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Viddsee - The Merdeka Stories (The Factory Girl):
In the 1970s, youths joined the workforce to help provide for the family.
This story is about a young girl, named Bee Hwa, in the 1970s, is asked to leave school early to work in a factory in order to help provide for her family.
Her school results were good and there was a good chance to get a scholarship. Just when she thinks her dreams are dashed, new opportunities present themselves.
She worked hard at the factory and was promoted to be a supervisor.

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https://vimeo.com/channels/afightingchance/163445850

minrong
a very nicely filmed documentary. like the vivid colours, cross-cultural depiction of the struggles involved in competing in the Olympics. the interviews felt honest and authentic. was very moved by the athletes who spoke of the sacrifices, pain and hard work they have to put in for a chance in competing in the Olympics.

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10 Golden Rules To Improve Your Typography Skills

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10 Golden Rules To Improve Your Typography Skills

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On screen graphics have recently gone back to be neat a tidy, looking 2 Dimensional. Not because we are moving backwards but with social media platforms, 3D graphics tend to be squashed, pixelated, causing the details and movements to be lost.

Looking through the tutorial, it helps me improved on usage of fonts when I speak with graphic artists and video editors about specific fonts to use, how to use and when to use. It helps me as a producer when communicating with fellow colleagues for text supers, lower 3rds or even chunky texts on screen in banners, UI & UX designs or just graphics. - WT

https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/typography-tutorial/

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Joseline

https://www.lynda.com/Business-Skills-tutorials/Learning-from-Failure

The presenter is very long-winded. He can't seem to be able to distill the issue at hand into its very essence. 30 seconds into the Introductory Video, we have the on screen statement, "Failure is one part of a learning process that increases future success". As far as I'm concerned, he only need to expound on that singular point, kept things simple and stopped there. Instead, he went on and on, repeating some stuff and restating others. I nearly fell asleep . 😴Sigh!

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Jiahao
Great script, good direction, overall well crafted short film. Love the way it builds up the suspense for its audience.

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Jiahao
Inspiring documentary.
Love the way they transit music to music. Appreciate that they took the time to shoot lots of beautiful cutaways in between to keep it interesting to watch. Then again video duration could had been halved without compromising its message.

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The Beautiful Lies of Sound Design | Tasos Fratzolas | TEDxAthens

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The Beautiful Lies of Sound Design | Tasos Fratzolas | TEDxAthens

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Jiahao

Interesting.
It does encourage us to think out of the box during sound post, if not all videos feel similar using the same stock sfx. We may even come to a point that we need to create our own, even if its just combining our existing sfx together.

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Jiahao

Great insights.
Does give us more ideas to enhance what might be just another still shot to something that hints a greater underlying plot.

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lye lin

A young man has to leave his parental home and stand on his own, When he sets out to the world, but somehow it is

impossible for him to leave. He kept coming back because his mother was there, once shes gone, home is no longer home. The most emotional scene was when father looks from the window at the end…

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https://vimeo.com/blog/post/staff-pick-premiere-two-dollars/

Good reminder that well thought out dialogue in scripting is the essence of films.

Love the realism and relatability of the characters and how the pacing of the group conversation demonstrated the flips in group dynamics as they brought us through possible team criticism - news of promotion - group winning the lottery. The power dynamics were conveyed effectively due to the pacing and tone of the cast.

Engaging scripting that brought me through a constant question-and-answer journey throughout the whole short film.

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Poh Khim

The story is simple but at the same time it's heart touching.

A mom would always be there to protect and pamper you, but a dad wants his son to be strong and to be standing on his own, so he would loves you secretly and wouldn’t show it, in order for you to become strong and fight your own problems.

We'll never realize our parents’ value until they are gone so try our best to have a nice conversation with them every day. Don't think from our point of view for once but we should think from their side too...

We only get to know the value of anything until we lost it.

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Video production 101 always tells do not cross the line. But deliberately crossing the line to create a dramatic moment is indeed worth trying!

