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November 21st, 2009
Adobe : Ultra Home
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| | | |  NEWS: | | | | |
| | | | Autodesk Collaborates With DreamWorks and Imageworks on Mudbox for Linux
Autodesk Consulting Provides Linux Pipeline Implementation for Mudbox Digital Sculpting and Texture Painting Software
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has announced that DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (NASDAQ: DWA) and Sony Pictures Imageworks are integrating Autodesk Mudbox software into their Linux-based production pipelines. Autodesk Consulting's custom development team worked collaboratively with teams at Imageworks and DreamWorks to port the digital sculpting and texture painting software to the Linux platform. Mudbox for Linux is available through Autodesk Consulting services.
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| | | | EditShare Partners With Dixon For Major League Baseball
Collaborative shared storage and advanced logging systems deliver winning combination for Cincinnati Reds' HD workflow at the Great American Ball Park
EditShare®, the technology leader in cross platform collaborative editing and shared media storage, and Dixon Sports Computing, the sports video management experts since 1992, have deployed a new HD production workflow at the Cincinnati Reds' Great American Ball Park.
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| | | | All Blackmagic Design products are fully compatible with Windows 7
Blackmagic Design today announced Windows 7 compatibility for it's entire range of professional video products. Video professionals using Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Eyeon Fusion 6 and Photoshop will immediately notice a more fluid and intuitive response, with Window 7’s newly enhanced stability and advanced memory management. Blackmagic Videohub software can now take full advantage of the new Windows 7 touch screen features such as multitouch, for a faster, more accurate response.
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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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| | | | Adobe After Effects
The Pen Tool
 Useful tips for working with the pen tool, controlling masks and rotoscoping with After Effects.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Eran Stern on 11/16/2009 | | | | |
| | | | 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 | | | | |
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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 | | | | |
| | | | 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 | | | | |
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| | | |  | Re: Text Question
by Charles Ferran in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Do you have both pieces of text in the same layer? if so, you need to delete one piece of text and create a new text layer, then type your second text in there. then you will be independently moving two pieces of text. Sorry if this is a little...
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| | | | | UPS Whiteboard/Story of Stuff - recreation?
by Charles Ferran in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hello everyone! I have a client who wants to mimic the UPS Whiteboard commercials, or the video at http://www.storyofstuff.com/ that style, its clean, lines that create over time, and moving animations. any ideas how I could pull something like that off? any plug-ins that might help? I would love to...
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| | | | | Text Question
by mark almond in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hi All I have two pecies of text on my screen and I want to move pone peice of it off the screen but when I start to move it of the screen the other peice of text goes the other way which I don't want, I just want the...
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| | | | | Re: odometer new style
by Jim Dodson in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Not sure I understand -- but I think, if you use HOLD keyframes, the values will pop to to just the numbers you set each keyframe's value to... Does that help at all?? Jim Dodson 8 Core Intel -- Mac - OSX...
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| | | | | Re: 50s Look in After Effects
by Chris Wright in the Adobe After Effects Forum
pretty simple actually. 1. drag footage to new comp icon, de-saturate footage with color correction hue/saturation effect minus-34% saturation. 2. add adjustment layer, add animation preset image-creative-colorize sepia, adj. layer opacity 10% pink, remove tint effect. 3. add another adjustment layer above the previous adjustment layer, add same preset,adj. layer...
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| | | | | 50s Look in After Effects
by Carlo Oppermann in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hello, I need your help, because i have to create a 50s look into after effects and don't know, how to do it! an example video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhPREStJlTg&translated=1 how can i get this look with my HDV 1080i Footage inside After Effects...? I only mean the color in this video, not...
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| | | |  | odometer new style
by Aqeel Sami in the Adobe After Effects Forum
is it possible to change an odometer display like the one Aharon did to count numbers independently. I mean when i have one slider with 2 keyframes one is 1203 and the other is 1908 and i don't want that number to count all the numbers from 1203 1203 1204....1299...
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| | | | | Re: Christmas tree lights lighting up.
by Chris Wright in the Adobe After Effects Forum
don't forget the effect Glow. It's perfect for the hdr bulbs. Get some inspiration from some actual twinkle footage, and play around with wiggle expressions on brightness, glow, reflections, distortions, bloom presets. The fractal effect is a really good idea too, that's how our own sky twinkles. Should be fun....
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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.
