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June 19th, 2013
Adobe : After Effects Home
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| | | |  NEWS: | | | | |
| | | | Major Update to Adobe Creative Cloud Now Available
Includes Next Generation of “CC” Desktop Applications and Delivers New Community and Publishing Capabilities
Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that a major update to Adobe® Creative Cloud™, the company’s flagship offering for creatives, is now available. Unveiled at Adobe MAX, The Creativity Conference, in early May and packed with new features, this Creative Cloud release reimagines the creative process through a stunning set of “CC” desktop applications and sophisticated cross-device collaboration and publishing capabilities. Creative files can be stored and shared, via Creative Cloud, on Mac OS, Windows, iOS and Android; and Behance, the world’s leading online creative community, is now integrated with Creative Cloud, so customers can showcase work, get feedback on projects and gain global exposure.
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| | | | Motion Graphics More Accessible with Royalty-Free Apple Motion Templates Channel from MotionElements.com
MotionElements launches its newest channel, Apple Motion templates, to address the growing demand for video templates and the expected increase in the Final Cut Pro & Motion user base. The channel hopes to make motion graphics more accessible for film makers.
MotionElements (ME) launches Apple Motion templates as the latest addition to its growing library of microstock elements. Known for having Asia-inspired stock animation, video footage, 3D models and After Effects templates, the new channel addresses the growing market for video templates and the recent increase in the Final Cut Pro and Motion user base.
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| | | | Sizzling Summertime Editing Tools From Adobe And Editshare At June Editors’ Lounge
The Editors’ Lounge returns on Friday, June 28th with their last installment of the season before the lounge takes its annual summer hiatus. The event will showcase the latest updates from Adobe® and EditShare® and will be held at AlphaDogs Post Production 1612 W. Olive Ave. Burbank, CA 91506 beginning at 6:30 pm. RSVP is required to attend.
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| | | | Imagineer Systems Presents Advanced Effects Training Series: Mastering mocha Pro Vol. 1 from Curious Turtle
Ben Brownlee Unveils His Newest Training Series for Mastering Production Effects with mocha Pro and After Effects: Includes Over 7 Hours of Downloadable 1080p HD Video
Imagineer Systems today announced the launch of Curious Turtle’s newest training course entitled “Master mocha Volume 1; Production Effects with mocha and After Effects.” With over 7 hours of training, which goes deeper into real-world shots that ever before, this new course has been designed to give users a unique insight into the techniques, challenges and solutions facing artists over a range of projects.
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| | | | New Lens Flare Plugins for Final Cut Pro X Released by FxFactory
Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, now offers SUGARfx Xflare through its plugin platform FxFactory. What was once an undesired side effect from sunrays filtering through lenses is now a widely popular look. The powerful plugin, designed exclusively for use with Final Cut Pro X, lets editors add completely customizable lens flare effects to footage. Users can achieve the desired look within just a few seconds by selecting one of the many presets and dropping it onto the clip like any other effect. The easy-to-use parameters and on-screen controls allow editors to make precise adjustments to the flare.
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| | | | MAXON Announces Presence at Inaugural Collider Conference
3D VFX/Motion Graphics Designers – Joe Herman and Dave Glanz – Share Insights Into How MAXON CINEMA 4D Helps Solve Complex Production Challenges
MAXON, leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, announced its presence at the Collider Conference, June 9 – 11, 2013, at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City.
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| | | | | TUTORIALS: | | | | |
| | | | 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 | | | | |
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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 | | | | |
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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 | | | | |
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IK Character Animation: Walk to the Beat 1: Finding the Beat
 This tutorial is both a follow-on tutorial to Andrew's previous tutorials on IK controllers in After Effects and a helpful stand-alone tutorial showing how to define a beat range to use as a guide to animation in After Effects.
To start with Andrew shows how to use a simple expression to deal with a potential problem of controllers scaling your objects. Then Andrew shows how to find and download sample music which can be used to base your animation on. He goes on to discuss the difficulty of matching frame rates with audio sample rate and then shows how to get a reasonably close 'loop' in both After Effects and especially in Audition.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 03/15/2013 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects
Pushing AE - And Myself
 Bill O'Neil helps celebrate 20 years of Adobe After Effects with his story. Bill reveals his secret, "I learned how to use AE by making promises to my clients I didn't know I could keep."
