Category Archives: commercial

BlackMagic Color Grade

https://mattkprovideo.com/2017/12/14/blackmagic-color-grade/

For a recent wedding shoot I had a freelancer use a Black Magic  camera. I have heard very good things about that camera, how the footage looks just like 35mm motion picture film!  I was very excited. And I was a bit nervous how that footage would mix in when edited in with footage with my other cameras.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com

It was so much smaller than I thought it would be.

What I saw in the viewfinder screen concerned me, everything was a dull desaturated greenish grey.  The camera operator told me to relax, that all blackmagic footage looks like that until color graded in Davinci Resolve.

Well I don’t have Davinci Resolve. I ran the footage through Adobe After Effects and added an adjustment layer with AUTO COLOR and a lot of vibrancy came back into the image.

Then I added “Brightness and Contrast”. Lowering the Brightness and increasing the Contrast helped even more.

It still didn’t look right.

I added a third adjust layer and used HUE AND SATURATION and increased the saturation of the reds and blues and it started to look like the other cameras.

I set it to render then read THIS article:

http://www.creativebloq.com/audiovisual/master-colour-correction-and-grading-after-effects-10134701

 

It says I should have used  Effects>Synthetic Aperture.

Hmm I will have to try that on the next shots. So far I am not that impressed.  It seems just like my video footage, not this marvelous film look I was expecting. Then again it is most likely the problem is my limited experience with color grading footage from the BlackMagic, and not the camera itself.

 

https://www.theknot.com/us/hellen-rivera-and-ruben-ramirez-nov-2017-713f54af-e37b-4754-8ef7-3675e3cf9125

Hellen and Ruben

November 25, 2017 • Cedar Park, TX

 

Happy New Years from Artex Funding

Happy New Years from Artex Funding

mattkprovideo.com/2017/12/08/happy-new-years-artex/

 

Whiteboard Animation made in Adobe Animate ( Flash).

ArTex Funding SLAM DUNK

mattkprovideo.com/2017/11/22/artex-funding-slam-dunk/

ArTex Funding SLAM DUNK

http://www.artexfunding.com/

2D cartoon animation  made mainly in Adobe Flash ( Animate ) with some Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects.

Music from :

Piano Rock Instrumental by Hyde – Free Instrumentals https://soundcloud.com/davidhydemusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b… Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AlAxo66T11w ––– • Contact the artist: davidrhyde1@gmail.com https://soundcloud.com/davidhydemusic

Endor shooting location.

RETURN OF THE JEDI Endor forest speeder bike chase scene  shooting location.

mattkprovideo.com/2017/11/21/3692/

 

Owen Cheatham Redwood Grove in Northern California

 

I am a little confused, I thought I read somewhere that the Endor scenes were shot in a part of the forest that was “due to be clear cut anyway”.  And yet there it all still is.

I am assuming that trail was blazed by Star Wars fans wanting a picture by the locations, but actually that trail is there in the 1983 film. You’ve got to look real quick but its there.

If they made this film today there would be using newer, more advanced “steadi cams”  or drones or…. ( yukk!) CGI.  One idea I always had was the lay many MILES of dolly track with a real practical speeder bike on it and just film it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ford Mustang Record Player

I dont even own any vinyl  these days but OMG is this the coolest!!!

Ford Mustang Record Player

https://merchandise.ford.com/Product/1500545-Mustang_4-in-1_LP_Record_Player?cat=GIFThttps://merchandise.ford.com/Product/1500545-Mustang_4-in-1_LP_Record_Player?cat=GIFT

 

 

 

Harley Davidson needs too do this! And so does Marvel Comics.

Oh wait

 

I used to own a mickey mouse television:

 

 

Rollfast Ramblers logo

 

Roll fast Ramblers logo

https://rollfastramblers.com/

Motion graphics made in Adobe Flash ( Animate) and Adobe After Effects.

 

I did a google image search on “lined notebook paper” found an image I thought would work.  I copied it and traced it in Adobe Photoshop.

I drew a box around two lines then applied STROKE with a dark blue line. Then duplicated it down the page.

I got the Rollfast Ramblers logo off their website. I copied and pasted it into Adobe Flash ( Animate).

It took several hours.  When I exported it in .swf I noticed a few “skips” I always see that when I export from Flash. I may have to re edit it in Flash.

I added the .swf on top of the notebook paper jpeg in a really big comp in After Effects.  Then I added THAT comp into a 1920 by 1080 comp and moved the position.

