Optimizing for performance: Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects

In January, a bunch of us from Adobe hosted a one-hour session about optimizing for performance of both Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. In case you missed it, here’s the recording. We also said that we’d post a set of links for more information about all of the things that we covered. It was […]

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CMG Hidden Gems: Chapter 11 – All About Track Mattes

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As you are aware by now, we’re going through our book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects 5th Edition (“CMG5” for short) and pulling out a few “hidden gems” from each chapter. These will include both essential tips for new users, as well as timesaving gems that experienced users may not be aware existed. Chapter […]

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How Would You Build The Entertainment Business From Scratch?

Philip & I originally talked about the concept of starting over in production with a green field – no established starting points – in episode 11. In this episode we take it a little deeper as there is a lot of ground to cover.How would a new studio look? What would distribution look like? Would […]

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Quicktips 2011 Day 12: Dupe detection in Avid, FCP and kinda in Premiere Pro but not really

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Dupe detection is one of those great little features that you don’t have to have in your editing application but it certainly makes tracking used footage in an edit much easier. For those unfamiliar, dupe detection tracks footage used in an edit and identifies duplicate shots in the timeline with colored lines in the clip. […]

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