| Meet John Rofrano
Creative COW Forum Host
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John Rofrano
New York, New York USA
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John Rofrano is an author, trainer, software architect, videographer, musician, vocalist, and songwriter. His early musical influences were people like Peter Nero, Jimmy Smith, Lee Michaels, and later Rick Wakeman, and Keith Emerson. He admires songwriters like Burton Cummings and Randy Newman for their unique styles, and bands like Yes, ELP, and Gentle Giant for their musicianship and willingness to push the envelope.
John spent 10 years back in the 70's as a working rock musician paying his dues playing keyboard in nightclubs and studios with various bands in the NY/NJ/Conn tri-state area, but his interest in the early days of electronic music and MIDI programming ultimately lead to a career in computer science where he has recently been working in the area of Grid Computing and On Demand Computing. John holds patents in the computer science field and has published papers in the IBM Systems Journal, and Dr Dobbs Journal. He is also the author of several popular software script plug-ins for Sony Vegas software that are sold by VASST.
Ever since taking a course in college on video and TV production, John has always wanted to create his own videos. Although he bought his first video camera in 1989, it was not until the time of Sonic Foundry Vegas 3 that John really started doing non-linear editing on his computer. He has spent his time since then mastering Sony Vegas and Sony ACID and has authored several books (Instant ACID, Instant Vegas Movie Studio) and VASST training DVD’s on the topic. His interest in video has lead him to writing sound tracks for his works and eventually full circle back to his roots in writing music again where he enjoys using Sony ACID Pro as his primary music composition tool.
When not making videos, music, or writing software, you can find John hanging out at the Creative Cow and other forums just trying to help out. His motto: "Never forget where you came from, for you were once a newbie too."
You can find John Rofrano hosting in Creative COW's Genarts Sapphire Edge, and Sony Vegas Forums.
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Boris FX
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Color Match in Sony Vegas Pro
If you have ever done a multi-camera shoot where you needed to match camera
colors, or if you have done a single camera shoot where the lighting
conditions changed, then BCC Color Match could save you hours and hours of
time. This Boris Continuum Complete filter quickly matches the color and
luma values from the highlight, midtone, and shadow areas of two separate
clips.
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Type-On Text in Sony Vegas Pro
John Rofrano takes a look at Boris Continuum Complete's Type-On Text filter in Sony Vegas Pro. 3D extruded text can be animated in true 3D space in a type-on or type-off fashion with each letter precisely interacting with the rest of the text in 3D. All 3D properties of the BCC Extruded Text filter are available in the Type-On effect.
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Extruded Spline and Extruded EPS in Sony Vegas Pro
John Rofrano takes a look at Boris Continuum Complete's Extruded Spline and Extruded EPS filters in Sony Vegas Pro. BCC Extruded Spline allows you to create 3D extruded objects fully-modeled with bevels and spline-based extrusion profiles. BCC Extruded EPS provides an easy way to import and extrude Adobe Illustrator layered vector logos and graphics inside Vegas Pro.
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BCC Match Move in Sony Vegas Pro
Learn how to lock the movement of an image clip to another image clip using Boris Continuum Complete's Match Move filter in Sony Vegas Pro.
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Mastering Materials in Sony Vegas Pro 10
In this Boris FX video tutorial John Rofrano takes a look at "mastering materials" with Boris Continuum Complete's 3D Objects filters in Sony Vegas Pro 10.
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BCC Extruded Text in Sony Vegas Pro 10
In this Boris FX video tutorial John Rofrano takes a look at the Text Properties, Render Properties, and Extrusion Properties of Boris Continuum Complete's Extruded Text filter in Sony Vegas Pro 10.
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