I am a Multimedia & Graphic Design professional offering a full complement of animation and motion graphics. I also do quite a bit of contract animation/graphics work for production facilities who might have the basic graphics capabilites in-house, b... [ more] I am a Multimedia & Graphic Design professional offering a full complement of animation and motion graphics. I also do quite a bit of contract animation/graphics work for production facilities who might have the basic graphics capabilites in-house, but need motion-graphics, animated technical illustrations, and other effects related services.
I am highly skilled in After Effects, Illustrator, Flash, Encore, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop Extended CS6, Combustion, 3D Studio Max 2011, and many other ancillary graphics and television packages. | | | | Member Since: July 24th 2002 | | | | |
Friends:  Jacques Senekal  Todd Kopriva  Walter Soyka | | | | | | From a happy CS6 owner - a questionby Joseph W. Bourke 21 hours agoAs a CS6 Master Collection owner, I find myself weighing in here and getting a fair amount of heat. That said, I really do not like the idea of the CC subscription method, and in a safe place as far a | | | | |
| | | | | Alt drag replace NOT workingby Erik Thurman 18 hours agoI have a pretty hefty animation using .psd layers. I need to replace those layers with the new updated .psd layers that have new colors. Normally I would just alt drag the new layers to replace the ol | | | | |
| | | |  | Exporting out of Premiereby David Prokopchuk 19 hours agoHello, I shot some footage using a Canon 60D and a GoPro. Edited it all in the native h.264 format in Premiere CS6. When I go to output, I don't have the option to change the frame size. It is stuck o | Re: Exporting out of Premiere
by Joseph W. Bourke 18 hours ago
What I generally do is to render off the Premiere project at it's native resolution - 1280 x 720 in your case - then jump to Adobe Media Encoder and output my delivery codecs frame sizes. There are mo
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| | | |  | make this beautifull FX "RGB" ???by alberto elizondo 23 hours agohi im trying to make this type fx , http: www.youtube.com watch v=l6s-mrtN2zA 0:23 and 0:25 ! im try using "twitch".. but no have the same results.. any person know how make this thankss!! | Re: make this beautifull FX "RGB" ???
by Joseph W. Bourke 22 hours ago
Looks to me as if the separate RGB channels were copied, then offset in time. I believe that Twitch has the ability to process the RGB channels, so it's just a matter of learning how: http: www.youtub
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| | | |  | OBJ The Free 3D Models Websiteby Mark Abela 2 days agoHi, I've just started experimenting with using OBJs in AE and Element 3D. I discovered a site called free3dmodels. com When I navigate their site I don't see any preview images of their models (their | Re: OBJ The Free 3D Models Website
by Joseph W. Bourke 2 days ago
It appears to me that the site is no longer active or working, other than as just a shell - there's a banner which offers the site name "Click Here to buy free3Dmodels as your site name". It might be
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| | | | | Merge tile texturesby David Dincer 3 days agoHi guys I have a problem.... I need to join a lot of tile textures (2k size square) into one giant texture layer. It is kind a like a giant satellite map.. any suggestions on how to do it in after eff | Re: Merge tile textures
by Joseph W. Bourke 2 days ago
I don't know of anything within AE which will do it, but if it's actually a satellite map, there are plenty of third party freestanding utilities which will join them based on their GPS coordinates. I
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| | | | | Scaling keyframes issuesby Pascal Díaz 4 days agoHi there!. I used to scale the keyframes of an animation by pressing a key and then dragging with the cursor all the keyframes, increasing or lowering distance between them in order to change the anim | | | | |
| | | | | Audio Crackle Fixby Donald Sanders 4 days agoI have this audio that cam straight out of the soundboard at a concert I recently filmed and when monitoring onset there was no crackle. Now, however, the audio seems almost unusable. I have included | Re: Audio Crackle Fix
by Joseph W. Bourke 4 days ago
It sounds to me as if it's clipping badly - in digital audio, badly clipped audio generally can not be repaired: http: en.wikipedia.org wiki Clipping_(audio) Here's another tutorial from Adobe TV on f
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| | | | | watermark discussionby Adina Zaiontz 5 days agoHi Guys Accidentally deleted the video watermarking thread. But feel free to post if you have any other comments on it. | Re: watermark discussion
by Joseph W. Bourke 4 days ago
Ah, for the days of tape! Sometimes you wonder whether things weren't really simpler and easier when outputting to tape. Back in the late 80's I worked as producer on a show called PCTV Live - we were
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| | | | | How to edit text layer?by Gian Maquiling 4 days agoI'm trying to change a text from an audio spectrum template. I can only change the layer name, but I see no option to change the text itself. | Re: How to edit text layer?
