After Effects Leftovers - Part 5

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!

After Effects Leftovers - Part 4

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.

After Effects Leftovers - Part 3

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 3 looks at using the After Effects interface.

Adobe’s Todd Kopriva has pointed out that my description of the grave key is slightly inaccurate.  In the video I say that the grave key maximises the currently selected panel, when in fact it maximises the panel underneath the mouse pointer.  This is something I never noticed until he pointed it out!  Thanks Todd…

I’ll add here an anecdote that I edited out of the video to keep it shorter.  A few months ago I was working with someone who kept bumping the grave key by accident - I don’t think she was used to a Mac keyboard where the grave key is next to the z.  Bumping the grave key would make one of the panels fullscreen, but not knowing what she’d down and how to fix it, she’d just quit After Effects and restart.  When I realised she was re-starting After Effects for the 4th time in an hour I asked what was wrong and she explained that there seemed to be a ‘bug’, and I’m like ‘um that’s not a bug, it’s a feature’... hence the reason I included the grave key in this series!

After Effects Leftovers - Part 2

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 2 looks at masking and painting.

After Effects Leftovers - Part 1

After Effects has been around for over 17 years and with the recent release of CS5 it’s now up to version 10.  Every new release brings new features and some have received more attention than others.  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, painting, rendering and even using the interface.

cinémon™ .mp4 Plug-in:

In a perfect world, digital cameras would wirelessly zap moving images to servers in the cloud. Clips would appear instantly on timelines anywhere in the world, playable regardless of compression.

Maybe that isn’t your vision of a perfect world—although glimpses of it already appear at mobile phone apps like Qik and Ustream (“Broadcasting live is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Get started today!”).

Magic Bullet Suite 10’s new Denoiser plug-in

A few weeks ago Red Giant Software released update to the ever popular, ever useful Magic Bullet Suite. This new version 10 includes the most recent versions of many useful tools including Magic Bullet Looks, Frames, Grinder, Instant HD, Mojo, PhotoLooks and the recently updated Colorista II (which you can find a review of here). One tools that is now gone from the suite is Magic Bullet Steady but it’s been replaced by a new one: Magic Bullet Denoiser. And it’s available as part of the suite or as a stand-alone purchase.

Paul Clements - First Impressions of the Foundry’s Storm

Several weeks ago The Foundry announced a new “revolutionary RED workflow system” called Storm. The product made its public debut at IBC and will be available as a public beta in November. Around February 2011 it will go on sale for $375 and should expand beyond RED in coming versions. Paul Clements is a UK-based DIT who has been Alpha testing Storm. He posted a detailed first impressions article on Reduser that’s a great overview of what Storm has to offer. I asked Paul if I could repost the article here on PVC.

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