Post Production
Color Management Part 3: It’s all in the brain
In order to manage colors in film and television production, we need a way to measure them. Unfortunately, measuring...
Post Production
Color Management Part 2: Newton’s Prisms
Color management may not be fun, but we once we break the topic down into small parts it becomes...
Post Production
Color Management Part 1: The Honeymoon is over.
Welcome to the first part of my new series on color management. Although it’s exciting to launch a new...
Adobe Insights
Quality: 14 tips to improve your After Effects projects
Quality is a tricky subject, covering everything from technical specifications, client expectations and budgetary restrictions, through to subjective opinions...
Post Production
AE 2022: Multi-Frame Rendering has arrived!
Last week Adobe released After Effects 2022, which includes a number of new features that massively improve performance. I’m...
Post Production
Binning it: Understanding layer rendering order in After Effects
After Effects revolves around a layer-based timeline, and this core functionality is largely responsible for defining what After Effects...
Adobe
Using EXRs and DWA in After Effects
Codecs aren’t the most exciting thing to write about, but a recent update to After Effects included a tiny...
Post Production
How to scale a 3D scene in After Effects
After Effects can import simple 3D scenes, either natively using the .ma file format, or with 3rd party plugins...
Post Production
Fractal Noise: Advanced analysis of After Effects most versatile plugin
Fractal Noise is the most verstaile plugin that comes with After Effects – at least that’s what I wrote...
Adobe
After Effects: Making a composition render 70 x faster
Rendering times in After Effects can vary a lot. If you’ve been using After Effects for a while, you’ve...