by Joseph W. Bourke 4 days ago
You'll have to ask the template developer, or at least show us the list of layers in the template. Just find all the text layers, and one of them should be the one. Sometimes templates come with text
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| | | | | plexus 1.3by Mac Lanphere 5 days agohi all I've learned plexus recently on 2.0, but am now using 1.3 at work; I am not finding a way to set up multiple rules for lines, as I could in v 2.0 (for instance, duplicate the lines renderer, an | Re: plexus 1.3
by Joseph W. Bourke 4 days ago
Here's the info on it from the Plexus developers: http: aescripts.com plexus Joe Bourke Owner Creative Director Bourke Media www.bourkemedia.com
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| | | | | Running paint effect with an imageby Nathan Quattrini 5 days agoWhat I want to achieve is taking an image and making it look like its made of paint with heavy gravity making the image run like wet paint and melt away revealing a second image behind it. I found lot | | | | |
| | | |  | Audio Enhancementby Ben Waflik 5 days agoHello everyone! I've been working with video for a while but I'm a total newbie with sound. Recently I got a condenser mic for better sound recording. And my question is how to work with raw sound fro | Re: Audio Enhancement
by Joseph W. Bourke 5 days ago
Here's a good short tutorial from a voice-over talent on what he does to enhance his audio: http: www.voiceoverclub.com enhancing-audio As he says, this works for him. You might want to do other thing
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| | | |  | Playing the numbers gameby Jake Anderson 1 week agoI've been reading through the cow the first person to give out the number loses so to speak, that it's best to find out their budget. That tossing them a rate will scare away the client. I've been get+1 | Re: Playing the numbers game
by Joseph W. Bourke 5 days ago
I boils right down to the old adage, good, fast, or cheap, pick any two. Funny...I had always tossed that one out as just a good way to think about costing out projects, with no idea that there was a
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| | | |  | Is this what Avid used to be like?by Greg Andonian 1 week agoMy NLE experience doesn't go back far enough for any first-hand knowledge of it, but over the years I've read a lot of online horror stories about the greedy, arrogant behemoth that Avid used to be be+1 | | | | |
| | | | | Breaking the sound barrierby Shaheer Naqvi 7 days agoHey community! I'm trying to mimic this effect (shown in the video attached). I'd like to get create the effect of the clouds wind attached to the person's feet as he's flying and breaking the sound b | Re: Breaking the sound barrier
by Joseph W. Bourke 6 days ago
Looks to me as if it's a conical 3D shape with a cloud steam texture in it. It appears to me to have been done in a 3D package, and it's probably just a textured cone attached to the CG superman. Migh
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| | | |  | The analogies.by Jeremy Garchow 6 days agoThere are more car analogies running around about the CC. We can't help ourselves. Franz must be pissed. :) Pissed, in the US, has different meanings than other places of the world; kind of like, fann+1 | Re: The analogies.
by Joseph W. Bourke 6 days ago
Ah...now imaging if everyone had a flying car. It's just not like they used to show it in Popular Science magazine... Joe Bourke Owner Creative Director Bourke Media www.bourkemedia.com
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| | | |  | Working with photoshopby christy mahon 7 days agoI'm new here and new to the Adobe Suite too, so feeling my way I might not be using the right language or using the best methods. I want to remove a table from the background in a PP film clip. My pla | | | | |
| | | | | 3D tiles from a single image or comp?by Mac Lanphere 1 week agoHello, I am looking for a script or plugin that would create 3D tiles in a grid, from a single image or comp. It doesn't necessarily need to animate the tiles in any way--though that could be cool too | | | | |
| | | |  | Media Encoder-Not Working-Weird Issueby Greg Jones 7 days agoHaving a really strange issue. I cannot seem to import anything into Media Encoder. If I export out of Premiere, or even import into Media Encoder nothing happens. Anyone else experience this Greg Jon | | | | |
| | | | | Copyrighted videoby Aaron Sheffield 1 week agoProblem I am sure many of you have had... I have a client who is very persistent in wanting to use copyrighted material, i.e. old movie clips and or music, in a video production that will be shown com | Re: Copyrighted video
by Joseph W. Bourke 7 days ago
Here's a bit more info - from an article in the NY Times: http: www.nytimes.com 2006 05 28 movies 28dutk.html _r=0 Joe Bourke Owner Creative Director Bourke Media www.bourkemedia.com
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| | | | | DSLR Audioby Duaine Roberts 1 week agoHello. Im new to this site but I have a Zoom H1 with a windshield, rycote shockmount, rode boom pole and an opteka hand grip. I wanted to get decent audio for my short film but the boom pole picks up | Re: DSLR Audio
by Joseph W. Bourke 1 week ago
Do you have an isolation shock mount on the boom pole If not, get one. They go for anywhere from 30 dollars to hundreds. That's most likely your problem. Joe Bourke Owner Creative Director Bourke Medi
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| | | |  | Advice on Shooting Pro Bonoby Sareesh Sudhakaran 2 weeks agoFrom time to time I get a few requests to do free work for charity. I've decided to take a few on in my free time, and am working out the legal aspects with my lawyer. I've worked for free before, but | Re: Advice on Shooting Pro Bono
by Joseph W. Bourke 1 week ago
Bear in mind that it was ever thus, with paying or pro-bono clients. Some of them are aware of the work you put in, and try to be fair, and some of them will make change after change with no thought t
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| | | | | Transcoding is sending me mental.by Mike Smith 2 weeks agoI'll try to keep this calm so it makes sense, but I'm in a shouting and swearing mood right now. In short- Just bought a Nikon D5200. Video footage is stunning. The only minor complaint from studying | Re: Transcoding is sending me mental.
