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What are the common movie making software

Summary: Movie production is a very tedious process. The so-called movie production is the film or software produced by the film animation, do post-processing, so that it forms a complete film, including adding special effects, adding text, and for the film to produce sound and so on. Movie software software can be specifically divided into plane software, synthesis software, non-linear editing software, three-dimensional software. Common movie production software are 3DMAX, AdobePremierePro, Combustion and so on. Below and I'll take a look at the knowledge of the movie production! First, what are the movie production software

1, three-dimensional software

Three-dimensional software: 3DMAX, MAYA, and Softimage, ZBrush, film and television training.

ZBrush

ZBrush is a digital sculpting and painting software, it revolutionized the entire three-dimensional industry with powerful features and intuitive workflow. It provides users with the same functionality as a traditional sculptor, where the mouse acts as an artist's hand, free to pinch and mold the desired form.

3dsmax

3dsmax U.S. Autodesk's computer three-dimensional modeling and rendering software, the software was named 3DS, because similar to the dos era, the need to memorize a large number of commands, due to the use of inconvenience, and then changed to max, graphical user interface, more convenient to use. max has been V1.0, 1.2, 2.5, 3.0, 2.5, 3.0, 3.0, 3.0, 3.0, 3.0, 3.0, and 3.0. 2.5, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 (not subdivided) ...... Developed to more than 9.0 version, gradually improve the lighting, material rendering, modeling and animation production. Widely used in architectural design, three-dimensional animation, audio and video production and other kinds of static and dynamic scene simulation production.

MAYA

Maya is the world's top three-dimensional animation software produced by the United States Autodesk Corporation, the application object is a professional film and television commercials, character animation, movie stunts, etc. Maya function is perfect, flexible, easy to learn and use, production efficiency is very high, rendering a strong sense of reality, is a high-end production software for the movie level. Its high price, reputation, is the producer's dream production tools, mastered Maya, will greatly improve the production efficiency and quality, adjusted to simulate the role of animation, rendering a movie in general, the real effect of the world's top animators step forward.

Houdini

Houdini is a very powerful software for special effects, mainly facing the movie industry's special effects production and synthesis. With other such as 3DSMax/AfterEffects and other three-dimensional animation, special effects synthesis software is different, Houdini is a node software, node operation has a very strong logic, but also a dynamic modeling software, through a node and commands will be a variety of objects together, in response to the film and television special effects containing a very large number of visual elements of the synthesis through the node operation is easier to manage thousands of objects. The operation of nodes is easier to manage thousands of visual elements, while other visual elements through the layer to operate visual effects synthesis software such as AfterEffects in the face of thousands of visual elements is obviously unrealistic. Many movie special effects are done by it: the Lord of the Rings "Gandalf" put those "magic flowers" and the "water horse" washed down the "Ringwraith" scene "...... The tornado scene in The Day After Tomorrow, the a52 car commercials. Anyway, as long as it involves DD's production of Hollywood's first-tier blockbusters, almost all of them will have Houdini participation and application.

2, editing software

Editing software: AdobePremierePro, FinalCutPro, EDIUS, SonyVegas, Autodesk, Smoke, etc., the more mainstream software is FinalCutPro, EDIUS two.

premiere

A commonly used video editing software. Its latest version is AdobePremiereCC.

FinalCutPro

FinalCutPro is a product in FinalCutStudio, FinalCutStudio also includes Motionlivetypesoundtrack and other subtitling, packaging, sound software.FinalCutPro is a sophisticated video editing program made by Apple. It is the multimedia news editing software of choice for use on Apple computers, and is comparable to Adobe's Premiere video editing program.FinalCutPro is a high-performance, full-featured application that offers excellent scalability, precise editing tools, and a seamless workflow.FinalCutPro is available via PCI card for HD-SDI in addition to In addition to acquiring HD-SDI via PCI cards, FinalCutPro also supports acquiring and outputting DVCPROHD formats via the FireWire interface, and it can edit most input formats.

