The Matte (Part One)
The Matte (Part 1)
by Douglas Toltzman
What is a matte? We talk about mattes all the time in compositing and when adding effects to our video clips. Although mattes have different names, depending on how they are created and used, they always perform the same purpose. Matte is also synonymous with “mask” and is often used in place of an alpha channel. The matte gives us a way to isolate parts of an image, or video frame. If you are familiar with Photoshop, you may have used layer masks. Those are also mattes. A matte is usually a black and white image, but it can be generated by a filter or plug-in, in which case you may only see the affect of the matte. Read more
How Balanced Audio Gives Better Sound
June 17, 2008 by clive · 4 Comments
There’s nothing worse than working like a dog to get your film made and then discovering in post, that your entire audio track has picked up an electronic hum, caused by the cables being too close to a power line. It’s a mistake most of us make at least one… and one always leads to either substandard, processed audio… or days of embarrassing ADR.
Well, now Doug Tolzman, our Pixel Guy, shows you how using balanced audio can remove the risks of that happening. Read more
