Adobe has started the Video Ambassadors program to build an online community for Adobe Premiere Pro editors to support each other, help us improve Adobe Premiere Pro and spread the word to other editors about trying Adobe Premiere Pro. As an Ambassador, you will receive exclusive information, access to the Adobe Premiere Pro team, answers […]
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Dan Sollis posted projects and renders of Pseudo-volumetric fractal cloud in After Effects and a follow-up 3D Cloud – Particular version. This is the first example we've seen explained since Quba HQ's 2010 post Volumetric Clouds in After Effects? Yes We Can! The project was never posted but the wireframe renders were later posted. One […]
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PluralEyes has really made a name for itself with editors as the DSLR workflows have been explored more and more. PluralEyes is a software solution that allows you to automatically sync up the separate audio and video files from, say, a 5D Mark II DSLR with an audio file from a handheld digital recorder, like […]
Mattias Peresini aka Mattrunks has new After effects video tutorials, Colorful Origami, animation of linked colored triangles and Light Paths – 3D Animation of colored lines. They’re in French but you should be able to follow along for the most part. Here’s the previews: Colorful Origami – Résultat from Mattias Peresini on Vimeo. Colored Light […]
Quba Michalski is back with a tutorial that shows how to simulate stop motion aesthetic using his After Effects Stop Motion Kit. This collection of presets allows “you to add subtle imperfections to the movement of objects in your scene, emulating animator errors that are a staple of stop motion animation. Using 6 different expression […]
Over time I’ve come to respect the Canon 5D. It’s not the most user friendly of cameras, and it has some fairly serious faults, but if you can avoid the pitfalls it can make very pretty images. Film industry lesson #1: You never know where future jobs will come from. I had no idea that […]
There are of course several approaches to doing sky replacements in After Effects and Premiere Pro. Here's a few explained in tutorials by Kert Gartner, Film Riot, Mohamed Hafeez, Andrew Kramer (pictured), Carl Larsen, Mark Christiansen, Nick Campbell, and even a course from Chris Kenworthy. Tuts+ has an April 2014 mini-course on the topic, Sky […]
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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. Sometimes you need a captured movie to play back more quickly, more […]
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Every time there’s a major software update to one of my favorite programs, I look forward to the experience of opening the program for the first time. Sometimes there’s a major overhaul and things change dramatically – think about the upcoming FCP. Other times there’s “dot-upgrades” where nothing much has changed in the user interface, […]
It wasn’t until I worked at the DSC Labs booth at NAB that I discovered The Hawk… and it blew me away. It’s a very simple chart, but it offers a colorist (professional or amateur) the most critical information necessary to accurately neutralize your raw, log, or even WYSIWYG images. At NAB I was approached […]
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