| Meet Lori Freitag
Creative COW Contributing Editor
Lori Freitag is currently working as the Training and Content Manager at RE:Vision Effects. Prior to that, she worked freelance in production as a visual effects artist and compositor for main titles, films, commercials and motion graphics for over 16 years. Her work has been nominated for an Emmy and she has also received many other design awards. See more work credits here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0293915/
Lori also worked for, and developed training for Autodesk (formerly Discreet Logic) and Getris Images, taught at the Art Institute, Silicon Studio, worked for Apple and has done many private company training sessions in the United States, Asia and Australia.
Lori has studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and St. Martins School of Art in London.
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Twixtor Overview in FCPX
This tutorial shows how to do a simple speed-up and slow-down using Twixtor in FCPX.
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Twixtor: When and How to use Tracking Points
This Tutorial shows how to get better results using Tracking Points for more complex shots and to help get rid of warping or ghosting. Tracking Points are available in Twixtor Pro for AE, FCP (pre-FCPX), Premiere Pro, Nuke & OFX hosts such as Scratch & Composite.
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Twixtor: Better Retiming Using a Matte
This Tutorial shows how to get better tracking using a matte to separate your footage into multiple layers. Multiple layers are available in Twixtor Pro for AE, FCP, Premiere Pro, and Twixtor for Smoke, Flame, Fusion, Nuke & OFX hosts such as Scratch & Composite.
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Twixtor in Avid MC: Frame Rate Conversions
This tutorial shows how how to do a Frame rate conversion if the Input and the Output are both Interlaced or both Progressive and also how to do a Frame Rate Conversion from Progressive Footage to Interlaced Footage in Avid Media Composer.
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Twixtor - Working with Edits in Sony Vegas
This Tutorial explains when it is appropriate to use VideoFX and when to use MediaFX for Twixtor and how to deal with different re-timing scenarios such as Speeding up, slowing down and fit-to-fill.
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Frame Edge Issues and Twixtor
This Tutorial explains when it is appropriate to use Smart Blend and shows regular Twixtor with Inverse and with Forward Warping and compares a panning shot slowed down 10x with and without Smart Blend.
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Twixtor in Sony Vegas - Frame Rates & DeInterlacing
This tutorial demonstrates how to handle 60P footage in a 30P project and how to apply these techniques to similar scenarios. Also, shows how to handle fields in a progressive project.
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Twixtor Basics in Sony Vegas
This video tutorial shows The Basics on how to use Twixtor in Sony Vegas. It covers the basic retiming concepts as well as animating keyframes.
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DE:Noise Part 2 - Beyond the Basics
This tutorial shows how to use DE:Noise. It continues where the "Essentials" tutorial left off. This tutorial covers some of the more advanced settings to remove unwanted noise from your footage and gives examples so you can easily apply them to similar scenarios. The controls are the same in all supported applications except where I note differences.
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DE:Noise Essential Info
This tutorial shows how to use DE:Noise. It covers the essential settings to remove unwanted noise from your footage and gives examples so you can easily apply them to similar scenarios. The controls are the same in all supported applications.
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Twixtor In Smoke
This tutorial shows how to use Twixtor in Smoke. It covers the basic re-timing concepts as well as some advanced features, such as Marking edit points, re-timing Alpha mattes and using the Motion Blur feature.
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RE:Flex for AE - Morphing to Replace Missing Frames
In this RE:Vision FX video tutorial, Lori Freitag explains how to use morph to create a seamless transition and replace missing frames when using RE:Flex Morph in Adobe After Effects.
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RE:Flex for AE - Morphing in Layers
This RE: Vision Effects video tutorial, Lori Freitag shows the benefits of using a matte within your morph and the difference between doing a one layer morph and a two layer morph using a matte inside Adobe After Effects.
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RE:Flex Morphs in AE - Dissolve Rates
This RE:Vision Effects video tutorial takes the basic morph a step further, explaining how to vary the splines dissolve rates and also how to add additional still-to-still morphs along the same time-line.
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RE:Flex Still-to-Still Morphs in AE
In this RE:Vision FX video tutorial, Lori Freitag covers the basics of morphing between still images within Adobe After Effects using the RE:Flex Morph plugin.
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RE:FLEX Warp Moving Imagery
This screencast covers how to set up a warp using open and closed splines on moving imagery within After Effects.
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Warper Basics - Part 2
This screencast covers the basics on how to set up a simple warp using multiple open splines within After Effects. It is part 2 of 2 (part 1 covers a closed spline).
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Warper Basics - Part 1
This screencast covers the basics on how to set up a simple warp using a closed spline within After Effects. It is part one of two (Part 2 covers multiple, open splines).
