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Evaristo Nicholls
We exchanged numbers and said how we should do this again next year at NAB. I figured that was that, and I would go back to my life. Nope. I called Sean about a week later to ask a question about something I wanted to create. He gave me help, but then we chatted and chatted and chatted.
One call led to many, along with texts, emails and invites to live streams. Sean became the little brother I never had. He would ask my business advice, and I would beg him to show me some mograph tricks. On and on for years.
In early 2020, Sean messaged me that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. It felt like Mike Tyson punched me in the gut. After our call I remember weeping, my wife consoling me. She knew how much I loved Sean.
Digging In
Ok, enough background on to the products at hand. Some of the latest releases in the Rampant Design Tools catalog are FCP X plug-ins and Edit Essentials. Edit Essentials are a pack of 220 ProRes QuickTime light leaks, film effects, flares and more that were shot on Red cameras in 4K resolution.
I tried a few of these and created a quick demo on my YouTube channel. I used the Hard and Soft Light Overlays, Flash Transitions, Style Mattes, and Film Leaks combined using different compositing modes (which thankfully FCP X has built in).
What I really liked about using the FCP X plug-ins from Rampant were the ease of use and customization of each effect. Inside of the different effects, such as the overlays and flash transitions, you can customize hue, saturation, rotation and much more. If you like the way a certain light leak feels but you need it to be red instead of green, you can easily change the hue in the Effects Panel. With many of the effects plug-ins you can preview the effect inside the Effects panel or even preview the effect on the actual footage in your timeline and then click and drag onto your clip in the timeline.
One set of FCP X plug-ins that I mentioned earlier is the Style Mattes. I really love using these when doing fast-paced, more modern videos that need a shape-based look. If you troll YouTube for inspiration, like I do, you will most likely stumble on a 15-year old-kid doing a tutorial (that will probably make you jealous) on how to use composite modes and also how to work in diamond shaped patterns with displacement mapping from some drawing made in Adobe Illustrator and After Effects. If you want that look without all of the After Effects hassle, Style Mattes are where you need to be.
In my demo video, I used the Style Mattes X plug-in in FCP X along with hard light composite modes to give a sharp and blown-out look. Rampant Design has tons of variations on matte shapes and motions that you can expand upon by resizing, cropping, re-timing and any other way you want to affect your footage. Style Mattes can also be used as transitional elements between clips or layers of clips, this may take a little tricky transition-building by you, but if you customize a wipe to the timing of the style mattes you can quickly make your own unique shape-based transitions.
Summing Up
In the end, I always seem to love what the team over at Rampant Design Tools comes up with. Sean and Stefanie output so many high-end products, it gets hard for me to keep up! I even heard through Rampant Live that they are about to start work on a blood pack, which got me excited thinking about the combination of possibilities when you combine that with their Monster Toolkit.
FayIN is a planar tracker that builds its own 3D world to align a camera for proper placement and corner pinning. In my testing, I found that FayIN shines when the footage is free of quick pans and extreme zooms and is as simple of a shot as possible. Think of a computer screen or picture on a wall that you want to replace.
I do have to say that the ability to tweak things like size and rotation at anytime without affecting keyframes is a nice feature. If you want to really get down to the nitty-gritty you will want to watch some of the advanced tutorials Fayteq has created. They are typically around five to seven minutes, so not too long. Check them out here.
Testing
I tested FayIN using some low-light video I shot with my iPhone 6, mostly because I was lazy and I figured that would be the footage that would be hardest to track with all the noise and low level of detail. To my surprise, barring the panning, FayIN performed great, and I was able to replace a photo on my wall in a matter of minutes. You can check out my example on YouTube.
I also tried some footage where a model rolled her head from left to right, looking away from the camera and eventually toward the camera. I wanted to insert some of Rampant Design Tools (@rampantdesign) Monster Toolkit Eyes onto the model. It was pretty tricky to get it to stick properly. Also, keep in mind that you cannot add an erase mask on top of the inserted object. You would need to duplicate the footage and create a custom mask. I wanted to erase the insert where her eyelids opened up to reveal the monster-like eyes, but I had to do it the old-fashioned way.
I feel like the future of FayIN is going to be bright; they seemed to have built this plug-in with the future in mind. They have been teasing FayOUT for at least a year now offering the ability to easily do object removal. So who knows, it seems like 3D integration is only a matter of time away.
