I specialize in design and technology for motion graphics, widescreen/multi-screen display, and high-impact presentations.
My studio, Keen Live, is built around the idea that design and engineering go hand-in-hand. We are proud to help our clients... [ more] I specialize in design and technology for motion graphics, widescreen/multi-screen display, and high-impact presentations.
My studio, Keen Live, is built around the idea that design and engineering go hand-in-hand. We are proud to help our clients convey their messaging with clear visuals, lots of pixels, and the coolest display technologies.
Beyond designing and producing graphics and multimedia, we also consult on production workflow and widescreen/multi-screen playback and display.
I married my high school sweetheart, and I spend most of my free time chasing my pre-school son around the yard. | | | | Member Since: March 29th 2008 | | | | |
Friends:  Aindreas Gallagher  Alan Okey  Allen joaquin  Andrea Di Berardino  Andrew Richards  Andy Mees  bart stevens  Bob Zelin  Brian Charles  Brooks Tomlinson  Charles Leisenring  Chris Harlan  Chris Wright  Cody Walters  Cory Petkovsek  Craig Seeman  Craig Wall  Darby Edelen  Dave Johnson  Dave LaRonde  David Battistella  David Johnson  David Lawrence  David Roth Weiss  Dennis Radeke  Franz Bieberkopf  Gerardo Flores  Ike Hanson  Jeremy Garchow jim bachalo  Joey Foreman  john lijo  Joseph W. Bourke  Marshall Colley Michael Sisko  Michael Szalapski  niccolo ungaro  Oliver Peters  Oscar Rosales Zarur Pat Ford  Rafael Amador  Ryan Holmes  Scott Sheriff Sebastian Rivera  Shane Ross  Shawn Miller  Sohrab Sandhu  Todd Kopriva  Tom Daigon  Tom Sefton  Tudor "Ted" Jelescu  Vishesh Arora  William Chilcoat | | | | |  | Counter increases with every markerby Chris Tarroza 7 hours agoI have a project where I am essentially counting the number of times a word is said in a video clip. I will have an animating number on screen that increases per mention of that word. Seeing as how th | Re: Counter increases with every marker
by Walter Soyka 6 hours ago
Check out my scoreboard expression link . Walter Soyka Principal & Designer at Keen Live Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting RenderBreak Blog - What I'm thinking wh
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| | | | | Alt drag replace NOT workingby Erik Thurman 1 day 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 | Re: Alt drag replace NOT working
by Walter Soyka 8 hours ago
Erik Thurman "Emptying the disk cache and purging the memory yielded no new results. If I double click on a layer, opening it in the viewer I can see the changes but when viewing the composition in t
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| | | |  | Humble Monster, MacPro Upgradeby Ervin Tia 15 hours agoHello! I'm just wondering what's the most logical way of improving my current machine. We originally bought it for AvidMediaComposer but recently, we are including more AfterEffects tasks. We realize | Re: Humble Monster, MacPro Upgrade
by Walter Soyka 10 hours ago
More RAM. This will allow you to exploit multiprocessing, a feature which basically launches multiple copies of the After Effects renderer in order to render multiple frames at the same time on separa
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| | | | | Amount of Ram vs speed of RAM?by Don Cobble 2 days agoI have 2 types of RAM that will run in my system. Need to know what will be MOST beneficial for VEGAS Plz 16 GB DDR3 PC3-10666 8 GB DDR3 PC3-12800 My Understanding is the 12800 is faster Speed but I h | Re: Amount of Ram vs speed of RAM?
