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November 7th, 2009
Adobe : Ultra Home
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| | | | G-Technology by Hitachi Doubles Capacity Across 3.5-Inch Product Line
New High-Performance, High-Capacity G-Tech External Drives Give Digital Creative Pros More Room and More Speed to Drive Creativity™
G-Technology by Hitachi, a leading provider of premium storage solutions for the Mac, creative pro and high-end audio/video (AV) markets, today announced that it is incorporating Hitachi’s 2TB, 7,200 RPM, 32MB cache buffer hard drives across its entire 3.5-inch product line.
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| | | | New True 10 Bit, RGB LED Matrix Backlight 24" FSI Monitor Coming this Month!
Flanders Scientific, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of the all new LM-2470W. This monitor features all of the powerful features found in other FSI monitors, but comes equipped with a true native 10 bit LCD panel and RGB LED Matrix Backlighting System. The LM-2470W is capable of reproducing over 1.073 Billion Colors and has been designed for your most demanding color critical applications.
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| | | | Lensbaby® Announces Two New Optics
New additions to the Lensbaby Optic Swap System expand a photographer’s creative possibilities
Lensbaby announces today the addition of the new Fisheye Optic and Soft Focus Optic to the Lensbaby Optic Swap System. Each new optic is available for use with the Lensbaby Composer® and Muse®*. In addition, the Soft Focus Optic is compatible with the Lensbaby Control Freak™.
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| | | | Ocean Way Drums FREE Reason Refill Download
Download available from DownloadableSoundz.com
Sonic Reality, creators of the Sonic Refills, Miroslav Refills, Ultra Refills and the popular free "Tastefill" have put together yet another FREE refill for all Reason 4 users to download! This time it is one stellar-sounding 24-bit drum kit from the Ocean Way® Drums library; a refill with a stereo Ocean Way® Drum Kit 10 "Medium Ambience Mix" Kit for the NNXT and ReDrum!
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| | | | Telestream Announces Major FlipFactory 7.0 Release
Features include ultra-fast single-server HD transcoding, YouTube fingerprinting, faster Avid workflow support, audio loudness detection and correction, broadcast server HD MXF support, Dolby E support and more
Telestream today announced a major release for its industry-leading FlipFactory server software products. FlipFactory is a full workflow automation system that offers broadcasters, media companies, enterprises and service providers the broadest video and audio file format support for transcoding and the deepest integration with third-party systems for file discovery and transfer between systems.
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| | | | Apple Unveils New iMac With 21.5 and 27-inch Displays
Features LED-Backlit Displays, Available Quad-Core Processors & the New Wireless Magic Mouse
Apple® today unveiled an all new iMac® line featuring brilliant LED-backlit 21.5 and 27-inch widescreen displays in a new edge-to-edge glass design and seamless all aluminum enclosure. The new iMac line, starting at $1,199, is the fastest ever with Intel Core 2 Duo processors starting at 3.06 GHz, and Core i5 and i7 quad-core processors for up to twice the performance.*
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| | | | FirmTek Ships Apple 64-bit and 32-bit "Snow Leopard" Compatible 4-Port eSATA Host Adapter
Provides Ultra High SATA Performance for Apple Mac Pro and Gen 11,2 PowerMac G5 Systems
FirmTek, LLC, a pioneer and leader in Serial ATA (SATA) storage solutions announced today the SeriTek/2ME4-E 4-Port eSATA host adapter is shipping. Mac OS X 10.6.x "Snow Leopard" 64-bit and 32-bit modes are supported with direct connect enclosures like the SeriTek/2eEN4 and port multiplier enclosures like the SeriTek/5PM.
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| | | | | TUTORIALS: | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects
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 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects
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 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects
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 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects
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 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects
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 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects
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 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe After Effects
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: Creating a Fireball
by Walter Soyka in the Adobe After Effects Forum
One thing to add to Keith's good advice to really help sell the shot -- don't just focus on the fireball; also be aware how the fireball would interact with its environment. If you rewatch the clip you linked to, you'll see the fireball seems to cast light on the...
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| | | |  | Is there a limit to text on a layer?
by Clayton Light in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I'm trying to do an effect similar to Eran Stern's "Digits Man" effect. When I type text in a layer everything is fine until the layer is about half full, then if I type just one more letter, all of the text vanishes. If I hit delete it comes back....
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| | | | | Nothing happening on Shatter effect
by Brian Jaggers in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I am adding the Shatter effect, but all I see is the Waveform mode, or the render mode without any actual movement on the shatter, just a hole in the middle of the picture I'm shattering. What am I not doing? how do I get the shatter to... Shatter....
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| | | | | Re: Creating a Fireball
by keith mcgregor in the Adobe After Effects Forum
There are many ways but you have already begun the right path. Find fire footage to blend with your sphere. Warp it to the sphere in multiple layers using different blend modes, add a little vector blur and turbulent displace for more bubbly fun. Finding fire footage with mattes or...
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| | | | | Re: Creating Depth (Where None Exists)
by Steve Roberts in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Yikes. Trees. Bad idea, but let's see what we can do. Here's what I imagine: layer 1 (top): the large foliage at left-to-center of screen. Use keying to pull out the dark tree trunks, masking to kill everything to the right of the right trunk. layer 2: tree trunks. Fill...
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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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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.
