Blender VSE Part-2: How To Overlay Images
This tutorial is Part-2 of the Blender VSE (Video Sequence Editor) series. This video covers adding or overlaying and image. Overlaying images is useful for adding titles, watermarks or description to your video
Hope this helps,
-Steve
LINK: https://youtu.be/f5uMFrd5El8
Hope this helps,
-Steve
LINK: https://youtu.be/f5uMFrd5El8
Blender VSE Part-1: How To Edit Video
This tutorial is Part-1 of the Blender VSE (Video Sequence Editor) series. This video covers manually setting up Blender's interface, cutting a video file and rendering out a portion of the source video.
Virtual Dub Mod: Overview
This is a quick overview of Virtual Dub Mod and how I use it. Virtual Dub Mod is free, based on Virtual Dub and has a lot of uses. With the use of WINE I have been able to use it in Linux.
Video Editing
There are a few video editing tools that I use. The one I choose is the one that is most suited for the task at hand. The three main applications are Blender, Virtual Dub Mod, and Authoring Works 4.
GIMP 2.7.4 Wacom Support
GIMP 2.7.4 now has Wacom Support. I have been working towards replacing Photoshop so I can run Linux full time. But Photoshop is not easily replaced, but the the newest version of GIMP, which is 2.7.4 is getting better everyday and now the issue with no Wacom or tablet support has been fixed.
Linux Mint-12 Upgrade from Ubuntu
I have been quite happy with Ubuntu up untill 11.10 when they dropped Gnome for Unity leaving us without a choice. But I tried to get use to it but found it somewhat glitchy. Then I kept hearing talk about the Mint branch of Linux.
MyPaint 1.0 for Windows and Linux
MyPaint 1.0 is now available for Windows users. This is still an experimental build but seems to be quite stable. There have been a lot of changes including dockable menus. For full features, changes and download go to MyPaint's home page HERE. You can thank tumagonx for the Windows build. For those on Linux that want to try the newest build with the latest features, a PPA as been created. Just copy and paste the commands listed below that were posted by David Revoy:
I will have a short video on my workflow utilizing GIMP 2.7 and MyPaint 1.0 hopefully before the birth of my son. After that, all bets are off.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:achadwick/mypaint-testing sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mypaint
I will have a short video on my workflow utilizing GIMP 2.7 and MyPaint 1.0 hopefully before the birth of my son. After that, all bets are off.
-Steve
Quick Tip: Why Calibrate My Monitor
Calibrating your monitor. What can I say? We all try to get away with calibrating our monitor by eye, but that only works for so long and unfortunately our eyes change. Not just over the years but throughout the day. We get use to seeing a certain way and we adapt in different lighting situations. In the end our paintings, photos or what have you suffer. Our darks are too dark, the colors are to saturated or the hues just don't look right especially when we go to print. So we are left to buying hardware to calibrate our monitors.
Synfig Studio: 2D Animation Suite
This one is for anyone interested in 2D Animation. Synfig Studio is a open source, cross-platform animation package.
Quick Tip: Launchy + Dexpot
Just want to introduce some free applications that I was introduced to the other day. These are great little utilities that can help speed up ones work flow. Launchy is cross-platform while Dexpot is for Windows users who like the virtual desktops that is found in Ubuntu.
COMING SOON! - Blender 2.5 Video Sequence Editor
This
is a snapshot of a new tutorial that is on it's way. In the past few
months I have been working on moving from commercial applications to
FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) and Blender has been one I have
been working with since 2.48. One feature is Blenders Video Sequence
Editor (VSE), which is also refered to as the Sequence Editor. I have
done some extensive testing changing options and working through some
issues. I want to show how to set up Blender's interface, add video
files, edited them within Blender, add image overlays for titles,
watermarks etc, and how to animate some of the properties. These tasks
maybe broken down into multiple parts so you can pick and choose what
you need and to minimize the duration of the tutorial.
I hope to have it out within the next week or so,
- Steve
I hope to have it out within the next week or so,
- Steve
Quick Tip: MyPaint and GIMP Template
I
have been working with GIMP a lot lately and also playing with
MyPaint. I have seen some very good paintings done with MyPaint and I
love the feel of the brushes. But I have always been able to control my
canvas size and resolution. But MyPaint doesn't allow you to set
either from scratch. This is one method that gets around those issues.
GIMP: How To Add Themes UPDATED
This is an update to the original tutorial on theme. In this tutorial I show how to download, adjust the themes and install them in either version 2.6.11 or 2.7.3. In the end I preview the new themes and show how to set it as your default so it loads automatically. The custom themes can be downloaded from GNOME.
Update: Installing GIMP 2.7.3 in Windows
UPDATE-: I add this update to an earlier post on "How To Install GIMP 2.7.3 in Ubuntu and Windows.
I had issues with saving to the OpenRaster extension (.ora) and had to go back and forth between 2.7.3 and 2.6.11 (stable version). I went and backed up my .gimp 2.7.3 folder and uninstalled Gimp 2.7.3 with RevoUninstaller. Then I reinstalled it with the version I downloaded from Gimpusers.com HERE. I verified that it worked by exporting as an .ora file. Then I copied my themes and brushes into the new folder. Not sure what happened, but it is an experimental version.
Hope this helps,
-Steve
How To Sketch: Sketching The 4 Step Method
Sketching is a vital skill that enables one to quickly capture a vision or idea. Sketching is normally the first place that artists start out and is also the basis for most projects. Even movies start out with storyboards that are a sequence of sketches. Most often, but not always very rudimentary ones at best. Sketching is very important for digital artists for that reason. It is utilized in all media. Sketching is art in it's simplest form but can be taken to a very high degree of detail. Their is a difference between sketching and drawing where drawing is more detailed. These terms are quite often used interchangeably.
Running Computers On Generator
Well we are back on commercial power again. We were able to borrow a generator Thursday night. One thing I must mention with running electronics on a generator is that you should use one that has an inverter or use a separate one or you may damage your equipment. An inverter basically works like a filter and cleans up the noise on the electrical signal similar to background noise found on audio signals. I was lucky that I didn't damage anything (haven't noticed anything yet) but I did have issue with frame rates with video editing. Normally I run about 130fps with normal encoding tasks, but I had less than 50fps at times. So even thought I had power, and ran it through an UPS, it still wasn't good power. Something to keep in mind if you are in the market for a generator.
Hurricain Irene
Very hard to be a Digital Artist without power. That is where pencil and paper comes in. That brings me to my next article on sketching. It would have been good to have it up before the storm but it is on the way once we get power back ...hopefully soon.
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