Free Lights Presets from LME!
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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.
I Would Like to Introduce Myself…
Hello, everyone. Stalkers, lurkers, and freeloaders alike. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself, as I will be a guest writer on AEFreemart.com regularly. My name is Topher Welsh. If you hang around the VideoCopilot.net forums, you may know me, or you may have frequented my site, VisualFXtuts.com. Either way, I will be helping to bring you an overload of free stuff from throughout the visual effects, and motion graphics realm of the internet. If you haven’t seen my site yet **shameless plug** please visit www.VisualFXtuts.com. You will find a HUGE collection of free tutorials from throughout the net, as well as presets, project files, and even products for sale. Being kind of a “tutorial wrangler” myself, I figure that I might as well contribute here, since it is one of my 100 or so sites I check daily. I will be posting some of the coolest, most informative things I find, for you to explore, exprerience, and experiment with (sorry, I like alliteration).
A little bit about me:
I am a 22 year old, practically self taught visual effects and motion graphics artist living about an hour south of Seattle, Washington in a nice little city called Tacoma. I am a stay at home dad, with an almost 16 month old baby boy named Brennan and a fiance named Mary Beth to call my family. I like dogs more than cats, and I like Windows more than Macs. Sorry, its just the way it is. I work mainly in After Effects, Premiere Pro, Avid, 3DsMax, and C4D. I keep myself busy with watching movies, AE-ing, hanging out with the family, and BBQ-ing. I’ve been in the video world for around 6 years, starting in high school and transitioning to making it a full time career, slowly but surely. I was inspired into this field by those that have led the way for people like me with sharing their knowledge with the rest of the world. People like Andrew Kramer, John Dickinson, Harry Frank, Maltaannon, and the rest of the “big hitters” in the AE world, as I like to call them.
I hope to be quite active around here, and to share what I have learned with all of you and point you in the right direction, for whatever your needs may be. This is the AEFreemart, and from what I hear there are big things in store for Toolfarm and its little chapters alike.
-Topher out.
Adobe Premiere Express is live online
Now you can remix a Colbert Report clip!
Adobe Premiere Express is a free online video editor. Reorder, split, and trim your video clips; add music, transitions, and titles; and then make it all your own with a mix of favorite photos, graphics, and animation. Be the director with controls so simple, your grandma could do it.
Bug: Bitrate changes on export from Premiere Pro or After Effects to Adobe Media Encoder
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…
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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.
Update on my book, Greenscreen Made Easy
The book I co-authored with Jeremy Hanke of Microfilmmaker, Greenscreen Made Easy: Keying and Compositing Techniques for Indie Filmmakers, is now available as a pre-order from Toolfarm.
I spoke with the publisher yesterday and they were sent to the printer this week. I should have it in my hands in less than a month. Because, as the author, I’ll be offering them instead of going through the distributor, I’ll be receiving them before bookstores and Amazon.com! It is expected to be available at Toolfarm in the first or second week of March, and in bookstores the first week of April.
I’ve had several pre-release reviews done by well known people in the industry and it has gotten fantastic reviews. Check the page in the store to read a few quotes and a couple of reviews (note: Harry had a preview copy, hence the low quality images and cover. Otherwise, he loved it).
The publisher recently did a little redesign on the cover as well, which is quite nice. New font, new colors. Also, Jeremy and I will be putting some videos up in the future with tips from the book. Stay tuned for that.
Plug-ins for $99 and under for After Effects/Premiere Pro & Final Cut Pro/Motion
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.
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
AENY presents Lloyd Alvarez’s After Effects Scripting Presentation
My friend Jim sent me the link to the AENY presentation this week by Lloyd Alvarez.
AENY presents Lloyd Alvarez’s After Effects Scripting Presentation from AENY on Vimeo.
This is a screen capture video from the Jan 29 , 2009 AENY meeting in NYC with Lloyd Alvarez of aescripts.com/ speaking about using Scripts in After Effects to improve your workflow. Lloyd gives some good references to sites like his own aescripts.com and aenhancers.com/ where you can find Paul Tuersley’s Scripts .
You can also find out more information about AE scripts from these links.
redefinery.com
motionscript.com/
mographwiki.net/After_Effects_scripting
You can also find out more about the AENY meetings by going to the page and signing up for the newsletter.We meet every month so sign up to get the info on who is coming in the meetings to follow.
http://www.aeny.org/maillist/?p=subscribe
Enjoy,
Jim
Petition to stimulate adoption of Blu-ray Disc publishing
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.
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.
Free CS4 Update to Meyer’s Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects
Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects by Chris and Trish Meyer is pretty much the bible of After Effects. They’ve written a 48 page update to the book that covers new features in AE CS4. The book is published on Focal Press.
This update covers:
- The new User Interface
- Independent X, Y and Z keyframing and 3D camera updates
- Composition Navigator and Mini-Flowchart
- Bilateral Blur & Turbulent & Noise
- Color management.
- Much more…
Download CS4 Bonus Chapter | Download project files
New Red Giant Tutorial by Aharon Rabinowitz
Red Giant Software: Episode 06: Controling Time with Sound By Aharon Rabinowitz came out a few days ago.
In this episode, Aharon continues to explore how audio can be used to control time, but he expands on that by showing you how it can be used to change the look of the footage as well.
Watch | Download Project Files | Example Video
Products Used: Magic Bullet Looks, Trapcode Sound Keys
Try a free demo of Looks and Sound Keys here: Free trial of plug-ins.
