Comments on: Time Warp as a Weapon in Red Giant Short 'Tempo,' Plus a Super Secret Sale (Soon)

By: Stu MacQuarrie

Stu MacQuarrie — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:19:08 +0000

Picked up the Trapcode suite this morning … great deal! Particular and Shine are awesome, seriously.

By: Stu MacQuarrie

Stu MacQuarrie — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:17:02 +0000

The gunshots are too low in the mix, too. It should be almost deafening, ducking other FX. Otherwise it looks silly.

Warp stabilizing is worse than jerky camera, as far as I’m concerned.

By: Alan Hadgis

Alan Hadgis — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:12:13 +0000

I quite liked it

By: Ryan Koo

Ryan Koo — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:24:08 +0000

Easy, guys! re: Inception, however:

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Get 40% Off All Red Giant Software for the Next 24 Hours - NoFilmSchool — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:04:27 +0000

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By: FabDex

FabDex — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:56:15 +0000

Hated the “Inception”part of the music. Enough with the deep notes already ! And to Steve Schwartz: as soon as YOU make something as good as this, I’ll give a crap about your opinion.

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:41:01 +0000

Agree on the recoil! Noticed it immediately! But the blur on the red car was definitely supposed to be there; the idea being that the momentum is still there but “paused”.

Anyway, I thought it was all-round fantastic, no caveats other than the recoil thing.

By: Jerome

Jerome — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:03:44 +0000

Exactly.

Great work from Seth and Co. The music was Fantastic!

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:57:59 +0000

This is still sad for us FCPX/Motion 5 users though: http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/support/compatibility/host-applications/

(Cue commentary about what “real cinema professionals” use…)

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:47:13 +0000

Just got the email and the sale is today at 40% off for everything. Not bad.

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/

By: Steven Schwartz

Steven Schwartz — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:37:37 +0000

Hey trolls – just as soon as you make something as good as this I’ll listen to your “criticisms”. Great short!!

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:32:38 +0000

Well I loved the short overall, entertaining story good direction and editing, my critique goes to the visuals, bad cinematography with poor lighting choices and framing. VFX was bad as well, screams cheap,enough to tell the story though, I know the point of this was to sell their products for vfx, color, etc, however I would never buy anything to look like that. Anyway I still going to watch it again :)

By: hansd

hansd — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:08:17 +0000

Loved the diversionary maneuver with the slowed down paint bucket.

By: Neill Jones

Neill Jones — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:07:30 +0000

I can imagine the ad now.

Bad actors or good actors that are good at bad acting required now for short film showcasing a software house’s VFX plug-ins aimed at the indie film market. Actors must be stilted, hammy and ‘not in the moment’ as this is the only standard of actors that our customers can find.

I seriously doubt that they would purposefully use ‘bad actors’ so that if fits in with their market. I also think that it’s patronising to say that only the indie film market can get ‘bad actors’. I also think that the acting was patchy but that there were a couple of nice moments from them, especially since they were probably secondary to the VFX in terms of what was most important on the shoot. The makers have also probably played a lot of half life.

By: hansd

hansd — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:05:46 +0000

geesh, who cares? I’m glad most people don’t know how a grenade explosion looks like in reality…

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:05:40 +0000

Suffers a bit from being a sequel to the truly brilliant Plot Device. But still worth watching.

This sale had better be 70% or more off with all this hype. 20% off will be a disappointment. If the sale is marketed with more intensity than the product, everyone who misses the sale will sit on their hands till the next one.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:50:08 +0000

I think they purposely made the acting dodgy to emphasize the indie nature of the film. Basically selling the idea that no budget amateur indie film makers can do all these special effects with red giant software.

By: Dave Kendricken

Dave Kendricken — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:44:45 +0000

To be honest, this gave me a twitch in the face or two as well — incendiary is a lot different fragmentation — but the effect was so well used, I stopped caring just about straight away.

By: Logan

Logan — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:09:18 +0000

This was great! I agree with Stu and J. But over all I was caught up in the story and that’s what matters first and foremost to me.

By: Arnold

Arnold — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:47:13 +0000

Love it!hope they put up the BTS.good job though.