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February 8th, 2012
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| | | | KATV Transition to HD News Includes JVC ProHD Cameras for Studio, ENG Use
JVC Professional Products Company, a division of JVC Americas Corp., today announced that KATV, the ABC affiliate in Little Rock-Pine Bluff, Ark. (DMA #56), is delivering local HD news to its viewers using more than 20 JVC ProHD cameras. The station has purchased 15 GY-HM790Us, five GY-HD250Us, and two GY-HM750U cameras for studio and ENG use.
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| | | | HPA Tech Retreat Preps Attendees for Ongoing Industry Climate Changes
Inspiring Demonstrations, Collegial Atmosphere and Unparalleled Sessions Bring Experts from Entertainment, Government and Research Together in Vibrant Exchange
The Hollywood Post Alliance® has announced the lineup for the HPA Tech Retreat®, set to take place February 13 -17 at the Hyatt Grand Champions in Indian Wells, CA. The HPA Tech Retreat is the annual conference that brings together thought leaders from digital and content creation, media and entertainment, forensics, medicine, digital imaging, to academic research.
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| | | | Nattress Releases First FxFactory Based Filters for FCP and AE
Nattress Levels and Curves Filter Pack lets users take control of footage in film-log space for superb image results
Noise Industries' latest partnership with Nattress Productions brings a finer degree of image control to the editor through Levels and Curves, a filter pack that allows users to color grade in film-log space. The new curve-based color adjustment plug-in, available now on FxFactory 3, is compatible with Final Cut Pro® 6, 7 and X; Motion 3, 4 and 5; and Adobe® After Effects® CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS5.5.
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| | | | Digital Film Tools Brings the Magic of Film to New Film Stocks Plug-in
New Film Stocks photo and video/film plug-in simulates the look of analog film stocks
Digital Film Tools, developer of visual effects software, today announced the release of Film Stocks with plug-in support for Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom®, Adobe After Effects® CS5 and up, Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5 and up, Apple® Aperture®, Apple Final Cut Pro® 6 and 7, and Avid® editing systems.
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| | | | MAXON CINEMA 4D Helps Digital Artist Barton Damer Win Big for Malaria No More Foundation
Damer’s Winning Design – Malaria Kills – Raises Funds and Awareness for Malaria No More Foundation
MAXON, a leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, congratulates digital artist and motion designer Barton Damer on winning first honors place in the Veer Creative Catalyst: Design for Change Competition, an international contest inviting artists to design a compelling socially-themed piece for a charity or cause of their choice.
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| | | | Cinedeck RX Delivers Tapeless Record, Monitoring And Playback Workflow To Broadcasters And Mobile OB
New rack-mountable Cinedeck RX delivers multi-camera capture and post-production innovations for cinema and TV entertainment, sports, news and events
Cinedeck LLC, pioneering developer of mobile capture systems for motion picture and broadcast production, has shipped Cinedeck RX, the latest addition to the Cinedeck product family. Cinedeck RX is a new, rack-mountable, solid-state recording, monitoring and playback system, that delivers tapeless workflow to studios, post-production facilities and broadcasters covering the wide range of cinema production, sporting, music, theatrical and entertainment events in both 2D and 3D stereoscopic formats.
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| | | | JVC Introduces Prohd Compact Studio System For GY-HM150 Handheld Camcorder
JVC Professional Products Company, a division of JVC Americas Corp., today announced its ProHD Compact Studio solution, which configures the GY-HM150 ProHD handheld camcorder for a studio environment using two new accessories, the HZ-HM150VZR ProHD remote lens control and the DT-X71 ProHD monitor. The company also announced a limited-time rebate program that provides up to $600 in savings for customers who purchase the camcorder and ProHD Compact Studio components.
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| | | | Yanobox Moods - Next Generation Color Correction for FCP X
New color correction plug-in for Final Cut Pro X, Motion and After Effects offers a unique heads up display
Noise Industries development partner, Yanobox, is pleased to introduce Moods, a unique color grading plug-in with support for Final Cut Pro® X; Motion 3, 4 and 5; and Adobe® After Effects® CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS5.5.
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| | | | Noise Industries Releases FxFactory 3 Visual Effects For FCP, Motion and AE
FxFactory 3 brings seven brand new visual effects products plus free updates to existing plug-ins
Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced the release of FxFactory® 3. FxFactory is a visual effects platform for Apple® Final Cut Pro®, Motion and Adobe® After Effects®, powering hundreds of hardware accelerated, visual effects plug-ins developed by Noise Industries and partners. The new FxFactory 3 release supports Final Cut Pro 6, 7, and X; Motion 3, 4 and 5; Final Cut Express 4; and Adobe After Effects CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS5.5.
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| | | | Blackmagic Design Announces New Intensity Shuttle with Thunderbolt™ Technology
Capture and playback amazing quality HDMI and analog 10-bit video in SD and HD
Blackmagic Design today announced Intensity Shuttle, a revolutionary new video capture and playback solution that uses Intel’s groundbreaking Thunderbolt™ technology. Intensity Shuttle makes the highest quality 10-bit SD and HD video affordable for everyone, in a truly portable solution that’s priced at only $239.
