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!
Please take a minute to rate our top selling plug-ins in the order that you prefer them. We’re looking for the most flexible, user-friendly plug-ins out there… the workhorses of After Effects.
We’ll be drawing one survey respondents email to win a Drobo – 4 Bay FW800 & USB 2.0 Storage Array at the end of the survey!
Please pass the survey link on to all your AE-using friends and co-workers.
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.
Red Giant Software: Episode 18: Compositing Tips from ‘Greenscreen Made Easy’ Episode 18: Compositing Tips from ‘Greenscreen Made Easy’
In this Episode, the Toolfarm’s Michele Yamazaki shares a ton of great compositing tips from her new book, Greenscreen Made Easy.
Toolfarm :60 Ep.01: Automatic Duck
The first episode of the Toolfarm :60 is now available! We’ll be posting them at MyToolfarm and also they will be uploaded as a regular podcast to iTunes in the very near future.
Since we know you don’t have a lot of time, the Toolfarm :60 is a :60 second podcast (plus open and close) that will feature interviews, tutorials and whatever we feel like sharing. We’d love to hear your suggestions on what you’d like to see. We’ll be blasting out a bunch in the next few days that were done at NAB, but after that expect one per fortnight.
Episode 1 features a quick interview with Wes Plate of Automatic Duck, shot at NAB 09. Wes talks about Media Copy 2.0 and Automatic Duck’s new partnership with EditShare.
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Boris Continuum Complete 6 FxPlug Public Beta
A public beta of BCC 6 FxPlug for Apple Pro Video Applications is now available!
BCC 6 FxPlug brings over 200 filters to Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Final Cut Express. In addition to new features included with the recently-released BCC 6 AE for Adobe – such as Extruded Text, Splines, and Shapes – BCC 6 FxPlug takes advantage of Apple FxPlug’s real-time architecture for simultaneous live previews of dozens of preset transitions, glows, and color and film look effects in a newly-designed effects browser window. Code-named “Popcorn”, this new technology delivers the best of Boris on Apple’s FxPlug platform.
Have feedback regarding the Public Beta? Please e-mail publicbeta@borisfx.com
Note: Customers who purchase BCC 5 FxPlug or BCC 5 AVX now will receive a free upgrade to Version 6 when it is available.
