FMX 2013 Stuttgart

I'm delighted to say that I’m presenting colour correction and grading techniques and workflows at FMX 2013 with Adobe and Red Giant in April 2013.

I'll also be showing details of Red Giant's new software BulletProof. Details of my sessions are here:

Visual Storytelling with Red Giant

Colour Grading with Adobe Premiere Pro, Magic Bullet Suite, & SpeedGrade

You can purchase tickets for FMX here. It promises to be an exciting lineup of 3D art and visual effects. Confirmed FMX highlights include: Cloud Atlas, Life of Pi, Skyfall, The Croods, Crysis 3. If you are there, come and say hello.

NAB Show: 6th - 11th April 2013 Las Vegas

It's that time of year again (Vegas!). I'll be presenting on the Red Giant booth in the South Hall this year, so come over and say hello, it'll be great to see you.

And if you're going to Vegas, don't forget to check out the Supermeet and Media Motion Ball, both great hangouts for networking and meeting old (and new!) friends.

Broadcast Video Expo 2013 - London

I'm very pleased to be invited by Adobe to present for them this year at Broadcast Video Expo in London from the 26th to 28th February.

I'll be on the Adobe stand for the entire show, showing the range of video tools included in Adobe Creative Cloud. I'll also be available between sessions to answer questions and help you troubleshoot any problems you have with Premiere Pro. Please register free here if you'd like to attend. There's also a session timetable here.

Please come and say hello if you'll be attending. We will be at Stand L16 where you can come and speak to members of the Adobe team and participate in a prize draw to win a 3 month Subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud.

Tutorial | Colour Correcting Motion Graphics with Magic Bullet Looks

 

I've recorded a new tutorial for Red Giant showing how to enhance and alter motion graphics with the colour correction plug-in Magic Bullet Looks.

 

Looks has some interesting tools that you can use to bring out certain details and highlight specific colours. This can be very useful when you need to make last minute tweaks to motion graphics material, and you don't have access to the original After Effects file, or you are right on deadline and need to make a quick tweak!

 

I'm using Premiere Pro and After Effects, but the same principles apply if you are using Final Cut Pro and Motion.

 

Check out the video over on the Red Giant site.

 

Grade like a Master Artist with 30 artistic presets for Magic Bullet Looks

Film directors and cinematographers have long been influenced by the paintings of Master Artists, using the visual language explored by these painters to inform their own film and video work. Visual techniques like Chiaroscuro, Sfumato and the Impressionist style of capturing light, color and specular highlights have all been used to stunning effect in film and video.

Now you can replicate these techniques in your own films using Master Artists for Looks, a collection of presets I've created for Red Giant. Classical painters who spent their lives investigating light, color and form have taught us a great deal about composition, color and light in video. This collection of presets will give you the confidence to shoot and grade your footage like an artist.

This tutorial helps get you started in color grading with the Master Artists presets, and shows how each of the presets can be used to manipulate the colours in your video.

Get it here: http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/master-artists/

Supermeet Videos

In case you missed it, here's a recoding of the presentation I made for Red Giant at the Amsterdam Supermeet last week.

 

 

And film-maker Gert Kracht has a collection of the presentations from the Supermeet available on his Vimeo page

Supermeet at IBC Sept 2012

I'm one of the speakers at the Amsterdam Supermeet at IBC 2012

I'll be talking about the Latest and Greatest from Red Giant - here's the blurb:

Red Giant have been making innovative and time-saving pre production and post production tools for filmmakers for over ten years. Simon Walker returns to the SuperMeet stage to demonstrate three of their exciting new releases Trapcode Mir, PluralEyes and Knoll Light Factory, the light effects tool developed by ILM Visual Effects Supervisor John Knoll.

 

Simon will also be showing Red Giant's latest short film ORDER UP, directed by Webby Award winner Seth Worley, which was made to showcase the new release of Knoll Light Factory.

Here's more information about all the whole evening, including presentations from Adobe, AVID, Autodesk and Black Magic, plus the world famous raffle!)