Video2brain has 1 hr 20 minutes of free video training by Todd Kopriva on optimizing After Effects & Premiere and systems for maximum speed. Earlier resources by Todd and Mark Christiansen are still valuable — see Setting Up After Effects for Optimum Performance and Todd’s own outline of Adobe Help topics on the matter in […]
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If you’re an After Effects power user who has gotten at all into scripts, you are most likely already familiar with BG Renderer, which really changed the game for scripts by providing an alternative to much more expensive solutions to any studio or individual in an After Effects render crunch. Lloyd Alvarez apparently first devised […]
Here’s a nice long tutorial on how to do that cool animated word thing that is so popular (and useful) these days. It’s all compliments of creative superstar Jesse Rosten. Watch below… […]
There are a number of resources to help you make reflections in After Effects. VURB.tv released their Reflect Script for CS4+, and a quick tutorial, though you must sign in to view it. Here are a few more resources… You can create reflections with 3rd-party AE filters like Zaxwerks Reflector, Red Giant Warp, NewBlue Video Essentials IV, or […]
Yesterday (July 6, 2011) Apple reportedly held a briefing in London. According to Arnold Kim of MacRumors.com, Alex4d summarizes tweets by attendee @aPostEngineer which reveal the nine points, which range from FCP7 licenses being back for Enterprise, XML i/o coming for X soon, AJA support for tape in X, xSAN support for X. Here are […]
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The Editblog has been relatively quiet on the subject of Final Cut Pro X (with the exception of the burning questions and omf export) since its release just a few weeks ago. That’s mainly because I had been busying really kicking the tire on the application (in addition to regular editing work) trying to dig […]
Jarle Leirpoll is offering a free sample chapter from his book The Cool Stuff in Premiere Pro. In Spreadsheets to Lower Thirds, Jarle shows “how to take a list of people’s names, occupation, nationality etc. from a spreadsheet and automatically make Photoshop output one lower third per person… No more copy and paste to make […]
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A couple of 3D-oriented After Effects plug-ins have been previewed this week: Element 3D from Video Copilot and Shapeshifter from Mettle. At Aetuts+, Ben Griggs shows the ShapeShifter plug-in soon to be released by Mettle.com. ShapeShifter transforms text, masks, Shapes, and imported vectors into a live 3D mesh right in AE. It appears pretty fast […]
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So it’s been about a week and many are calling Apple’s new Final Cut Pro X a failure. Is this premature? Let’s take a look. To begin, it seems like everyone covering this needs to qualify how they use Final Cut Pro to explain their angle. Here’s mine… Where I’m Coming From I edited my […]
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Since Final Cut X was released a few weeks ago, there have been a large number of Final Cut Pro post-production professionals looking into other NLE options. Final Cut Pro X is a very different animal, and lacks specific FCP7 features that certain users require or demand. It also changes up existing post-production workflows and […]
