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Rich Young

Rich Young is a long-time After Effects user from the San Francisco Bay Area. His After Effects and Premiere Pro round-ups provide viewers with an easy-to-digest summary of developments. He also supplies info and links for tutorials that allow users to do things in After Effects they thought were possible but weren't sure.

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Premiere Pro News Notes #09

Posted on August 30, 2014

Here's another collection of news on tutorials, tips, and related tools assorted with Adobe Premiere Pro. Imagineer Systems mocha 4...

Optical Kerning preference in After Effects 3

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Optical Kerning preference in After Effects

Posted on August 27, 2014

Optical kerning is a newer feature in Adobe apps. If you have a tendency to forget about kerning, be...

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MaskTracker+: quick planar tracking inside After Effects

Posted on August 19, 2014

MaskTracker+, a new AE script from Mamoworld, expands the Rigid Mask Tracker in After Effects, opening up planar tracking...

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Premiere Pro News Notes #08

Posted on August 1, 2014

A series of as-they-come notes on news of assorted Adobe Premiere Pro tutorials, tips, and related tools continues. And...

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Using CycoreFX plug-ins in Premiere Pro and After Effects

Posted on July 9, 2014

Over the last several years a few users have experimented with using CycoreFX (“CC”) plug-ins built into After Effects...

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“Unmult” with and without special plug-ins

Posted on June 27, 2014

Third-party unmult plug-ins for After Effects are used to create a composite with an alpha channel of a layer...

Alpha channels: premultiplied vs straight 23

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Alpha channels: premultiplied vs straight

Posted on June 20, 2014

Alpha channels are grayscale channels in addition to the color channels of a file. They define transparency and often...

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Creative Cloud 2014 June Release

Posted on June 18, 2014

This April, Adobe revealed many of the new features of Creative Cloud at NAB 2014, but that was for...

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Fold and unfold layers in After Effects

Posted on June 16, 2014

Folder or unfolding layers has become popular in After Effects and other apps in the last several years, and...

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Fixing soft edges & number counters with automatic rounding

Posted on June 9, 2014

A few years ago, Stu Maschwitz noted the utility of the Math.round method, which rounds a number to the...