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Expression Shorts - Random Words CycleExpression Shorts - Auto Fade LayerNull Swapper - Plexus/Particular Utility ScriptExpression Shorts - Read External Text DocumentThe Utility and Ease of Use for GenArts’ Sapphire EdgeMotion Tracking and Green Screen with After Effects & Mocha AEAfter Effects Leftovers - Part 5After Effects Leftovers - Part 4After Effects Leftovers - Part 3After Effects Leftovers - Part 2After Effects Leftovers - Part 1Friday InspirationMotion Graphics and Health Care ReformCinema 4D Finally Brings 3D to MotionDon’t Work for PeanutsTop VFX/MoGraph Twitterers to FollowMotion Graphics: Friday InspirationThe Centrica Carnivale part 3The Centrica Carnivale part 2Introducing the Centrica CarnivaleMove Projects from FCP to AE Seamlessly (and Free!)Universal Format ConverterThe Future Of Image EditingBelievable Hand-Held Motion Tracking with Mocha & After Effects CS4Learn Flash and After Effects Essentials for Free
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Expression Shorts - Random Words CycleCreate a text layer that randomly cycles through words.
Learn how to make a text layer randomly cycle through an array of words that you assign it. Great for random HUD info, background filler, etc… more »Expression Shorts - Auto Fade LayerAutomatically fade a layer up and down without keyframes.
(CODE UPDATED 1/28 See article for updates) Learn how to fade a layer up and down without using keyframes. The cool part is that you can change the in/out points of your layer and it’ll adjust accordingly. more »
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Null Swapper - Plexus/Particular Utility ScriptSwap Null layers for Light layers.
Need a helping hand changing your 3D/2D Null layers into Light layers so you can use them for Plexus or Trapcode Particular? Well this short tutorial will show you how, plus you get a free script that does the actual work for you. HOORAH! Expression Shorts - Read External Text DocumentAE Text Layer source text from external document.
Welcome to the first episode of at least five at the moment in the Expression Shorts series. With this series I have put together some short tutorials on various After Effects Expression code that can be very handy. more »Advertisement The Utility and Ease of Use for GenArts’ Sapphire Edge
GenArts’ Sapphire Edge is not a color grading plug-in in the traditional sense. If you’re looking for endless numbers of sliders, dials and switches that adjust an image using terms like lift, curves or channel mixer, then Edge is not your tool. But if you are looking for a large set of high-quality looks that can be applied with ease and quickly customized with only a minimal learning curve, then Sapphire Edge is just such a tool. more »
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Motion Tracking and Green Screen with After Effects & Mocha AETrack, insert and matte - while retaining reflection integrity on shiny surfaces
Amazingly, a lot of people don’t even know that they already OWN Mocha AE… it ships along with After Effects CS4 and higher and is a stand-alone application for providing planar motion tracking. You’ve probably already seen the trick of using Mocha AE to track and insert an image or a video clip inside an iPhone, but how about dealing with fingers on the screen and reflections on the surface? Sure, you could root out the fingers with the RotoBrush tool in After Effects and get pretty decent results, but that’s a fairly time-consuming workflow if you can avoid it. This tutorial will show you how to take a video clip of an iPhone or iPad or any other handheld touch device set to a solid green screen, and insert your video clips or animations into to it perfectly, while realistically retaining the bright reflections on the shiny glass surfaces. *NOTE: You can follow along with this tutorial by downloading the free project folder with included source files (After Effects CS5.5) at this link from my web site HERE. more »
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After Effects Leftovers - Part 5Reheating old features you forgot you had…
This 5-part series looks at a selection of features that were in After Effects before CS5 but have been often overlooked. A total of 40 tips, tricks, workflow suggestions and general reminders are given covering topics including layout, masking, rendering and even using the interface. Part 5 wraps up the series by looking at presets and rendering. Adobe’s Todd Kopriva has kindly pointed out another bonus feature - a bunch of additional animation presets on the Adobe Exchange that is a great way to conclude the series. Thanks Todd! Click to audio / video »After Effects Leftovers - Part 4Reheating old features you forgot you had…
This 5-part series looks at a selection of features that were in After Effects before CS5 but have been often overlooked. A total of 40 tips, tricks, workflow suggestions and general reminders are given covering topics including layout, masking, rendering and even using the interface. Part 4 is a mixed bag of tricks including cropping compositions, advanced gradients and some text tips. Click to audio / video »Page 1 of 9 pages 1 2 3 > Last » Advertisement |
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Revisiting the RED workflow, Smoke 2012 style
My love affair with RED Digital Cinema began in 2007, when my brief stint as demo artist in the NAB RED booth turned into a regular gig at events and trade shows. When I joined Autodesk as Product Designer to help bring Smoke to the Mac, I was quickly assigned to construct our first RED workflow. Back then, building a RED workflow meant exploring unchartered territory, but since then things changed rather quickly in the last couple years.
Avid now lets you edit video on your iPad for US$4.99. Should you?
A first look at Avid Studio for iPad, and an extrapolation as to what it can mean for pro video editors in the short and longer term.
I was privileged to find out a few hours in advance of the public announcement of Avid Studio for iPad, since Avid contracted me to translate and localize the press release, as fortunately they often do. There was something about this press release that really intrigued me. It wasn’t so much the specific advantages that Avid Studio for iPad has over other editing apps for iPad, like offering both Storyboard and Timeline views in a single iPad app, or being able to import source material from anywhere inside or outside of the iPad. It was more the fact that the announcement was coming from Avid, and the spirit of the two quotes that appear at the end of the press release. In this article, I’ll give a first look at the app, define what it is (and what it isn’t), and extrapolate about what this can mean for video editing in the short, mid, and long term. Of course, I’ll include those two quotes that intrigued me so much.
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