AdobePremiere

AdobePremiere is a commonly used video editing software by Adobe. Commonly used versions such as cs5.5 and cs6. It is a software with better quality of editing screen, has better compatibility and can collaborate with other software introduced by adobe. This software is widely used in the production of advertising and television program production.

3, synthesis software

Synthesis software: AE, Combustion, DFsion, Shake, premiere, etc., each with a different layer and node-based synthesis software (the first two are layers after the two node-based).

AE

AE full name AfterEffects, is a video editing and design software developed by adobe, used for high-end video effects system of professional effects synthesis software, belonging to the United States Adobe. It draws on the success of many outstanding software, the video effects synthesis rose to a new height: Photoshop in the introduction of layers, so that AE can be multi-layer synthetic image control, to create a seamless synthesis effect; keyframes, the introduction of paths, so that we control the advanced two-dimensional animation with ease; efficient video processing system to ensure that the output of high-quality video; The dazzling stunt system enables AE to realize all the user's creativity;

AE also retains Adobe's excellent software inter-compatibility. It is very easy to access Photoshop, Illustrator layer files; Premiere's project files can also be reproduced in AE nearly perfectly; and even Premiere's EDL files can be accessed. The new version can also flexibly mix 2D and 3D in a single composite. Users can work in 2D or 3D or mix and match on a layer by layer basis. Layers can be converted to 3D at any time using 3D layer switching; both 2D and 3D layers can be moved horizontally or vertically; and 3D layers can be animated in 3D space while maintaining interaction with lights, shadows, and cameras! And AE supports most audio, video, and graphic formats, and even pulls in files that record 3D channels to make changes.

Combustion

Combustion is a 3D video effects software, based on the PC or Apple platform Combustion software is designed for the creation of visual effects and a set of cutting-edge tools, including vector painting, particles, video effects processing, track animation, as well as 3D effects compositing and other five major tool modules. The software offers a number of powerful and unique tools, including motion graphics, 3D compositing, color correction, image stabilization, vector drawing and rotating text effects, short-form editing, performance, Flash output, and more; in addition to new capabilities for creating motion graphics and compositing art, an improved interactive interface; enhancements to its drawing tools to interact with the 3dsmax software; and the possibility of using the cleaner codec software to work with flint, flame, inferno, fire, and smoke.

Shake

Shake provides film and video editors with all the tools they need to create beautiful visual effects for TV and film, and is a product of NothingReal, a company that launched in 1997 and was acquired by Apple in 2002. In the years that followed, Apple upgraded Shake, and after releasing Shake 4.1 in mid-2006, Apple said it would no longer upgrade it. However, in late 2008, Apple updated it again to bring version 4.1.1, but only with some minor improvements. (Discontinued software)

SOFTIMAGE

SOFTIMAGE Inc. is a subsidiary of Avid Canada, Inc. SOFTIMAGE3D is an essential tool for professional animation designers. Works created and produced with SOFTIMAGE3D occupy a major market in the entertainment and film industries. Many of the shots in movies such as Titanic, The Lost World, and The Fifth Element were created with SOFTIMAGE3D, creating stunning visual effects.

Nuke

NUKE is a digital node-based compositing software developed by TheFoundry. It has been 10 years in the making and has won an AcademyAward. NUKE provides artists with the means to create high quality photographic images without the need for specialized hardware platforms, but provides artists with a flexible, efficient, cost-effective, and full-featured tool for combining and manipulating scanned photographs, video boards, and computer-generated images. Used on nearly 100 films and hundreds of commercial and music television productions in the digital arena, the NUKE has the advanced ability to seamlessly integrate the final visual effects with the rest of the movie and television, regardless of the style or complexity of the visual effects to be applied.

DFsuion

DFusion is a high-end compositing platform for post-production, stand-alone graphic effects for film and television, featuring tools that have been developed by professional effects artists and editors specifically for the needs of film and television production. These advanced tools have been comprehensively synthesized into software that can easily meet (and cope with) the requirements of the future development of film and video compositing features, and are suitable for high-end broadcast video, WEB, DVD, and a variety of video formats.

