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Mark Christiansen
Mark 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.
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Monday, August 15, 2011
Huge problem solver offers 2 huge features when dealing with effects: search and instances
Note: this article is part of an ongoing series that features one After Effects script a week. For an overview on scripts, check out the debut post.
The problem: You are up against a deadline and working with a project from a freelancer. You open a project that was created on another system and boom! - too many third party plug-in effects are missing for After Effects even to tell you which ones, or where they are located. You face a long, tedious process of looking in every comp for every layer with applied effects, to attempt to locate the missing ones.
Or you can try pt EffectSearch. Not only can it return a list of all plug-ins of a certain type in your project - missing, third-party, built-in, on or off, within all comps, the open comp or a selection you make in the Project panel - it can take action on the result.
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Mark Christiansen
Huge problem solver offers 2 huge features when dealing with effects: search and instances
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Note: this article is part of an ongoing series that features one After Effects script a week. For an overview on scripts, check out the debut post.
The problem: You are up against a deadline and working with a project from a freelancer. You open a project that was created on another system and boom! - too many third party plug-in effects are missing for After Effects even to tell you which ones, or where they are located. You face a long, tedious process of looking in every comp for every layer with applied effects, to attempt to locate the missing ones.
Or you can try pt EffectSearch. Not only can it return a list of all plug-ins of a certain type in your project - missing, third-party, built-in, on or off, within all comps, the open comp or a selection you make in the Project panel - it can take action on the result.