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Free LME Comps and Tutorials for Trapcode Form

LME has been gracious enough to offer free template and a tutorial for Trapcode Form! The files will work in After Effects 7+. There are two presets included.

If you already downloaded them, one had some errors. There are now three presets and two are new. See the video sample below.

Download the project file (AE 7+) | Download a free Trial version of Trapcode Form

These samples are free downloads from LME, which are similar to the content you’d get with LME Trapcode Form Presets and Comps but is not included with the package. LME Trapcode Form Presets and Comps includes 112 Trapcode Form Projects, Comps and 99 Presets!

Free Rays Cartoon Plug-in for Adobe, Apple and Avid!

Toolfarm is hosting the Boris BCC Rays Cartoon Plugin! For a limited time, we’re offering a free, fully-licensed plug-in from Boris Continuum Complete 5 - Rays Cartoon.

Download BCC Rays Cartoon (trial download form)*

Tutorial: BCC Rays Cartoon for Adobe After Effects CS3 and FxPlug (Final Cut Pro/Motion) - Use the BCC Rays Cartoon in Adobe After Effects CS3 or Final Cut Pro or Motion to generate a volumetric lighting effect on an animated text element.

*If you download the BCC Rays Cartoon plug-in, your information will be shared with Boris FX. Normally we do not share any of this information with any of our vendors or anyone else, but in this case, we’ve made an exception, so we can bring this free plug-in to you. With any other download, your email will not be shared with anyone.

2008 07 22 Michele Yamazaki Continuum Complete
Apple
Free
Avid
FxPlug
After Effects
Boris
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MotionGrabber Preview

Enjoy this exclusive sneak-peak at a cool plug-in that is coming out in the next few weeks. Grab this tasty tool while it’s still free to download.

MotionGrabber is a plug-in developed by Avidion Media in cooperation with Maltaannon’s company - Polygon Studio. It is meant to help you with uncommon motion tracking tasks that are hard or even impossible to handle with After Effects build in pixel tracker. They welcome you to download this plugin and give it a try.

MotionGrabber 0.0.1 is a early prerelease that was tested only with After Effects CS3 and for the time being works only on Windows. They decided to share this little piece of software with you because they already find it very useful. Please remember that the official release will work on Macs as well and be loaded with extra features, therefore it will probably no longer be free.

Generally speaking, MotionGrabber expands the spectrum of trackable data. This prerelease is only able to track the alpha channel of a given layer, but the final release is going to have a lot of extra features and hopefully it will be your second most commonly used tracking tool. A tutorial on how to use MotionGrabber.

Please note!
This prerelease is provided as-is with no official support. You may download and use it for free at your own risk. Polygon Studio, Avidion Media, nor anyone else but you alone can be held responsible for any damage that might caused by this software.

To install the plugin simply copy it into your After Effects Plug-ins directory. Please let them know what you think and let Maltaannon know of any bugs you might find. Thanks in advance. Enjoy!

Download: MotionGrabberPrerelease.zip (Windows)

The footage used in this tutorial is a property of uberstock.com. Check out the site for some amazing stock footage. Make sure to check out Uberstock’s iStockPhoto profile as well.

Submit any bugs to Maltaannon.

2008 07 21 Michele Yamazaki Avidion Media
Beta Test
After Effects
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Free Silhouette Shape Import/Export Plug-in

The free Silhouette Shape Import/Export plug-in will import Silhouette Shapes and convert them to After Effects masks as well as export and convert After Effects masks to Silhouette Shapes - all without having Silhouette installed on your system.

When importing Silhouette Shapes, the following shape parameters transfer into After Effects: opacity, shape color, shape name, locked state, transfer mode and blur settings.

Note: The Silhouette Shape Import/Export plug-in is only supported for use with Silhouette v3 and above. It ships with Silhouette but you can also download it from the following links:

Download Windows Silhouette Shape Import/Export Plug-in for After Effects
Mac: Silhouette Shape Import/Export Plug-in for After Effects
(Mac versions require OSX 10.4 and above)

2008 07 17 Michele Yamazaki After Effects Comments (0) Permalink

Get your FREE plug-ins!

There are tons of free plug-ins out there for you to download for After Effects, Final Cut Pro and other hosts! But where do you get them?

Free plug-ins list in Toolfarm’s Plug-in Finder!

If you develop plug-ins and your goodies are not on the list, give me a shout and I’ll add them. I know we’re missing a few.

2008 07 17 Michele Yamazaki Free
After Effects
Adobe
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After Effects Tutorial: Information Slate 2008

Dennis Radeke’s blog, The Genesis Project has another tutorial, After Effects Tutorial: Information Slate 2008. The tutorial focuses again on the use of presets and also touches upon blend modes.

2008 07 16 Michele Yamazaki Genesis Project
After Effects
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Rebel CC Free Plug-in

From Dennis Radeke’s The Genesis Project:

Stu Maschwitz is really one of the top guys around in the world of After Effects and he evidently is also a scripting genius since he strung together a bunch of Cycore effects that are included with After Effects to give you a color correction tool with out putting out some coin.

So this is a plug-in, but only kind of, since you access it through the scripts folder. Don’t let that scare you off though, because you don’t deal with ’scripts’ at all. I like the Rebel CC because it gives you a step-by-step process to better color, but in very easy, small steps.

Here’s the video that David Basulto did on the Rebel CC, and I recommend that you give it a look before you download the Rebel CC script.

If you’re the kind of person that doesn’t care about ‘no stinkin’ videos,’ you can get to the Rebel CC page here.

2008 07 15 Michele Yamazaki Free
Cycore FX
After Effects
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BREAKING: Free News Templates from Andrew Kramer

andrew kramer

Andrew created some templates for AE CS3 that look like the news network pages with text and graphics all over the screen. They look really realistic, eh! Thanks for the nice freebie, Andrew! Download here.

2008 07 12 Michele Yamazaki Andrew Kramer
Template
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