DFusion is structured as an advanced, accurate, multi-threaded processing environment. While background tasks handle all time-consuming operations, users are able to utilize this time to build new projects. Precise pipeline management ensures that users work on other frameworks while using resources, framework preloading, and saving. This allows DFusion to fully utilize the resources of multiple processors to accelerate rendering. Fault tolerance is also significantly enhanced, even when processing on a single processor. Another benefit of the multi-threaded architecture is DFusion's ability to render different effects on multiple workstation systems. A dual-CPU machine will nearly double the speed of response for a flow project or even an interactive operation. It will also allow a machine with limited memory to be more efficient by reducing or removing the same instructions from the ram while the software is in use. Of course, try to use high-end multiprocessor machines as much as possible, as this allows for better software preloading and increased fault tolerance.

Because of DFusion's application-oriented design, the various building blocks of the software can be efficiently combined with any project along different paths. Any operation can be keyframed and animated. The motion tracking system makes it as easy to track a point as it is to create a motion path, and the tools can be used in any way imaginable. This makes even more dazzling and unusual effects possible.

Avid

Avid Technologies, Inc. provides a full range of digital media solutions, from program production and management to broadcast. As an industry-recognized professional digital standards, Avid can provide media production professionals from video, audio, film animation, stunts to streaming media production and other aspects of the world's leading technical means, Avid non-linear editing products have a large number of customer groups in China. Commonly used in China: low-end AvidLiquid and AvidXpressPro version. And some large TV stations are using the AvidMC series and higher products. And Avid has been fully supported by high-definition signal editing, mixing and editing, Avid products for television production, news production, commercials, music programs and CDs, more suitable for corporate promotional programs and most of the film production, which makes Avid become the world's leading non-linear editing systems manufacturing enterprises. Today, based on its technology foundation that has won numerous awards such as the Oscars, Grammys, Emmys, etc., Avid has expanded its application in the field of digital media **** enjoy storage and distribution. Avid not only launched the Apple machine as the carrier of the workstation, in order to adapt to the mainstream operating system, launched to the PC as the carrier of the workstation, built under the XP system products. In managing today's increasingly rich and dynamic media, Avid provides powerful servers, networks, and media tools for domestic and international users to search for files, enjoy media, and collaborate on new products. avid's solutions make it easy for users to distribute media, whether it's over the air, over cable, over satellite, or over the Internet. avid's distinctive, end-to-end solutions integrate Avid's distinctive end-to-end solutions combine media creation, management and distribution. The company is headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, USA.

Software Suite Includes:

AvidMediaComposer for Non-Linear Movie and Video Editing

AvidStudioToolkit for Avid Movies and Videos

AvidLiquidv7.0, AvidLiquidv7.0, AvidLiquidv7.0, AvidLiquidv7.0, AvidLiquidv7.0, AvidLiquidv7.0, AvidLiquidv7.0 and AvidLiquidv7.0. AvidLiquidv7.0SP2build3210"

"AⅥD Video Editing Professional HD Edition" AⅥDXPRESSPROHD

"AⅥDFX Subtitle System" A VIDFX

"AvidSoftImage|XSIv4.2Behavior"

CG Digital Asset Management" AvidAlienbrainStudio

Commotion

Commotion is produced by the Pinnacle company - a set of PC and MAC platform based on the special effects synthesis software. Commotion has fewer users in China. However, this does not mean that it is not powerful. On the contrary, Commotion has excellent performance. At the same time, because Pinnacle is a hardware board design company, so its hardware support ability is also very strong.Commotion and AfterEffects are very similar. Commotion is extremely similar to AfterEffects, and it has very powerful drawing features. It can be customized with a wide variety of strokes and can record stroke animations. This, in turn, makes it very similar to Photoshop and Illustrator. once someone jokingly called, CommotioniSababyOfAfterEffectsandPhotoshop. commotion in addition to its powerful drawing features, motion tracking is also very powerful. At the same time, its special effects function is not inferior to other special effects synthesis software. Its user-friendly interface also makes it very easy to use. Overall, it's a modest software in all respects, with the latest version 4.1.

