspect Ratio

March 13, 2016

Addressing one of the most common questions out there, here's how to properly stretch your anamorphic shots using Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop and Final Cut Pro X. USEFUL LINKS: Adobe Creative Cloud All the RED links on this post are part of eBay's Partner Network, so if you purchase …

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Season 12: Anamorphic Cookbook.

March 9, 2016

I've been working really hard on lensporn lately. This work resulted on these cool looking new banners to represent the twelfth season of this blog and an opening for my upcoming videos, starting in a few weeks from now (I'm still fine tuning everything in place, grading shots and trimming the music …

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Anamorphic Chop Shop - Corner Pin

March 6, 2016

First post-processing tutorial, on how to fix a slightly misaligned shot that you definitely need to include in the edit. Corner pin is a very simple and easy trick to do either in After Effects or Premiere (or Nuke!). Every anamorphic user should be familiar with it. USEFUL LINKS: Adobe Creative …