Brady Betzel is an online editor at Margarita Mix in Hollywood. Previously, he was editing The Real World at Bunim-Murray Productions. You can email Brady at brady...@gmail.com, and follow him on Twitter, @allbetzroff.
Many of you are already likely familiar with Rampant Design Tools, who are well-known in the industry for their high-quality drag-and-drop visual effects offerings. You might even have some on your system right now.
What you might not know is that Rampant is a small shop owned by the husband-and-wife-team of Sean and Stefanie Mullen, artists themselves. We thought it would be fun to get a look behind the curtain at this small company that creates tools that a lot of pros rely on every day.
This week Rampant Design Tools has released its latest offering, Budget VFX, which are multiple collections of ProRes QuickTime overlays that add light leak looks (Beauty Light), Bokeh Effects, Film Clutter and more.
The first of the new collections, called Indie Essentials, will be marketed and sold by That Studio and will offer libraries of QuickTime elements targeted at the indie filmmaker and freelance artist/editor who require accessible, affordable high-quality VFX elements.
The second of the new collections launched by Rampant, called Studio Essentials, will be marketed, sold and supported by Rampant, and will offer libraries of high quality, ultra high resolution (5K, 4K, 2K) QuickTime elements designed for the stringent, high-resolution requirements of higher end post production and Hollywood studios.
Indie Essentials are high quality, practical effects designed to enhance any independent film or project, instantly creating impressive visual effects. Kanen will tap his knowledge and expertise as an indie filmmaker, as well as his broad following in the community, to market and sell the Indies Essentials line of products.
All Indie Essentials files are high-quality visual effects, including QuickTime files (up to 2K) and are compatible with industry-popular post production software, including Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, Nuke, Avid and many more.
Studio Essentials include Rampant Design Tools entire library of high-end, ultra high resolution elements, including the Rampant Cinema Series 5K, Rampant Broadcast Series 4K, Rampant Production Series 2K, and Rampant Essentials 2K drives. Studio Essentials delivers two complete volumes of elements and offer editors and visual effects artists optimal flexibility, quality and value. Sean Mullen continues to tap his expertise as a high-end VFX artist, whose work included Hollywood and television productions such as Charmed, Ally McBeal, NCIS, Felicity, Nip/Tuck, Idle Hands, Lake Placid and Any Given Sunday.
Studio Essentials includes thousands of 5K effects, and all of the Studio Essentials are available in 2K, 4K and 5K. Studio Essentials are available on USB 3.0 drives, or users can select the 2K and 4K elements as downloads if preferred. Rampant is also offering the Next Gen For Editors sample pack which includes 10 effects from each volume in 4K for under $100. Some of the elements offered in Studio Essentials include: Studio Fire; Studio Dust, Embers and Sparks; Studio Smoke; Studio Snow; Studio Flash Transitions; Studio Bokeh; Studio Reflections; Studio Mattes; Studio Light Transitions; Studio Light Overlays; Studio Blast Transitions; Studio Impact Lights.
Rampant Design today announced the Rampant Distortion Toolkit, a new addition to its Studio Essentials library of high end, high resolution Quicktime elements for editors and motion designers. The Rampant Distortion Toolkit contains over 2,500 clips of 2K, 4K and 5K glitch and distortion elements for motion designers and editors. This volume provides a massive distortion arsenal for all editors, visual effects and motion graphics artists who require original, modern and high end effects for their feature films, episodic television or video projects. The Rampant Distortion Toolkit is ideal for Visual Effects, Compositing, Motion Graphics, Graphic Design, as well as print.
Rampant Studio Essentials includes thousands of 5K effects, and all of the Studio Essentials are available in 2K, 4K and 5K. Studio Essentials is available on USB 3.0 drives, or users can select the 2K and 4K elements as downloads if preferred. Rampant is also offering the Next Gen For Editors sampler pack which includes 10 effects from each volume in 4K for under $250. Some of the elements offered in Studio Essentials include :
Motion Graphics Essentials is THE ultimate motion graphics toolkit for video content creators. With 225 4K motion graphic elements, there is no limit to what you can create. So what are you waiting for? Grab these amazing graphics today and instantly stand out from the crowd.