[image title=”ceraum” size=”thumbnail” id=”608″ align=”none” linkto=”[site_url]/600/importing-from-the-uk-for-the-smoke-course/ceraum”]Over the last several years, I’ve had the good fortune to travel in Asia doing master classes for flame users in Japan, Korea, Thailand and more. One of the best parts of the tour was getting the chance to hang with CE Raum, an incredibly talented smoke editor who has helped build several finishing departments. When he went freelance and became available to do a course for us at fxphd (something we have been trying to arrange for years) we jumped at the opportunity.

With NAB happening in April, CE was able to spend some time before and after the show in Chicago recording classes for fxphd. You wanna talk an expressions geek fest? Guilty as charged. But the great thing about CE (and his classes at fxphd) is his view of the smoke as the center of a facility…and the final step in finishing. He’s showing how it really excels as a final finishing device. For instance, he’s using expressions and scripting to do things that I haven’t done in the shot-based flame…things like creating versions and slates efficiently, modifying Mocha AE tracking data and applying it to bilinears, and sharing some fun creative-based expressions for those editors who end up designing in smoke.

Anyway, it was a blast having him in town the last several weeks before he returned to the UK for some freelance gigs. The guy is in high demand, even in these economic times….