Create and animate 3D cogs in After Effects – Part 2

Thanks to the new 3D capabilities of After Effects CS6, you can create and animate 3D cogs and gears inside of After Effects without the need for a true 3D program. Part 1 demonstrates the problems with trying to animate cogs, and how to solve them using standard 2D techniques. Part 2 shows how to […]

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Create and animate 3D cogs in After Effects – Part 1

Sometimes jobs turn out to be more complicated than you expect them to.  Animating cogs and gears can be like that – it sounds like a nice idea, it’s easy enough to arrange some stock photos of cogs together on a storyboard, but as soon as you try to animate them then things can turn […]

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Avid Studio for iPad is now Pinnacle Studio and is free, temporarily

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Back in February 2012, I first wrote about Avid Studio for iPad, including its initial features and limitations. Then in April, I published iPad video journalism comes of age at NAB 2012 and in June, Flaw in Avid Studio & iMovie for iPad makes them more appropriate for broadcast news than for new media. Later […]

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