MFA in New Media; Claremont Graduate University
Profession: Digital photography (model and product shoots) and Post-production video w/a heavy influence in PS composites. And all for a dental lab. Go figure.
Video Installation and Digital Photo artist on the side. | | | | Member Since: December 10th 2004 | | | | |
| | | | | | Pay Rateby Amish Ed 6 years agoJust wondering what the going rate is for a C4D animator w moderate skill (I'm in CA,USA BTW). In particular I'm wondering about full-time, though freelance rates would be great too. ThanksAmish Ed "S | | | | |
| | | | | Net Render/Mograph issueby Amish Ed 6 years agoHey folks, I hope you can help me. I have a project (ver. 9.6) with a Cloner object (18 clones of a beveled block) using Net Render w 15 Mac's running 10.4.1. The problem is that some of the machines | | | | |
| | | |  | Banding on gradients from Cinema to FCPby sheepchaser 6 years agoHi All. Has anyone had any problems rendering gradients within cinema 4D with camera moves, which cause bad banding that is only visible upon placement into FCP through a broadcast monitor. I have an | Re: Banding on gradients from Cinema to FCP
by Amish Ed 6 years ago
While I know nothing compared to Adam...Why not apply the noise to only to the gradient That way your whole image doesn't get the grain.Amish Ed "Shoot 'em all and let the Editor sort 'em out!" Dual 2
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| | | |  | Sony Alpha A100by Steve Edwards 6 years agoDoes anyone have any opinions on this camera I have been checking it out, but I am getting mixed reviews from camera shops. One big shop locally told me it is their hottest camera, and that he would p | Re: Sony Alpha A100
by Amish Ed 6 years ago
Did you check DPreview they should have a full review and they are usually spot on. Myself, I'm a Nikon guy. excellent build quaity, just about any Nikkor lens produced will work, their cheap lenses a
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| | | |  | To much Blue in my Picturesby Ralph Hajik 6 years agoHello all you Experts, I'm shooting with a Canon D20, 28-135mm lens with a UV Protector and a 550EX Speedflash. I'm getting blue in my pictures from shooting inside for a Bridal Shower. The room is su | Re: To much Blue in my Pictures
by Amish Ed 6 years ago
What is your white balance set to You need to make sure it matches the source. If sunlight is the dominant light source then shooting in daylight mode should be fine. Also, try auto WB sometimes it wi
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| | | | | File Transferby Duane Fulk 6 years agoRecently I tried to send a photo to a contest and received a message the "the server would not accept MIME files". Since a MIME extension is something the e-mail program adds to reduce file size when | Re: File Transfer
by Amish Ed 6 years ago
Are doing a "Save As" or "Save for Web". I think it's the "Save for Web" option that will do what you want.Amish Ed "Shoot 'em all and let the Editor sort 'em out!" Dual 2Ghz G5, 4GB, running 10.3.6 w
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| | | |  | Washington Square Photoby Clay Walker 6 years agoI don't know if this will be of interest but I thought I would post it. I just uncovered the following images a few days ago. They have been in a box in my attic for sometime... Photos The top photo I | Re: Washington Square Photo
by Amish Ed 6 years ago
Awesome story and after so many years.Amish Ed "Shoot 'em all and let the Editor sort 'em out!" Dual 2Ghz G5, 4GB, running 10.3.6 w QT 6.5.2, Black Majic DeckLink, AE Pro 6.5 w BCC and Invig. 3D, PS C
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| | | |  | needing resourcesby Ditha Angraini 6 years agoHello... First of all, I am so sorry if I'm in the wrong forum for this, but I don't know where else to post this. I need stock photos of leather-bound books of famous writers like Mark Twain, Shakesp | Re: needing resources
by Amish Ed 6 years ago
Check iStockphoto.com and istockpro.com.Amish Ed "Shoot 'em all and let the Editor sort 'em out!" Dual 2Ghz G5, 4GB, running 10.3.6 w QT 6.5.2, Black Majic DeckLink, AE Pro 6.5 w BCC and Invig. 3D, PS
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| | | | | Travel Picturesby Ralph Hajik 6 years agoHello Experts, My wife and I do a lot of traveling around the world. We take thousands of pictures along with video. How do I go about selling my pictures video to travel magazines, etc I'm sure other | Re: Travel Pictures
by Amish Ed 6 years ago
Check out iStock, they have a big collection of stock stuff. You submit your pictures and if they except them, you get paid for each download. They also have a pro site, but you have have a good portf
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| | | | | Aquiring Depth of Field on Digital Cameraby Steve Edwards 6 years agoI tried this affect the other day with my Olympus C5050 Zoom camera. I used a tree stump in the foreground. I focused on the tree stump, clicked the shutter button half way, to foucs on that point, th | Re: Aquiring Depth of Field on Digital Camera
