Well, let me think….ok here we go..

Meteor: A meteoroid that is observed as it burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere - a shooting star.

Meteorite: A meteoroid that survives its passage through the Earth’s atmosphere and impacts the Earth’s surface.

interesting that you said free training series.

hmmmmm what could this be

that’s awesome,is that another tut,we will love it

Small pieces of space debris that are on a collision course with the Earth are called meteoroids. When meteoroids enter the Earth’s atmosphere they are called meteors. Most meteors burn up in the atmosphere, but if they survive the frictional heating and strike the surface of the Earth they are called meteorites.

looks very interesting, do we have to wait longer ? can’t wait longer.

As soon as it is online you won’t have to wait anymore.

You should go into writing, lol.

Anyway, from what I’ve been told, a meteor is the object while it’s falling from the sky, and a meteorite is the object after it has landed on Earth. Not sure, though.

I’m really excited for this (possible) new series- and since I’m not sure if you’ll get to see this if I were to post it in its’ correct place- I’m so happy for you and your family. I came around to VCP just around a month or two before your daughter was born, and now I see nothing but a very healthy, happy baby- I couldn’t be more excited for you.

All the best, and thanks so much for all this amazing stuff you do for us, Andrew!

I think a meteor is the falling of the rock with the light behind it not necessarily reaching earth but the meteorite is when a meteor complete passage and hit the ground of the earth.?wild guess

anyway Andrew we can’t wait.

Looks very interesting, now you’ve got me all worked up Andrew.

Holy Cra…erm..Carp! Looks terrific! Cant Wait

Dude that´s mean… now i have to sit and update this website every minute.

Sounds great! Can’t wait to see it

dude thats not mean, so stoked.

You tease! Can’t wait!!

Such a tease! You promised us a new tutorial this week! You should do this and the 3D motion tracking!!

I need a fix for my tutorial-vein,r eally badly!

But I guess, you’re swamped in some cool work, so I’m happy for you. But not for me!

Think of the children Andrew! The children!!

/NA

OMG! cant wait. i hope it looks high budget! like how the metorite impacts the ground in transformers! will u just be using Particular? or r u incorporating a 3D program as well?

Meteor can mean any person that moves, progresses, becomes famous, etc., with spectacular speed. Sounds like a good word to describe Andrew, or me. Really excited about the training coming out, I think it will keep me from getting any sleep this weekend, but thats a good thing. Thanks for the most awesome free training series ever, in advance.

Yes, I could outrun a meteor. Fact!

hmm…the best that will ever come up on this site, is the new one that is coming up each time…
therefore every tutorial is the best…enjoy.
Charl
Nigeria

Hey! i’m doing something (i think) very close in my work.

In 28th september (similar to april’s fool) im doing a meteorite striking one of my city’s monuments,for the local TV, involving, modelling the building in max, matchmoving the footage, generate the comet (with afterburn) and compositing…

It´s really a huge work but it`s very interesting and i`m learning a lot of things…

I`m looking for compare our works!!!

Good work Andrew!
(spain)

nice andrew.

ok meteor is the just the visible phenomena of meteoroids burning thru atmo
meteorite is what I have on my bookshelf

The Hype is set! its gonna be show time SOON…

Meteors are the rocks that just don’t have the stamina and strength of character to make it through our atmosphere, they’re the pu$$ies of the cosmic rock fraternity and are a little camp, hence the flambouyant/dramatic display when they burn up.

Meteorites on the other hand are tough Bar-Stewards, with a do or die punk attitude - they don’t care that they’re burning up and disintigrating they just want to do some damage when they final slam into earth.

All Meteorites are actually the debris from planets such as Alderaan which were destroyed by the Death Star a long time ago in a Galaxy far, far away.

the difference is the “it”… Duh!!

EEERRRRRR sounds an awful lot like EVERYTHINGFX’s meteorite tutorial

This is awesome but….u promised a tutorial this week…..is it coming?

I promised? Where?

Oh yes really need something like this for a film we are making in a few years. I’ve been creating teaser trailers for it already, stupid I know but still getting the money together for a fancy HD camcorder.

