Instructor: Christian Madera
This is one workshop session with an hour break from 2:00pm – 2:30pm
Session: 10:00AM – 6:00PM
Fee: $40.00
This course is open to 5 active assistant or Editing Room Assistant who'd like to be able to tackle difficult temp comps more quickly.
Pre-requisites: Students should be generally comfortable with Avid Media Composer and have a rudimentary understanding of video layers and keyframes.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

An overview of good basic principles for handling some of the more commonly-encountered difficult temp comps, with time for hands-on practice. Sometime will also be spent learning effect settings more thoroughly.


OUTLINE

1. Painting out tracking markers as an intro to tracking tool
   a. Select area(s) with high contrast, and an area around it unlikely to contain something similar
   b. Clone tool and paint tool most useful for tracking marks
   c. Adjust feathering before applying any keyframes
2. Submasters for monitor comps
   a. Drop elements on different layers in your timeline
   b. Submaster applies to selected tracks between in and out
   c. Submasters can contain other effects, including submasters
   d. Can edit elements within the submaster by using step in
   e. Can apply an effect, like 3D warp to the resulting “hero” submaste
3. Tips for tracking
   a. You can copy trackers from other FX (we’ll use our paint effect)
   b. Use a corner pin & corner track when perspective is shifting
4. Refining keys with spectramatte
   a. I like to start with bypass, eyedrop, show alpha in source
   b. Chroma control is your friend
   c. Matte Processing - level and style of feathering
   d. Spill suppression
   e. If this starts to feel like herding cats, you can combine with animatte/tracker to hold out a specific area.
5. Rotoscoping 101
   a. Can apply a tracker to match overall motion of the frame
   b. Get feathering where you want it before applying key frames
   c. Watch the motion several times before you try to roto - have to think like an animator. Goal is as few keyframes as possible
   d. Keyframe the start and the end, any obvious turning points
   e. Then find the spots in between keyframes where it’s most wrong and correct those. Repeat until it looks OK.

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.

RSVP

Please e-mail mhassan@editorsguild.com to RSVP 

Note: No walk-ins and no guests will be permitted.  You will receive a confirmation, once you are registered. No phone call RSVPs will be accepted.