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Rich Young is a long-time After Effects user from the San Francisco Bay Area. His After Effects weekly round-ups provide viewers with an easy-to-digest summary of what developments have been taking place with After Effects. He also supplies info and links for tutorials that allow users to do things in After Effects they never thought were possible....
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Some tools and tutorials
By Rich Young | May 22, 2013
A whip or swish pan describes the motion of a fast camera move, as in following a passing train or spaceship. Because of motion blur, it's most often used to smooth transitions between abrupt cuts of shots or scenes. While this is often done in post, Adobe doesn't include dedicated tools for this effect, so here are some 3rd-party filters and tutorials you can use to construct whip pan transitions in After Effects and Premiere Pro.
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Creative Cloud, the Timeline, aspect ratios, Encore DVD, color, and more
By Rich Young | May 20, 2013
A series of as-they-come notes on news of assorted Premiere Pro tutorials, tips, and related tools continues.
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Crop, masking, conforming, multi-cam, audio sync, keyframing, + more
By Rich Young | May 03, 2013
This is the beginning of a series of as-they-come notes on news of assorted Premiere Pro tutorials, tips, and related tools.
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3D + cars, AE script creation, rain, the Cartoon effect, HUD + GUI, Particular, tracking, and more
By Rich Young | May 02, 2013
This is the beginning of a series of as-they-come notes on news of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins.
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By Rich Young | April 28, 2013
'Oblivion,' a new movie directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Tom Cruise, features a unique mix of practical and digital effects. The HUD and UI graphics seem to have been mostly shot in-camera after being created by a team lead by Bradley G Munkowitz, aka GMUNK.
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A Roundup
By Rich Young | April 16, 2013
Despite the clunkiness of Adobe features for creating slideshows (or because of it), there still a steady stream of interest. Traditional slideshows can be easily built with audio in Lightroom and Encore DVD, and with only a little more work you can pull them off in After Effects and Premiere, and go beyond into creative motion graphics.
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Another Roundup
By Rich Young | April 12, 2013
On one level creating and animating charts and graphs in After Effects is easy, but it can get tricky quick if you go much beyond transformed shapes or the Write-On filter. Here's a few tools and tutorials that may help get you through and beyond the basics.
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AEP topic roundups
By Rich Young | April 06, 2013
Before the deluge of NAB goodies, often etheric and expensive, here's a roundup of AE Portal roundups on PVC.
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NAB Reveal previews from Adobe and others
By Rich Young | April 03, 2013
Adobe has started to reveal the features of the next versions of their video post production software, which will be demoed at NAB 2013.
There's no shipping date or official name, or information about the rest of the Creative Suite, though ProDesignTools says "Adobe CS7? Next Release of Creative Suite to Be Revealed May 6th", the date the Adobe Max conference opens.
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Better fix-it-in-post skills for everyone
By Rich Young | February 28, 2013
'Adobe After Effects CS6 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques' by Mark Christiansen surveys the art of compositing and visual effects using After Effects.
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Newton physics engine, VFX malaise, charts & graphs, Plexus in Skyfall, LUTs + more
By Rich Young | February 26, 2013
Here's more of the last 3 weeks or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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Blending modes, trigger with markers, ShapeShifter, Element 3D, Premiere + more
By Rich Young | February 23, 2013
Here's more of the last few weeks or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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VFX's "no success like failure," Apprentice videos complete, crowd simulation + more
By Rich Young | February 21, 2013
Here's some of the last few weeks or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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Morning webinar, compositing, keying, slideshows, and more
By Rich Young | January 31, 2013
Here's some of the last few weeks or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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Element 3D steps up, new character animation tutorials, prizes, animation assistance, + more
By Rich Young | January 25, 2013
Here's some of the last few weeks or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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By Rich Young | January 17, 2013
Adobe is celebrating the 20th year of After Effects. Here are a few tidbits picked up along the way.
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The usual suspects + AE is 20
By Rich Young | January 15, 2013
Here's some of the last few weeks or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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Sales & contest ending soon + a boatload of tutorials
By Rich Young | December 31, 2012
Here's another part of the last few weeks or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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A plethora of resources
By Rich Young | December 27, 2012
Vignettes have become more popular, and perhaps heavy-handed, especially in After Effects since the release of the DV Rebel's Guide by Stu Maschwitz. Of course there's numerous ways to make vignettes, and it looks like the topic is quite well-covered now, thank you. Here are a few tools & tutorials on the various options.
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AE Vfx, scripting intros, contest winners, & more
By Rich Young | December 10, 2012
Here's another part of the last few weeks or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.
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