Editorial, Feature by Bill O'Neil on 02/22/2013 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects
AE: Inverse Kinematic Character Animation PT 2
 Standard character animation in After Effects uses a process called 'Forward Kinematics' in that we animate down a linked chain - for example, upper arm linked to forearm linked to hand. To get animation we need to move the items down the chain one at a time. Inverse Kinematics creates a link back up the chain such that moving the hand would also move the forearm and the upper arm without breaking that link. This is a simpler and easier way to control animation and is often used in 3D programs such as C4D and 3ds max etc. and allows us to control the animation for the complete chain through a single controller.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 02/20/2013 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects
AE: Inverse Kinematic Character Animation
 Standard character animation in After Effects uses a process called 'Forward Kinematics' in that we animate down a linked chain - for example, upper arm linked to forearm linked to hand. To get animation we need to move the items down the chain one at a time. Inverse Kinematics creates a link back up the chain such that moving the hand would also move the forearm and the upper arm without breaking that link. This is a simpler and easier to control form of animation often used in 3D programs such as C4D and 3ds max etc. and allows us to control the animation for the complete chain through a single controller.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Devis on 02/20/2013 | | | | |
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Prisoner To My Passion
 "I don't know if it's addiction or adoration, but one way or the other, I'm hooked on her," says Creative COW's Rob Mize. "The signs are all there: the obsession with After Effects, the inability to function without After Effects there next to me on my laptop, waiting to be clicked. And the torment of each moment spent suffering any separation from my cherished compositor. Is it any wonder that I, a once innocent naïf in an analog world, now find myself enraptured by this non-linear, digital Delilah?"
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview by Rob Mize on 02/08/2013 | | | | |
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Advice To Editors: LEARN AE!
 Kevin McAuliffe's experience has been that all editors need to know Adobe After Effects at least as well as their NLE. His own experience has been that anything less than intermediate to advanced knowledge makes it impossible to actually get anything done. Even working with the compositing power of Avid Symphony, Kevin is in AE all day, every day. Here's the story of how he got there.
Editorial, Feature by Kevin P. McAuliffe on 02/08/2013 | | | | |
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| | | |  | Re: Mocha_RotoScoping_Actor_Asset_Planar_Track
by Roland R. Kahlenberg in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I'm glad things have worked out for you. I suggest that you practice more often - 1 to 2 tracks each day; starting with easier tracks and then building on your skills with more difficult tracks. HTH RoRK Intensive mocha & AE Training in Singapore and Other Dangerous Locations Imagineer...
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| | | |  | Tiling a layer in 3d....
by jim lefevre in the Adobe After Effects Forum
There are certainly posts on this before but they date back a while so maybe someone knows of a clever work around... I have a 2 min 3D After Effects (AE) comp with a camera move pulling backwards continually throughout. The background layer (3D) is a relatively high res scanned...
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| | | | | Autosave
by Casey Pegram in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
Did I dream this up, or wasn't autosave supposed to happen in the background in the new version of Premiere? I'm still getting that damn dialogue popping up in the middle of whatever I'm working on and it drives me nuts. All I see as far as the options is...
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| | | |  | Re: It's Been a Day... Initial Reactions?
by Al LeVine in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
It's actually pretty quiet on this forum, considering this is a major release. I'm enjoying the software. I can move very quickly with the new key commands, it's feeling good. It's comfortable. Few small issues (that can be big depending on what I'm trying to do): • When I use...
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| | | | | Re: "Tracking" on top of Tracking
by Roland R. Kahlenberg in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Try the following steps: 1) Track the ground area using either mocha or AE's Motion Tracker or even AE's 3D Camera Tracker. 2) Apply the results to a Null Layer. 3) Create a Solid and apply Particular 4) Parent the Solid to the Null 5) Keyframe (or track) Particular's Emitter...
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| | | |  | Re: After effects Particular
by Walter Soyka in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Effects like this are typically done with a layer emitter, and you do them backwards (starting with the final position, the human form), then time-reverse the layer. Walter Soyka Principal & Designer at Keen Live Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting RenderBreak Blog - What I'm thinking when...
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| | | |  | Re: MP4's not playing on Apple devices
by Todd Kopriva in the Adobe After Effects Forum
> Regrettably, we do not yet have AME. This is a standalone copy of AE (I know, I know, crazy). Adobe Media Encode is part of the After Effects installer. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated After Effects quality engineering After Effects team blog ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
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| | | | | Boris RED and Adobe Premiere Pro CC
by Kuhnen Brown in the Boris FX Forum
I have Boris RED installed and running in Premiere Pro CS6. Now with the new Premiere Pro CC installed, will Boris RED have to be re-installed for connectivity with the CC upgrade? I am on a Mac. Oh, by the way, getting the BCC 8 plug-ins to work with AE...
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| | | | | Re: Effects/Layer Styles with Adjustment Layers
by Todd Kopriva in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Layer styles are very different from effects in terms of what inputs they take and where they sit in the render order. Layer styles are more like blending modes than effects. BTW, layer styles only exist in After Effects to provide compatibility with Photoshop when you import PSD files that...
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| | | | | Re: "Tracking" on top of Tracking
by Roland R. Kahlenberg in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Stabilize the shot with Warp Stabilizer. This single step will solve two issues for you (1) shaky footage (2) lock down your particles. To get Particular to emit its particles earlier, set the Pre-run property (Emitter section) to a positive value - start with a value of two seconds and...
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| | | | | "Tracking" on top of Tracking
by Patrick Reagan in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I'm doing a golf video of my girlfriend's brother where the ball has a light trail coming off it. The video provided is showing a simplified version of everything so it'll be easier to follow. I have an emitter in Particular keyframed to follow the golf ball frame by frame...
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In this tutorial, Steve will show you how to give your text or logos the appearance of having reflections that interact movement! And you can do all of this in After Effects without using any plug-ins!
