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May 21st, 2013
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| | | | Bella Corporation Ships KillerKeys Express Killerkeys Express And The Companion iPad App Now Available Bella Corporation today announced that KillerKeys Express for Windows and the companion KillerKeys Express iPad App are now available. published 3 hours ago read more | | | | |
| | | | Matrox and 1 Beyond Unveil StreamMachine DC at Streaming Media East World’s first battery-powered multichannel live production streaming system gives internet broadcasters true portability At Streaming Media East in booth 320, Matrox and 1 Beyond today demonstrated the industry’s first battery-powered multichannel live production streaming system, the 1 Beyond StreamMachine DC. Featuring the Matrox VS4™ quad HD capture and ISO recording card and Telestream® Wirecast® software, the unit is completely DC-powered including full control by an Apple® iPad®, an Android® tablet or a DC powered touch screen. published 6 hours ago read more | | | | |
| | | | Small Tree Shared Storage Plays Vital Role in Boutique Post-Production Company’s Rapid Growth Company’s Flexible Storage Solution Handles Workflow Requirements Originally founded in 2012 to handle post-production on two feature film projects, Prodigi House in Jakarta soon acquired additional clients – including Samsung and Honda – seeking support with TV commercials. With additional projects and tighter deadlines, the company installed a Titanium16 shared storage system from Small Tree, the leader in simple, affordable and powerful Ethernet-based shared storage solutions for professionals engaging in the creation, management and delivery of electronic media and entertainment content. published 1 day ago read more | | | | |
| | | | Sound Devices Offers Enhanced Recording And File Transfer Options For PIX 260I Users Latest Firmware Update, Version 1.02, Now Available for Free Download
In an effort to continue to streamline workflows for production and post-production environments with its rack-mounted PIX 260i Production Video Recorder, Sound Devices, experts in portable audio and video products for field production, now offers expanded audio and video recording and file transfer capabilities with its newest firmware update, Version 1.02. Available as a free download to all PIX 260i users, this latest version will be highlighted at Cine Gear 2013 (Booth 94). published 6 days ago read more | | | | |
| | | | Flarelight Effects for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and After Effects Noise Industries adds PHYX Flarelight to its plugin platform FxFactory. Designed for use in Final Cut Pro® 7 and X, Motion and Adobe® After Effects® and Premiere Pro®, PHYX Flarelight is a collection of visual effects and generators that allows editors to add realistic lens flares, industrial-strength glows and anamorphic streaks to footage Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, adds PHYX Flarelight to its plugin platform FxFactory. Designed for use in Final Cut Pro® 7 and X, Motion and Adobe® After Effects® and Premiere Pro®, PHYX Flarelight is a collection of visual effects and generators that allows editors to add realistic lens flares, industrial-strength glows and anamorphic streaks to footage. published 6 days ago read more | | | | |
| | | | Technicolor Announces Color Assist 1.5, Adds Support for Adobe After Effects New Version Adds Powerful Tools for Fast, Professional Results, Plus a New Fully Functional Trial Version Technicolor, a worldwide technology leader in the media and entertainment sector, today announced the latest version of Technicolor Color Assist, its video color correction and grading software package. Key improvements of version 1.5 include compatibility with Adobe® After Effects® and support for AVCHD video and still images, meeting the needs of an ever-expanding universe of creative artists. published 6 days ago read more | | | | |
| | | | Imagineer Systems and CoreMelt Announce Immediate Availability of SliceX powered by mocha New Final Cut Pro X Masking Plug-In Integrates mocha Planar Tracking Technology for Fast, Accurate Masking with Fewer Keyframes Imagineer Systems, creators of the Academy Award winning mocha Planar Tracking technology, and CoreMelt today announced the immediate availability of a new Final Cut Pro X masking plug-in, SliceX powered by mocha. This new version of SliceX, previewed at NAB 2013 last month, comes as a result of a strategic partnership between Imagineer Systems and CoreMelt, resulting in the integration of Imagineer’s award winning Planar Tracker into CoreMelt’s shape masking tool. published 1 week ago read more | | | | |
| | | | CCI to Install Escenic Content Engine Companywide at McClatchy As part of a corporate strategy to streamline its multichannel publishing workflow, The McClatchy Company, the third-largest newspaper publisher in the United States with leading digital operations in each of its markets, will move the websites of all of its daily newspapers to a common Escenic Content Engine platform. The project, which is being carried out by CCI, will result in one of the largest Escenic Content Engine installations in the world. published 1 week ago read more | | | | |
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| | | | Adobe After Effects Creative Fireworks in Adobe After Effects
Rob Mize shares his techniques for using After Effects to create a variety of fireworks displays. All you need is CC Particle World, a few expressions and a reason to celebrate and you can light up your world with dazzling pyrotechnic effects. Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Rob Mize on 05/17/2013 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Premiere Pro basics Premiere Pro Techniques: 110 Preset & Custom Lumetri Looks
In this tutorial, Andrew Devis goes through a new option that will be coming with the next release of Adobe Premiere Pro called Lumetri Looks - which gives you the option to apply .Look files created in Adobe SpeedGrade directly to your footage in Premiere Pro.
