Tip: CS4 Update Actually Gets You All the Way from FCP to After Effects
Last week Matthew Jeppsen posted an article to this Adobe TV video entitled “Import FCP Projects into Adobe Premiere...
Rosco Shows New IR Filter (and other goodies) at NAB
Not too long ago, after writing a series of articles on HD cameras and IR contamination, I published my...
Tip: Render the Impossible via Proxies in After Effects
True story: I was animating a design that involved multiple “filmstrips” of HD video: 6 or 8 of them...
Gear Head for the RED
Last spring, while shooting a piece for solar energy company SunPower on the RED, our jib operator asked me...
Tip: Add “Missing” Finder Tools
Today’s tip features two freeware and one shareware application that I’ve found super-helpful in a multi-Mac studio environment. ClipboardSharing...
Tip: Double-click to Open R3D in REDAlert with RedPortal
A while back (late 2007 to be exact) Anders Holck posted a Mac helper app that lets you double...
Tip: Split a Layer into a Grid in After Effects
Whenever you’re confronted by a tedious task in After Effects – such as splitting a single layer into a...
Tip: Get QuickTime Looking Right Without Re-Rendering
I have in the past been critical of QuickTime as the standard for professional review of digital video; nonetheless,...
Tip: Make use of 21st Century Copyright Laws to Secure Elements
A few years ago I found myself in need of images for an earlier edition of my book that...
Tip: Send After Effects 3D animation data to Cinema 4D (or Maya, Max, Lightwave…)
It has long been a feature of Cinema 4D that animation data, including camera animation settings, can be exported...