by Walter Soyka 1 day ago
Alex Gerulaitis "You gotta patent the hell out of that phrase, Walter." Now that you mention it, I could see it on a t-shirt. Walter Soyka Principal & Designer at Keen Live Motion Graphics, Widescree
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| | | |  | AE makes computer TOO slow and crashesby Alex Rod 2 days agoHi All - I am doing some warp stabilization on my macbook pro, or at least trying, but when I apply the warp stabilization filter and it starts analyzing, my computer pretty much becomes unusable and | | | | |
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| | | |  | The COW has messed itselfby John Kaley 1 week agoThe Creative Cow has become quite a mess. The "Debate" forums need to be unified under a single heading: "A Software Debate." The "A" has to be there to keep the listing in the "Adobe" "Apple" "Avid" | Re: The COW has messed itself
by Jeremy Garchow 1 week ago
Tim Wilson " he's been in the Premiere forum ONCE in the past year. Creative COW has been around for 12 years -- he's never posted in the After Effects forum a single time. " Apparently, you forgot a
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| | | | | Adobe Creative Cloud Terms of Useby David Lawrence 2 weeks agoLloyd Chambers is pro photographer, Mac developer, and expert in high-end Macintosh performance optimization. I've been reading his blog for years and have learned much from his online guides. I was c+3 | Re: The Creative Cloud Divide
by Walter Soyka 2 weeks ago
David Lawrence "No doubt they're developing their next generation of connected tools. I can't wait to see what they come up with. But that's in the future, we're talking about now." At some point, yo
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| | | |  | quicktime color issue?by cody campbell 2 weeks agoI built this animation in c4d and then did some work in after effects and then rendered my clip out. In after effects my clip looks like it should and when played with windows media player it looks fi | Re: quicktime color issue?
by Angelo Lorenzo 2 weeks ago
This is not the Quicktime Gamma Bug. The gamma bug manifests itself as an actual change in brighness that you would see against the original in, say, After Effects once you re-imported the render. Thi
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| | | | | Creative Cloud Q&Aby Steve Forde 2 weeks agoGoing to put myself out there and answer questions as best I can here on the COW. No question is a bad one as my intent is to frankly get rid of some of the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) that I ha | Re: Creative Cloud Q&A
by Steve Forde 2 weeks ago
Dave L - if you're interested in a 'discussion' I'm in. I'm happy to engage in a dialogue about any component and give my point of view. What I will not do is subscribe to idle speculation, fear monge
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| | | | | ShapeShifter AE - Gearsby Tudor "Ted" Jelescu 2 weeks agoShapeShifter AE V2 - really fast 3d in AE - I wanted to do a test that shows the complexity that can be achieved with SSAE. There's only one instance of the plugin used. http: www.youtube.com watch v=+2 | | | | |
| | | | | Peasants at the Gatesby Franz Bieberkopf 2 weeks agoApropos of current events, selections from Walter Murch, Oct 2011 (though one could speculate he had in mind landowners rather than peasants): part 2 I think what Final Cut has shown, forcibly, is tha+3 | Re: Peasants at the Gates
by Carsten Orlt 2 weeks ago
As much as I admire Mr Murch work as an editor I totally disagree :-) What's the difference to the old days when a letter to Moviola or Steenbeck had the same effect as a letter to Apple, Adobe or Avi
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| | | |  | Premiere Pro CC it is then?by Steve Connor 2 weeks agoBut is it all CC only Steve Connor There's nothing we can't argue about on the FCPX COW Forum | Re: Premiere Pro CC it is then?
by Bill Davis 2 weeks ago
Look, Adobe is a fine company that makes excellent products. If they've seen some internal data - or simply have a business vision that this course may be the only way they can attain their unique bus
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| | | | | Buying a new PC for Premiere CS6by Anhtu Vu 1 month agoI need to buy a new PC for Premiere and AE CS6. I will eventually use it for color grading too. Anyways, any suggestions as to custom built or go with the Z420 Z620 or Z820 I've used a Z800 for two ye | Re: Buying a new PC for Premiere CS6
by Walter Soyka 1 month ago
Anhtu Vu "I always thought AE is more picky about ram than processor." RAM and CPU usage go together with After Effects. Ae's multiprocessing feature works by launching a separate instance of the Ae
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| | | |  | Dynamic Link. Uh-huh!by Paul Neumann 1 month agoWake up this morning to an email from a client saying they love the cut, but could I just change this one little super So I open Photoshop, make the change, open Media Encoder and render the sequence | Re: Dynamic Link. Uh-huh!