Illusion

Avid's Illusion is a synthesis software that combines movie stunts, compositing, painting, and morphing software in a single package. It is based on SGI's full range of platforms uncompressed digital non-linear post-editing and stunt production system, with a highly efficient production environment, production quality and integrated functional modules.

Inferno* System

Running on SGI SuperWorkstations, the Inferno* System is a multi-award-winning, world-recognized system for the production of the finest special effects in film and television, from Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Tornado, Independence Day, Sky and Earth, Starship Troopers, Godzilla, and The Mummy to the most successful film in movie history, Titanic.

Alias|Wavefront

The predecessor of the software is Alias, which was originally developed by Alias Inc. in Toronto, Canada, and runs on all types of SGI graphics workstations and the IBMR60000 series of graphics workstations, which are divided into a number of classes of products, ranging from the low to the high level of the following: Designer, Animator, PowerAnimator, Studio and AutoStudio.

5DCyborg

5DCyborg in the domestic field of film and television production, there have been people in the use of a high-level special effects post-production synthesis software --- 5DCyborg, which has advanced workflow, interface * work It has advanced workflow, interface* mode and high-speed computing capability; it can synthesize and edit images of different resolutions, bit depths and frame rates, and even 2K resolution images can be played back in real time. 5DCyborg can be applied to the synthesis of movies, standard definition images (SD) and high-definition (HD) images, and it can greatly improve the efficiency of post-production work. Not only does it have basic color correction, keying, tracking, color pencils, timeline, and anamorphic functions, but it also has over 200 kinds of special effects.

CGPM

The post-production project management platform and multimedia asset management software includes modules for personnel management, project plan management, change control management, production progress tracking, version control, resource library management, project auditing, performance management, and project costing, etc. CGPM has been involved in a number of large-scale film and television post-production projects, and has managed more than 20,000 shots and 70,000 seconds of animation. CGPM has participated in many large-scale film and TV post-production projects, managing more than 20,000 shots and more than 70,000 seconds of animation and visual effects production, providing indispensable and important assistance to all aspects from management to project teams to production staff.

4, production software

adobepremiere: Adobe, a powerful video processing software, you can create a variety of video effects, non-linear editing, video editing is not bad

aftereffect: a very good video effects production software, excellent in the production of special effects

acoustic shadow: Youli video editing software, provides a variety of filter effects, you can achieve a variety of video effects, and can realize the "video keying" function, that is, often used in the production of film "blue screen", "green screen", "green screen", "green screen", "green screen", "green screen", "green screen", "green screen", "green screen", "green screen", "green screen". "green screen" function, is a very good DV post-processing software

Two, film and television post-production process

First cut

Also known as rough cut. Nowadays, the editing work is usually done in the computer, so the shooting material after the magnetization, to be input into the computer director and editor to start the first cut. In the first cut, the director puts the footage together in the order of the script and edits it into a version with no visual effects, no narration, and no music.

Formal Cut

After the first cut has been approved, it is time to move on to the formal cut, which is also known as the fine cut. In the fine-cutting part, the first thing to do is to modify the unsatisfactory parts of the first cut, and then the work of the stunt part will be synthesized into the commercials, and the work of the commercials and the picture part will be completed here.

Composing or selecting music

The music for a commercial can be composed or selected. The difference between the two is: if the music is composed, the commercial will have unique music and the music can be perfectly combined with the picture, but it will be more expensive; if the music is selected, it will be more economical in terms of cost, but other commercials may also use this music.

Special effects recording

This stage is a more critical stage, will not be able to shoot or shoot the effect of the bad place for special effects production, here will be the use of very professional special effects software, we have seen a lot of strong visual effects of the movie is because of the special effects recorded in this link to do a very good job.

Voice-over synthesis

This is where the narration and dialog are done. After the narration and dialogue is completed, after the music is completed, the sound editor will match the commercial with a variety of different sound effects, so that the sound of a commercial part of the factors are all ready, the last process is to all of the above elements and their respective volume adjusted to the appropriate position and synthesized together.