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Claire :: Mozhukin/Kuleshov Experiement ::

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Claire :: Mozhukin/Kuleshov Experiement ::

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Mozhukin/Kuleshov Experiement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy2Vhnqtu8I

Kuleshov did an experiment in the early 20th century to show the interactions of two shots could have more meaning(even when the actor had no emotion or expression) than by any shot in isolation.
Original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gGl3LJ7vHc
(Forewarning: It is a little bit creepy.)

His theory brought a deeper meaning to the editing world. Things that were covered in the video also include why shots need to be carefully selected to create the desired meaning. Very interesting to study how far editing has come to be.

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The Secret of Self Control | Jonathan Bricker | TEDx Rainier

Geh Chew Huat
In a day and age where everyone wants instant gratification and nobody wants any discomfort I think we as a society have lost a sense of the importance of self control and patience.

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Employer Performance Review – An Easy How To Guide

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Employer Performance Review – An Easy How To Guide

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Useful video to teach me how to conduct EPR.

3 Pointers

I must start keeping a `Me File`

During feedback session, use a descriptive & a verb

Conduct an EPR during the middle of the week as it will encourage the employee to reflect and ask questions by Friday. Mages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axUYxKC2U04

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Poh Khim

The adorable cube in the animation moves in a slick and smooth motion. In addition, the sound of the cube is so satisfying. It scrambles itself and fixes someone’s problem.

Love the part how the little cube scrambles itself as it was running to the man on the opposite bench. It was seriously a cool thing to see. The ending was adorable even though it was only for a close second.

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Remove Unwanted Objects easily with content aware fill in after effects

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Remove Unwanted Objects easily with content aware fill in after effects

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lye lin

A Step by step tutorial show how to get rid of unwanted items or objects in video easily inside After effects, it looks really cool.

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Lay Guan

The Colour  theory which allows us to understand how colours work together.to produce aesthetically pleasing images.

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How to cartoon yourself(#1 Step-by-step Photoshop Tutorial)

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How to cartoon yourself(#1 Step-by-step Photoshop Tutorial)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PAvtT0oRxA

This is a very good tutorial. The steps are clear and straight to the point.

I tried drawing one using my grand-niece's pic. Kept undoing while drawing lines with the pen tool. Ended up spending hours only managed to finish partial of it. Believe it's easy once you get the hang of it.

Though cartooning oneself could be easily done in using of a mobile app, but drawing it manually in Photoshop definitely give me a greater sense of satisfaction!

Cherrie

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Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. - Mitch Albom, For One More Day.

Most of us around the world now find ourselves with our families at home, 24/7. Here are some ideas and tips on how families can spend this time together – whipping up delicious meals, playing word games, organising family photos (and also knowing when to keep out of each other’s way)!

https://mobileapp.nlb.gov.sg/spotlight/wellbeing/2020-04-27-spending-time-with-family

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The camera has a voice, a mind of its own. It is not only a tool or lens through which to look at other things. Camera movement whispers to the viewer, nudges the viewer, sometimes shouts at the viewer, “look at this, and this”, or “something is happening!”

The camera movements explained here:

1.      Slow push in – look, look harder. I notice that this is often a way to make stills more dynamic, when the video is showing a photo for some time.

2.      Creep out – the character is abandoned. He looks small and vulnerable in the vast world.

3.      Averts its eye – the video uses the example of a 🤬 scene in Marnie. Actually, I don’t want feel the interpretation of the video in this example. I found it a quaintly prudish moment. Marnie was filmed in 1964. Contemporary films would have done it quite differently. They would probably want us to witness the full horror of the moment by using lots of graphic violence.

4.      Distracted camera – The camera wanders off as if it has lost interest in what is happening. The guy in the scene is suffering but the camera is like, “who cares?”

5.      Camera yelling – the camera does something to shock and jar the viewer out of our comfort zone. In the example, it crosses the line, breaking a rule to catch attention.

