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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