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| | | | | TUTORIALS: | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects basics
AE Basics 34: Font Selection and Faux Options
 AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 34: In this tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to quickly select and change your font selection and modify its look and feel with the Faux options in the character panel.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 02/08/2012 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects basics
AE Basics 33: Options for Creating Text
 AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 33: In this tutorial, Andrew Devis starts to look at text creation and animation in After Effects starting with the different ways to create text in the composition panel.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 02/01/2012 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects
Virtual 3D Sets with After Effects
 Rob Mize demonstrates techniques for creating a virtual set in 3D space. He shows how you can build sophisticated, detailed environments, where your actors appear to interact with their 3 dimensional surroundings. Build the set of your dreams using nothing more than After Effects, a few textures and your creativity.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Rob Mize on 01/24/2012 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects
Lite Bite for After Effects: The Tilt Shift Effect
 In this tutorial, Martin Ainsworth will demonstrate the "Tilt Shift" effect also known as "Toy Town Look" using Abobe After Effect. This simple yet very power technique can add an extra dimension to an opening introduction.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Martin Ainsworth on 01/23/2012 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Photoshop
Lite Bite for Photoshop: Using Masks on Groups
 Using masks to speed up web design can help you show multiple graphic ideas with the least amount of effort for best effect. In this tutorial, Martin Ainsworth willl show you how to add a mask to a folder and add content to it.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Martin Ainsworth on 01/11/2012 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Photoshop
Lite Bite for Photoshop: Creating Custom Actions
 In this "Lite Bite" tutorial, quickly setup custom actions to speed up your photography workflow in Adobe Photoshop to rotate and add adjustment layers for 'Cross Processing' and 'Black & White.' This is a valuable time saving tutorial.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Martin Ainsworth on 01/04/2012 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects
Lite Bite for After Effects: How do I create a simple Light Wrap?
 "Lite Bites" are short no-frills tutorials giving quick answers for busy people. In this first AE Lite Bite tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to make a quick 'light wrap' effect for a keyed item so that the edge or alpha channel of the keyed item includes some of the pixels from the background element so that it starts to look as if the two items really belong together.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 01/03/2012 | | | | |
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| | | |  | Field dominance
by Carola Klein in the Adobe Premiere Pro basics Forum
I'm using PPro 1.5 still, and when the the matrox RTX100 card failed, I bought a canopus ADVC, re-installed Adobe minus matrox,and re-imported my project. But the effects (mainly mixes) in what I'd edited so far are jittery when played in real time. A colleague has found that my clips...
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| | | | | Export XML from Premiere to FCP7
by Aaron Barton in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
Hey guys, I'm trying to get a workflow that will allow me to send edits to and from Premiere and FCP7 using ProRes files. When I sent and XML from FCP to Premiere, it looks like everything worked fine. Some of the Speed changes were slightly off, but nothing serious....
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| | | | | Re: Beginner's AE-expression problem
by Ilkka Pitkänen in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum
Maybe if I'll make it simpler, someone could help me with the problem: So if I have four layers, in the end I need to the Slider effect to have different value every frame with values 2,3,4,5 sequentially (2,3,4,5,2,3,4,5,2,3,4,5,2,3,4,5....). Of course I can just a lot of copy/paste keyframes, but...
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| | | | | AE 5.5 information panels stop appearing
by Jim Wilcox in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I've encountered a strange behavior with 5.5(up to date according to Adobe) running on MacPro 10.6.6. After having the program launched for a period of time (over 30 minutes) all info panels that might pop up indicating an error in an expression, missing footage, a missing font or effect, even...
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| | | |  | Re: Backwards Compatability Is Here!
by Todd Kopriva in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I agree. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated Technical Support for professional video software After Effects Help & Support Premiere Pro Help & Support ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
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| | | | | Re: Way to view all expressions in AE project?
by Todd Kopriva in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum
Even better! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated Technical Support for professional video software After Effects Help & Support Premiere Pro Help & Support ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
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| | | | | Re: Any rumors about 6.0?
by Todd Kopriva in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
Sorry. I didn't mean to come off that way. I just see a lot of people spinning into misinformation when talking about rumors. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated Technical Support for professional video software After Effects Help & Support Premiere Pro Help & Support ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
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| | | | | dpx file sequence doesn't update
by daniel tegeland in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
Hi! I am working on a intro and are constantly switch between ae and premiere. I have this enormously frustration problem. When ever I overwrite my dpx sequence from ae it doesn't update in premiere. I simply can't get it to read the newly rendered files. I have tried to...
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| | | |  | Re: Time Remapping Stabilized clip?
by Michael Szalapski in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
Try remapping a precomp of your stabilized footage. Alternatively, why not render your stabilized footage into a lossless codec and reimport it? - The Great Szalam (The 'Great' stands for 'Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble') No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand...
