Keygen

This is a 4K test project we put together for fun this past week showcasing some editing, color grading, motion graphics, and music. This project was created in 32-bit per channel in Rec709 color space in Adobe After Effects and then compressed to a 10-bit H264 video for upload. Images were cleaned, edited, modified (and some composited) in Photoshop and then brought into After Effects where we graded and animated them. Grading was done with stock plugins and Boris Continuum. All text was done inside of After Effects. Trapcode was used for particle fx. Original music was composed in Digital Performer using Kontakt and Vienna Instruments libraries as well as Waves and FabFilter plugins. Original versions of all images used in this video are in the public domain and were procured from archive.org, wikimedia.org, and flickr.com.

This audio restoration examples uses tools found in iZotope RX7 (and some Waves and FabFilter plug-ins in Digital Performer). We show extreme examples of the restoration step-by-step—as it's more audible, and also to highlight the artifacts created—as well as the final output and a more moderate example. Typically when restoring audio that is this damaged with noise, clicks and crackle, we prefer to do a more mild restoration that leaves some of the damage in a reduced (yet audible) state. Extreme reduction of this type of damage can cause a warbling effect in the audio that is typically undesirable. For mission-critical restorations, we would painstakingly go through the audio and manually draw out certain clicks, which is very time consuming, depending on the duration. Restoring audio with lots of noise will typically reduce the clarity and cause a loss in the mids and high end, so we added some post EQ to brighten it up slightly, while rolling off the very high end. As with all things of this nature, it will come down to what the audio is being used for and what the original condition of the recording is in. There is also some loss in audio quality due to compression. We performed this restoration at 48Khz/32-bit float in WAV format.

This video went through various processes in Adobe After Effects to produce the final result. Initial stabilizing was done with a 2-point motion tracker and manual position keyframing and crop. Then 2 stages of Warp Stabilizer were used. Overall and local deflickering plug-ins were then used followed by a mild denoise. A dozen adjustment layers for color correction were then used with bezier masks, some animated. This could also use additional cleanup to remove dust and scratches if one so desired. For this example, we focused on stabilization, color correction and mild denoising only.

Intro video created in Adobe Illustrator and After Effects for The Sunday Gravy video game channel. Music and sound design done in Digital Performer.

A looping outro video created for Hype Break. This was created as an extended loop so it could be trimmed to size as needed. Created using Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop and Digital Performer.

This video was stabilized in Adobe After Effects using the Warp Stabilizer tool. Due to the wide angle lens used, this produced better results than the standard tracking tools. Though some slight wobble artifacts remain, the camera motion is much smoother. Original footage obtained on pexels.com

Video stabilization using Adobe After Effects motion tracker/stabilizer. Additional transformation animation was necessary to ensure not too much of the video was cut off after the cropping caused by stabilizing. Original footage obtained on pexels.com

We created this intro video (including logo, motion graphics, sound fx and music) for the Hype Break channel on YouTube.

Our new logo intro video for use in our projects. We used Adobe After Effects for the motion graphics, including Boris Continuum and Red Giant Trapcode plugins. Music and sound effects were created using Digital Performer and various virtual instruments and sound modules including a simulator of 8-bit game console chips.