Another week in After Effects

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Here's the latest week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.{C} Evan Abrams posted a 6-part series of shorts on Twitch Expressions for any After Effects skill level. Here's the intro: Mattrunks posted a new tutorial, Wiggle – Generate a fixed random calculation even after […]

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Matrox announces more Thunderbolt docks… Let’s try to understand them all!

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At IBC, Matrox announced its MXO2 Dock, a Thunderbolt-based accessory that allows users of any MXO2 i/o interface and a Thunderbolt Mac to create what the Canadian company calls “an ideal ergonomic workspace for video editing and content creation”. From a single Thunderbolt connection, users can add multiple peripherals including an HDMI display, keyboard, pointing […]

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Photos: the Bell & Howell 2709 and “The Canyon”

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The Bell & Howell 2709 and 1st AC Art Adams. This past weekend I had the privilege of observing a crew from the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum as they filmed (yes, filmed) scenes for a silent movie, “The Canyon”, using a 1922 Bell & Howell 2709 hand-cranked 35mm camera—the first film camera not made […]

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5th Kind Goes with the Flow

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As the time draws near for the very first Digital Process Workflow Lab, which makes its debut at Createasphere’s Entertainment Technology Expo on November 7th and 8th, we’re speaking with partners in the Lab to describe how it works and what information visitors can gain. This week we spoke to Steve Cronan, CEO of 5th […]

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