When discussing the history of After Effects and performance, there’s one single, critical, all encompassing factor that we have...

Introducing the Introduction When it comes to After Effects, “performance” is a complicated topic.  The notion of performance affects...

Blend modes, composite modes, whatever you want to call them, they have been elusive in Avid Media Composer since...

In July last year I began work on a number of vfx shots for a short film called “At...

In the fifth and final part of this series on keying, I’ll demonstrate a range of compositing techniques to...

Red Giant Software has been developing After Effects plugins for over 15 years, and today they’ve launched their newest...

The point of using a chromakey plugin is to generate a matte / alpha channel based on the colour...

Keylight is, in general, the best chromakey plugin that comes with After Effects. Although there are other 3rdparty plugins available...

In Part 1 I did a quick overview of the most commonly used keying plugins for After Effects.  Regardless...

Nothing says visual fx like a greenscreen.  The image of a film set covered with blue or green fabric...