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February 8th, 2012 Adobe : After Effects Home NEWS: Neat Video Announces Neat Video Pro Noise Filter for ASSIMILATE SCRATCH and SCRATCH Lab Announcement Delivers Dynamic New Tools To The Creative Arsenal of SCRATCH and Lab Artists The Neat Video team announced that they have delivered the Neat Video Pro video noise reduction filter as an OpenFX plug-in for ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH® and SCRATCH Lab™ digital workflow tools. Previously only available for video editing and compositing applications, this new version of Neat Video brings its industry-leading grain and noise reduction technology to Digital Intermediate (DI), Finishing, Production Dailies and Visual Effects Dailies workflows. published 15 hours ago   read more 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. published 2 weeks ago   read more 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. published 2 weeks ago   read more Eye Scream Factory Releases 74 DVE Transitions by Kevin P. McAuliffe New Professional Presets for Avid Media Composer 6, Symphony 6, Avid FX 6, and Boris RED 5 Eye Scream Factory, a provider of time-saving design templates, presets, and royalty-free content for digital media artists, today announced the availability of 74 DVE transition presets created by Kevin P. McAuliffe, Senior Editor at MIJO in Toronto, Canada, and an Avid Media Composer editor for 15 years. The presets include a wide variety of organic and fluid DVE transitions. published 2 weeks ago   read more 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. published 2 weeks ago   read more 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. published 3 weeks ago   read more 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. published 3 weeks ago   read more 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. published 4 weeks ago   read more RE:Vision Effects releases RE:Map v2 for Nuke, Composite and Fusion RE:Vision Effects, Inc. acclaimed effects plug-in industry leader and makers of Academy Award winning software, announces the initial release of RE:Map, the ultimate kit of mapping and distortion tools, as an OFX plug-in set for use within The Foundry's Nuke, Eyeon's Fusion, and Autodesk's Composite. published 1 month ago   read more Pond5 Holiday Giveaway: 50 Free Stock Media Gifts Through December 31st, Media Makers Can Instantly Download Free Stock Video, Sound Effects, Production Music and After Effects Templates. Pond5, the world’s stock media marketplace, announced today that their annual Holiday Giveaway is occurring now through the end of the year. In the spirit of the season Pond5 is offering media producers 50 free stock video, audio and AE files available for instant download directly from the website. published 2 months ago   read more MORE TUTORIALS: 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 After Effects Lite Bite for After Effects: How do I use 8 or 16 bpc effects on 16 or 32 pbc 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 use 8 or 16 bpc effects safely on 16 or 32 bpc projects. Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 01/17/2012 Adobe After Effects Lite Bite for After Effects: How do I animate Text on a Path? "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. Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 01/10/2012 Adobe After Effects You Ask....I Answer: Masking vs Track Matting Part 2: Adobe After Effects 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. Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Kevin P. McAuliffe on 01/09/2012 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 Adobe After Effects Weißabgleich nachträglich ändern ein Quicktip in Adobe After Effects Weißabgleich nachträglich ändern ein Quicktip in Adobe After Effects von Lucas Pfaff: lernen die Grundlagen der Weißabgleich. Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Lucas Pfaff on 12/23/2011 Adobe After Effects Using the Scribble & Stroke Effects The "Scribble" and the "Stroke" effects are often overlooked due to the fact that it isn't immediately obvious how they work as they won't work unless applied in a very particular way. In this in-depth tutorial, Andrew Devis explains how to apply these effects and then goes through the many options in each effect which can make them very powerful and able to produce a surprisingly large variety of results. Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 12/22/2011 Adobe After Effects Character Design and Animation in AE: Part One Rob Mize demonstrates the process of designing, creating and animating a character entirely in After Effects. Part 1 focuses on the design and creation of the character using nothing more than AE shapes. Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Rob Mize on 12/02/2011 Adobe After Effects Adobe Creative Cloud Offers Applications, Services, Community With Creative Cloud, Adobe is switching from a model of software as a product to Software as a Service (SaS). By early 2012, Adobe Creative Cloud is expected to include such applications as After Effects, Premiere and Photoshop. Creative Cloud includes a hub for viewing, sharing and syncing of files, and a subscription with 20GB of cloud storage. Feature, People / Interview by Debra Kaufman on 11/15/2011 MORE THREADS: Re: how do you get CC particle world to emit when rotating it? by John Cuevas in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum I see what you are trying to do, but there are some issues. First your particles are being emmitted offscreen. Add CC particle world to a blank solid and type in the positions your expressions are delivering(Layer 3) X=-.32, Y=-.38, Z=-.56---it's offscreen. Second your expression isn't moving anything. The layer... 