Through camera movement, information is embedded in the storytelling, the impact is powerful, yet the viewer is often unconscious about how this is done. Awareness of these strategies in video production helps the viewers to grow in visual literacy and analyse more critically what they are being shown.

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Edouard Léon Cortès (1882–1969) ✽ French post-impressionist artist

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Edouard Léon Cortès (1882–1969) ✽ French post-impressionist artist

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My favourite, relatively unknown French Impressionist painter. Can you imagine a better piece of music to go with the beautiful, nostalgic paintings? Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98rgRwCrsxQ

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Impressive Art On The Tip Of A Pencil   

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Impressive Art On The Tip Of A Pencil   

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Poh Khim

This video is so cool but I found some of the music a bit annoying.

Those were some impressive and awesome pencil leads; the micro artist must have a pair of good eyes and steady skillful hand to create such tiny objects!

I can't even imagine the amount of patience this must have taken, I cannot imagine the pain if the lead broke in the middle of crafting it.

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lye lin

The nicer you are, your friends  will take advantage. The hurtful things is they thought you are selfish when you rejected to help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dStIOv2moM

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We are going to take a look at what the envelope of a sound is.The envelope of a sound describes it's intensity over time.
This video precise & concise explain about the musical instruments envelope.
- Chan wp

https://youtu.be/Q-ot9AaJx-Y

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Emotional Intelligence (Online Courses from NTUC Learning Hub)

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Emotional Intelligence (Online Courses from NTUC Learning Hub)

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The workplace is bursting with emotional situations, and the people who most successfully navigate through it are the ones who’ve unlocked the power of emotional intelligence (EI). It reveals the ability to stay calm and in control of every situation.

Emotional Triggers that you might be experiencing

·         Annoyance

·         Frustration

·         Anger

·         Rage

·         Guilt

·         Shame

·         Happiness

·         Saddness

Emotion as liablities

·         Impair your rational thinking

·         Take energy away from performance

·         Increase misunderstandings and conflict

·         Limit your creativity

·         Limit/increase your risk taking

·         Negatively affect your health

Emotion as assets can:

·         Positively affect your health

·         Motivate you to take action

·         Give you purpose

·         Give you greater insight and energize you

·         Make you a human

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7 editing tips that are simple and beautiful

-Wai Fong

I like this video as the tips shown are quite useful.

1- Don’t cut out. Build

Try building scenes from the ground up, with only best shot and keep adding. I find this method more efficient too when editing.

2- Say Dog See Dog

It mean the audiovisual communication, video and audio shall not drift far apart.

Shall cut picture and sound in a way that the information converges.

3- Come Late Leave Early

Cut scene short, forget about long winding setup and ending that fizzles. Get right to where it starts to become interesting. Keep the tension up.

Good storytelling shall keep the audience engaged.

4- Look here

Treat a cut to mean “ Look over here”

Everytime make a cut, telling the audience

this matters.

5 Don’t Tip your hat!

Don’t be afraid to use editing power for misdirects. Showing things in close up that are not important  Using wide shot to allow audiences to figure things out for themselves. How we want to tell a story (visually) through editing.

6- Watch the eyes.

Interesting, it mentioned Walter Murch’s book
-In the blink of an eye.

Our blinking is tied to what we are thinking and how we are reacting to what’s happening around us.

When the actors blink (eye movement), can use that
as potential cut point.

7- Feel Your Gut

I agree with this point, feel your edit...

There’s no fix rule and time to cut other than the moment it feels right to you.
Don’t be afraid to make cuts.

