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Hi,

I want to practice some fx on existing footages say from existing video clips or movies for non commercial use. It could end up on my reel but I’ll supply a before and after as well as credits. If I use it for a non commercial purpose is it acceptable and allowed? Or am I taking the risk of being sued or being asked to remove an fx piece I did from my reel.

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Just to clerify, I’m not saying I’ll take a piece from a huge mega VFX movie and add a small fx and cliam I did the shot, I’m saying I’ll take a short clip from a old or a regular movie that has no fx in it at all and add something. IE shot extention, cg building, sky replacement, etc.

Hi,

I’m trying my hand at removing a background character from a scene. At the moment i’m painting over the frames in photoshop and then simple replacing old frames for the new one’s. Is this the way to do it as i don’t have a ‘clean plate’ that i could put behind the character?

Thanks

Hello, I am learning camera tracking, but have a problem if u can help. I track the footage, then solve it etc, then set the origin etc, but when i put a test object into the shot, it appears way below the plane, as you can see in the screenshot, is this normal? Also regarding alligning the plane, how do u know it is at the right angle etc, lik when i rotate it can look right at variuos angles in view it from. The screenshot is just an example to show the test objects keep apperaing below the grind plane. I

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we use Nuke for our composting works and FCP for presenting it to client. we have a little trouble of converting DPX files to quicktime before importing to FCP which we believe is a double work. we are thinking of getting a third party plug-in to enable FCP to handle image series. or a software for online purposes.
we don’t have high end stuff like Flame or Flint at the moment, we are thinking of a cheaper alternative to handle intermediate online presentation. something like Piranha. any suggestions would be much appreciated as we don’t have experiences with Pirhana or third plug in parties for FCP in this regard.
what do you suggest?

Hi,
I’m new to these forums. I read a lot about which software to use and whatnot for vfx. Honestly, I just started delving into the vfx world and I was wondering about where to start.

For starters, I downloaded the learning edition of fusion and I am so eager to learn. I also am a member of lynda.com and am currently studying Maya for 3d.

I was just wondering where I can find tutorials for Fusion and how you pros started out in the vfx world. Like what process you went through to get yourself in it. What software you learned first and all that.

I started with AE a few months ago but kept reading in forums that AE isn’t used much in the industry cause it is layer based. So I just recently downloaded Fusion and am eager to learn.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read my post. Any information would help out a lot. 🙂