33 minutes ago   read more Re: Adding hyperlink to a video (flv) made in Premiere Pro by Chris Alstrin in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum Doesn't have that hotspot feature for the MAC version. Bummer. Chris Alstrin www.alstrinfilms.com... 47 minutes ago   read more Re: RED 5 - setting up a second display by peter mcauley in the Boris FX Forum Hi Nicol, Your best bet might be to get in touch with one of our support guys - you can reach them vial email at support@borisfx.com or by phone at 888-772-6747. Cheers, Peter.... 49 minutes ago   read more Re: Beginner's AE-expression problem by Ilkka Pitkänen in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum Rock'n'roll! Thank you so much Dan!... 54 minutes ago   read more Re: Time Remapping Stabilized clip? by Sean Tyler in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Thanks again Michael... that was simple enough, still getting my bearings here and certainly not learning in a "linear" fashion, but I'll never ask the same question twice... s... 57 minutes ago   read more Re: Beat Counter based xpression gets really SLOW!! by Anders Hattne in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum I have no knowledge of scripting and am very green at expressions. In the end we cut down the comps. We'll save time on the voice syncing and spend that on editing later! www.ardillamedia.com... 57 minutes ago   read more 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.... 58 minutes ago   read more Re: BCC Corner Pinning Tips? by peter mcauley in the Boris FX Forum Hi James, Feel free to send me the original clip and I'll see if I can track it. Thanks, Peter.... 1 hour ago   read more Re: AE 5.5 information panels stop appearing by Jim Wilcox in the Adobe After Effects Forum Yeah. Tried that. No change. Seems like it has to be something else as the state changes after the app has been running for awhile.... 1 hour ago   read more Re: Controlling the start time of a layer by Dan Ebberts in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum If you need to move layers around in time, it sounds like a job for a script, not an expression. With a script you could do the whole thing--duplicate your audio layer and position the start time of the copies to whatever interval you want. A bit of work, but... 1 hour ago   read more Re: AE 5.5 information panels stop appearing by Erik Waluska in the Adobe After Effects Forum No, but you could try to trash the preferences file. That fixes a lot of oddball problems with AE.... 1 hour ago   read more Re: Adding hyperlink to a video (flv) made in Premiere Pro by Chris Alstrin in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum Hey Rob. Thanks for your quick reply I've been trying to do it in a quicktime movie. I basically want people to click on a few items at the end of a product video. I've read everything from being able to create flash to using keynote to create this. I... 1 hour ago   read more Re: Beginner's AE-expression problem by Dan Ebberts in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum This should work: n = 4; timeToFrames(time)%n + 2 Dan... 1 hour ago   read more Re: Beat Counter based xpression gets really SLOW!! by Dan Ebberts in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum The beat counter will definitely bog down in a long comp because at each frame it has to examine all the previous frames. You could speed it up by using a script to do the analysis and have it set hold keyframes on a slider for each beat. It should... 1 hour ago   read more Re: How are they masking out the people in the NIKE+ FUELBAND - COUNTS commercial by Anders Hattne in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Masking round objects or people is called Rotoscoping and can be quite time consuming. Luckily there's the rotobrush in CS5 that can make it easier and sometimes does incredibly stuff with transparent bits, like motion blur. How well it works might depend on the background though. www.ardillamedia.com... 1 hour ago   read more Re: Adding hyperlink to a video (flv) made in Premiere Pro by Robert Penczak in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum Hey Chris - As best I could tell, you're not able to do that with an flv (though I think you can do it with a QuickTime movie if that works for you - didn't work for me since I wanted to use other features of flash/flv integration) Please post... 1 hour ago   read more Beat Counter based xpression gets really SLOW!! by Anders Hattne in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum Hi, I used Dan Ebberts Beat counter expression to make some voice sync easier. It looks which frequences are the loudest in a soundtrack and changes the opacity of the clips accordingly. Problem is it gets unfeasible slow at 30 minutes (..we made them that long... well..) Anyway, is there... 