Audition: Made for Video (Part Two)

In Audition: Made for Video Part One, I demonstrated how developing a workflow can save you time and money – when time is of the essence. We took a look at the workflow I use each month when producing our online show, motion+connect as a means to understand the value of ‘workflow’ – as well […]

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Animate a character in After Effects

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After Effects provides a variety of tools to animate characters, including Painting, Puppeting, and Parenting. Fortunately, there's an equally wide variety of tutorials available online on using these tools. Here's a survey of just some of those tutorials from Daniel Gies, Angie Taylor, Todd Kopriva, Stuart Preece, Rex Crowle, Pete McEvoy, Ryan Boyle, Marcin Zeglinkski, […]

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After Effects Apprentice: Parenting

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As we mentioned earlier, we're in the process of recording our book After Effects Apprentice as a series of training videos, where you get to look over our shoulders and hear what we're thinking as we work through each lesson. Our latest installment is on the subject of Parenting. Parenting is a way to group […]

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Changes in expressions & caching in AE CS5.5

Todd Kopriva collects resources on changes in After Effects CS5.5 in two new blog posts: * After Effects CS5.5 performance improvements: disk caching, RAM, and more * expression changes in After Effects CS5.5 (see also Expression basics and Expression language reference in AE Help) Here’s Chris Meyer on caching enhancements: […]

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

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What's New and Changed in After Effects CS5.5 is a free new Video2brain workshop, with Adobe Technical Support Lead Todd Kopriva, who is the guide on the changes in After Effects CS5.5. Todd shows “how to use the new Warp Stabilizer and Camera Lens Blur effects, camera layer settings for depth-of-field blur, camera commands, stereoscopic […]

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Pixel Benders for grading, shortcuts & tiling

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Just a quick note on some new Pixel Bender filters for use in After Effects CS4+. qp_Grade Assistant from Quarterlight on AE Scripts provides a four-way view, with waveform monitor, RGB parade and a slice graph to assist with grading and color matching in After Effects. This script joins qp_Bars also by Christian Lett, which […]

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CMG Hidden Gems: Chapter 25 – Presets and Variations

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We’re going through our book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects 5th Edition (CMG5) and pulling out a few “hidden gems” from each chapter. These will include essential advice for new users, plus timesaving tips that experienced users may not be aware of. If you can copy and paste it, you can save it: That […]

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Using Audition with After Effects

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As you can see from recent articles on PVC, Adobe is anxious to make you aware that they have made their audio editing application Audition available for the Mac as well as Windows, and bundled it into the Production Premium and Master Collection suites. While their focus is on showing editors how to take advantage […]

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Using Twixtor in Premiere Pro

One of the greatest pieces of software that came my way this year was a little motion effects plugin called Twixtor. If you’re not familiar, Twixtor is part of a family of products from RE:Vision Effects, a research and development company focused on providing software solutions to modify, control, and enhance digital video imagery at […]

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Audition: Made for Video (Part One)

Adobe recently released Production Premium CS5.5. With this new release, there are some amazing new features designed specifically for motion graphic designers, vfx artists, and editors. I was fortunate to get a chance to try out early versions of several of the applications, and couldn’t wait for the release date this past April. My reason? […]

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