While this option at first glance seems to only offer the ability to apply presets already created, there is also a way in which you can create your own grades in SpeedGrade, save them as .Look files and then apply those custom grades to your footage or to an adjustment layer in Premiere Pro CS_Next.
In this tutorial, Andrew shows the new option and how it may be used with SpeedGrade CS_Next to create, save and apply your own custom looks. Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 05/14/2013 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Premiere Pro basics Premiere Pro Techniques: 109 Timeline Panel Change in CC
In this short tutorial for Premiere Pro's new CC version, Andrew Devis goes over some of the changes and improvements to the timeline panel for the next version of Premiere Pro so that you can get up and running with it quickly and smoothly. Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 05/13/2013 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects GenArts Sapphire 7: Must-Have VFX Plug-ins for AE & Avid
Frequent COW Contributing Editor Kevin P. McAuliffe reviews the latest version of GenArts Sapphire plug-in effects filters for both Adobe After Effects and Avid AVX versions, with ratings for current and new Sapphire users. Kevin also observes Sapphire's ability to plug into other NLEs and finishing systems, and takes a closer look at its licensing options, including purchasing, monthly rental and site licenses. You'll definitely want to see the latest and greatest of what this must-have software package has to offer. Review, Feature by Kevin P McAuliffe on 05/09/2013 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Premiere Pro Premiere Pro CC: 108 Multi-Cam Synched by Audio
In this tutorial, Andrew Devis looks at the next version of Premiere Pro and shows how it can now automatically synchronise footage in a bin by various options including timecode and AUDIO!
Andrew uses multiple clips and allows Premiere Pro to synchronise these clips using audio and shows us in real time how long this process takes based on a 48 min talk and 11 clips!
Andrew also goes on to show some of the changes that have taken place in the headers for video and audio tracks as well as a change in how to make multi-cam edits in the up-coming next version of Premiere Pro - valuable information for anyone working with multiple cameras. Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 04/13/2013 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects AE - RE:MATCH Non-matching Cameras in After Effects
In this tutorial, Andrew Devis demonstrates a relatively new plug-in by RE:Vision Effects called RE:Match and how it can very quickly and accurately deal with the very common problem of non-matching cameras in After Effects.
A typical approach to dealing with say a white balance issue would be to apply Color Finesse 3 and work with that which can be a slightly convoluted process, while RE:Match deals with the whole thing in a couple of clicks!
This very powerful effect can save a great deal of time for an everyday problem and so earn its cost back very quickly as well as giving excellent and fast results.
There is another tutorial showing how this effect works in Premiere Pro as there is a slightly different way the two applications deal with reference images. Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 04/13/2013 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Premiere Pro RE:Match Non-matching Cameras in Premiere Pro
In this tutorial Andrew Devis demonstrates a relatively new plug-in by RE:Vision Effects called RE:Match and how it can very quickly and accurately deal with the very common problem of non-matching cameras in Premiere Pro.
A typical approach to dealing with say a white balance issue would be to apply the fast color corrector and use the white balance picker, but this can be very hit and miss, while RE:Match deals with the whole image using another image or clip as the reference to match too.
This very powerful effect can save a great deal of time for an everyday problem and so earn its cost back very quickly as well as giving excellent and fast results.
