After Effects Apprentice: Expressions

As we mentioned earlier, we’re in the process of recording our book After Effects Apprentice as a series of training videos, where you get to look over our shoulders and hear what we’re thinking as we work through each lesson. Our latest installment is on the subject of Expressions: The ability to define how a parameter animates using instructions such as “wiggle” compared to explicitly keyframing every value.

You’ve read my writing, now hear my talking

Izzy Hyman, of the website Izzy Video, interviewed me yesterday for his “Meet the Shooter” series.

Kinetic Typography Motion Graphics Tutorial

Here’s a nice long tutorial on how to do that cool animated word thing that is so popular (and useful) these days. It’s all compliments of creative superstar Jesse Rosten. Watch below…

Izzy Video produces free 2:39 FCP X video tutorial

Our colleague Israel (“Izzy”) Hyman of Izzy Video has produced and published a free 2:39 Final Cut Pro X video tutorial. Yes, I said free. Yes, I mean 2 hours and 39 minutes, and yes, it is extremely well organized and well presented, and demonstrates that FCP X (despite several initial limitations) is extremely powerful. I have invested the time into seeing the entire production, and have absorbed it. I must applaud, congratulate, and thank Izzy for investing the considerably more time producing it. Finally, I must encourage any video editor to invest the time to absorb it also, and then (if you agree with me) you can applaud, congratulate, and thank Izzy too. The tutorial is divided into 26 digestible chapters, so you don’t have to watch it all in a single session.

After Effects Apprentice Free Video: Building a Comp Hierarchy Designed to Accommodate Changes

As we mentioned earlier, we’ve been busy this year creating an extensive, multi-course video training series based on our popular beginner’s book After Effects Apprentice. Each course has a selection of movies that are free for all to view; we’re re-posting those videos here on PVC to make sure you don’t miss them. This one tries to get some users over their hang-up about trying to keep all of their layers in one composition by showing how much easier it can be to accommodate client changes by strategically placing repeated elements in their own source composition.

Free Upcoming Final Cut Pro X Webinar, free FCPX podcast

As if there’s isn’t enough Final Cut Pro X stuff out there on the web a week after its release, I want to pimp a couple of things that I’ve been involved in regarding Final Cut Pro X. First is the return of That Post Show (iTunes link) with a full edition devoted to FCPX and second is the FilmmakingWebinars.com Final Cut Pro X Hands On Tour.

After Effects Apprentice Free Video: Non-Uniform Scale Issues with Parenting

As we mentioned earlier, we’ve been busy this year creating an extensive, multi-course video training series based on our popular beginner’s book After Effects Apprentice. Each course has a selection of movies that are free for all to view; we’re re-posting those videos here on PVC to make sure you don’t miss them. This one explains an obscure bug visual anomaly that can appear when parenting one layer to another that has been scaled differently in the X and Y dimensions.

Anatomy of a Spot: T-Mobile

Over time I’ve come to respect the Canon 5D. It’s not the most user friendly of cameras, and it has some fairly serious faults, but if you can avoid the pitfalls it can make very pretty images.

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