Tutorials

Audio Video Interviews Cartoons & Sketches Behind The Scenes

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Audio

  1. Telephone Voice Effect - This tute is for sound FX or whatever reason one may have for faking a telephone sound.
  2. Reverse Echo - Arlo shows you how to use a reverse echo effect on a vocal track.
  3. Vintage Strings - This is a quick way to get a warm, vintage sound out of your computer generated strings.
  4. Ableton Live Set-Up - Arlo shows you how to make your laptop computer more stable and perform more efficiently when playing live.
  5. Killer Snare - Check out how to turn your thin, single-hit snare sound into a KILLER SNARE!
  6. Voice Kit - Arlo shows you how to take a selection of voice and cut it up to make drum sounds. He then sequences the sounds in Ableton and makes a quick little beat.
  7. Appegiator - How to write key song parts while making sure you hit all the right notes.
  8. Guitar Synth - How to fake a guitar, for the frettly challanged.
  9. Powerup - Arlo show us how a powerup can be used to psyche your audience into a fat drop.
  10. Side Chain Compression - Arlo explores the fundamentals of side chain compression, a dynamics process that can make your tunes 'pump'!
  11. Breakbeat Kitchen - Join Arlo in the kitchen for some healthy tips about making breakbeats with real drum loops.
  12. LoFi Tape Sound - Arlo shows us how to warm up those stale digital drum loops with an old VHS tape and recorder
  13. Delay Is Our Hammer - Arlo shows us the different ways you can use the delay tool in your audio software to save money on unneeded plug-ins

 

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Video

  1. Designing a Motion Graphic From Scratch - What do you do when a promised graphic doesn't turn up? Make your own from scratch!.
  2. Virtual Background - A quick an easy way to get a 3D curved background for green screening interview subjects in front of.
  3. Time Remapping - Learn how to use the time remapping function in Final Cut Pro.
  4. Plasma Screen Effect - A cool look into creating a dot-matrix style effect for simulating large plasma screens.
  5. Bad TV - How to manipulate the settings in the default Bad TV Effect in Final Cut Pro and create an original rolling analogue TV effect.
  6. Thought Bubble - Nick takes us through the steps to create an animated thought bubble.
  7. Witness Protection - Nick takes us through 3 different ways to render a character unidentifiable in an interview situation.
  8. Rock Lighting - Learn how to make a fake lighting rig in After Effects with some simple solids and the Knoll Light Factory.
  9. Heat Haze - Using displacement maps and fractal noise, Nick shows you how to recreate a heat haze effect.
  10. Telephone Voice Effects in FCP - Nick and Arlo show you how to turn a gain filter, high pass filter and a de-esser into a telephone like sound effect.
  11. Kung Fu Energy Ball - Nick takes you through the steps of creating an energy ball with the Particle Filter!
  12. Building Effects - Nick looks at how to create a similar effect to the 'Twitch' plug-infrom the ground up.
  13. Tracking Screens - Learn how to use the motion track tool, Corner Pin tool and masking techniques to track a piece of footage into a billboard
  14. Day For Night - Nick takes a photo of a streetscape during the day and turns it into a night scene in Adobe After Effects
  15. Bleach Bypass - Nick shows us two different ways of producing a bleach bypass effect in Adobe After Effects
  16. Blowing Out Lights - Nick shows us a technique in Final Cut Pro to simulate lighting effects for a live action music video

 

SFX, Templates and Freebies

  1. Textures, Backgrounds and Design Elements - Nick has produced a range of high-res images for use as backgrounds and textures in all sorts of productions. Check them out.
  2. SFX - Arlo has been busy producing a range of sound effects for all our users to download and use free of charge in any way they deem fit! What a nice bloke he is... There's a whole range of whooshes, squeaks, powerups and more. You can use them in your music production or the soundtrack to your next film. We'll update them regularly so check back for the latest sound bites.
  3. Guitar Feedback Effects - Arlo has put together a package of feedback, bumps, melodies and slides. There's about 50mb of great royalty free noise at 24bit 48Khz.
  4. Post Production Workflows - The Final Cut Studio Workflows document has been designed to summarize the overall post-production process and show how the various applications in Final Cut Studio fit into it. This manual also explains how the applications in Final Cut Studio work together, letting you send projects and media from one environment to another to perform specialized tasks.

 

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Interviews

  1. Michael Ciccone - In this interview with Pro Juice, Michael talks about the production of their new music video for Australian act, Graveyard Train and what is involved in shooting on the Red camera.
  2. Matt Arnold - Arlo catches up with Animator and Art Director, Matt Arnold, to chat about how he created a great new music video for Australian Singer/Songwriter, Whitley.
  3. Matt Wood - DOP, Matt Wood, shows us how he made his great (and cheap) ring light. Check out the Iris music video to see it in action too.

 

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Cartoons & Sketches

  1. History of Modern Sound - Who would have thought that it was Albert Einstein that invented the modern Synthesiser all those years ago... we did... and so Joanne Fong created this great little cartoon on our behalf.
  2. Guitar Strap Hero - If you're busy rocking out the riffs the last thing you want to worry about is your guitar strap falling off. Here's a quick tip for keeping it all together... and enjoying a frothy beverage at the same time.

 

Behind the Scenes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Behind The Scenes

  1. Far To Here Viral Campaign - Pro Juice goes behind the scenes with Nick Calpakdjian as he creates a short viral animation for the Australia Darfur Network.