Tutorial will be well worth the wait.

“be ready this week for some fun and exciting stuff” <–you talkin bout this bob? i had a fun and exciting week and i was ready for it haha

hey man i cant wait for the new tut and the new training series and on top of that i have to stop the meteor…

Hey Andrew,

really glad that something is happening this week. Will check in every hour now instead of the normal two hours.
In the mean time, check out this meteor (or meteorites) I did ages ago for a Insurance company here in The Netherlands.
Keep up all your good charitable work you do for us.

http://www.lunaproject.com/Meteor.jpg

Stop hassling the man… he will have the tute ready when it is ready…

As an aside,

If this tute involves super powers (ala smallville run) then is it not a little ironic that Tino looks a little like Lex (Michael Rosenbaum)from Smallville?
http://images.wikia.com/smallville/images/thumb/1/11/MichaelRosenbaum001.jpg/300px-MichaelRosenbaum001.jpg

hey guys, stop pushing Andrew

or you forgot, how much FREE stuff he had already done to us?

We will wait as much as you need, Andrew

p.s. Happy birthday to your kid

one hits the ground the other doesn’t
peace out
mickoin

yea! thanks andrew!

muhahahaaa grrrr. i am happy now

Stop saying that he has promised a tutorial this week. Just wait for it! It’ll come when he’s ready. =)

ive been waiting for this for a very long time. Finally, andrew is gonna show us…yeeepee

“A meteorite is a natural object originating in outer space that survives an impact with the Earth’s surface. While in space it is called a meteoroid. When it enters the atmosphere, impact pressure causes the body to heat up and emit light, thus forming a fireball, also known as a meteor or shooting star. The term bolide refers to either an extraterrestrial body that collides with the Earth, or to an exceptionally bright, fireball-like meteor regardless of whether it ultimately impacts the surface.” (from wikipedia)

New tutorial series, could it be something we guess! combination of few topics mentioned in the blog:an abstract background, a war scene with AH-64 LONGBOW APACHE chopper( 3d chooper ), Sam walking near cliff and Boujou…..

by Andrew Kramer
August 28th, 2008 @ 2:55 pm

It’s actually not a real band but they look pretty good. New tutorial next week for sure.
Sound like a promise to me… But it’s ok, since you are a busy man and I’m on vacation starting tomorrow.

Guys — Don’t forget Andrew is our master,
If we should wait, we are waiting for the miracle:-D

…im smelling some 3D matchmoving tutorials… :]
and i love that smell :]

WOW
I said I wanted a meteor tutorial!!
I should have asked for some money

Actually I do have that tutorial but it is motion graphics, I wanted to get some VFX ones together. The week is not over yet…

According to Wikipedia:

A meteor is the visible event that occurs when a meteoroid or asteroid enters Earth’s atmosphere and becomes brightly visible. This typically occurs in the mesosphere, and most visible meteors range in altitude from 75km to 100km.

A meteorite is a portion of a meteoroid or asteroid that survives its passage through the atmosphere and impact with the ground without being destroyed.[8] Meteorites are sometimes, but not always, found in association with hypervelocity impact craters; during energetic collisions, the entire impactor may be vaporized, leaving no meteorites.

New Tutorials ? when ? I was with miss
(Brasil)

Do you ever sleep?

Meteor = Shooting Star
Meteorite = Armageddon (Thank goodness for Bruce Willis)

Meteor means a mass of rock from space that burns up after entering the Earth’s atmosphere and meteorite means a piece of rock that has reached Earth from outer space..

In the ABC Series LOST, Mr. Clucks - the chicken place where Hurley used to work - gets hit with a meteor… actually a meteorite…

Ooooooooooooooooooh!

wow! dont ppl sleep anymore?

hey andrew,
this is awesome, can’t wait to see it…
but why tino?? is sam dead?? or he just can’t run as fast as tino?? I mean this is a meteor we are talking about, we need somebody fast.. and I dont think sam is fast enough…. or has he been just kicked off the videocopilot…
By the way if you are the copilot who is the pilot??

and finally happy birthday to your little angel..