 

Artex “Basketball”

Artex “Basketball”

 

 

Running by Dj Quads https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/BdOoZMsytuc ––– • Contact the artist: Johanlilja@live.se https://twitter.com/DjQuads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC08R… h

https://www.instagram.com/djquads/

Little Shop Of Horrors

Little Shop Of Horrors

mattkprovideo.com/2017/10/20/little-shop/

 

Made in Adobe Flash(Animate) , Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects

Little Shop of Horrors, San Antonio, Woodlawn Theater

http://www.woodlawntheatre.org/event/aa983c86c15a0f3de5575efb3ada1798

October 13th, 2017 – November 5th, 2017

 

1920 Fredericksburg Rd. San Antonio TX, 78201 | 210-267-8388

Basketball Sound Effects

A series of basketball sound effects I am collecting for an upcoming project.

mattkprovideo.com/2017/10/18/basketball-sound-effects/

NOTE: if u want to use them u must leave a link to my page on your video 🙂 basketball sound effect check out my other videos! KEYWORDS: BEST Basketball Sound Effects BEST Basketball Sound Effects BEST Basketball Sound Effects BEST Basketball Sound Effects BEST Basketball Sound Effects

Doug Coke

I worked for this guy for four years. Caraaayyy hayyyyy hayyyy zeeee!

 

mattkprovideo.com/2017/10/12/doug-news/

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He’s an asshole – read about him here.
http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/06/13/daybreak-direct-problems/

sarah elizabeth – September 12, 2006 @ 12:14 pm

I know past employees of Doug M      n’s “Daybreak Direct”.

He seems to be absolutely psychotic (not trying to be funny) and I will be amazed if the company does not go under in the next month (from funding problems; not paying employees; drug addictions (that is the word going around); Texas Workforce Commission complaints, the list goes on and on

To see how he treats employees, justs check these links out:

http://kellyanncollins.com/2003/12/inte … ave-to.htm

http://www.mauricereeves.com/archives/000161.html

BEWARE, you have been warned.
matt – September 19, 2006 @ 1:59 am

I worked for Doug for 4 years

he is an insane bipolar cocaine addict
Another victim – September 29, 2006 @ 6:27 pm

No joke – I worked for this guy for a few months, he is snorts more coke than John Belushi did in his prime.

He thrives on unsuspecting workers who are none the wiser, and willing to forestall their personal lives just to chase the carrot on a string.

All he really is, at the end of the day is a drug addled paranoid schizophrenic who owes every former employee he has ever had money. He is a pathological liar, and has no friends.

I guess snorting Peru up your nose, while smoking pot, while drinking all day didn’t turn out that well for you did it Doug?

Good news is, that he is completely broke now, so hopefully we don’t have to tolerate any more of his spam when they shut off his electricity.
Katherine – October 26, 2006 @ 2:32 pm

Doug was an absolute idiot…always wacked out on cocaine, even smoking pot in his office. It was very common for him to literally scream at employees. Towards the end, he would take whiteboard markers and scribble notes on his white tile floors…he’d gone absolutely nuts. He’d even told his HR manager that he had “no use for 40-year-old women.” He had a penchant for hiring pretty young women with short skirts to be his personal assistant, then would even upgrade them to girlfriend status, even buying one a BMW roadster. I think she suffered a drug overdose at one of his parties…

He would tell us we had a meeting at the country club, and tell us to meet him at his house (employees were expected to drop everything and run to his house…at his beck and call), then we would take us all in his ski boat to the country club, holding a “business meeting” while standing in the bow and smoking a joint. I picked up what I thought was a piece of “art glass” one day, and another employee informed me it was a pipe.

He also kept a closet stocked with little black dresses for when his little playthings (at one time it was the waitresses from Outback Steakhouse), would come over, and he wanted them to dress up like the girls in the Robert Palmer video. There was even black hosiery in the drawers.

No wonder the company kept having to pay off the sexual harassment lawsuits, and they finally had to boot him out of his own company.
DayBroke – October 31, 2006 @ 8:14 pm

You guys are missing the best part… the man is a PEDOPHILE!!!
I wish he weren’t in such poor health so he could get that ‘extra special’ treatment they give pedophiles in prison.

He is truly evil, and I thank God he is broke… because money is all he ever cared about.

He is probably one of the worst people I have ever met. My doctor advised that I stop working for him… which I did back when I started having dreams about knocking his head off during one of his tweaked out coke benders.

I would love to be there when they haul him off to prison, and they sell everything in his rental house at auction.
jack – November 1, 2006 @ 6:15 am

I know him pretty well. He is all this evil and much more.
Another victim – November 8, 2006 @ 6:56 pm

Jack –
I wish that someone like you would have warned me before starting to work there, this pedophile **** makes me wish I knew about it then, I would have tipped off the police when I worked there, and not now when he owes me money.

You are a piece of **** and I hope you rot in hell, nothing I hate worse than a pedophile, I hope you die soon enough from your dreadful disease, that is probably nothing but a lie – same as everything else about your life!

From all your former employees to you, please all me to say on their behalf –
**** YOU!!!
JJK – November 27, 2006 @ 9:51 am

Such hyperbole about this guy…. I can’t help wondering whether it’s all true.

But what I really want to know is how he harvests his addresses. I have a user who is ticked off — he thinks Dougie got his address from a WebEx my user had attended. Anyone know whether this might be the case?