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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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Sky Replacement with After Effects & Premiere

Posted on June 19, 2011

There are of course several approaches to doing sky replacements in After Effects and Premiere Pro. Here's a few...

Premiere Pro: Frequently Asked Questions 1

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Premiere Pro: Frequently Asked Questions

Posted on June 3, 2011

Premiere Pro: Frequently Asked Questions is a new free workshop from Videobrain and Adobe Technical Support Lead Todd Kopriva....

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Warp Stabilizer for object removal

Posted on June 2, 2011

Steve Forde, Adobe product manager for After Effects, shares a tip for object removal (roto) using the Warp Stabilizer...

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Animate a character in After Effects

Posted on May 31, 2011

After Effects provides a variety of tools to animate characters, including Painting, Puppeting, and Parenting. Fortunately, there's an equally...

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Changes in expressions & caching in AE CS5.5

Posted on May 30, 2011

Todd Kopriva collects resources on changes in After Effects CS5.5 in two new blog posts: * After Effects CS5.5...

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What’s New and Changed in After Effects CS5.5

Posted on May 30, 2011

What's New and Changed in After Effects CS5.5 is a free new Video2brain workshop, with Adobe Technical Support Lead...

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Pixel Benders for grading, shortcuts & tiling

Posted on May 30, 2011

Just a quick note on some new Pixel Bender filters for use in After Effects CS4+. qp_Grade Assistant from...

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Bleach bypass, cross-process, and film looks for After Effects

Posted on May 14, 2011

Cinematic-style picture looks have been popular for the last several years; for example bleach bypass became popular after Saving Private...

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Importing Image Sequences into After Effects

Posted on May 13, 2011

In an After Effects Quick Tip video, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you the basics of importing image sequences. Previously,...

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Trim Compose, Un-PreCompose, Auto Crop, and Smart Baker

Posted on May 12, 2011

Trim Compose is a new After Effects script from Video Copilot that helps you work with shots on large...