Doctor, doctor, please!
Turn up my morphine drip!
Or better - give me a new tutorial! ;D

@lebnash1: whoa hold up buddy. I’m gettin my beauty rest. It’s working hours down here in georgia.

its friday night in Australia.

Well a meteor has a direct connection with the old Angelo saxton philosophy that potatoes are above all else holy sacraments to the kingdom of Duron. Which would explain why in the late 1800’s a man by the name of Jaques Du Sole set sail to the edge of the earth to look for what he believed to be a ‘meteor” only to find the edge of the earth and bunch sea breeding sphinx mermaids. Sole’s journey would not go unnoticed, another explorer by the name of Columbus would set sail to look for the ‘new world’ as he so called and would land up on the caost of the U S of an A were he preceded to rape and pillage ll of its noncombatants. Now Columbus was a vegetarians so he was immune to their diseases and their homemade jello fruit cakes which also might explain why the moon is only full ever half quarter of a month starting on the leap week of the day Mickey Mouse died. These quarterly expectational theories set columbus into a tailspin but luckily his friend ‘iceman’ was there to take down the migs and fly home to enjoy the colts game on their surround sound projection TV next to what only could be described as a very large dog. That being said these later occurrences of the 2007 dog triathlon would directly correlate to Columbus’s love for treasure and desire to outsell the PS3 on the gamers market. He moved to Iowa. So if we review the facts and observe the slightly but not smaller ketchup stain on my shirt we will find out that a meteor is the grandchild of a meteorite and is called a meteor because of its abundance in adolescence and its lack of a sex drive. Although from time to time we see ludicrous theories like this one: If any part of a meteoroid survives the fall through the atmosphere and lands on Earth, it is called a meteorite: these theories are the conjunctions and quagulations or jumbled minds that seem to have deflated in personality and in physical aspects of a bowlers mind.

Thank You

and now you know

Tutorial??!
WHAT?? WHEN?? HOW?? WHY??? HERE????????

w8ing

@Mikey: ???????what?????

awsome! there it is the free tutorial series you announced

Obvious!!!

A meteorite is somebody who is a big fan of meteors. Glad to clear this up for everyone.

YES!!!!

THis is more exciting than the Democratic and National convention combined.
and those were exciting.

I cant wait. im really enjoying this journey into the VFX world, with the best co-pilot Ever. wait who’s the co-pilot? Are u the Captain and we are the co-pilot or vice-versa. its cool either way.

andrew last week in the blog comments u said tutorial next week for sure

andrew last week in the blog comments u said tutorial next week for sure so it is kinda a promise

Tino needs a bath…

As Joanna ?Newsom so eloquently puts it:

“That the meteorite is a source of the light
And the meteor’s just what we see
And the meteoroid is a stone that’s devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee

And the meteorite’s just what causes the light
And the meteor’s how it’s perceived
And the meteoroid’s a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet in offering to thee”

A meteor is one large particle in After Effects.

A meteorite is a smaller particle in After Effects, but using Particular, it can wreak havok with massive amounts of meteorites “Particular-ized” throughout the scene.

Can I outrun a meteor?
….That all depends on whether my tracking lets go of my image as the meteor approaches, or if it keeps me running super-fast off the screen as the meteor is approaching.

COOL!
I Alredy work on meteor strike.
Andrew,
I can’t wait.

@ bob

Let it be man, let it be…

Of course I am sure Andrew can make it available to you quicker…. for about $500

Is that the matchmoving training series?
O My God. You did not promise but in the post Smashed I think, you said this week we would have one. Anyways…I am glad the tutorial or whatever is that cool.

I Want It!

You’ve gotta love people who aren’t happy with free tutorials, they want more and they want it NOW!!!

Christ, some people are never happy. Patience is a virtue, selfish whinging and moaning is not.

Keep up the good work Andrew, Cheers man!