by Walter Soyka 1 month ago
Alex Udell "one I use sometimes is to "create & set proxy" for dynamic link in AE, but do it at full res. that way I can manage where the files land, and there's no extra clutter in PPro.... i was so
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| | | | | Fair use laws when using commercial video?by stan welks 1 month agoCan someone please provide some clarity regarding Fair Use laws with regard to ripping short clips from DVDs to be used in documentaries, movie reviews on blogs, etc. 1. Is there a length that you sho | | | | |
| | | | | Carrying Case/Hard Casesby Nathan Rice 1 month agoHello All! I am planning a trip overseas and have been asked to cover some events while in the Philippines. I have never taken my gear with me before and am wondering if anybody know of any good cases | Re: Carrying Case/Hard Cases
by Walter Soyka 1 month ago
I have a few Pelican cases -- very rugged. The upside is that they will protect your gear; the downside is that they let everyone else know there's gear worth protecting inside. If traveling abroad, m
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| | | | | Article: Larger Than 4K: Larger Than Life!by Walter Soyka 4 months ago Windows Hardware & Software Larger Than 4K: Larger Than Life! Keen Live's Walter Soyka regularly works with files twice the size of EPIC's 4.5K - and how about a 120-foot video wall at 14,700 x 1200 | Re: Larger Than 4K: Larger Than Life!
by Tom Daigon 4 months ago
Boy I sure can identity with your experience, Walter. As you know Im loving my HP Z820. It really is a quantum leap in speed from my 2008 Mac Pro, which is now relegated to email and internet use. CS6
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| | | |  | Transferring big filesby Todd Terry 4 months agoThought I'd put out a shout to see how you guys transfer big files to clients when needed We usually just put them on our own server here in our building and give clients a link for download, which wo | Re: Transferring big files
by Walter Soyka 4 months ago
Stephen Smith "Last time (a long time ago) I used drop box you had to install their software to download file which I think stinks. I hope that has changed. I like YouSendIt. No adds and all the clie
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| | | |  | Article: A Cautionary Tale for the FCP Switcherby walter biscardi 12 months ago Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate A Cautionary Tale for the FCP Switcher Herein lies the cautionary tale of a long-time user of Final Cut Pro, penned for those who would consider switching NLEs. Are ther+4 | @Brian Cooney
by Walter Soyka 4 months ago
RAID 10 (really RAID 1+0, or a stripe of mirrors) is not necessarily safer than RAID 5 in a 4-disk configuration. A 4-disk RAID 10 is two sets of mirrored drives, striped together. A 4-disk RAID 10 ca
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| | | |  | Article: The Hobbit & The Dawn of High Frame Rate Cinemaby Debra Kaufman 5 months ago Cinematography The Hobbit & The Dawn of High Frame Rate Cinema The technology wizards of the film TV industry have been talking about High Frame Rate cinema for a long time; indeed, Douglas Trumbull' | Re: @Bryant Joseph
by Walter Soyka 4 months ago
Rob Brandreth-Gibbs "We two-eyed creatures receive two slightly different D images that the brain processes into a 3D image. Since a 3D film or video presents two very similar 2D images with similar
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| | | | | File: Advanced Odometerby Walter Soyka 4 months agoaep file Advanced Odometer AEP project. This is an advanced variation on the standard time-remapping odometer trick, which drives a set of animated transitioning digits from a single control. This ver | | | | |
| | | | | Todd Kopriva 5 months ago
Walter, do you know how we can flag a user for bad behavior on this forum? One user (and you know who I mean) has been posting a lot of noise lately. | | | | |
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