There is another tutorial showing how this effect works in After Effects as there is a slightly different way the two applications deal with reference images. Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 04/13/2013 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects basics AE Basics Extras: Butterfly Wing Text Animation Part TWO
In the second part of this two part AE Basics Extra tutorial, Andrew Devis continues to build the butterfly in After Effects and then shows how to keep it 3D as it is formed.
Items covered in this tutorial include custom views, 3D and collapse transforms to keep items working in 3D once pre-composed, duplication and flipping layers, vertical type, text formatting, and complex animations with motion sketch. These tutorials will be valuable for anyone learning and developing text animation skills in After Effects. Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 03/28/2013 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects basics AE Basics Extras: Butterfly Wing Text Animation
In the first part of this two part AE Basics Extra tutorial, Andrew Devis starts to show how to create a butterfly wing with text.
The purpose of these tutorials is to give additional hints and tips for text animation in After Effects. Items covered in this tutorial include, using the pen tool, paths, copying mask paths to shape layers, text along a path and path option, 3D layers, animation of a wing, loopOut expression and viewing your composition in a different viewer.
In the second part of this tutorial Andrew will go on to complete the animated butterfly in 3D and show how to have it fly around your screen. Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 03/28/2013 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects basics AE Basics Extras: Caterpillar Text Animation
In this AE Basics Extra tutorial, Andrew Devis shows some more text animation techniques by animating 'Caterpillar' text in After Effects. Andrew shows how to shape your text so that it curves from large to small to create a 'tail' for the text and then he shows how to set up and animate the path that the text will use. Andrew then goes on to lock the text to the animated path and continues by adding additional animators to give body movement to the animated text.
This is a helpful tutorial for anyone wanting to learn to use a wider range of options for text animation in After Effects.
Andrew will be following up with a similar but different tutorial looking at creating a flying butterfly text! Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 03/20/2013 | | | | |
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| | | |  | expression to link one axis not working by Mac Lanphere in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum hello I'm trying to use Dan Ebberts expression (albeit for a 3 dimensional array instead of 2) to link to just the y position of an element in my comp here's the code I'm trying, with no luck: y = (-1)*(thisComp.layer("JRM").transform.position[1]); [value[0], y[1], value[2]] can someone spot an error? thanks... 28 minutes ago read more |
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| | | |  | Re: Tracking: null object jumping around by Ron Dangus in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum John, thanks for your reply. I found my mistake: I motion stabilized using Mercalli as a plug-in, forgetting that the tracking was done on the original footage. That's the reason the null object was jumping around while my footage wasn't. I precomposed the footage, tracked and masked onto the original... 2 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Premiere Pro CS6 black timeline / lag by Martin Eriksen in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum Hei CC's! I have a problem now while editing a short film in Premiere Pro CS6. At one point today, the timeline went full idiot. It becomes black if I try to resize it, and when I zoom it does not update properly. See picture - i've tried restarting, resetting... 2 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Re: Exporting out of Premiere by Joseph W. Bourke in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum What I generally do is to render off the Premiere project at it's native resolution - 1280 x 720 in your case - then jump to Adobe Media Encoder and output my delivery codecs/frame sizes. There are more choices in AME, plus you end up with a "future proof" master... 2 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Exporting out of Premiere by David Prokopchuk in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum Hello, I shot some footage using a Canon 60D and a GoPro. Edited it all in the native h.264 format in Premiere CS6. When I go to output, I don't have the option to change the frame size. It is stuck on 720. I'm guessing I need to download a... 3 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Re: making subclip from sequence by Anthony Bernard in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum Im currently in the same boat. I have 10 days worth of interviews for this doc that I need to multi-cam then sub-clip, but apparently there is still no way to do this short of duplicating the multi-cam sequence and trimming them individually into each sub clip? Not even in... 4 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Motion tracking by Elbire Rico in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hello everyone, I love this video but I don´t know how to do the motion tracking. I know how to track multiple points but not how to link them on an object. If anyone knows how this cool effect in this video it´s done please tell me. Otherwise you can... 4 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Re: Amount of Ram vs speed of RAM? by Walter Soyka in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum [Alex Gerulaitis] "You gotta patent the hell out of that phrase, Walter." Now that you mention it, I could see it on a t-shirt. Walter Soyka Principal & Designer at Keen Live Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting RenderBreak Blog - What I'm thinking when my workstation's thinking... 