Come on, don’t bother Andrew with things like “You promised a new tutorial this week”. Be happy with the fact he will do this for us…for free…

This site is awsome and i’m looking forward to the matchmoving tutorial(s).

Keep it up

Cheers from Holland

Wouter

youtube.com/user/wouterg93

Andrew

Your tutorials are a Godsend.
I, like everone else, constantly visit your magnificent blog and trend setting tutorial section; constantly and obssively visiting your site more than 20 times a day!

In the meantime I am learning 3DS max from the ground up so that I can better follow some of your 3d tutorials,

Well, until your next post, we all will be waiting…. patiently!

that is cruel, now I have to watch this site day and night 24/7…

its funny reading a lot of times ”free”.

its obviosu that some people here just want free tutorials.

i myself support this site with the DVD’s.

OMG… the suspense is killing me! Can’t wait to see what you have cooked up this time! Looking forward to seeing the next tutorial, been missing them.

Keep it up Andrew, I’m sure it will be worth waiting for, they always are…

I myself support this site with telling everyone: “Hi, I’m Andrew Kramer from videocopilot.com”.

Maybe I should buy a dvd instead.

Trivia: What is the difference between a meteor and a meteorite?

eeuh maybe no difference

Shortly I was googling for Tinos Company > TinoMedia.

The Link I found made me wonder! Its lets say an “Adult Film” company from Germany, with a cruel Website.

Hmm, strange things are happening these days, seems like its the end of the world and Meteors could come down on us!

Not to get off topic, but I have the same shirt as him. Or it seems to be…

Unless you can run at approximately 18,000 mph, you’re probably not going to beat a meteor.

Though, must aren’t much bigger than a peanut.

–
James

Didn’t Joe dirt have a meteor, wait…that was just crap, nevermind.

i have a feeling that this will be a heavy VFX tutorial.
i expect a lot of particles.

Looks great Andrew, but Tino look like Sigourney Weaver
in Alien3 in that picture

Andrew, first of all.
I want to thank you for your AWSOME TRAINIG !!
Iwant to dare and make a suggestion to you, because I see that you can do virtually EVERYTHING.
Can we have a tutorial or a project about a tornado destroying a city, you know debris everywhere and flying cows. XD !!! lol It would be great and fun.
Well, I hope you take this suggestion some day.
THANKS FOR YOUR TIME READING IT !

dude, Tino looks like he could be your brother…

A meteoroid that survives its passage through the Earth’s atmosphere and impacts the Earth’s surface is meteorite.

Meteor is the man, Meteorite is the woman, I mean male female….is like petit, petite…. etc…

but what does that have to do with tutorials? where are the tutorials?

cant wait!

A meteor is a piece of space debris that enters the Earth’s atmosphere and burns up due to friction.

A meteorite is a piece that enters the atmosphere, survives the friction, crashes down and GRANTS SUPERPOWERS to whomever finds it

Or, you know, makes you go extinct, if your last name rhymes with “thesaurus”…

Looking forward for this project… Looking good…

Superman could outrun the meteor. I wonder if the hulk could withstand it?

Meteor(ites) travel at a whopping 6-10,000 miles per SECOND, I dislike the fact that some hollywood films have people trying to outrun the meteor, or will see it and they will have a countdown, it would take less than a second from our atmosphere to impact. Less than 5 seconds from when it became visible with the naked eye.

Something to think about

Looks cool Andrew. Seems the meteor may have have something to do with the matchmove series too?! Maybe the meteor puts a huge whole in the ground thus when the matchmoving and 3d work comes into play!

Okay, so what’s the difference between an asteroid and an asterisk?

A Meteor is when its ouside of your atmosphere(When its not burning up)

A meteorite is when it enters your atmosphere to the time it penentrates your precious earth and ignorant humanoid has collected snatch it (when it burns up,”like a shooting star”)

its like a Volcaon when the hot molten rock of metal is BENEATH the earths CRUST is called MAGMA, when its OUTSIDE of the earths CRUST its called LAVA.

