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November 7th, 2009
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| | | | GenArts, Inc. Acquires wondertouch
Acquisition Underscores Company’s Aggressive Growth Strategy and Broadens GenArts’ Product Offering to Include Particles Engine
GenArts Inc., the premier provider of specialized visual effects software for the film, television and video industries, announced today a definitive agreement to acquire particleIllusion™ and all related products and technologies from wondertouch LLC.
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| | | | Digieffects Launches Falloff Lighting Plugin for After Effects
Provides enhanced lighting for After Effects' built-in lights
Digieffects® a developer of visual effects software plugins, today announced that Falloff Lighting is available for purchase. Falloff Lighting provides enhanced lighting for After Effects' built-in lights.
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| | | | Boris FX XML Transfer brings Final Cut projects into Adobe After Effects
Seamlessly Transfer Apple Final Cut Pro Program Sequences to Adobe After Effects
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced Boris XML Transfer, a new Adobe After Effects plug-in designed for seamless transfer of Apple Final Cut Pro program sequences to Adobe After Effects. Boris XML Transfer preserves all aspects of a Final Cut Pro project including effects, audio, media clips, transitions, and geometric transformations.
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| | | | Matrox MXO2 LE Now Shipping
Portable, Professional I/O for the Mac with Matrox MAX Technology for Faster Than Realtime H.264 Encoding
Matrox® Video Products Group today announced that Matrox MXO2 LE, an HDMI, SDI, and analog I/O device for the Mac, is now available from authorized dealers worldwide. Matrox MXO2 LE streamlines editing with Apple Final Cut Studio on Mac Pros and MacBook Pros. It provides all the features of an I/O card in a sturdy, portable breakout box with professional audio and video connectivity.
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| | | | Storek Studio Joins FxFactory Development Partner Program
Successful plug-in developer introduces new nVeil capabilities; brings exceptional kaleidoscopic/transition effects to the FxFactory platform
Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced that new development partner, Storek Studio, has released an update to its widely popular nVeil video plug-in exclusively for the FxFactory platform.
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| | | | Media 100 Announces Support for Blackmagic Design Video I/O Cards
New Media 100 Suite Version 1.1 Now Available
Media 100, a leading provider of advanced editing systems for the corporate, broadcast, post production, and new media industries, today announced that Media 100 Suite Version 1.1 is now available. Media 100 Suite v1.1 adds support for Blackmagic Design's Intensity Pro, DeckLink SDI, DeckLink Studio, and DeckLink HD Extreme video cards.
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| | | | JPL Sees Huge Efficiencies in Productivity with Small Tree's Shared Storage
Integrated Communications Company Sees Workflow and Bottom Line Benefits
JPL, a Harrisburg-based integrated communications company working across a variety of media, recently made the switch from a growing pile of G RAID drives to a single, cost-effective Ethernet-based shared storage solution featuring Small Tree technology to streamline workflow.
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| | | | | TUTORIALS: | | | | |
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The Pusher
 In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern creates a watery liquid push effect and color corrects the shot using the bundled Color Finesse plug-in.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Eran Stern on 10/30/2009 | | | | |
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Bessie Potter
 In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Michael Park demonstrates how to make a dark, cloudy Title reveal similar to the one seen in the Movie Which Must Not Be Named. All textures and fonts are available in the project download as well as the final CS4 project file.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Michael Park on 09/19/2009 | | | | |
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AE: Quick Tips for Better Workflow: Part 1
 In this video tutorial series, Creative Cow leader Gyorfi Szilard demonstrates a few tips for better workflow. This video will cover editing and working with keyframes.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Gyorfi Szilard on 09/14/2009 | | | | |
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Color Link
 In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern creates a colorful disco tunnel using shape layers and matching the look to a video footage using the color link effect.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Eran Stern on 09/04/2009 | | | | |
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Matting a Water Splash
 In this After Effects video tutorial, Lester Lauritzen shows you a technique that uses the CC Threshold RGB effect to create a luminance matte and mask out water in a swimming pool.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Lester Lauritzen on 08/11/2009 | | | | |
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Markers Leaks
 In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern gives an introduction to custom effects which trigger actions using layer markers inside of Adobe After Effects.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Eran Stern on 08/01/2009 | | | | |
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Using Text Jitter in Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE's Extruded Text Filter
 This video tutorial from Dirk de Jong gives you an in-depth look at the Jitter feature of Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE's Extruded Text filter. Basic functionality of the Jitter feature is explained and demonstrated. Then, the Jitter feature is shown in the context of a more developed effect involving audio and After Effects Camera and Lights.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Dirk de Jong on 07/30/2009 | | | | |
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File Management in After Effects
 In this video tutorial, Creative COW contributing editor Carl Larsen shows you how to archive a project with shared assets using the consolidate footage and collect Files commands.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Carl Larsen on 07/24/2009 | | | | |
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| | | |  | Re: HI-Resolution Still from Footage????
