Lyric Chyron Operation

This week I continued my journey for education and knowledge by completing the Lyric 7 Pro advanced class at Chyron headquarters on Long Island. It was a good follow up class to the basic course and I am now a certified Lyric Chyron Operator.

The new Lyric 7 Pro has a lot of new features and functions compared to the past models, most of which are open up a whole new way of thinking and user ability. Just a few of the new features are the multiple timeline set up, the XMI updatability metadata integration with Adobe, adaptable primitive geometry plug-ins, and advanced levels of 3-D.

I definitely recommend the basic course to anyone familiar with Lyric 5 or 6. There's so many new functions that the advanced course could be confusing to anyone not having taken the basic first.

After Effects Problems...any advice?

I was determined to learn how to do a Zoom in/out and Earth Spin effect for a freelance project this weekend. Although I only have After Effects 6 I was able to create the Zoom out from India and Zoom in to New York City with no problem. The only issues I had was that I don't have all the plug-ins that After Effects 7 offers such as the Noise/Grain functions that allow you to make the clouds and stars. Not a huge problem, just a minor set back.

But when it came to the Earth spin, which sounds rather easy, I ran into great troubles. There is no sphere tool that I could use to create a globe. I tried to download a plug-in for this, but my After Effects rejected it. Frustrating!

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Although the project has been turned down by now, I am determined to learn this feature.

Here are my Zoom in/out - complete with camera shake and rotation. (I did not Zoom all the way out to space because I thought I'd be able to do that later with the Earth spin which was never accomplished)

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/animation/watch/v18008642ECcsMfbd

The Welcome Post

Hello All -

Welcome to SharonRuedeman.Com - The Blog. It is here that I hope to keep SharonRuedeman.com updated with latest news and activities as well as discuss industry related materials. Please feel free to comment and leave feed back. The more the merrier.

Since this is the basic, HELLO blog, I thought I'd start out by linking to a really helpful and basic article about Prosumer and Professional cameras. It is from one of B&H's (the world reknown camera and video store) recent newsletters. Although I did know a lot of what the article covered, I have to admit that I learned somethings about cameras as well. In any case, there's no harm in a littler refresher course on what is important when it comes to cameras, I think you may all enjoy it:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/find/newsLetter/Getting-Back-to-Basics.jsp