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After Effects A-Z: CC Ball Action

The After Effects: Effects A-Z tip series from Motionworks continues with guest host Adam Everett on the CC Ball Action effect that ships with After Effects. Beyond the basics he shows the Brightness Twist control, an old favorite that can make things interesting.

A number of other tutorials on Ball Action for light walls and audio viz have been cataloged at the old AE Portal, along with a complete list of the Effects A to Z series. An oldie on Ball Action may seem familiar, Molecule fun by Stephen Schleicher.

Stereo 3D in After Effects CS5.5

Todd Kopriva has collected some resources for stereoscopic 3D in After Effects CS5.5. It’s got all the latest on Stereo 3D for AE including a (text only) document explaining the theory and practice by Amir Stone, the software engineer responsible for steroscopic 3D features in After Effects.

Chris Meyer has the full story on the new stuff in AE, so here’s Karl Soule on how to edit stereoscopic 3D material using Cineform technology in Premiere Pro CS5+. See also the earlier video by Dave Helmley.

Final Cut X Supermeet presentations

At the risk of overkill, here’s some nice nearly complete video from Emmanuel Pampuri on the Supermeet Apple Final Cut X presentation. There’s also another less shaky view, from Cam Cornelius:

The mograph-source Daily

The mograph-source Daily is a new website from Josh Sears trying to tame the information explosion. It’s a “newspaper” based on paper.li, which “organizes links shared on Twitter and Facebook into an easy to read newspaper-style format.”

It joins the more summary approach of SqueezeME.TV. The width and quality of coverage depends on the sources chosen, level of curation, and your interests—so take a look.

As Ken Kesey said, ~ get them into your movie before they get you into theirs.~

Update: there’s also The Final Cut Pro Daily.

qp_Bars generates SMPTE color bars

AE Scripts has a new script by Christian Lett, qp_Bars, which generates SMPTE color bars for video. There are four bar options:

* SMPTE color bars with PLUGE
* PAL colour bars (the color bars run the full height of the image)
* SMPTE HDTV color bars
* 16:9 color bars (as HDTV bars but the colour bars run the full height of the image)

The Colour Bar Intensity slider changes the intensity of the seven color bars only (default 75% for SMPTE defined bar values). All other bars are constant.

GenArts Sapphire Webinar recording

SFMOGRAPH posted the recording of the recent GenArts Sapphire Webinar with Marcello Grande (embedded below the fold):

“Marcello walks you through some recent projects and shows you how to save time and have fun creating visual effects using GenArts Sapphire in After Effects. Marcello will be explaining how to use Sapphire Textures, Convolve, Defocus and Z Glow. He will also be showing some 3D relighting techniques that take advantage of Light 3D, a Sapphire tool that allows you to relight a 3D model within After Effects to make on-the-fly decisions based on your AE scene.”

Creative Suite 5.5 + Subscriptions

Adobe has a new subscription option that gives you the latest Creative Suite software for a monthly or yearly fee.

For After Effects CS 5.5 the cost is $49 per month on the yearly plan, or $75 per month. Upgrades are $179 for CS5 users, and $299 for CS2-CS4 users. The full permanent license is $999, so rentals do make sense in some cases.

Below the fold, there’s a movie explaining subscriptions, as well as one explaining CS 5.5 in general…

AE CS 5.5: New Creative Techniques Introduction

Chris Meyer introduces his favorite new features in AE CS 5.5 in the first of a complete training series hosted by Adobe,  AE CS 5.5: New Creative Techniques Introduction. How do you spell woohoo?!

I’ll skip the sexy stuff with multiple tutorial movies, and just include ETLAT here.

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