by Roland R. Kahlenberg in the Adobe After Effects Forum
8x9 inches isn't a video aspect ratio and hence, should be the size of the entire poster. Either you double-check with them or go with the 100% incremental scaling with the layer set to draft quality or look for a Photoshop plugin. I recall a Photoshop plugin that does up-sizing...
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| | | | | Re: Comp Markers
by Roland R. Kahlenberg in the Adobe After Effects Forum
First off, you're alluding to Layer Markers and not Composition Markers. What you want is very achievable but you'll need Expressins or even Soundkeys from Trapcode. It helps if you can prep your audio file. But honestly, since layer marker creation is done in realtime, I don't see how you...
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| | | | | Re: Stabilize Precomposed Layer
by Roland R. Kahlenberg in the Adobe After Effects Forum
[Dale Paquette] " Here's where I get lost. Where do I add the expression? I'm thinking the null's position (because the anchor is different for a null than a regular layer). Also, it's not clear if I'm to copy your expression verbatim or if the references to pick-whips means to...
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| | | | | Re: Creating Depth (Where None Exists)
by Chris Wright in the Adobe After Effects Forum
You should be able to use the photoshop patch tool to clean plate the trees by adjacent pixels and when parts are revealed. Mocha in cs4 is great, but luma and alpha mattes are still much faster. These few tutorials should take a few hours to digest, but will save...
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| | | | | Comp Markers
by Eric Jordan in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hey all, I typically spend hours and hours creating comp markers in my composition timelines for all the bass-kick hits, etc, that occur in my soundtrack layer so that I can later synchronize animation elements to those markers. Is there ANY possible way to automatically generate comp markers by analyzing...
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| | | |  | Re: PSD import problem
by Todd Kopriva in the Adobe After Effects Forum
From the "Preparing and importing Photoshop files" section of After Effects Help : "Layered Photoshop (PSD) files need to be saved in RGB or Grayscale color mode for After Effects to import them as a composition and to separate the layers. CMYK, LAB, Duotone, Monotone, and Tritone color modes are...
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| | | |  | Re: Importing video onto Premiere cs4
by Danny Winn in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
Hey Corey, I shoot everything in 30p, I would use 24p if I were going for a movie look but 99% of my stuff is commercial oriented. I also export all of my HD stuff as an Mpeg2 with the HDTV1080-30p, your will be HDTV1080-24p. With that setting you will...
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| | | | | Re: How to capture video best for keying
by Todd Kopriva in the Adobe After Effects Forum
The "Keying introduction and resources" page includes links to several good resources about acquiring footage for keying. There's also a link to the KeyerforDV animation preset, which helps a bit with keying DV footage. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated putting the 'T' back in 'RTFM' : After Effects Help...
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| | | | | Re: Creating Depth (Where None Exists)
by Chris Wright in the Adobe After Effects Forum
For the price it will take to do this in post, you could greenscreen, 5 minutes later after key, drop fading foilage in and be finished. But for the sake of argument, let's try the hard way. After you have perfect mattes which I discussed in the above post, you...
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| | | | | Re: Creating Depth (Where None Exists)
by Zak Ray in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Answer #1: Completely stable, yes. Answer #2: I need to make each foreground layer disappear sequentially-- first the small trees, then the forked tree, then the actor, then the background. The issue therein is that even when I perfectly isolate the planes, I still have gaps in each layer that...
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| | | | | Re: Creating Depth (Where None Exists)
by Chris Wright in the Adobe After Effects Forum
question #1, is this a very stable locked down shot on a tripod? qu#2, why do you need to layer it? is it to move like a cardboard pop up, or to rack focus? If its locked down, you can get the moving objects matted with difference matte. Other things,...
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In this video tutorial series, Creative Cow leader Gyorfi Szilard demonstrates a few tips for better workflow. This video will cover navigation tips.
In this article, CreativeCOW's Jim Harvey takes a look at royalty free stock footage... with a twist... pre-keyed alpha stock footage from All Bets Are Off Productions.
