Measuring Rotation in After Effects

Measuring Rotation in After Effects 1

Last week, we posted a short tutorial on using expressions to measure the distance between two points. This was triggered by playing around with the new Face Tracker in After Effects CC 2015, which in Detailed Features mode generated a number of point controls that track different facial features including the eyes, corners of the […]

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After Effects Hidden Gems: Illuminating Dark 3D Layers

You could be forgiven for thinking that to illuminate 3D layers in After Effects, you just add one or more 3D lights and edit their parameters to taste. But that just controls how a light is cast – if you want to also control how a layer receives that light, it’s worth a dive into […]

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Affinity Photo, a Photoshop Alternative

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Affinity Photo for Mac may well be the reason why Apple dropped their own Aperture photo editor and indexing system and will never launch the Aperture 4 Mac users were expecting. While many had to look elsewhere for options, some Mac users have waited for the surprise from Serif, a company that has mainly been […]

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Apple improves Mac and mobile OS, but misspells El Capitán

Apple improves Mac and mobile OS, but misspells El Capitán 3

At the recent WWDC, Apple announced several improvements both in its upcoming Mac OS and the upcoming mobile iOS 9. At the same time, Apple unfortunately blundered when presenting the name for the new Mac OS, called El Capitán. (Apple neglected to include the accent mark.) Ahead I’ll cover my favorite improvements in both operating […]

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Sony Electronics Delivers a Complete A/V Upgrade for the Pittsburgh Pirates’ PNC Park Control Room

Sony Electronics Delivers a Complete A/V Upgrade for the Pittsburgh Pirates’ PNC Park Control Room 4

The Pittsburgh Pirates are discovering an added home field advantage this season, through an A/V system installed by Sony Electronics. Sony’s Solutions Development and Integration group served as the prime contractor, working with system integrator Alpha Video Sports & Entertainment Group to design and install a new video control room using Sony HD broadcast technology […]

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My Photos Are Not Royalty-Free – 2

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To fully understand the story it is a good idea to read the original article, My Photos Are Not Royalty-Free, which I can summarize here in a few words: “When I recently browsed the web to show some images to a friend, I found a Google entry under “royalty-free stock photos from Jose Antunes | […]

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Blackmagic Cameras help Spike TV’s “Tut” Capture Impossible

Blackmagic Cameras help Spike TV's "Tut" Capture Impossible 6

DP Chris LaVasseur and Second Unit Drictor/DP Mark Vargo, ASC shoot action scenes and stunt work for Spike TV’s televsion series “Tut.” […]

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