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Workshop: Tricky Monitor Temp Comps in Avid and After Effects

Nationwide


Training/Technology

Instructor: Christian Madera

Date: July 9, 2020

Session: 04:00 PM – 6:00PM EST and 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM PST


Summary: This course will show participants how to get around common complications for monitor composites in Avid, as well as some of the cost/benefits of doing the work in After Effects instead and best practices for round tripping between the two.

Outline:

1.     Evaluate your footage to identify possible complications

a.     Some tracking points obscured

b.     Obstruction of monitor – would we rather roto or deal with spill?

2.     Identify track points on the same 3D plane and track to those

3.     Use animatte to deal with spill

4.     Notice shortcomings of Avid

a.     Keyer kills reflections

b.     Annoying to color correct

5.     Best practices for exporting to After Effects

a.     Shot naming

b.     Plate naming

c.     Same as Source export

6.     Best practices for importing in After Effects

a.     Creating a comp from footage settings

b.     Versioning

7.     Replicate Avid comp in After Effects

a.     Tracker

b.     Keylight – keeps reflections!

c.     Matte shape

8.     Color correction is much easier now, and defocus much more realistic

Requirements: Course is open to Apprentice Editors, Assistant Editors, VFX Editors, and Editors. Participants should have:

  • Proficiency with Avid Media Composer
  • Rudimentary experience with monitor comps in Avid
  • Access to Media Composer v8 or later
  • Access to Adobe After Effects CC2017 or later
  • (Basic familiarity with the After Effects interface will be helpful but not assumed)
  • (Mac OSX will be assumed, but skills transfer easily to Windows)

BIO


Christian is a VFX and Assistant Editor based in New York, and has done an eye-numbing number of Avid temp composites on both features and episodic projects. Credits include Season 1 of Marco Polo, The Purge 3: Election Year, Season 1 of NatGeo’s Mars, The Mountain Between Us and an upcoming VFX-heavy feature for Disney.  He loves the opportunity to teach other members how to work smarter not harder in VFX.


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Zoom link and material will be emailed 48 hours prior to the workshop.


If you have any questions please email Muneeb Hassan at mhassan@editorsguild.com