by Amish Ed 6 years ago
Once you've focused and have the shutter depressed halfway, don't move your body (step back), just reframe your composition and shoot. Truely shallow DOF is hard to get, for the reasons that herminioc
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| | | | | issues saving projectby Amish Ed 6 years agoI'm trying to save a project to transfer it to our render server. Problem is C4D either doesn't save all my materials. Or if it does, was transfered over to be rendered then the server can't find cert | Re: issues saving project
by Amish Ed 6 years ago
Thanks to a co-worker's help we found the problem. The videos I was using for some of my materials were way too big. I recompressed them to about 300mb each (they were 2Gb) and everything is peachy. T
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| | | | | White frames in materialby Amish Ed 6 years agoHi all, I'm having what seems to be a wierd issue. I have 8 objects in a scene, each has a flat area which acts as a video screen. The videos look and play smoothly, but I'm getting white frames where | Re: White frames in material
by Mylenium 6 years ago
Have you set the properties of the animated textures properly Check that. Just for verification use C4D's "Calculate" function to see if it interprets the lengths of your clips correctly. Mylenium Pou
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| | | | | Training for Cinema 4Dby Don Hertz 7 years agoWe are in need of someone that can come to the St. Louis area and train a client on Cinema 4D. If anyone knows of somebody that can, please let me know. Thanks. | Re: Training for Cinema 4D
by Amish Ed 7 years ago
Elite Imaging, Frank does a great job. As fars as I know he's still teaching and will still travel to do it.Amish Ed "Shoot 'em all and let the Editor sort 'em out!" Dual 2Ghz G5, 4GB, running 10.3.6
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| | | | | Confused about resolutionby Mark Carrara 7 years agoI thouht I understood this resolution thing. But now I am confused. I have a Nikon D70. When I take Large JPG images they are 3008 x 2000 pixels which rounds to 6 megapixels. Now when I take a RAW (NE | Re: Confused about resolution
by Amish Ed 7 years ago
Where when are you getting the file info for the NEF After processing it in PS If so, check your output size in the Raw converter. You can set the output to be larger or smaller than the NEF.Amish Ed
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| | | | | Cinema 4D trainingby jorgesilva 7 years agoHello! I'm in search of a training center or certified instructor for Cinema 4D, preferably in Indiana or the surrounding States (OH, IL, MI). Can anyone help Thank you. | Re: Cinema 4D training
by Amish Ed 7 years ago
Not many instructors in the US, but Frank Corts in Mission Viejo CA is a great one. The UK seems to have tons though. http: www.elite-imaging.com Amish Ed "Shoot 'em all and let the Editor sort 'em ou
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| | | | | Sketch and Toon?by Amish Ed 7 years agoI've got an object in which I've used Sketch and Toon to create a wireframe. But, it doesn't show up in any reflections or cast any shadows. Am I'm missing something here, or is that just the wasy S&T | Re: Sketch and Toon?
by Amish Ed 7 years ago
Thanks Mylenium, pretty much what I figured. Any recomendations Atom Array won't work because I want a very regular, even mesh. Amish Ed "Shoot 'em all and let the Editor sort 'em out!" Dual 2Ghz G5,
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| | | |  | Work Flow using still photos as videoby Shadow24 7 years agoWe shot 9000 photos using the Canon 1D Mach II (8.2MP RAW files) We are gonna edit a short film using Photoshop CS2, After Effects 7 Pro, and Avid Xpress DV for mac and or Premiere Pro 2 Out of the ph | Re: Work Flow using still photos as video
by Amish Ed 7 years ago
Yes, you can batch the whole PS CS2 part. You'll need to create an action to take tell PS what to do with each file, and then create a droplet using that action. Look up "droplet" and "actions" in PS
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| | | | | Importing weird sized photos...by Zack Florance 7 years agoHello fellow AE Users, I want to import about 30 JPEG's of different resolutions into a composition. Does anyone know how I can "batch import" them all to be 720 X 480 and all be 7 Seconds long withou | Re: Importing weird sized photos...
by Amish Ed 7 years ago
Similiar to Mylenium's solution; here's how I'd do it...make a 7sec. comp at 720x480. Dump all your layers into it, select them all and hit "comand option F" (this will resize all the images to 720x48
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| | | | | Importing weird sized photos...by Zack Florance 7 years agoHello fellow AE Users, I want to import about 30 JPEG's of different resolutions into a composition. Does anyone know how I can "batch import" them all to be 720 X 480 and all be 7 Seconds long withou | Re: Importing weird sized photos...
