Production
Unsafe Areas
Two of the more intriguing new features in After Effects CS4 (and other members of the Adobe Creative Suite...
Post Production
After Effects 9.0.2 Update
If you have disabled Adobe Updater – and I wouldn’t blame you if you had – you may not...
Production
After Effects Apprentice Video Tutorial #6
We’ve recently released After Effects Apprentice (2nd Edition). The DVD-ROM that comes with the book includes an hour and...
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After Effects Tips 5: Going for a Scroll
It seems such a simple idea: a banner scrolls across the top or bottom of your comp, repeating the...
Production
On Artbeats.com: Color Theory
Over on Artbeats.com, we’re starting a trio of articles on the use of color: basic color theory, ideas for...
Production
FCP Overlay Issue
Quite often, our job is to take a client’s footage and make it look better. Over the years, we’ve...
Production
After Effects Apprentice Video Tutorial #5
We've recently released After Effects Apprentice (2nd Edition). The DVD-ROM that comes with the book includes an hour and...
Production
NAB Tuesday: Getting Plugged In
Noise is everywhere in Vegas. Slot machines are mostly just noise, and everywhere there is loud music – we...
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NAB Monday: Best of Times; Worst of Times
Loitering at the Plug-in Pavilion were (left-to-right) Aharon Rabinowitz (All Bets Are Off Productions), John Dickinson (Motionworks), Zax Dow...
Production
Runaway Production
One of the reasons we were happy to live in Los Angeles for so long is because it was...