Free Final Cut Pro Plug-in – Move
Move was created by Alex Gollner and he has all of the info on his site
Download the Move plug-in here
Final Cut plugin sample: Alex4D Move from Alex Gollner on Vimeo.
Via The Final Cut Professional.
50 motion graphics tips
Computer Arts has a terrific article up called 50 motion graphics tips. Tip 5, Rendering Separate Passes is a great tip and I used to tell my students to do that all the time. The few that listened were so happy that they did!
12 Days of Freebies: Toolfarm’s Holiday Gift to our Loyal Customers
If you haven’t stopped by Toolfarm in a few days, you’re missing The 12 Days of Freebies, our gift to our dear customers. We want to know how much we have appreciated your business in 2008 and we hope that our relationship will continue long into the Millennium.
Toolfarm will be unlocking a new freebie each weekday until December 24th, kind of like an Advent Calendar, minus the chocolate all over your fingers.
Download some free holiday schwag here!
Freebies will include templates, project files, stock footage, and more; stay tuned!
- Day 1 – an After Effects CS3 template for a 3D Greeting Card
- Day 2 – a fantastic holiday tree template from LME.
- Day 3 – a gorgeous tree ornament created with Conoa 3D.
- Day 4 – Eye Scream Factory Binary Code DVD Template.
We will have lots of other goodies lined up, including freebies from Pond5, Professional Video Templates, free presets for plug-ins and more. Day 5 will be uploaded on Monday. What will it be? Is the suspense killing you?
Digital Anarchy Needs Beta Testers For ToonIt! Aperture
From the Digital Anarchy newsletter:
Do you think ToonIt! is the coolest thing since iPods in a blender? Do you use Aperture?We’re looking for a few good Aperture users to help us test ToonIt for Aperture! If you’re interested in helping us out please drop an email to jim@digitalanarchy.com and put APERTURE BETA in the subject field. Please let me know what products of Digital Anarchy you own, how long you’ve been using Aperture, if you’ve beta tested before, and what machine(s) you’re using.
Last Day on Digieffects MegaSuite Sale
Seriously boost your plug-in arsenal for a fraction of the regular cost. Customers who already own some of the Digieffects plug-ins…. you can now get in on the Digieffects MegaSuite Sale! Upgrade to the Digieffects MegaSuite for $199 when you upgrade from any Digieffects plug-in.
If you don’t already own a Digieffects product, you can get the whole Digieffects MegaSuite for just $399, which is half price! It’s regularly $799. This offer ends tonight at midnight.
I don’t like to put a lot of salesy stuff up at AE Freemart but this is such a great deal, it’s practically free. 
Artbeats Announces Free Video Podcast; New Free Clip
Check out the new Artbeats podcast on iTunes, hosted by none other than Steve Holmes, who has been doing training for Adobe and Total Training for quite a while.
Also, if you sign up for the Artbeats newsletter, each month a free clip is given away to subscribers. This month’s exclusive free download is UW208 HD from their Ultra Water 2 HD collection. See all Artbeats footage at Toolfarm, including their new RED Camera Footage. You can subscribe to the Artbeats newsletter by going to the Artbeats website. The signup is in the lower left corner.
Chris and Trish Meyer of Cybermotion, who you probably know from their fantastic books Creating Motion Graphics and After Effects Apprentice, have a column in the Artbeats newsletter too. This month they discuss Color Finesse, a fantastic color correction tool for After Effects and Final Cut Pro. Read the article here.
Happy Holidays From Toolfarm! The 12 Days of Freebies on Day 3!
If you haven’t been over to Toolfarm in a few days, you’re missing The 12 Days of Freebies, our gift to our customers and visitors. We will be unlocking a new freebie each weekday until December 24th.
Freebies will include templates, project files, stock footage, and more; stay tuned!
Day One included a template for a 3D Greeting Card in AE and Day 2 included a fantastic holiday tree template from LME. Thanks to LME and the other vendors for participating. We will have lots of other goodies lined up, including freebies from Pond5, Eye Scream Factory, free presets for plug-ins and more. Day 3 will be uploaded shortly. What will it be? Is the suspense killing you?
After Effects 9.0.1 Update Now Available
If Adobe Update Manager hasn’t taken care of this for you, you can do it manually by going under the Help Menu > Updates. Alternately, download the Mac update or Windows update from the Adobe site.
Adobe 9.0.1 Release Notes | Buy After Effects here.
There are many fixes in this update, including the Puppet Tool, the Illustratorlayers importer, the Exposure effect, and stability of 3D object layers from Photoshop. They’ve also added Red Camera support. Here’s a movie about that from Adobe TV.
Create a Fluid Plasma Effect with Trapcode Particular
Harry Frank has a tutorial up at Studio Daily called Create a Fluid Plasma Effect with Trapcode Particular. If you don’t have Particular, you can download a free demo here: Toolfarm Demos.
Harry actually did a whole training video on Trapcode Particular put out by Class on Demand. Class on Demand Complete Training for Trapcode Particular Download Version | Class on Demand Complete Training for Trapcode Particular DVD.
Trapcode Particular is available for a 5% discount off the regular price at Toolfarm (Regular price: $299.00, Toolfarm price: $284.00)
Enough with the saley stuff, go check out Harry’s free tutorial.
The Great After Effects Mac/Windows Smackdown: CS4 Edition
Kevin Schmitt has an article about After Effects CS4 benchmarks at DigitalMediaNet. Leopard vs. Vista. If you’re a Mac user, you may not want to read it. "Cripes, the Mac OS X version of After Effects is absolutely smoked again, and the results are slightly worse than last time in places."