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Handling Twixtor Artifacts in Premiere Pro
This Tutorial shows how to mark segments in an edit in order to avoid warping across edits when speeding up or slowing down the overall edit. It also explains when it is appropriate to use Smart Blend and shows Twixtor and Twixtor Pro with Smart Blend and compares a panning shot with and without Smart Blend. This tutorial also explains how to use Motion Sensitivity to avoid unwanted warping in your re-timed shot.
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Lip-Synch with Twixtor in Premiere Pro
This tutorial covers the basic concepts of time-warping a video track to a different audio track using Twixtor in Premiere Pro. As an example, we lip-synch an outdoor shoot to a studio recording. This method could also be used to sync video to another video track.
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Twixtor Speed Ramping and Fit-to-Fill in Premiere Pro
This video tutorial gives an overview of how to use Twixtor within Premiere Pro, to do a speed ramp and Fit-to-Fill. You will see an example of the Frame number and Speed option in Twixtor.
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Twixtor Overview for Premiere Pro
This video tutorial gives an overview of how to use Twixtor within Premiere Pro, including how to apply Twixtor, how to speed up and slow down footage using Twixtor, and special considerations needed.
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Frame Rate Conversions in Twixtor within FCP
In this video tutorial, Lori Freitag shows how to do frame rate convertions using Twixtor inside of Final Cut Pro for both progressive and field-based source material. Aspect ratio, resizing, NTSC and PAL conversion operations are also covered.
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Lip-Synch with Twixtor in FCP
Key framed alignment of video to audio. This tutorial covers the basic concept of timewarping a video track to a different audio track using Twixtor. As example, we lip-synch an outdoor shoot to a studio recording. This method could also be used to sync video to another video track.
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Marking Edit Points in Twixtor within FCP
This tutorial shows how to mark segments in an edit in order to avoid warping across edits when speeding up or slowing down the overall edit with Twixtor.
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Twixtor Trimming and Transitions in FCP
This video tutorial describes a bug that occurs in Final Cut Pro when doing trims and transitions on a project with Twixtor applied and how to work around it.
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Twixtor Speed Ramp in FCP
This video tutorial gives an overview of how to use Twixtor within Final Cut Pro. You will see an example using both the Frame number and the Speed option to do a speed ramp in Twixtor.
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Twixtor Fit-to-Fill in FCP
Overview of how to use Twixtor within Final Cut Pro to lengthen or shorten a sequence to fit into a specified gap using the frame number option in Twixtor.
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Twixtor Overview for FCP
This video tutorial gives an overview of how to use Twixtor within Final Cut Pro, including how to apply Twixtor, how to speed up and slow down footage using Twixtor , and special considerations needed.
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Twixtor and Unwanted Warping
This Tutorial explains how to use the Motion Sensitivity control to avoid unwanted warping in your re-timed shot.
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When to use Smart Blend in Twixtor
Things that come in and out of the frame can cause difficulties to any motion estimator. This Tutorial explains when it is appropriate to use Smart Blend and shows Twixtor and Twixtor Pro with Smart Blend and compares a panning shot slowed down 10x with and without Smart Blend.
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Frame Rate Conversion with Twixtor
Often times you need to make your edit in Premiere, Final Cut Pro or Avid and then import in After Effects to finish it or simply to do the final render, using tools such as Automatic Duck to import the project. This Tutorial demonstrates how to quickly setup large edits to do frame rate conversion with Twixtor in After Effects. In particular, we use footage from the Canon 5D Mark II that can only shoot 30 FPS and convert our edit for a 24P delivery, but this method can be applied to any frame rate conversion.
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Marking Segments with Twixtor
Optical Flow retiming might not work well when you work with footage that has cuts in it (i.e the gloopyness effect might not be what you want). If the footage was preedited elsewhere or you precomposed a set of layers, you might see some warping artifacts as you cross a scene cut point (or even a transition like a dissolve). In this tutorial we show you how to mark such segments in Twixtor so your retiming is not affected by such issue.
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Lip-Synch with Twixtor
Key framed alignment of video to audio. In this tutorial from RE: Vision Effects, Lori Freitag covers the basic concept of aligning a video track to a different audio track using Twixtor. As an example we lip-synch an outdoor shoot to a studio recording.
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Speed Ramping with Twixtor
This RE:Vision Effects tutorial by Lori Freitag covers the basics on how to do a simple Speed Ramp effect using Twixtor in After Effects.
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Twixtor Overview
RE:Vision Effects intelligently slows down, speed-up or frame rate convert your image sequence. This tutorial by Lori Freitag provides an overview of how to use Twixtor within After Effects, including how to apply Twixtor, how to speed up and slow down footage using Twixtor.
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