2 hours ago   read more All Paint Strokes(Clones) Parented to one Null by Bobby Dorrance in the Adobe After Effects Forum Is there a way to attach multiple strokes (clones) to a null with tracking data?... 2 hours ago   read more 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... 2 hours ago   read more How are they masking out the people in the NIKE+ FUELBAND - COUNTS commercial by aaron musgrove in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT50eLLxPco&feature=youtube_gdata_player I assume they are editing this in After Effects. My friend suggested masking around the person an automating mask points on every frame. Is there an easier way to achieve this look.... 2 hours ago   read more Re: Adding hyperlink to a video (flv) made in Premiere Pro by Chris Alstrin in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum Hey Robert. Just wondering if you found anything about adding hyperlinks to videos? I'm looking to do the same thing Chris Alstrin www.alstrinfilms.com... 2 hours ago   read more 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... 2 hours ago   read more Boris RED 5 and Digieffects by Marcus Warren in the Boris FX Forum I just confirmed that Digieffects no longer officially supports Boris RED 5, although certain plugs-ins may work in 5. As you may be aware Boris RED 4 was officially supported. Can anyone confirm that the latest version of Delirium works with Boris RED 5?... 3 hours ago   read more 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------... 3 hours ago   read more 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------... 3 hours ago   read more 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------... 3 hours ago   read more 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... 3 hours ago   read more Re: how do you get CC particle world to emit when rotating it? by Jason Karl in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Here's the links to the files 3650_orblinesrotate.aep.zip 3648_orblines.aep.zip... 3 hours ago   read more Editing technique by Russ Carlin in the RE:Vision Effects Forum Hi all, not sure i'm in the right place here! Just a question, is the effect in this video achieved by shooting the video in sync to the music being played at a slower pace, then speeding the video up so it's sync with the actual real bpm of the... 3 hours ago   read more 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... 4 hours ago   read more Re: Font is excessively bolded (fattened) using a normal font by Michael Szalapski in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum You have two things fattening up your text. One is that there is a thick (8 pixel) black outline around your letters. Turn the outlines off. Second, you have faux bold turned on. (It's at the bottom of the character pallette, right next to the faux italic button. I would... 4 hours ago   read more Re: AE Basics - Why won't my camera rotate in real time? by Nick Power in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Thankyou! Now that was a quick thread. I like this place. Many thanks Johnny! Nick... 4 hours ago   read more Re: how do you get CC particle world to emit when rotating it? by Jason Karl in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum I uploaded the project last night but it seems it never got approved to be posted?... 4 hours ago   read more 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.... 4 hours ago   read more Re: AE Basics - Why won't my camera rotate in real time? by John Cuevas in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Check to make sure you haven't unclicked the live update button. It's the 2nd icon from the left in your timeline panel. 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... 4 hours ago   read more 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.... 4 hours ago   read more 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,... 4 hours ago   read more 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 -... 4 hours ago   read more 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.... 4 hours ago   read more Re: AE Rendering different than Preview by Byron Fillmore in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Here is a screenshot of the changes to the video clip when I view @ "Full" and @ "Half" Any ideas? Thanks again! smooth.jpg... 4 hours ago   read more animated dots texture (array) 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... 4 hours ago   read more AE Basics - Why won't my camera rotate in real time? by Nick Power in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Hi all, first post, I've tried to search it but I can't find it. AE CS5. Mac Pro I've using the camera tool on some basic text but when I rotate round using the Orbit Camera tool the text only rotates once I've unclicked. i.e I can't see he text... 5 hours ago   read more Re: Inverted luma matte not working properly in render by Tudor "Ted" Jelescu in the Adobe After Effects Forum Not really, I know that Layer Styles limits 3D interaction and gives error in a 3d environment, so I thought that may be the issue here as well. As to exactly why that happens... maybe Adobe can answer. Todd...? Tudor "Ted" Jelescu Senior VFX Artist... 