Hasta La Motion!

There are a few places available on our Apple Motion Induction course running on Saturday 23rd October and our Apple Color Advanced course running on Saturday 6th November that we are offering at the discounted rate of £60 per course.

This one-day course familiarises students with Motion, Apple’s software for motion graphics design. Learn real-world effects techniques, including filters, layering, composite modes and animating video, graphics and titles. The practical approach to motion graphics focuses on the features of Final Cut Studio that editors and designers need to use in their daily work. With Motion, you’ll learn how to make creative titles, motion menus, show bumpers and news opens as you learn everything from text, compositing, and keyframing to 3D set creation and camera animation.

The course will cover working with Motion’s Real-Time Design engine and interface, behavior-based animation, parameter behaviors, blend modes, advanced particle system design, advanced title animation, chroma key techniques, masking methods, keyframing, and integration. This course is designed for anyone wishing to learn the fundamentals and functionality of Motion and would be advantageous to those with some experience in graphic and editing applications such as Photoshop and Final Cut Pro.

Full Course Listing: http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/whats…tion-induction

To make a booking: http://motioninduction.eventbrite.com/

This one-day hands-on course will advance those who are familiar with Apple’s new professional colour grading application. Designed for delegates who have mastered the basics of colour balancing and correction, this course will provide a refresher as well as cover the finer points of grading, building colour effects and creating and applying travelling mattes.

* A review of setting up a project and managing a workflow through the Color Rooms
* Advanced Primary Correction
* Advanced Secondary Correction
* Building your own Color FX
* The Geometry Room
* Working with custom vignettes
* Key framing and using Trackers
* Rendering, Round tripping to FCP, Exporting and Archiving

Full Course Listing: http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/whats…color-advanced

To make a booking: http://coloradvanced.eventbrite.com/

SPACE
129 – 131 Mare St
London E8 3RH

020 8525 4341
www.spacestudios.org.uk

Part1 some knowledge about MKV video

What’s MKV video format?
An MKV file is a Matroska file, the Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free Container format . It is similar in conception to other containers like AVI, MP4 or ASF, but is entirely open in specification, with implementations consisting mostly of open source software. Matroska file types are .MKV for video (with subtitles and audio), .MKA for audio-only files and .MKS for subtitles only.

How to play MKV files on Windows?
In principal you can play MKV files on almost every Mediaplayer on Windows if you have the latest CCCP playback pack from Matroska Download Page installed, as most of these players are based on Microsoft DirectShow (TM).

Part2 how to convert MKV to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 VOB DVD and add subtitle to MKV?
Things you will need
MKV video
MKV Converter
Seperated subtitle in srt format

Get Start:
1. Download iSkysoft MKV Converter, install and run it

2. Put your MKV subtitle in the same folder with MKV video and name as the MKV.
ie. D:\Movie\chd-ntbos-bdrip.MKV D:\Movie\chd-ntbos-bdrip.srt

3. Then select "Add" button to load the MKV video files, this MKV Converter will detect your subtitle and add it automatically.

4. Click the "Convert to" drop-down button to choose the output formats;
Click the "Target Path" button to find the destination folder for output file;

Besides, you can set the subtitle language in the Edit Menu if you have several subtitle file in different languages.

5. Click the "Start" button to begin the conversion.

This is the easiest way to convert MKV to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 VOB DVD with iSkysoft MKV Converter and add subtitle to MKV. Now just enjoy your MKV videos on any media player like iPod iPhone PSP Zune Blackberry even burn MKV to DVD to play on Home DVD Players with this video converter!

I am not sure if you have heard about nVeil, which transforms your footage into a new piece of art

I published earlier an Veil overview: nVeil a Final Cut Pro & Final Cut Express plugin

and an Interview with Rich Storek the key person behind nVeil

http://www.strongmocha.com/2009/06/2…th-rich-storek