Feel that editor may not need follow the script according if the cuts don’t feel right.

https://youtu.be/zoE6x4xQh7s

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        5 Fast Tips for Fast-Cut Editing
         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgEWNHVbk3U Lay Tju
         
Tip 1 - Simplify your shots
1. Center your subject : when watching a video our brains tend to focus on the center before moving out to the edges of the frame
2. Zoom in on your subject: because the closer we are to a subject the  less background distraction there is the easier it is to focus
3. Use silhouettes : Using silhouettes is a great way to simplify a shot and have it register quickly with the mind
 
Tip 2 - Punch in and out of your subject                                                        
Try shots where you start wide on a subject and immediately punch in or conversely you can start close on a subject and then punch out to wider shot
 
Tip 3 - Keep the same screen direction from shot to shot
Whatever direction you choose for your fast cut montage try keep that consistent from shot to shot if you those shots to be associated to each other
 
            Tip 4 -  Follow a dominant shape, colour, or luminance between shots
It creates the sense of intentionality between the shots in a sense the things are happening for a reason                                                           
 

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        5 Fast Tips for Fast-Cut Editing
         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgEWNHVbk3U Lay Tju
         
Tip 1 - Simplify your shots
1. Center your subject : when watching a video our brains tend to focus on the center before moving out to the edges of the frame
2. Zoom in on your subject: because the closer we are to a subject the  less background distraction there is the easier it is to focus
3. Use silhouettes : Using silhouettes is a great way to simplify a shot and have it register quickly with the mind
 
Tip 2 - Punch in and out of your subject                                                        
Try shots where you start wide on a subject and immediately punch in or conversely you can start close on a subject and then punch out to wider shot
 
Tip 3 - Keep the same screen direction from shot to shot
Whatever direction you choose for your fast cut montage try keep that consistent from shot to shot if you those shots to be associated to each other
 
            Tip 4 -  Follow a dominant shape, colour, or luminance between shots
It creates the sense of intentionality between the shots in a sense the things are happening for a reason                                                           
 

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5 Fast Tips for Fast-Cut Editing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgEWNHVbk3U   Lay Tju

Tip 1 - Simplify your shots

1. Center your subject : when watching a video our brains tend to focus on the center before moving out to the edges of the frame

2. Zoom in on your subject: because the closer we are to a subject the  less background distraction there is the easier it is to focus

3. Use silhouettes : Using silhouettes is a great way to simplify a shot and have it register quickly with the mind

Tip 2 - Punch in and out of your subject

Try shots where you start wide on a subject and immediately punch in or conversely you can start close on a subject and then punch out to wider shot

Tip 3 - Keep the same screen direction from shot to shot

Whatever direction you choose for your fast cut montage try keep that consistent from shot to shot if you those shots to be associated to each other

Tip 4 -  Follow a dominant shape, colour, or luminance between shots -

It creates the sense of intentionality between the shots in a sense the things are happening for a reason

Tip 5 - Establish a cause/effect between shots

It helps to create a feeling of story

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lye lin

This was a heart touching story of an African American father learning to do his daughter’s hair for the first time, ends up having a fight with his daughters hair, finally success happily bring her mom home from hospital. Love the story especially the happy ending.

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Stopping drive-by critics in their tracks

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Stopping drive-by critics in their tracks

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https://www.inc.com/matthew-swyers/stop-drive-by-critics-in-their-tracks.html

I believe everyone of us have been "hit" by a drive-by critic before, at least once, in our life.

A drive-by critic is somebody who says something negative and then retreats to the dark hole that they reside in or move on to find another target, without any constructive criticism or helpful suggestions.

As the author, Matthew Swyers, writes, " drive-by criticism can be especially detrimental in the workplace".

Plausible ideas that may be the solutions to difficult situations are trashed before they are trialed and discussions that may turn out productive are derailed.

The firm belief is that, drive-by critics should not be tolerated.

Of course, we can't brush them off completely either.

While some people intentionally and maliciously perform drive-by criticism, I believe that there are shy individuals that are unable to articulate their ideas and may be misconstrued as a drive-by critic while having genuine concerns.

So how do you stop a drive-by critic and turn it into a meaningful conversation?

Simple. Just by using 2 easy steps, you can stop their senseless criticism and draw out the ideas that they have been shielding from you.

Step 1: "What do you suggest?"

If somebody simply says, "that won't work" or "that's a bad idea", smile, be non-confrontational and tell them, "Fair enough, what is your plan?"

