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Mark ChristiansenMark Christiansen is the author of After Effects Studio Techniques (Adobe Press). He has created visual effects and animations for feature films including Pirates of the Caribbean 3, The Day After Tomorrow and films by Robert Rodriguez. Past corporate clients include Adobe, Cisco, Sun, Cadence, Seagate, Intel and Medtronic, and broadcast work has appeared on HBO and the History Channel. Mark's roles have included producing, directing, designing and effects supervision, and his solo work has appeared at film festivals including L.A. Shorts Fest. Long a Contributing Editor at DV Magazine during its heyday, Mark has been contracted as a marketing and technical writer on numerous occasions for Adobe Systems Inc. as well as related companies such as Red Giant Software. He has taught at fxPhd.com and Academy of Art University. His career began at LucasArts Entertainment and he is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Pomona College. 
Adobe Media Encoder - another hidden gem?After Effects Script of the Week: Add Parented Null to Each Selected LayerUse Dynamic Link to bring Warp Stabilizer to Premiere Pro CS5.5After Effects Script of the Week: Tracker2MaskAfter Effects Script of the Week: rd_MergeProjectsAfter Effects Script of the Week: Get Sh*t DoneAfter Effects Script of the Week: pt PanoramaAfter Effects Script of the Week: pt TextEditAfter Effects Script of the Week: Change Render LocationsAfter Effects Script of the Week: pt ExpressEditAfter Effects Script of the Week: MochaImportAfter Effects Script of the Week: KeyTweakAfter Effects Script of the Week: pt EffectSearchAfter Effects Script of the Week: ImmigrationScript of the Week: Shortcut Key ReferenceScript of the Week: True Comp DuplicatorScript of the Week: 3D ExtruderScript of the Week: BG RendererIntroducing: After Effects Script of the WeekRed Giant’s newest Plot Device: Magic Bullet Looks 2Free Stereo Footage from Artbeats, and an After Effects tutorial showing how to use it in CS5.5Premiere Pro for DSLR in a few easy stepsASSIMILATE announces Mac support for SCRATCH, updates product line and pricesAfter Effects CS5.5 in ProductionASSIMILATE SCRATCH first out of the gate with RED Epic HDRx support
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Tip: Force an After Effects Render not to FailHad it with Out of Memory errors? Here’s a hack to help in CS3 and CS4. If you’ve ever tried rendering a composition made up of one or more large images - say, a single huge matte painting or several layers of 4k footage - you have probably encountered the dreaded Out of Memory error causing your render to fail. What to do about this? more »Convert RED Camera R3D Footage Losslessly, Painlessly, ConfidentlyDo it the way Autodesk recommends and don’t fret about lost data If you’re a regular at this site you may recall 5 Tips to Maintain Sanity in RED Post.. The key point of that article was to assert that since you cannot write an R3D file, you must convert and it is best to do so early in order to save many wasted cycles processing full 4K (when the output is actually HD or less). Today’s tip tells how to convert an R3D losslessly to either 10-bit Cineon or 16-bit TIFF, and it’s backed up by a whitepaper from Autodesk. more »
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Tip: Use More than One Processor with Apple CompressorIf you’re rendering with the defaults, you’re doing it the slow way. Today’s tip is prompted by a tweet that appeared last evening from Jim Geduldick of finalcutuser.com and AENY, the NYC After Effects user group, reminding the owner of a new 8-core Mac that Compressor works best when using fewer than all 8 cores. The thing about that tip is, by default, Compressor only uses a single core to render regardless of how many are on your computer, so first you must understand how to get past that limitation. more »Tip: Browse After Effects Scripts as if Looking for Plug-insRedefinery.com makes it easy to find what you need. The point of scripts in After Effects is to reduce tedious tasks, although the best of them effectively add functionality because what they allow you to do would never be worth the trouble to do manually. Therefore if you find yourself faced with a tedious task, it’s not a bad idea to try and find a script that will help. Some sites do this better than others, and today I’m highlighting Jeff Almasol’s Redefinery as a site you can go visit right now and find the solution to one or many problems you’ve faced in the past, and are likely to re-encounter. more »Advertisement Tip: Play Anything – YouTube included - in QuickTime Mac with PerianOpen-source tool makes QuickTime playback nearly universal – but only on a Mac.
The QuickTime file format can be the cause of trouble in a production pipeline, with its moving-target gamma and all-or-nothing file integrity (if there’s one corrupted frame in an .mov, forget about opening it and recovering the rest). QuickTime Player Pro, however, has many great features missing from other standalone players (including the fantastic VLC); it just requires that anything it opens be readable as a QuickTime movie. Although it seems at times to support other formats, they will often tend to open blank. Wouldn’t it be great to just be able to double click any moving image file and open it in QuickTime? more »
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Tip: Preview a Chapter of After Effects Studio Techniques, GratisA taste test of my book is available online. After Effects CS4 Visual Effects & Compositing Studio Techniques is quite a mouthful for a book title, which may explain why I often use the shorthand above. The book stands out for a couple of reasons: one is that it deals explicitly with visual effects compositing, the process of fooling the eye into thinking disparate elements were shot together. Also, there is very little in the way of beginner information in this book; it is aimed at professionals who either have used After Effects and want to improve their compositing, or compositors who want to learn to use After Effects. But is it for you? more »Tip: Measure Drive Performance for Video on a Mac with HD Speed TestA real-world test of external drive performance for video playback is beta freeware. If you’ve ever searched for downloadable tools to benchmark drive performance on your Mac, you have probably ended up downloading free applications from Aja and Blackmagic. You may have realized that these applications don’t offer an accurate portrait of how your drive will perform with your editing software, but until now they were the only tools publicly available for this purpose. Now there is a freeware alternative that, while still in beta, may offer a much more accurate glimpse of what is going on. more » Tip: The Feature Most Missing Until After Effects CS4Tap shift for Miniflow Here’s a tip that won’t be news to any hardcore After Effects CS4 users, but lately I’ve encountered artists working in CS4 who don’t know about it, and to me it’s like not knowing that you can switch apps on a Mac with command + tab, just like alt + tab on Windows. It’s possible someone out there even just received a bonus tip. more »Page 1 of 4 pages 1 2 3 > Last » Advertisement |
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My lengthy Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 review now online
Studio Daily posted the review last week after pounding the thing on a number of edits
Last week Studio Daily published my Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 review. It’s a longie but a goodie as I tried to go into detail about what I really like and what I kinda don’t like about this brand new Premiere Pro. I had been pounding it hard on several projects before writing the review. I have had a few questions about exactly what kind of jobs I’ve been working on with it.
LIGHTING: Advanced Cucoloris Use Illustrated by a Solar Eclipse
Q: What happens when you stack several pattern-making devices in front of a light? A: Extreme lighting goodness. Learn why here…
I love stacking cucolorii (plural of “cucoloris”) and I thought it was time to write an article about how this technique works and why I like it so much. I was a bit stretched for ideas that would illustrate this concept… and then an eclipse happened. Why that made a difference is a very interesting story…
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