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Aug 20

Hollywood AE stuff. Cool!

Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 in Adobe, After Effects
So I attended this presentation on Adobe Production Premium. Well, by attended I mean put on my headphones and listened in on a couple of experts talking about the advantages of the Production Premium workflow.  There’s some really amazing stuff being done out there.
This next one really blew my mind. It’s from the HBO series “John Adams”. The comps are extremely well designed. It’s pretty awesome. And it’s an actual Demo reel. It actually demonstrates the shots before and after they were put together. Very AE heavy, indeed!
Pretty great stuff. Hopefully it will inspire you. What’s been your latest inspirations? Share it with us!

Cameron King

madbageltrio.com

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Jul 31

Update: Optical Flares Version 1.2.129

Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 in Adobe, Video Copilot

This update fixes a problem with crash on quit problem in Mac OS 10.5.x in After Effects CS5.

Download the updates here:

Mac OS
32-Bit and 64-Bit for Mac

Windows
32-Bit and 64-Bit for Windows

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Jul 28

New Video Tutorials: Adobe Premiere Pro 3D Stereoscopic Realtime Editing with Dave Helmly

Posted on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 in Adobe, Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro 3D Stereoscopic Realtime Editing (Part 1 of 7) – Dave Helmly

Adobe Premiere Pro 3D Stereoscopic Realtime Editing (Part 2 of 7) – Dave Helmly

Adobe Premiere Pro 3D Stereoscopic Realtime Editing (Part 3 of 7) – Dave Helmly

Adobe Premiere Pro 3D Stereoscopic Realtime Editing (Part 4 of 7) – Dave Helmly

Adobe Premiere Pro 3D Stereoscopic Realtime Editing (Part 5 of 7) – Dave Helmly

Adobe Premiere Pro 3D Stereoscopic Realtime Editing (Part 6 of 7) – Dave Helmly

Adobe Premiere Pro 3D Stereoscopic Realtime Editing (Part 7 of 7) – Dave Helmly

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Apr 2

A Conversation with Evan Sussman

Posted on Thursday, April 2, 2009 in Adobe, After Effects, Inspiration, Toolfarm

escape

We don’t often post this type of thing here, but you could help a young filmmaker win the contest of a lifetime… and he’s EXTREMELY talented. Evan Sussman’s film short, Escape, is a fantastic voyage into a freedom from the stresses of modern life. It is a contender for a $30,000 prize from The Doorpost Film Project. If you like the film, please vote for it!

Evan talks about how he created the film, including the special effects, working with expressions in After Effects and using Trapcode plugins. Read the full interview here

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Mar 19

Acrobat 9 Critical Update!

Posted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 in Adobe

I know this is an AE blog, but most of you are running Acrobat or Reader also. I received an email from Gary Hohler, Adobe Specialist, saying that a critical vulnerability has been identified in Acrobat Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 and earlier versions. This vulnerability would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Get the full information here

Adobe recommends users of Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9 update to Adobe Reader 9.1 and Acrobat 9.1. Adobe has updates for Adobe Reader 7 & 8 as of March 18th. In addition Adobe plans to make available Adobe Reader 9.1 for Unix by March 25th.

Download Updates Here

Adobe categorizes this as a critical issue and recommends that users apply the update for their product installations.

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Feb 25

Adobe Photoshop CS4 11.0.1 update – multiple languages

Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 in Adobe, Photoshop

All the info is here: Adobe Photoshop Downloads

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Feb 13

Free Lights Presets from LME!

Posted on Friday, February 13, 2009 in Adobe, After Effects, Free, LME, Preset


Find more videos like this on MyToolfarm

LME has another great freebie for After Effects 7.0 and higher – Lights! It doesn’t require any third party plug-ins.

Download the 4 FREE Presets here

Check out the multitude of great libraries of AE presets and comps available from LME, including full sets of Light configurations and Trapcode presets. Quality, varied stuff and at a low price.

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Feb 4

Bug: Bitrate changes on export from Premiere Pro or After Effects to Adobe Media Encoder

Posted on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 in Adobe, After Effects, Bug, Premiere Pro

Repost from Chris Bedford at Encoding video and audio content with Adobe Media Encoder:

There is a known bug when exporting from Premiere Pro or After Effects involving modified bitrate values. If you modify the bitrate value of an encoding preset, the default bitrate for that preset will replace the custom bitrate you specified.

As a workaround, you can:

Manually change the bit rate of the video file you are exporting to the desired value once the file is in the Adobe Media Encoder encoding queue…

-or-

Add your video to the list of files to encode from Adobe Media Encoder itself. You can drag a file into the list, or click the Add button and select a file on your computer.

Note: To add Adobe Premiere Pro sequences or Adobe After Effects compositions to the list of files to encode, you must use the File > Add Adobe Premiere Pro sequences or File > Add Adobe After Effects Compositions menu commands. These file types cannot be dragged into the list of files to encode.

For more information see, Workflow for exporting files in the Adobe Premiere Pro help.

Personally, I’ve been having a problem exporting from Premiere Pro through the Adobe Media Encoder, period! It starts in the Media Encoder, then fails. As a workaround, I’ve had to use dynamic link and send it to After Effects, then go through and fix any transitions and titles I may have used. I still love to edit in PPRO, but I hope this issue is fixed asap. Anyone out there have a better solution for me? Thanks in advance.

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Feb 3

Plug-ins for $99 and under for After Effects/Premiere Pro & Final Cut Pro/Motion

$99 deals

I’m sure most of you are starting to feel the economic crunch, so we’ve put together a section for plug-ins that are $99 and under. These are useful plug-ins by well known plug-in developers like Red Giant, Trapcode, Digieffects, Noise Industries, Nattress and others.

Plug-ins for $99 and under

If you’d like to take the plug-in for a test drive before you buy it, most of the plug-ins are available for download on our demos/trial page: http://www.toolfarm.com/demo/demo.php

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Jan 30

Petition to stimulate adoption of Blu-ray Disc publishing

Posted on Friday, January 30, 2009 in Adobe, Apple, Encore DVD

My friend Matt of WMAEUG.net sent me this. I don’t think he’s talking about pirating, but about being able to get Blu-Ray support in Pro Apps and other software.

I would like to recommend anyone interested in being able to author ‘replicatable’ Blu-Ray titles to sign this petition that hopes to simplify the licensing and especially reduce the cost of AACS copy protection implementation. It’s the only way we’ll ever see Blu-Ray support ‘officially’ in Apple’s Pro Apps, or in Adobe Encore DVD.

http://www.dvda.org/petition/

I’m behind disk authoring because I’m a movie lover who eats up the hours of extras on special edition releases – the same documentaries that are glaringly missing from digital downloads.

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