After Effects 720p Please Help!

So I’ve had After Effects for a while, I rendered a 10 second clip in 1080i HD, and the file size was 1.62GB! So I was wondering if I put it in 720p it would shrink the file in QuickTime (+ please post how I can shrink the file using different settings!)
Thankyou :bomb:

How did they do this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-ImCpNqbJw

Ok, new to VFX here. Got 2 questions on this video on how the effects were done.

1. Did they use a green/blue screen for background set?
2. What compositing programme did they use?

Thanks in advance.:D

To become production coordinator.

Do we need a bachelor’s degree in any thing to become production
coordinators.

West Coast vs. East Coast job market?

Hey.Hows it goin?Im new to this website and these forums. I am an animation and visual fx major at a school in the San Fransisco Bay Area (California) . In about one year from now, I will have my bachelors degree as well as all the experience that we all know is more important than that piece of paper..So anyway..I moved here from the upper East Coast for school in 09′. I love it here, but i can’t help but rack my brain about all the haunting stories I’m constantly told by mostly everyone i know about how hard it is to even legitimately get your foot in the door here and on my way to earning decent income. My school takes us through much of the pipeline starting with fine arts and concepting classes and then moving on to hard surface/organic modeling, texturing and lighting, compositing, animation, rigging, dynamics, motion capture, and a bit of scripting as well.Programs taught include Maya, Zbrush, Photoshop, and Nuke, among a few other more slightly obscure ones) I know that the biggest vfx studios in the country are here, but i sometimes wonder if in some way it would be easier for me to get started back east. Does anyone know what the job market is like for any one of the trades listed that I’m learning on the east coast compared to the west? I work hard and still plan to try my hardest out here to get the best I can…but I can’t help but wonder about moving back east after i graduate sometimes..if only just to get started. I have an older buddy at school(i’m 22 btw) who tells me that the stuff we’re learning is more advanced than a lot of digital arts schools on the east, since we’re so well linked with faculty from pixar and others closeby and the curriculums here get revamped so often. Don’t get me wrong, I know theres excellent schools everywhere, but could somebody give me their two cents? I just hear so much about Bay Area and LA competition, it sometimes gets really unsettling.Especially for someone still getting their feet wet..
Thanks in advance,
Josh

Need some advice (english filming project)

Hi guys,

My English filming project is due tomorrow and I still have some editing to do. I also need 2 songs, one should be (not overdone) happy and a sad song.

Here is the script, please advise me a happy and a sad song that would fit each scene.

Play:
Scene in my own house, in the morning, with my family getting ready for breakfast. Mom, dad, my brother and myself, all of the usual stuff about getting out bowls and pouring cereal, or frying eggs, or whatever, and getting ready to go off to school.

Then it shows me playing a homeless child, waking up in a cardboard box in a doorway, under a bridge, whatever, and scrounging through trash cans looking for something to eat. Cut back and forth between the two scenes, and when the happy kid goes off to school, the homeless kid goes off to a streetcorner, where he stands begging with a sign, and everyone’s ignoring him.

Thanks heaps guys

SCAD Production Design

Hello, I’m not sure if this is the right place for this but I was wondering if anyone here has attended SCAD in Savannah for production design or any of their graduate programs?

I am graduating from Drexel in Philadelphia with an accredited bachelors in architecture and i want to attend SCAD in 2012 for MA in production design but I am worried about my GPA. I started undergrad in engineering, and did not do very well so I do not have a very good GPA….it is under a 2.5. With that being said my architecture portfolio is outstanding and I have lots of time to add to it since I wont be applying until December or January.

Thanks

Shake use in 2011

Hi, I just joined today and have been surfing through the various n00b threads here. I’ve been debating between pursuing VFX and composting and have being going back and forth between tutorials and texts for both areas trying to get a better feel for each discipline.

I’ve been putting myself through Maya dynamics tutorials and have an extensive background in photography.I also am a visual artist who has a background in realism.

What I’m wondering though is the mainstream use of Shake now 2011. I’ve looked through about 100 job postings and it hasn’t come up as a requirement in many but many make reference to it on here and other forums. Should I bother to learn it? Who amongst you is using it? With no support since 2005 I’m reluctant to take a more serious look at it unless I still can see it’s in demand, which doesn’t seem to be the case.

VFX – Learning – XSI

Hi everybody. I’m an art student and animator enthusiast. Recently I been seduced by VFXs wich is a new world for me . This month I been learning the basics of digital composition with Fusion, for props modeling and some effects I use Maya mostly. Before begin, I did a lot of research of softwares and methods, one especially interested me: Softimage, specifically the ICE System and of course the impressive LOGOA, ¿what is the current position of this software in the field, worth learning it?

Greetings and excuse my bad english.

Color Expression Node

Hello,

I’m trying to get to grips with the color expression node and i thought i would have a go at trying to create different color palettes by perhaps specifying color ranges and correcting these.

Has anybody got any interesting resources that demonstrate how something like this can be done? My main issue is with my lack of TCL expression knowledge.

Just realized this is a general forum, the software I am using is Nuke!

Thanks
Marmalade

First Nuke Book