Agenda Set for the Seventh Annual Amsterdam SuperMeet

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The stage show agenda has now been set for the Seventh Annual Amsterdam SuperMeet, to take place during IBC2014 on Sunday, 14 September 2014 at the Hotel Krasnapolsky in the heart of Amsterdam, NL. The SuperMeet agenda will feature film editors Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey as well as user driven presentations from Blackmagic […]

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Boris FX Announces Boris Continuum Complete 9 Units

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Boris Continuum Complete 9 (BCC) Units are now available from Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated VFX and workflow technology for video and film. The sixteen Units include new filters, features, and speed improvements from the recently updated flagship product, Boris Continuum Complete. Host Support: The updated BCC Units are currently supported in Adobe […]

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Photokina Movie: Action Starts Soon

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Photokina embraces action this year, with a whole area dedicated to “Action!”, where users can borrow an action cam, try it out and take home the film made with the camera. It also has one hall dedicated to video, for professional users and ambitious film hobbyists. The “Photokina Action Zone” is part of the news […]

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Comparing 3D type options for After Effects

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While some may claim that the After Effects CS6-era Ray-traced 3D renderer is a minor feature that you can ignore, it’s still a strong option for basic motion graphics with realistic reflections and refractions, and very fast if you have an Nvidia CUDA GPU. If you’re not committed one way or another, you may want to check […]

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My Passport Wireless for Videographers

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Portable drives are nothing new these days, but the new WD portable storage drive wants to be something different: it offers up to 2TB, up to 20 hours of standby power and a SD card slot for direct transfer of data. All under the popular My Passport name! Unveiled today, the My Passport Wireless is […]

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The Red Giant Universe Expands With Version 1.2

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As part of its aggressive expansion of new tools and host support, Red Giant today released Universe 1.2. The update to the multi-host-app library of GPU-accelerated tools includes nine new effects and transitions. Universe 1.2 also adds support for Sony Vegas as well as native editing of transitions in Premiere Pro CC and CC 2014. […]

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TurbulenceFD Depth Pass Using Cinema 4D

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Creating a depth pass for a smoke simulation should be a simple task you might think. In most cases with professional softwares it can be, but not all softwares support this feature. In this particular case it is the Fire and Smoke simulation plugin TurbulenceFD(TFD). I am a huge fan of this plugin and have […]

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Karrot Animation expands 2D possibilities

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Rapid technology advances have made computer animation one of the fastest growing industries in Europe and North America. The demand for animated entertainment is growing partly due to expanding broadcasting hours for cable and satellite TV and the ever-increasing popularity of the Internet. Since it launched in 2008, the United Kingdom’s Karrot Animation has become […]

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Z-Depth compositing with Particular – Part 2

Trapcode’s Particular is probably the most popular 3rd party plugin for After Effects, and amongst its many powerful features is the ability to read a z-depth map.  What it doesn’t have, however, is an obvious way to render out its own z-depth map – but by manually adjusting some of the settings we can generate […]

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