Step 2: "Stick to your guns"

Once you have taken action with Step 1 above, the next step is to "stick to your guns".

Many drive-by critics, upon being asked to elaborate on their plan, will simply choose to retreat with a "I don't know" or a "I just know your plan won't work".
Make them support their statement.

An example from the article:

Speaker: "What do you suggest?"

Drive-By Critic: "I don't know, I just know your plan won't work."

Speaker: "Tell us why you think that."

This will cause the drive-by critic to do 2 things:

1) They explain the basis of their critique and the conversation takes a turn for the better

Or

2) They refuse to back up their statement, but they are aware that their empty criticism will no longer be tolerated.

Drive-by criticism should not be tolerated and the people who conduct such acts should be held accountable for their negative opinions. However, we must be respectful of their opinions as we are not trying to intimidate them from speaking out.

Hopefully, with these 2 steps, we can all turn drive-by critics away from their act and have meaningful and enjoyable conversations with them.

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Claire :: Learn editing skills/follow tutorials from Plurasight ::

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Claire :: Learn editing skills/follow tutorials from Plurasight ::

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Course taken: Premiere Pro CC Building on the Fundamentals

Week 26 May - 1 June:

Exporting and Archiving

Creating Closed and Open Captions

Closed captions are embedded stream of data that is a transcription of the spoken elements of the project. It is commonly used in television broadcasting where the audiences have a difficult time with hearing.

Commonly used caption standard is CEA-708

Keying the captions will be at the captions panel, not at the program or timeline sequence panel.

You have to manually adjust the caption by breaking one line into two if it is too long or else the text will be cut off and not display.

You can also adjust the handle on the caption box to control when the caption should appear or when it should end.

Hitting the + button at the caption panel will add in another caption label.

Exporting Captions

How to properly export captions upon output.

When exporting media, under captions tab, there are 3 settings which you can choose.

Burn Captions into Video is to baked the caption into the video itself. Captions cannot be toggle on or off.

Create Sidecar File create a second file alongside the video file, containing the caption information.

Embed in Output File enable the captions to display as a separate caption track after dragging the exported file into the timeline.

There are a lot of variables to which settings you can choose for the captions especially when you choose different video formats.

Creating Export Presets

Learn about different export settings.

Learn about the difference between HD and 4K settings.

10 to 12 Mbps is a a good Bitrate range for most HD videos.

4K videos usually require a higher Bitrate range depending on which cameras used.

Hit the button nearest to Preset to save a custom preset.

Exporting to Different Frame Rates

Learn to export videos at different frame rates.

Changing the frame rate of the video often entails Premiere Pro to duplicate occasional frames or subtract occasional frames. The negative ramifications to this is that it can create a jitteriness in video.

At Time Interpolation, Frame sampling simply means adding or subtracting frames depending if you are going for a higher or lower frame rate.

Frame Blending. It means ghosting frames together. The frames are overlapped together and semi-transparent to create a little bit of blend from frame to frame.

Optical Flow is the highest level for frame conversion, it will slow down the export process immensely as Premiere Pro will specially calculate and analyse every frames and pixels. Then it will create artificial frames between frames to compensate, not just subtract or adding frames.

Exporting to Different Resolutions

Learn to export videos of different resolution in the same sequence.

Maximum Render is use to export the video files of different resolution to the highest quality possible. This function gives a higher quality of scaling the video resolution, Premiere Pro will run a higher algorithm when having to scale clips to a different size than their original resolution.

Maximum Render also helps when it comes to scaling the video resolution from higher resolution to lower resolution.

Adding Effects and Overlays to Your Export

Learn the functions of Effects tab under the Export window.

You can add a Lumetri Look/LUT to the entire sequence when usually that effect is added clip by clip.

SDR Conform is used when working with SDR footages, when you need to conform to the normal standard dynamic range rather than high dynamic range.

Image Overlay is used when you want to add a watermark to the video. You can change the position/size/opacity of the watermark.