by Amish Ed 7 years ago
Similiar to Mylenium's solution; here's how I'd do it...make a 7sec. comp at 720x480. Dump all your layers into it, select them all and hit "comand option F" (this will resize all the images to 720x48
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| | | | | Essential plugins?by sostroud 7 years agoIt is the new year and my boss is open to spending a bit of money. I was wondering what plug in packages you consider essential Currently I have Trapcode Shine and 3d Stroke plus a couple of freebies | Re: Essential plugins?
by Amish Ed 7 years ago
These are the ones I use the most...Zaxwerk's 3D Invigorator; RE:Vision's Shade Shape; Knoll Light Factory; Boris Continuum Complete; Digital Anarchy's Gridlines, Gridsquares, and Hairlines; and Buena
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| | | | | CS 2 RAW?by Amish Ed 7 years agoI shoot a lot of teeth on black backgrounds, and models on white backdrops and both types of images really throw off the Auto finction. It's really anoying to have to always pull down the menu and tur | Re: CS 2 RAW?
by Amish Ed 7 years ago
Gotcha Richard. I do make use of that feature which is very helpful.Amish Ed Dual 2Ghz G5, 4GB, running 10.3.6 w QT 6.5.2, Black Majic DeckLink, AE Pro 6.5 w BCC and Invig. 3D, PS CS2, AI CS2, FCP HD
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| | | | | Pen Mouseby JustAnotherGuy 7 years agoHey hey, I'm curious about purchasing a pen-mouse alternative to assist with drawing within Photoshop. Is this a wise purchase If so, how can I tell which is the best for my budget I've seen packages | Re: Pen Mouse
by Amish Ed 7 years ago
Wacom, Intuos is the way to go. They have the best sensitivity range and great Customer Support. As you get used to it you'll really begin to notice that even the Intuos isn't sensitive enough. Partic
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| | | | | Smooth Gradients?by person6682 7 years agoI'm working on a high def project but that info may even be unneccesary because this issue remains true for me even in an SD enviorment. For some reason I cannot get beautifully smooth gradients in AE | Re: Smooth Gradients?
by Amish Ed 7 years ago
I create mine in PS and add about 2% noise. Gets rid of the banding for me. Amish Ed Dual 2Ghz G5, 4GB, running 10.3.6 w QT 6.5.2, Black Majic DeckLink, AE Pro 6.5 w BCC and Invig. 3D, PS CS2, AI CS2,
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| | | | | REALLY REALLY slow render?by Amish Ed 8 years agoI don't think this is normal and I'm wondering what I need to change. I have a project that's been rendering for 8 days now and it's only 13sec. into a 19sec. comp. I set up a render farm using AE 6.5 | Re: REALLY REALLY slow render?
by Amish Ed 8 years ago
Sorry its taken so long to post the final results. Matt, thanks for looking over my project and giving me feedback. Turning off the cast shadows on most of my lights, and bringing down the shadow diff
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| | | | | Pixel based to Vector Based Transferby korben 8 years agoI created a logo in Photoshop CS2 and it is pixel based at 1024x768 for fun--and well I actually like it a lot. Now I want to have a vector copy as well (i.e.) illustrator file. I have Illustrator CS2 | Re: Pixel based to Vector Based Transfer
by Amish Ed 8 years ago
Your logo is simple, just re-draw it with the pen tool. Shouldn't take more than 15min. to make the paths. Like Seth said it's the best way.Amish Ed Dual 2Ghz G5, 4GB, running 10.3.6 w QT 6.5.2, Black
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| | | |  | Error Message "Image Buffer"by Terry Hahin 8 years agoHello. I worked myself into a bad corner by setting up an AE project all based around a 10,000 x 6,500 pixel photoshop file. It has worked slow but decent enough while working. But now that I want to | Re: Error Message "Image Buffer"
by Amish Ed 8 years ago
Terry I almost posted the same question yesterday. For me it turned out that when our sever crashed I lost some of my prefs (our user account live on the server). Turned out my disk cache was no longe
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| | | | | Multiple instances?by Amish Ed 8 years agoI'm looking at having multiple instances of A.E. on my machine so that I can render and work at the same time. Can I just copy my current version, or do I need to actually install the second version A | Re: Multiple instances?
by Amish Ed 8 years ago
Thanks Steve, I'll try that out. When our network is finally fixed and stable I'll use my G4 to do my rendering, but this will help a lot in the mean time. Thanks again for you time. Amish Ed Dual 2Gh
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