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| | | | | Re: Mirror Not mirroring small comp
by Michael Szalapski in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Why not precomp your image into a 100x200 precomp? Then apply the mirror effect to the precomp. - The Great Szalam (The 'Great' stands for 'Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble') No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced....
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| | | | | Re: Mystery of the Disappearing Layer
by Michael Szalapski in the Adobe After Effects Forum
You're not rendering with OpenGL on, are you? - The Great Szalam (The 'Great' stands for 'Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble') No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced....
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| | | | | Re: Backwards Compatability Is Here!
by Michael Szalapski in the Adobe After Effects Forum
The more I think about it, the more I think that nobody has even scratched the surface of what you could do with his script. - The Great Szalam (The 'Great' stands for 'Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble') No trees were harmed in the creation of this message,...
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| | | |  | Re: animated dots texture (array)
by Steve GERGES in the Adobe After Effects Forum
this sounds not to bad... i'll give it a try ..... the thing is i'm working with plexus ALOT for this animation and didn't even thought about it..... i think it's the thing about not seeing the forest because all of the trees ;) thanks. Steve - Art Director -...
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| | | |  | Re: animated dots texture (array)
by Tudor "Ted" Jelescu in the Adobe After Effects Forum
This looks like it could be done using Plexus. If you leave the particles at dots only and do not activate the lines, and then apply a Spherical Field distortion (from the Plexus Tool Kit), then you need to position a camera on top, looking straight on at your particles....
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by Steve GERGES in the Adobe After Effects Forum
hi i need to animate something looking similar to the attached image as a background for an animation, but i can't figure out how to do it and would love to have some inputs about it.... actually i was trying to use particular's grid emitter and a spherical field...so far...
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| | | | | Mirror Not mirroring small comp
by Moog Gravett in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hi folks, I'm just trying to work out if I can get a mirror working under the following circumstances. For example: ** Main comp 1280 x 720 PreComp to be mirrored 100 x 100 ** When I apply the mirror I do not see the expected result or a duplicated...
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| | | | | Re: technicolor!
by Chris Wright in the Adobe After Effects Forum
This hadn't been updated in a while, so here's what I use daily. It's a project I wrote from working closely in other programs to port over to AE. Technicolor 3 strip process blue,red,green and black protection and in 32bpc too! AE CS3 AEP http://www.mediafire.com/?3y54fd2yedty463...
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| | | | | Re: stroke around masked layer?
by Andy Engelkemier in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Oh my goodness, how long have Those been there without me knowing? So glad I asked that question now. For the same thing, if I had to mask something and needed a shadow or something like that I was precomposing that layer first, then adding an effect. Thank you! edit:...
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| | | | | Re: Exporting 1080p 25fps to NTSC
by Chris Wright in the Adobe After Effects Forum
is slowing down 4% to 23.976 and adding pulldown 3:2 cadence 29.97 ntsc an acceptable alternative? it would keep the film look while not adding too much judder or worrying about optical artifacts. here's some oldies but goodies posts on helping you decide which way you want to go, retiming...
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| | | |  | Re: #AfterEffects Exporting Targa with Alpha
by Angie Taylor in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
When you render, go to the Output module settings and make sure that the Channels menu is set to RGB+Alpha and Millions of Colors +; Here's some info to help you; http://www.video2brain.com/en/videos-1450.htm#/?video_id=1542 http://www.video2brain.com/en/videos-1450.htm cheers, Angie Angie Taylor animation & illustration for television, film, web and devices http://www.angietaylor.co.uk Twitter: theangietaylor Linkedin:...
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| | | | | Re: Resources for #AfterEffects, backgrounds, effects etc
by Angie Taylor in the Adobe After Effects Forum
If you use Sapphire plugins there's also FX Central which has tons of free stuff! http://www.genarts.com/fx-central/look-collections cheers, Angie Angie Taylor animation & illustration for television, film, web and devices http://www.angietaylor.co.uk Twitter: theangietaylor Linkedin: theangietaylor http://www.facebook.com/pages/Angie-Taylor/118378194869002...
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| | | | | Re: Any rumors about 6.0?
by Ryan Patch in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
Woah, Todd. Your users *like* the product. They like to talk about it. We like to talk about what the program we sit in front of for 8 hours a day might look like in 6 months. Sort of like I like to think about what "The Dark Knight Rises"...
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| | | | | Re: suicide hang
by Todd Kopriva in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
Hang the person by a rope tied to their belt. Have that rope come up through the back of their shirt. Use a different rope to make the noose; have only enough tension in that one to look good. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated Technical Support for professional video...
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"Lite Bites" are short no-frills tutorials giving quick answers for busy people. In this next AE Lite Bite tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to use 8 or 16 bpc effects safely on 16 or 32 bpc projects.
"Lite Bites" are short no-frills tutorials giving quick answers for busy people. In this next AE Lite Bite tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to quickly and easily animate text on a path.
In this tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe takes a look at doing the same viewer requested track matting technique he showed in Motion 5, but the time he demonstrates the technique inside of Adobe After Effects.