by Joseph W. Bourke 2 weeks ago
Steve is on the right track - I run into this with video provided by a client who sometimes forgets, and outputs footage from FCP7 in a codec which has to be purchased to work on the PC side (always a
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| | | | | Stuck at modeling a slide - 3ds maxby Bipin Gaur 2 weeks agoI am trying to model a slide in 3ds max. It starts as a tube, about 10% of the distance the tube merges into a slide, sort of like a water slide, where you go through a tunnel and then emerge out in a | | | | |
| | | |  | Removing LOUD background noiseby Rachel Radschlag 2 weeks agoI'm new to Adobe Audition and am having some trouble reducing the LOUD background noise in my audio file. We were filming in a warehouse where background noise was unavoidable, so there is banging and | Re: Removing LOUD background noise
by Joseph W. Bourke 2 weeks ago
You've got a fast learn ahead of you, for something which is best done with some experience. You're going to find that removing the Noise Floor will get you part of the way, removing the ambient noise
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| | | |  | Thoughts from an Apple Fanboiby John Davidson 2 weeks agoThere are so many competing philosophies going on regarding the cloud issue popping up. As a relative early adopter of FCPX, Apple fanboi, etc., maybe some of you will consider these thoughts interest+2 | | | | |
| | | | | Adobe AIRby Yasmine Younis 4 weeks agoKindly someone tell me, what is Adobe Air used for and why should I have it installed | Re: Adobe AIR
by Joseph W. Bourke 2 weeks ago
Here's how Adobe defines it: Adobe AIR is a cross-operating-system runtime that lets developers combine HTML, JavaScript, Adobe Flash and Flex technologies, and ActionScript to deploy rich Internet ap
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| | | | | A Glen of Quietude in a COW gone madby Joseph W. Bourke 2 weeks agoHi Walter - Just thought I'd stop by and relax a bit. I notice you've also been wading through the bull droppings on the other forums...there's some mighty wacky stuff going on, not much of it based i | | | | |
| | | |  | Tricky loop effectby Nida Ekin 3 weeks agoHello, I'm trying to make loopable backgrounds with using form and MIR effects. I've used fractal noise as amplitude layer for cycle evolution. But I want to use scroll effect when making a tunnel usi | Re: Tricky loop effect
by Joseph W. Bourke 2 weeks ago
This effect is very commonly used any time there is isn't the possibility of a seamless loop. A common use is in broadcast TV weather backgrounds where footage of clouds is used (and clouds do not loo
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| | | | | Walk cyclesby Joey Sperber 2 weeks agoHello I am trying to animate a character walking with a walk cycle. But, the character is holding a laser that I put in his hands. How do I set it up so that when the character walks, the gun goes wit | Re: Walk cycles
by Joseph W. Bourke 2 weeks ago
You need to learn about Link Constraint: http: docs.autodesk.com 3DSMAX 15 ENU 3ds-Max-Help index.html url=files GUID-9A7DA1AC-4DC2-4225-82E8-37F7FF2BAA14.htm,topicNumber=d30e228443 Joe Bourke Owner C
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| | | | | Keyframing Aliensby Joey Sperber 3 weeks agoHello, I am a VFX artist and am starting to work on an alien invasion video. For animating the alien I plan on filming reference video of a person, falling, running, etc. I would animate the alien bas | Re: Keyframing Aliens
by Joseph W. Bourke 3 weeks ago
I seriously doubt that you're going to find anything that people spent days working on for free, if that's what you mean. This is a process you have to learn from the ground up. There are loads of fre
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| | | | | Changing pitch with keyframes?by David Horler 3 weeks agoHello I have a steady, constant motor engine sound effect. Is there a way to change the pitch and speed over time via keyframes This way I can match it to the speed of the vehicle in a video, without | Re: Changing pitch with keyframes?
by Joseph W. Bourke 3 weeks ago
David - If you're looking at the timeline on a stereo clip, there will be yellow line in the middle, generally showing the volume. When you go into the Pitch Change feature, the yellow line will be in
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| | | | | Advanced Noise Reduction in Audition?by Lindsay Carter 3 weeks agoPlease read all of the information I have given before answering this question. I've posted this question before and I feel like no one reads the information and they tell me something I already know | | | | |
| | | | | Demo Reel Guidlines Copyrightsby Ian Zainea 4 weeks agoHello all, I am currently working for a video production company. We produce a TV show and several commercials. I was under the impression I could use clips from the projects I was heavily involved in | Re: Demo Reel Guidlines Copyrights
by Joseph W. Bourke 4 weeks ago
I think that I would tend to agree with both Bill and Mike. If you were involved in a large part of the project, it should be your right to have it on your demo reel, but it gets tricky very fast. If
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