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Cutting Class: Blending Bliss
Using blending modes in post-production
Hosted by Chris 'Ace' Gates, Emmy Award Winning Editor
SEASON: 1 EPISODE: 107 RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 8, 2007
Blending modes can be more than a trial-by-error compositing technique. Chris "Ace" Gates demystifies the common blending modes and shows how they can be utilized to stylize the look of you footage.
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hello
the videos are coming out great, its fantastic educational materials but i am finding board when the blackboard is used in Cutting Class, i remember my old school days and the old blackboard u know but now a days blackboard is replaced with LCD projector screens i am bugged of watching black board i need a change is what my openion
thank you
Nicely done. Only improvment I would suggest was to have an A/B comparison of the bottle pouring video. Yeah, I went back into the flick to check out the original footage, but, A/B would have been nicer.
This was one of the best explanations of blending modes I have seen. The tricks using them were the real gold though. I hope you can expand on this one, explaining Hard Light and Soft Light, etc. along with tricks for their use. Great show.
when i watch any of this shows i feel like screaming at such information for free. i'm really amazed at your generosity at DJTV. you guys are the bomb, keep it up. i'm more than impressed.oLuWA-nI-oBA, Celestial Dews Studios.
I knew blending modes pretty well before, but the concepts of using them in duplicated tracks like the shot of the beer pouring was new to me. Nice work.
Blending Bliss has opened a whole new world to me...thank you so much! And thanks for making doing it in such a way that it is simple! 5 STARS and then some! Thanks Chris!!!
5+ Stars. Awesome (as always). I am sure all of this is in my manuals somewhere, but it is so much easier to learn when it is exaplained directly and simply. Chris always does a great job of making complex concepts easy to understand...and DJTV is best when it provides concepts that can be used across multiple platforms and applications. Keep up the great work!
Chris is brillent in this tutorial !!!! Keep up the good work, really gave me ideas never worked with the blend mode. Did not know it existed !!! LOL. Just learning FCP. Would like to see more tutorials about layering images over each other. Also masks that you can do like make people mouths move. Also would like to have a still picture frame and have pictures changing inside then go to some movement.
Get excited over all your tutorials, you guys are the best!!!! Keep up the good work!!!
Could be one of the most useful bits of knowledge you need to know when editing video. Excellent episode...now I'm going to playa little more with my blending!
Perfect timing - now I can get the "All Fire" jumpbacks and play with then in Blending! As always, nicely done!
I haven't used blend modes much...but...after watching this episode of Cutting Class, I am going to try them more often. Excellent content on this one! Ace...you made blending modes more understandable and gave some great examples. Keep em comming and we'll all keep watchin'!
Superb episode, Ace. What a great way to not only define different blending modes, which in itself is excellent information, but to then give us some wonderful examples of how to utilize these different modes in myriad combinations to achieve beautiful results. Top notch!
Thanks for demystifying some powerful tools and techniques. Please dig deeper and more often into this kind of stuff!
This is a great tutorial/idea. I would like to see you do some more examples sometime in the future. Blending is such a useful tool. Thanks for the info.
My friend has done some amazing things over the years in Photoshop using blending modes; however, most everything he did with them was by trial-and-error. Having a breakdown of how the basic modes work is fantastic. Thanks, Chris.
Excellent presentation on blending. The mixture of two or even more images really made the video "pop" and draw more attention to it.
Great use of layers and blending effects. Also very smart to encourage creating a menu of different blends for different effects. Very inspiring.
On average I read five to six articles about video production a day, every day. Usually on my lunch break or before or after work, I will sit down and paw through a magazine, or read a chapter in one of my editing books. Usually I see the same stuff rehashed over and over again. Occasionally I will see something that is new, but usually it is something that involves new and expensive equipment that I don't have access to or can't afford. This was different.
I have not been this inspired and excited about working in an editing program, since I first started making videos in college. I literally have never seen anything on this type of manipulation before. Maybe, it's because I never had After Effects so I never bothered to learn about compositing beyond basic keying, but none of the editors I have worked with knew anything about this type of work. If they did, they certainly never shared it. Well done!
Tony
You always have great stuff Chris, but I'd say this is the tops to date. Thanks for all of your insight and editing knowledge.
Absolutely wonderful informaion and could not have come at a better time. I'm in the middle of editing a project and at a point where I need to "beef-up" a few clips. The client has asked for a "CSI" look and now I know how to do it. I look forward to all of your DJTV productions...well done guys and girls.
Fred Bird
Salmon Arm, BC Canada
That clears up a lot of questions I had about blending modes. Mostly, I would just click at random on them until I found a neat look. Thanks!
This is one of the best DJTV shows I've watched. The information was presented very well and gave some insight to a subject I'm sure if mysterious to most editors. Well done.
This was great. Very informative and helpful for upcoming projects. Thanks for keeping us informed and educated.
Chris does a great job with this show. They are always very informative and I appreciate the tips. I have discovered features I was unaware of, and understood others better. Keep up the great work!
Great work. Described the technology very well with good examples shown. Keep up the great work guys.
You often see these blend looks in music videos, thanks for shedding light on this subject, amazing tutorial!
As a new user to final cut I truly appreciate the examples of things I can do to improve my video productions. I look forward to each and every "cutting class" Thank you!
I loved Chris' explanation and examples of blending. It was the right mix of technical and artistic to make sense when working with video materials.
RE"Great job. It makes me want to go buy Final Cut Pro. Lol
Posted on 10/10/2007 by Cedric Tillman"
What are you editing with? Windows Movie Maker?
Most any professional NLE has this ability. From Vegas, FCP,Avid, etc. Not sure what you use, but take another look.
Good job professor... not promoting any specific editing software is smart, staying on track with the "technique concept" is plausable. Editors need the concept, not product promo.
You get five stars from me for that kind of creative illustration. Keep professing that way and it will not isolate the creative community at large. Kind regards.
Excellent explanation of the blending modes! You've taken me to the next level of this stuff.
Thanks!
Cool - Thanks for all the information. Its been awhile since I thought about what the blending modes actually do, although I use them, I now can rattle my brain and think of some new uses... Chow
This was a really good explaination of a subject that really needed to be explained in detail. Great episode and cool effects.
Great eopisode. I had always just played with the composite unitl I found the one I liked, now I know what they actualy do. Keep up the great work.
Wow! - Thanks Ace and Crew -
Awesome episode - something I'll be playing with for quite a while. Really useful stuff.
Thanks - 5 stars
Great information, and nicely demonstrated. And I, for one, really enjoy the archive segments -- it reminds me that our work is fun, and shouldn't be taken so seriously :) Keep up the great work!
Ace, you complete me!