Name Overlay is used to label the video version which is still just a rough cut before sending over to the client. The label will be burnt into the video export.

Timecode Overlay is to burn a time stamp on the video export to measure how far into the video we are. You can also change the position/size/opacity of the timecode overlay.

Time Tuner is use when you want to compress or expand time. If you are trying to slow something down in order to match your video target duration. Premiere Pro analyze the entire video and look for frames of less action and movement, change and compress or expand time of those frames differently than on frames where there is a lot of movements of pixels to ensure you notice the time compression or expansion as little as possible.

Video Limiter and Loudness Normalization are useful if you work in broadcast television and are under a time crunch, both are use to make sure the video meets typical legal standards for broadcast.

Publish is used when you want to publish your video to social media platform directly upon exporting.

Adding Metadata to Your Export

Learn how to add Metadata into video export.

Same as Captions, you also have the options to Embed in Output File, Create Sidecar File, both options or none at all. Not all video format has all 4 options. Quicktime has all of these 4 options.

Source Metadata and Preservation Rules are about any metadata that are added to the source media.

You can also add markers with the metadata when you export the video. Just make sure Export Master Speech Track and Sequence Markers is tick.

Queuing Sequences to Media Encoder

When exporting video, you cannot use Premiere Pro, you also can only export 1 video at a time but using Media Encoder, this will enable to export multiple video sequences without having to lockdown Premiere Pro itself.

Select multiple sequences and just select export media, then click queue.  Media Encoder will open immediately.

To start exporting multiple video sequences, you just have to hit the play button.

You can also create multiple exports of a different video format over at Media Encoder. Select the videos you want and just click on Add Output button. To change the format, click on the Format Preset dropdown button and pick the video format you want. To change the fame rate, go to the Preset dropdown button.

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Lay Guan

The cousin of Andrew Price bet with him that if he could achieve 1000 likes on the Artstation website within 6 months. The task was to upload his painting or drawing on the website in order to garner likes.
If he lost the bet, he had to pay his cousin $1000. If he won, he gained nothing. This was a challenge for Andrew because he is terrible at art.
Therefore, to improve, he took lessons in drawing and practised every day. He read books that taught him how to innovate and also gained motivation from world class individuals who have achieved excellence in their field.
He started with female figure drawings but was questioned by people why he only focused on those. So he expanded into male figures but he realised that he was better at drawing female figures so he stuck to it.
3 days before the challenge ended, he achieved 1000 likes. Despite his initial amateur skills in drawing, through sheer will and diligence, he won the bet and gained a new skill.

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Animating graphics is an essential skill to keep in your filmmaking wheelhouse. Whether you're refining some beautiful bumpers or creating compelling lower thirds, you will undoubtedly cross paths with After Effects during your animating journey.

In order to properly execute in After Effects, you'll want complete control over the elements within your graphic. The best way to achieve this is to design your graphic in Adobe Illustrator first, and then import it into After Effects as separated layers. We'll walk you through the process below.

Why Illustrator over After Effects?

It's not really one over the other. It's more: Illustrator first, After Effects second. While you could use After Effects for some of your design needs, the truth is that Illustrator is just easier, more intuitive, and more functional.

For simple shapes and text animations, designing in After Effects might be the quicker route, but for more complex graphics, Illustrator will save you time and sanity.

Creating your graphic

To begin, create an artboard in Illustrator that's the same size as your video. In our example, we use 1920×1080. The final version will be a vector image that you can scale infinitely, but it's nice to design in the same frame size as your video for perspective.

After creating your graphic, consider which pieces of it will need to be controlled in After Effects. You may find that you want control of every single element, or it might make more sense to keep certain elements together. Once you've decided what you want to control, you'll need to separate them out into their own layers.

Layers on layers on layers

To create these separate elements, you'll have to create new layers (click on the box with a folded corner). Each will function as its own separate layer in After Effects, so create as many as you need and then begin dragging the elements you want to control into each new layer.

