If you couldn’t make it to last week’s webinar, check out Michele Yamazaki’s Presentation showing how to make a couple of different title effects with Boris Continuum Complete 3D Objects in Adobe After Effects. I also use Imagineer mocha AE.
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Michele Learns Cinema 4D: Episode 2: Training, Wacom & Shortcuts
Michele talks about getting started with Cineversity, 1on1 Training with a Maxon Trainer, setting up a Wacom tablet and the Help Menus.
There are sync problems that I was trying to fix. After some research, it seems that the problem is from the USB mic and iSight – so it's right at the source. I'm not rerecording this video, so you'll have to just ignore the sync problem. Next time I guess I will just use the built in mic. Oddly, in Screenflow the problem was not at all obvious and I wasn't aware of the issue while previewing. It only shows up after exporting.
After Effects LeftOvers
With the slogan ‘Re-heating stuff you forgot you had’, Chris Zwar has created After Effects LeftOvers, a 5-part video series.
In this video series you can see 40 tips, tricks, workflow suggestions, and more really cool stuff. Down you can find the description about this ‘event’.
‘After Effects has been around for over 17 years and with the recent release of CS5 it’s now up to version 10. Every new release brings new features and some have received more attention than others. This 5-part series looks at a selection of features that were in After Effects before CS5 but have been often overlooked. A total of 40 tips, tricks, workflow suggestions and general reminders are given covering topics including layout, masking, painting, rendering and even using the interface.’
There are 3 videos up, so far. So check them out and enjoy with this gift.
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Tutorial: Imagineer Mocha for AE v2
Check out this amazing Horizon Replacement tutorial by Carl Larsen using Imagineer mocha for After Effects v2 with Mocha Shape. Try a free demo of mocha for After Effects v2 here. Seriously I’m flabbergasted about how well he was able to pull this off.
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Red Giant TV Trapcode Form Training Video
Maltannon has put out the latest episode on Red Giant TV. Create a slick push pin toy effect as seen in the Radiohead ‘House of Cards’ video. This tutorial shows you how to combine regular footage with Trapcode’s popular Form plug-in to create an eye-popping 3D effect.
- View tutorial
- Download project files
- View sample of the effect
- Dowload a free demo of Trapcode Form
- Buy Trapcode Form
After Effects Apprentice Video Tutorial #3
Check out this new tutorial video An Introduction to Typesetting in After Effects from Chris and Trish Meyer in support of their After Effects Apprentice book. Quality stuff, as always.
Pixel Aspect Ratio Tutorial for CS4
Check out this free video tutorial from Lynda.com, AE CS4: New PARs (Pixel Aspect Ratios). He gets pretty technical, but man, this explains a lot.
Tutorial: Use Expressions to Speed up Text in AE
Harry Frank has a video up at Studio Daily about Using expressions to speed up lower third creation in After Effects. He explains how to create a document that links to the text document with corresponding scene numbers… a very cool way to speed up simple but tedious work. It’s not difficult, but this is definitely not something you’d figure out yourself, unless you’re a javascript programmer, or a whiz with expressions.
Also, Harry’s Complete training for Trapcode Particular from Class on Demand is half price this week. (DVD | Download), during our One Day Sale. Also, if you haven’t heard, Trapcode Suite is 50% off today only!
Free Holiday footage
Ko Maruyama posted this free holiday footage link on his blog Ninja Crayon. You do have to pay the $9 shipping and handling for the DVD, but what a deal, man. This is great for those quick holiday projects and family holiday photo reels that your grandma has been begging you to make for her.
You can also download some of these by joining the DVProfessionals group.
New Photoshop Tutorials from Digital Anarchy
Digital Anarchy is fully focused on their Photoshop plug-ins and have some new tutorials on their site which use Knoll Light Factory for Photoshop.
Creating Volumetric Light – We all know the look of a beam of light bursting through the clouds or coming from the top of a dusty (and otherwise dark) cave. Usie Knoll Light Factory in conjunction with some of Photoshop’s built-in filters to create this look very easily.
Blurring Elements – On high resolution images, Knoll’s light flares sometimes show thin lines that don’t look realistic. This tutorial talks about ways to deal with this problem and produce natural looking lens flares. This movie may take a few minutes to load.