Oh i probably could outrun a meteor if i could fly in outspace like SUPERMAN, sure ofcourse……

hahaha I checked TinoMedia too… I’m impressed by the production value of it hahaha. So that’s what u were busy with lately… niiice.

wow so cool this will be a nice one

This is exactly what i was thinking about on my way home from school today, i’ve been wanting to do something like this for film class.

A meteor freak like smallville? lol

Awesome. Sounds like fun stuff you got planned for us.

A meteorite is when a meteor enters the Earth’s atmosphere.
A meteor is when it is out of the Earth’s atmosphere.

Can’t wait!

yo man so is there going to be tutorials this week??

btw i cant wait any longer lol.

just a simple this week or next week will do.

I think meteor are bigger than meteorite it’s just my opinion ^^

I can’t wait anymore

Yes. I can outrun a meteor. I have been practicing for a couple years now and I think i’m ready to outrun UsainBolt a meteor.

What a waste! Why bother making special effects for out running meteors when i do on the weekends anyways? Haha. This looks great and i willing to bet on that this is the 3D motion tracking series. I just hope Tino doesn’t lose his card game in all this chaos!

well i can say this now ,what ever tutorial you have i know i have the tools to make it ,no whining any more i got after effects cs3 ,Boujou4 ,3Dmax 2009 and am locked and load ,hit me baby:)

by the way, Real Clouds is pretty cool

Hi Andrew, recently bought the Bullet and I can’t thank you enough. It taught me so much and those tips will help so much in my next video production. You really got a gift for teaching!

Eagerly anticipating your next tutorials…

For those who care, a meteor is what you see streaking across the sky (the bright trail), a meteorite is the chunk of debris that strikes the ground. And just for completeness, a meteoroid is the chunk of rock or metal when found in space.

Michael J. Narlock
Head of Astronomy
Cranbrook Institute of Science

hope the out running looks like this
http://www.fwatheater.com/#video/technology/601/comcast-runner.html

ooohh! I know I know…. The one is wrong and the other is right!

So am i correct??

wow so cool this will be a nice one.

I look forward to the tutorial. I cannot hink of one of your tutorials that was not helpful in one way or another, and they are all very entertaining as well. Thank you for taking the time to these. As soon as I can get some bucks together I plan to make some purchases to support you.

Thanks again!

Montara Mike

I’m officially stoked for this!

thank you, this site is so great. we even have some science over here

This new tutorial is gonna be a render hog.

Hope you got your Quadcores and at least 8GB ram ready to rock

cant wait for tuts man ahhahhaha im gunna go roast one

If sam wont blow up in million pieces with that meteor, i dont want to see anything >.<.

(L) sam

What was the card game? Probably Solitaire.

a meteorite is a meteor that enters the earths apmosphere

Well not knowing much about the trivia question. Just by the looks of it I would have to say one of the differences is …the spelling..?..?

Meteorite has “ite” at the end…

Where are you andrew kramer?, where are youuuuuuuu!???!!

The meteor is simply the visible event rather than an object itself.

Take your time Andrew, I’m still on lesson 10.

bah post it already!!!!!

iradoo!!!
sou do brazillllllll!!!

By the way that is a very nice CC treatment Andrew.

I can’t wait for this!!!!!!!

hola excelentes tutoriales muy bueno y mas cuando hay que usar el 3d max junto con el after effects

el meteoro pues es todo a quel que tiene lugar en la atmosfera creo yo y el meteorito es lo contrario cuando pasa la atmosfera y se desintegra

un saludo

Hi,

Long time visitor, first time commentor. Interesting unrelated topic… comments were too many to read so here’s my educated high class posh reply:

Meteor: The big round thingy bob in the sky that makes americans goes yeehaa (i’m from UK btw)

Meteorite: Pieces of the big round thingy bob that breaks off the big one and lands on earth (it seems to only land in USA). Or it is the green thing that glows when Clark Kent comes near it and makes him all weak. Depending on what planet it’s from, it has different names:
e.g.
Debris from Krypton: Krypton
Earth debris in space, aliens call it Humanite

So back to reality again, i really do love this site/blog

juju i cant wait!!!!

hey man, where u in London in late august?
I could have sworn I saw somebody that looked like you.
maybe im seeing things now!