Be sure to keep your layers in the order you designed them, so the correct elements are on top. As you drag your elements into their own separate layers, give them a name. This will help you stay organized and keep track of them all. Bonus: these names will carry over when you move your work to After Effects.

Transferring to After Effects

When you're finished in Illustrator, save your .ai file.

Next, open After Effects and drag your .ai file into the Project panel. When the menu pops up, make sure to choose Composition for Import Kind and Layer Size for Footage Dimensions. When you click OK, a new composition will appear in your Project panel.

Open the composition and boom your layers will appear, nicely separated, organized, and ready to be animated.

Before you begin animating, make sure to check your Anchor Points. This is good practice since Anchor Points can get messed up, creating problems with scaling animation, in addition to other types of animation. You can move your Anchor Points around using the Pan Behind tool (Y).

If you want the ability to scale your layers infinitely, turn on Continuously Rasterize for each layer. You can also right click on a layer and choose Create Shapes from the Vector Layer to give yourself even more control over your layer(s).

Happy animating!

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Animating graphics is an essential skill to keep in your filmmaking wheelhouse. Whether you're refining some beautiful bumpers or creating compelling lower thirds, you will undoubtedly cross paths with After Effects during your animating journey. In order to properly execute in After Effects, you'll want complete control over the elements within your graphic.

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Mental health suffers under the lockdown- Soh

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Mental health suffers under the lockdown- Soh

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/30/mental-health-suffers-under-the-lockdown

We are all responding to this crisis differently, but we must acknowledge the impact of this pandemic on people severely affected by mental illness so we are not faced with a hidden epidemic.

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Poh Khim

This was the most beautiful and mournful animation.

Luna’s dad was supportive all her life and that’s what most parents do, support the decisions and ambitions their children want to pursue. Her dad was so loving and caring and overall a great parent.

Even to take the smallest step of success there will always be a sacrifice, glad she found the motivation again to go after her dream but sad her dad wasn't there to see it and bask in her success! We don’t realize how much we truly love them until their gone, so don’t take life for granted.

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5 brilliant camera movements
Camera and its movements tells a story and captures emotions. Somehow this reminds me in contrast of HK movies produced by Shaw Bros in the 60s and 70s when camera zoom in and out awkwardly or jerkily from wide shot to tighter one and vice versa. It doesn't make a difference to the story-telling unlike examples of movies in the clip e.g. in Marnie. The camera movement captured the contrasting emotions of the 2 characters, husband and wife, Marnie & Mark especially of Marnie's resigning to what's coming - Mark's imposing himself on her aka 🤬.

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Designing in Illustrator for After Effects animation

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Designing in Illustrator for After Effects animation

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Tian Soon

Been there, done that! But it is good to keep a copy on the hard-drive for easy reference.
The article did not mention how to break an artwork into their own layers for export to AE as most artists just get carried away when they start working on a project and everything gets put on a single layer with their own nested sub-layers each named with unique names, thinking they will all import nicely into AE. The author did caution to use separate layers from the start but sometimes people get confused between layers and sub-layers so it would be good to know the proper way to do it.

https://vimeo.com/blog/post/designing-illustrator-for-after-effects-animation/

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Communication is a skill we learn from young, from communicating to adults, teenagers, children, colleges and friends.

There are different way communities to each party.What I learned from it is to be a good listener, be patient, be honesty, be a friend to your kid, be on the level when talking to children and anger control.

