Post Production
Classic Course: Channel Combiner – Transparency
One of the more confusing points on working with images is straight versus premultiplied alpha channels. With a straight...
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Classic Course: Channel Combiner – Alternate Color Spaces
After Effects converts all of your source material into RGB color space, with a separate alpha channel. However, sometimes...
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Classic Course: Channel Combiner – Overview
“ChOps” – Channel Operations, where you process individual color channels of an image (including the alpha channel) – is considered...
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Classic Course: Calculations
Continuing our theme of often-overlooked utility plug-ins in Adobe After Effects that can create interesting composites with a minimum...
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Classic Course: CC Composite
This effect was long one of our secret weapons in Adobe After Effects to create looks like our “instant...
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Classic Course: CC Vector Blur
This fun blur from the Cycore Effects that come bundled with Adobe After Effects. It looks at a second...
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Classic Course: Bilateral Blur
Our next movie exploring blur effects dives into the mysterious, under-used Adobe After Effects plug-in Bilateral Blur. It is...
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Classic Course: Box Blur
Want to decide how smooth or coarse your blur is? This is the effect to use. The next few...
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Classic Course: Automatic Color Adjustments
All too often, you will get footage that is not lit that well, or which has a color shift....
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Classic Course: Effects & Presets Panel
A little over a year ago, we had the bright idea of re-releasing for free our After Effects online...