5 hours ago   read more Re: How to create a composition starting at frame 1001 CS 5.5? by Andy Engelkemier in the Adobe After Effects Forum The box that pops up when you choose "create a new composition" or Composition > New composition or Ctrl+N is exactly the same as what you get when you hit ctrl+K.... 5 hours ago   read more Re: Best way to shoot a text message on a cell phone by Andy Engelkemier in the Adobe After Effects Forum Most people I know just shoot what's on the screen. They do that in most cases I've seen on TV. That's usually the fastest way, and produces more realistic results. Tracking often creates a floating effect without a bunch of manual work unless ideal conditions are met. You may have... 6 hours ago   read more Re: Smoke from a brand - wide area - how to animate by Andy Engelkemier in the Adobe After Effects Forum Yeah, I think that's the only way with the built in particle systems. If you use effects like that often, it's worth purchasing particular. It's way faster, and you can shift when you start. Of course, if it's rare that you do projects like that, it's not worth paying for... 6 hours ago   read more 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... 6 hours ago   read more Controlling the start time of a layer by ibrahim cengiz in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum Hi My comp is based on a slide show. Slides durations are controlled by a slider. I am trying to achieve an audio loop cycle with expressions. I have an audio of 2 seconds long. I want to replay audio but i want to control the distance between loops (i... 6 hours ago   read more 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... 6 hours ago   read more 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:... 6 hours ago   read more 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... 7 hours ago   read more Tutorial: AE Basics 34: Font Selection and Faux Options by Andrew Devis in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum ... 7 hours ago   read more Re: Inverted luma matte not working properly in render by Nicola Coin in the Adobe After Effects Forum Thanks a lot. Any idea why layer styles mess up the matte though? cheers... 7 hours ago   read more 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:... 8 hours ago   read more 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... 8 hours ago   read more Re: Is After Effects my best option for bringing simple animation to scanned in line drawn figures? by Graham Higgins in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum thanks for the link Michael, just what I need to get started... 9 hours ago   read more Re: R128 Audio Standard Loudness metering by Angelo Lorenzo in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum None that I know of. I use a double check using Audio Leak on Mac http://www.channld.com/audioleak/ and also by sending audio through Adobe Audition and EQing it with an A-Weighted FFT filter and looking at the mean power reading over time.... 10 hours ago   read more Re: Way to view all expressions in AE project? by Paul Tuersley in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum Actually I've written another script called that is specifically designed to show a list of all expressions in a project: http://aescripts.com/pt_expressedit/ You can choose to view only expressions with errors/warnings, or have it attempt to turn these expressions back on if you've fixed whatever caused them to break in the... 10 hours ago   read more Re: Any rumors about 6.0? by Alistair Cooper in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum Way to alienate customers Todd. Speak in haste repent at leisure! Alistair Cooper Sleeping Bear Productions Burgess Hill, UK... 10 hours ago   read more Re: Any rumors about 6.0? by Angelo Lorenzo in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum Todd is just being Todd: straight up gangsta.... 10 hours ago   read more Re: AE crashing when invoking Open GL? by Tudor "Ted" Jelescu in the Adobe After Effects Forum Turn OpenGL off. Adobe recommends that as well as most folks on this forum. Tudor "Ted" Jelescu Senior VFX Artist... 10 hours ago   read more Re: Inverted luma matte not working properly in render by Tudor "Ted" Jelescu in the Adobe After Effects Forum Do not use Layer Styles, use the Drop Shadow effect. If that does not work, precomp and add drop shadow after. Tudor "Ted" Jelescu Senior VFX Artist... 10 hours ago   read more Time Remapping Stabilized clip? by Sean Tyler in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Hey all... using Warp Stabilizer in AE5.5 on a 5sec clip, but would like to slow it down 50%, maybe just 75%... time remapping in PP leaves it choppy, and AE tells me I can't remap stabilized footage. Thoughts? Thanks, s... 11 hours ago   read more 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"... 11 hours ago   read more Re: Exporting Targa with Alpha by Sean Tyler in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Thanks for the help everyone, ending up using a "tiff with alpha", that one seemed to work just fine... s... 11 hours ago   read more Re: suicide hang by Angelo Lorenzo in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Depending on the clothing, riffing off Todd's suggestion, you can hide a rope climbing harness under the clothes. Probably far more comfortable and secure.... 11 hours ago   read more 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... 12 hours ago   read more MORE

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