Shatter glass in After Effects

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The easiest way to simulate shattered or broken glass in After Effects is with Shatter, an older 8-bit per channel plug-in that ships with After Effects. Originally developed by Brian Maffitt under the Atomic Power banner, Shatter is mostly used for shattering glass, brick walls, puzzles, and so forth, but also used to generate 3D […]

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Intel’s New Processor Speeds Up Video Rendering

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Intel's new consumer processor is not on the same league as their Xeon chips, those used in workstations, but the Haswell-E is the fastest processor many working videographers may need, at a much lower price than the Xeon costs. Recent tests show results that may surprise everybody. The entry level processor costs close to $400. […]

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Multi-screen Multicam in Final Cut Pro X

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Putting the Angle Viewer into the Timeline? That is essentially what Steve Martin from Ripple Training shows us how to do in this week's episode of MacBreak Studio. So why would you want to? When editing a multi-camera shoot in Final Cut Pro X, you first create a multicam clip, which contains each camera […]

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