Saturday, February 16, 2008

After Effects 8.0.2 Interpretation Rules Issue

Chris Meyer | 02/16- 09:11 PM

If you’ve created your own rules, they’ll be ignored in 8.0.2 - but you can get them back…

Normally, when you install a minor update to After Effects, it does a pretty good job at remembering your previously-installed plug-ins and the such. That said, there is an exception in the case of the 8.0.2 updater. This version writes a brand-new interpretation rules file that alters how it handles some YUV color space files. However, it does not merge in any changes you may have made to the previous interpretation rules file. Fortunately, it doesn’t delete your file; it just sets it aside.

Click here for an Adobe Tech Note on what’s going on, and how to work around it.

Friday, February 08, 2008

Motion Graphics concepts demonstrated…on a trampoline.

Chris Meyer | 02/08- 10:54 AM

Video training at its finest.

This isn’t new, but we just stumbled across it, and thought it would provide some comic relief going into the weekend. It’s a live, one-take, in-front-of-an-audience music video (for the song “zZz is playing: Grip") that is also a demonstration of common motion graphics techniques and video transitions, performed by folks on a trampoline. Ya gotta watch it more than once to pick up all the details, like the musicians on the left and right (the drummer on the left is also the singer), and the person painting the progress bar in real time underneath. Hang around until the end to see that it was indeed in front of an audience.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Motion Blur Musings

Chris Meyer | 02/05- 07:10 PM

Managing motion blur is important both for shooters and for animators.

A fellow user recently asked about problems he was having with motion stutter when slowing down 24p (24 frame per second, progressive scan) footage. This led to a series of musings about using motion blur - including some new options in After Effects CS3 - that we thought would be good to share.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Adobe/MAXON Power Integration Tour

Chris Meyer | 02/05- 09:18 AM

Who doesn’t like free food, prizes, and information?

We have long been fans of Cinema 4D as a 3D package for motion graphics artists, both for its feature set (including the powerful MoGraph module) and its very tight integration with After Effects. We focused on this integration in Chapter 38 of Creating Motion Graphics 4th Edition (an excerpt from that chapter can be downloaded here ).

Last year Adobe and Maxon did a joint tour touting this integration. They had so much fun, they’’re doing it again this year. The first event was at the January 2008 DMA/LA meeting; the tour proper kicks off February 26 in San Francisco - see the full list of cities and dates below.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

After Effects 8.0.2 and gamma issues

Chris Meyer | 01/31- 04:10 PM

Among numerous enhancements, its color management system has been tweaked.

Adobe has released an 8.0.2 update for After Effects CS3. Its headline new features are support for Mac OS 10.5, as well as for P2 media. There are also the expected array of bug fixes. What’s been getting less press than it deserves is a change in the way it handles color management with respect to QuickTime files.

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Work Smarter, Not Harder: Nucleo Pro

Chris and Trish Meyer | 08/03- 11:47 AM

GridIron Software’s Nucleo Pro renders After Effects frames while you’re still working.

We all love After Effects plug-ins that give exciting new looks. However, equal acclaim should be accorded those that simply give us more time. A promising new plug-in in this category is GridIron Software’s Nucleo Pro. It was in beta at the time we wrote this (August 2006), but we couldn’t wait to share it with you, and also give you a peek under the hood to understand how it works.

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