These are some sharing my team had put in for the PD:

Communication between crew (Law)
https://www.lynda.com/Filmmaking-tutorials/Communicating-crew/129023/519484-4.html

Anger control (Kevin)
https://www.apa.org/topics/anger/control

How to communication with children (Law)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb8kuzLtBEI&app=desktop

5 strategies for effectively communicating with your teen (Law)
https://www.parentmap.com/article/5-strategies-for-effectively-communicating-with-your-teen

Five Secrets to Effective Communication (Chin Heng)
https://www.advisorperspectives.com/articles/2009/10/13/five-secrets-to-effective-communication.pdf

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The Buddy - Everyone Saw This Autistic Boy As A Misfit, One Classmate Saw A Friend

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The Buddy - Everyone Saw This Autistic Boy As A Misfit, One Classmate Saw A Friend

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Zai

Tam's condition is not explicitly stated, the film addresses the topic of autism, and the lack of knowledge behind this disorder, especially in the 90s. Delivered in the spirit of acceptance, the film aims to portray the innocence of childhood, and centers on Hidayat’s dilemma in doing the right thing for his friend.

Any kids with autism is a challenge to the family. At different stage, they will face different challenges..The child future will be a big worried for any parent especially if he is the only child. What going to happen if both the parent are no more around? That will be the biggest worry. Most of the parent will be very protective. They will try to teach the child to be independent for them to survive.

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Christina
Movement 1: Slow Push in
Cam asking audience to look harder; there is more to meet the eyes.

Movement 2: Slow Creep out
Cam and audience abandoning the character/s.  We move away from the subject/s to protect ourselves from their pain or giving up hope on them.

Movement 3: Cam turning away from subject/s
This movement is usually used to protect us from seeing something that we would not want to continue watching for example the physical torturing from a torture scene.

Movement 4: Distracted camera
Cam moves away from focusing on the main subject to showing something visually aesthetic or moving away from subject as if looking at the main subject as an outsider.

Movement 5: Fast or Big Cam movements
Fast zooming or dollying in or out from the main subject or a dodge shots to show something is happening to the subject or trouble is brewing in the particular scene.

My take on this video.   The camera does have a voice and a very loud and powerful one too in narrating a story.  It will definitely be a big plus to know the various camera shots, be it still or moving shots, and how they can be used effectively in a film production to enhance or add value to the film.

Trainspotting 2 is a very good example of a movie that used various shots and cuts with an intention to add value to the story content.
Trainspotting 2 - Toilet Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Fhia3kEMI

Trainspotting 2 - Apple store / Chase scene / Ukulele player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8vwj6QiTiU

However, even though it is great to be able to apply these movement shots in our video, it is also just as important to know when to use the moving shots or whether we need the shots in our video at all.   Planning is definitely needed.  A video filled with visually appealing moving shots but add no value to the storyline or didn't tell us something of the characters filmed could be quite "distracting" or "meaningless" to the audiences.

My thoughts.

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Jane

16:9, 18:9, 2.35:1, 4:3, 4:5, 9:16, have you seen these values or heard about these values during productions? What do they represent?

The answers......

Yea, its aspect ratio. And what is aspect ratio?

The frame size that suiting your video. The black bar you see on the top/bottom or at both sides of the screen. The video clearly explained they “why” and “what” that you used for the purpose.

Watched from here, it clearly explained the different values and the sizes of aspect ratio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xq_f-MvlCc Aspect Ratios In Videos Explained (2020 Guide).

Another video link also clearly explained the history of aspect ratio, what there are and why is it important to use, also how can you use them to tell different message in the film.

The video is 15 mins long, it is informative and it definitely worth your time to watch through.

From the explanation in the video, I have learnt that the movie Ben Hur was shot in 2.76:1 aspect ratio, it is the widest so far.  The 2.76:1 aspect ratio was called MGM 65.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdPsyLtlamM Aspect Ratios - Tomorrow's Filmmakers.

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https://youtu.be/5m6mAmOJk5kWays To Create More Headroom In Your Mix
No Room To Mix. If you don't leave enough headroom in your DAW then you really have to where to go with your mix. ...

Turn Your Tracks Down. This is the most obvious solution to the headroom quandary. ...
Use Your High Pass Filter Often. ...

Cut The Ugly Low Mids. ...

What's Stealing Your Mix's Headroom

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Mixing Tutorial  - What Is Headroom? Recording, Mixing & Mastering

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Enjoy 😊 the song, have a good 💪bonding with your family 🤗