Pond5 Free Clip of the Week: This Week’s Free Stock Footage Clip
Pond5 has incredibly good and affordable stock footage. This week’s free clip is blue motion background d2222R9. It’s free for another 4 days so just click the movie sample below to go get it.
Check out their other goodies too:
Tutorial: 2 New Tutorials from Mark Christiansen for Digieffects FreeForm AE
Mark Christiansen shows you how to create a couple of simple but incredibly useful effects using the new plug-in from Digieffects called FreeForm AE. Download a free demo of FreeForm AE here or buy FreeForm AE and save 5% with Toolfarm’s everyday discount!
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Peel-away Vortex Transition
Aharon Rabinowitz created a cool effect, Peel-away Vortex Transition using Trapcode Form. No tutorial yet but its definitely inspirational.
If you haven’t tried Form, it’s a heck of a lot of fun and you can create some incredible eye candy, backgrounds, force fields, interesting displacement maps, texture fills and so on. Try it for free here.
If you’d like to buy Trapcode Form, save 5% with Toolfarm’s everyday low price. Also, Harry Frank has some great downloadable Trapcode Form training here. It’s not free but its cheap and it’s high quality and it will get you rolling quickly.
Free Photoshop Book Excerpts and Videos at Focal Press
Check out the Adobe CS4 Microsite from Focal Press for lots of free training goodness.
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 Software: Red Giant TV – Episode 19: Creating a Transporter Effect
Eran Stern has a new cool tutorial up at Red Giant TV and it’s very cool! Creating a Transporter Effect.
Premiere Pro: Frame Holds and Clip Speed
Frame holds and changing the speed of a clip are 2 of the “effects” I use most in Premiere Pro. Check out this video tutorial from Layers magazine: Premiere Pro: Frame Holds and Clip Speed.
Tutorial: Creating a Force Field Effect in Adobe After Effects
Aharon Rabinowit's tutorial to create a force field in After Effects
It’s a 40 minute long video tutorial so Aharon warns that you should go to a quiet place with headphones to watch. He uses no 3rd party plug-ins and it still looks amazing (fancy that!)
In this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create a awesome force field effect in Adobe After Effects – with no 3rd-party plug-ins. He’ll also cover some basic color correction techniques.
Warning: This tutorial is almost 40 minutes long. Go get some snack and hit the head before you sit down to this one. You may also want to tell your spouse your going out to buy groceries and then sneak back in through a window so you can have some quiet time. Hint: Use headphones & close the door.
He adds "Oh, and apologies in advance to Andrew Kramer and J. J. Abrams…" Aharon is much too modest!
Take Toolfarm’s AE Plug-in Survey; Enter to Win a Drobo!
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Michele Yamazaki on Movie Geeks United Podcast
Toolfarm’s Michele Yamazaki is a guest on The Art of Greenscreen Movie Talk Roundtable show on BlogTalkRadio. The talk centers around Michele and Jereme Hanke’s book, Greensreen Made Easy: Keying and Compositing Techniques for Indie Filmmakers.
