MAXON Announces a New Exchange Plug-in for CINEMA 4D and Adobe After Effects

MAXON, the leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, today announced immediate availability of a new plug-in for Adobe® After Effects® CS5 and CS5.5 that allows motion graphics artists to export projects directly into CINEMA 4D R13. This new capability broadens CINEMA 4D’s domination as the industry-leading 3D motion graphics toolkit, […]

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iExpressions: as convenient as plugins

iExpressions from Mamoworld combines the power of After Effects expressions with the convenience of effect plug-ins. They allow you to use expressions without writing any code — each iExpression comes with an interface to control everything using adjustable parameters. iExpressions seems like something out of Stu Mashwitz blog on the potential of a nodes property […]

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PsF’s missing workflow, Part 3: Sony’s AVCHD & NXCAM cameras

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In part 1 of PsF’s missing workflow, we introduced the new terms benign PsF and malignant PsF (Progressive Segmented Frame), reviewed their vital importance and fragility in post-production, and clarified the PsF status of two Panasonic professional AVCHD cameras (branded as AVCCAM). In part 2, we clarified the PsF status of the Canon XA10 professional […]

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After Effects Script of the Week: Add Parented Null to Each Selected Layer

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Past (and future) scripts of the week involve custom UI’s and detailed feature sets. We’re a few months into this series and there are some huge ones I haven’t even covered yet, because I also want to give weight to the ones that simply convert half a dozen steps into one. This week’s SotW is […]

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Use Dynamic Link to bring Warp Stabilizer to Premiere Pro CS5.5

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The Dynamic Link process to stabilize a Pr clip in AE begins in the Pr timeline. Warp Stabilizer was arguably the biggest addition to After Effects CS5.5. Once you understand how to use it, it’s a tool that can change the way you shoot; if you find yourself without a tripod or any kind of […]

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Unboxing: FloLight MicroBeam 128

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I’m currently doing some social media consulting for a great company you may have seen me cover in the past, FloLight. To familiarize me with their products, they were good enough to send me their MicroBeam 128, camera top, LED light. This is a great little light that is the perfect solution for HDSLR “Run […]

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All of the Automatic Duck plug-ins are now free

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It was just over a month ago that the post-production community was surprised by the news that the perennial workflow / transfer tools from Automatic Duck were suddenly gone. If you’ve been under a rock get up to speed on that news here and here. Another bombshell dropped Friday night when news broke that all […]

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Join Sony at Createasphere for an in-depth exploration of the Sony Super 35mm family of cameras!

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Juan Martinez, Senior Product Manager, will present the features and benefits of the NEX-FS100U, Sony’s Super 35mm camera that opens a new world of high-quality production convenience and creativity. He will demonstrate how, thanks to the flexibility of the universal e-mount, this camera provides virtually unlimited choices in 35mm lenses including SLR, legacy 35mm and […]

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Publishing Motion 5 Projects to FCPX

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I demonstrate to MacBreak Studio host Steve Martin the basic process of designing and publishing smart templates from Motion 5 to Final Cut Pro X, using a title as an example. With Motion 5, you can now design titles, transitions, effects, and generators and publish them to Final Cut Pro X’s effects browsers, making Motion […]

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