5 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Re: bouncing ball expression by David Cabestany in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum Update: I'm using this expression instead, it works perfectly, no timeout errors or anything like. Just change where it says LAYER NAME HERE to the floor layer you want to use. Thanks to Marcus Geduld and his excellent book After Effects Expressions for it. var bouncesPerSecond=1.5; var bounceStrength=200; var decayRate=.5;... 7 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Re: Hardware issue: Motherboard GTX570 communication by Joseph W. Bourke in the Adobe After Effects Forum While it's possible that it's a motherboard problem, have you checked everything possible, especially internal connections? I would try powering down, disconnecting the power cable, then pulling and reseating the card, while at the same time checking all of the connector cables. It's possible that the test person did a... 7 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Re: Amount of Ram vs speed of RAM? by Walter Soyka in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum If you want to live on the edge a little, you might be able to put all that RAM in (with the faster RAM getting automatically clocked down to the speed of the slower RAM). If your system gets crashy, I'd take the faster 8GB out. More RAM = more... 7 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Re: Trapcode Particular 2 Seamless Loop Question by Walter Soyka in the Adobe After Effects Forum See Aharon Rabinowitz's Creating a Looping Particle System [link] for an in-depth explanation. Basically, you need to duplicate your Particular layer, slide it in time so that the the frame after the last frame of the comp comes back to the first frame of the comp, then create two keyframes... 8 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Re: Canon c300 files fail in After Effects and Prelude. by Todd Kopriva in the Adobe After Effects Forum There are bug fixes for Canon XF files in the upcoming versions After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Prelude, which are dues for release on June 17th. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated After Effects quality engineering After Effects team blog ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------... 8 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Re: Creating an 80's Wireframe 3D Landscape by Walter Soyka in the Adobe After Effects Forum Mir or Plexus would make this pretty straightforward; you could also do it with Form. If you're using CS5 or CS5.5, you could use the bundled FreeForm in conjunction with Grid (though the results of the displacement will probably not be as sharp as generating with Mir/Plexus, unless you work... 8 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Re: Can't open an After Effects 10 file in After Effects CS4 by Todd Kopriva in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum This script makes transferring projects between versions relatively convenient: http://aescripts.com/pt_opensesame/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated After Effects quality engineering After Effects team blog ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------... 8 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Hardware issue: Motherboard GTX570 communication by John OBrien in the Adobe After Effects Forum I discovered this problem using Looksuite but now find it is more general to my system than just AE. I get a "lost communication" between motherboard and card driver message accompnaied by a blank screen that momentarily recovers. I took the computer (Cyberpower tower) to a test person who found... 8 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Re: Amount of Ram vs speed of RAM? by Tim Jones in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum Unless you're looking at DDR2 vs. DDR3 or seriously huge speed differences, double the amount of RAM will always be the best way to go for ALL memory hungry 64bit apps. Tim -- Tim Jones CTO - TOLIS Group, Inc. http://www.productionbackup.com BRU ... because it's the RESTORE that matters!... 9 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Re: AE makes computer TOO slow and crashes by Dave LaRonde in the Adobe After Effects Forum Your shot to be stabilized may simply be very long, and it's taxing the available memory. Sometimes it's impossible to keep any other applications open other than AE and the OS. If you're comparatively new to AE, you'll quickly realize that AE is a RAM Hog. Dave LaRonde Former Sr.... 11 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Re: Fade In then Wiggle - Based on Layers InPoint by Dan Ebberts in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum Sorry, I misunderstood what you were after. Try it this way: w = wiggle(1,10); fadeInTime = .5; fadeOutTime = .5; if (time (inPoint+outPoint)/2) linear(time,inPoint,inPoint+fadeInTime,0,w) else linear(time,outPoint-fadeOutTime,outPoint,w,0); Dan... 11 hours ago read more |
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| | | |  | Re: Keyframe: How To Revert to Default by John Cuevas in the Adobe After Effects Forum Cntl+click the keyframe to cycle through the different keyframe states. Johnny Cuevas, Editor Thinkck.com "I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work."... 11 hours ago read more |
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