Production
Animating Text in Apple’s Motion
If you’re familiar with animating text in After Effects, you might glance at Apple’s Motion and think that it...
Production
Past Issue: February 2009
The articles below were included in the February 2009 edition of the PVC Pipeline | Production newsletter. If you...
Production
Composite Modes in Final Cut Pro
The job of an editor is usually to spin straw into gold: Take hours of raw footage, edit it...
Production
On Artbeats.com: Projecting Video
An interesting technique is to cause a piece of footage to appear to be projected onto other items, as...
Uncategorised
After Effects Tips – Installment 4
Continuing our series of After Effects tips, including the itty bitty tilde key and other essential shortcuts for manipulating...
Production
After Effects Apprentice Video Tutorial #2
We’ve recently released After Effects Apprentice (2nd Edition). The DVD-ROM that comes with the book includes an hour and...
Uncategorised
The Differences Between AE CS3 and CS4
The short version: A free chapter by us outlining in detail the differences between After Effects CS3 and CS4...
Post Production
Wiggle Transform Tips
A small but very useful feature slipped into After Effects CS4 was a new Wiggle Transform operator for Shape...
Production
On Artbeats.com: Faux Reflections
There are a few different recipies out there on how to fake reflections in After Effects. We recently wrote...
Production
After Effects Apprentice Video Tutorial #1
We’ve just released After Effects Apprentice (2nd Edition). This book was designed for students looking to learn After Effects...