Andrew this one will be great, i know that but i´m still waiting for the 3d tracking tutorial, is it in progress??

I was 7 pairs deep in a vicious game of Go Fish when I saw my first meteor. It changed my life too.

I feel for you Tino. Stay strong brother.

Can you give us a hint about the new training series? Please!!!

i can’t wait for this, but i kinda have a bandwidth usage limit, so i have to let off of checking every few hours for the new one… i have to wait a while before i do ANYTHING… my limit of 100% (DUH) is at 98% so i guess i should ease off.

but back to the point(dull as it may be)i think we can wait… i’ve known about this site since there wer about 7 tutorials total, and i think we can wait.

and yes… i could out run a meteor. until:
the meteor comes down, you think you’re out of the way, but NOO!!!! it bounces off of a metal building and crushes you, steamroller/indiana jones style:)

so, TO ANDREW! he gives us cool stuff! FOR FREE!!!\

Hi Adrew,

I’m a (small time) music video producer from South Africa, but since I’ve discovered your website & tutorials, I’ve moved up to a new level! I’m now able to offer a whole new range of possibilities to my clients. I cannot thank you enough for this.
I’m sure that I will be able to purchase some of your stunning packages very soon with the money that I’m generating with my new abilities. (Our money has no value compared to the mighty dollar)

In the meantime, I’ll offer you some stock footage from Africa - anything you need?

Regards

Donovan

@payton

Hip Hip HUrraY!.

That last sentence seems like you are drinking, so cheers my friend! Lets HAve AnoThER !.

its only 8.20 am in argentina, and im drinking beer.

Awesome weekend ahead.

hey we want some tutorials….i know u work too hard but tell us what coming next??…or u have to post a blog where we vote some tutorials…is more easy for u!!
i think so!!

Andrew, you sure got me hooked! Keep up the good work and thanks for all the time you put into teaching us all. Whenever your ready…we all will be waiting. Thanx!

Andrew,
First, Love your site! You’re doing a great service for many people, ecspecially me! Thank You. May I suggest one thing: Open up a forum to answer some user questions that we would need someone of your calibre to answer. Don’t have to take many, maybe 5 each month? For instance, why did Starburst change in CS3??!! Now I have to add contrast and color just to make the stars white now? Seems crazy, but it’s all I can do. How about it ? I’m sure many would benefit having their questions answered.
Thanks man, keep up the GREAT work!

Andrew what would it cost us to get this tutorial sooner!? im in Aus (the future), so ive been waiting longer than everyone :(… its sunday (end of the week).

nevermind, take your time man

Meteor is when its in the air, space, whatever just not landed on the earth. 80% of them burn themselves till they hit the ground. But that 10% is called meteorite and those are “landed meteors”.

a meteor is spelt meteor
a meteorite is spelt meteorite
both big a$$ rocks

Did he just say tht a free tutorial..Hmm… wooww.. Tht would seriously interesting.. VC ROCKS…

This is EXACTLY what I want to do for Star Wars Fan Film for my 8 year old son and his buddies - Can’t wait - Andy …. Don’t die yet (LOL)

Thanks for all the tutes to date - without them I’d have Never tackled AE … just wudda left it there

hey did u say series?? wow that awsome we cant wait anymore……POST IT!!!!!!im nervious!!!

A meteor only has six legs whereas a meteroite has 8 legs and feeds on human blood and lives under flaps of skin. I know this is true because I read it on wikipedia.

If the meteor will be made by means of Afterburn instead of Particle system tutorial will be magnificent…

i have quadcore and 4 gb of ram i hope is ok :))…
best regards to andrew !!!

Oh my freaking tortilla :O
waaant it noow

Call it a meteor or a big @$$ rock, it doesn’t change the fact that I can neither out run or design one. Hopefully one of those will change soon.

Real sweet, nice detail on the impactsite and smoke etc.
Very very fresh!

the shadow of cameramen on his glasses!

How long I have to wait for this Tutotrial please?