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Free Plug-in! Noise Industries CoverFlux by idustrial revolution

Bring the popular look of Cover Flow (in iTunes) to your projects with the latest FxFactory freebie by idustrial revolution. CoverFlux is available immediately for Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 3 and Final Cut Express 4. It’s FxPlug.

The iTunes style scrolling still image generator plug-in for Final Cut Pro, Motion and Final Cut Express.

This completely free plugin is available for download and use immediately from this website. (FxFactory & Leopard need to be installed).

Making Charts and Graphs in After Effects

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I had a call last week asking me for methods of making charts and graphs in AE. There is, of course, Digital Anarchy Data Animator, which does it all, but hasn’t been updated for AE CS3. What do you do if you’re using AE CS3? Well, there are also loads of tutorials out there.

3D bar chart without Plugins - Harry Frank
Fake Stock Chart - Harry Frank
Pie Chart tutorial for Boris FX plugins
Alan Shisko tutorial on pie charts
Animating pie charts with expressions - Harry again.

2008 05 19 Michele Yamazaki Digital Anarchy
Boris
After Effects
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Free Training Video Series: Adobe Premiere Pro with Boris Plug-ins

Check out this new training video to learn more about Boris plug-in filters inside Adobe Premiere Pro.

Stay tuned for Parts II and III which will cover PixelChooser and Transitions.

2008 05 16 Michele Yamazaki Boris
Premiere Pro
Adobe
Plug-ins
Training
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A Conversation with David Torno and Brandon Parvini about Flight of the Conchords’ ‘Ladies of the World’

Yesterday I had a Conversation with David Torno and Brandon Parvini about Flight of the Conchords’ ‘Ladies of the World’ video they just completed.

It’s incredibly funny and has a cool 70s style to it. They rotoscoped the faces of The Conchords onto stunt skaters. They talk about the challenges they had with the project and how they used lots of digital tools to make this really impressive video.

Check it out!

2008 05 16 Michele Yamazaki After Effects
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Imagineer mocha AE video tutorial

Ross Shain, Vice President, Sales & Product Specialist at Imagineer Systems, walks you through how to use mocha AE, a state-of-the-art planar tracker, with Adobe After Effects.

View tutorial movie in a pop-up window.

2008 05 16 Michele Yamazaki Imagineer Mocha AE
After Effects
Tutorial
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Keying out bad footage

Click here to watch the tutorial.

Hey! Just wanted to say hallo. My name is Jerzy Drozda Jr, but you may also know me as Maltaannon. From this day forward I’ll be also posting at AEFreemart. Today I want to present you this brand new tutorial on a subject as old as digital post-production itself. You will learn how to work with poor quality footage to pull out a decent chroma key.

Please note that this tutorial uses Key Correct Pro - a set of plugins from Red Giant Software designed to help you with your everyday chroma keying.

I’d also like to point out that our host - Michele Yamazaki - is currently working on a book that focuses on keying in detail. Make sure to have an eye out for “GreenScreen Made Easy: Keying and Compositing Techniques for Indie Filmmakers”

I hope you will enjoy the tutorial.

2008 05 12 Jerzy Drozda Jr Masks
Keylight
Maltaannon
Red Giant Software
After Effects
Plug-ins
Adobe
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Free Presets from LME: Card Dance

Here’s a free Card Dance preset/comp set from LME. Download the free presets here (.zip).

Buy LME 30 Super Card Dance Projects & Matching Presets. The presets works in After Effects 7.0 and higher on Mac or Windows. They are set up for SD and a few flavors of HD. Enjoy!

2008 05 06 Michele Yamazaki Preset
LME
After Effects
Adobe
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Mixing different video formats in Premiere Pro CS3

The Creative Suite Podcast has a new one up: Mixing different video formats in Premiere Pro CS3.

2008 05 06 Michele Yamazaki Podcast
Premiere Pro
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Tutorial: Text Ramp

Check out the newest tutorial from Maltaannon.com, the Text Ramp. It doesn’t look like much, but it overcomes a huge problem with Ramps in After Effects. It shows how to build a preset that solves the problem with Ramp effect applied to text layers. After applying the preset, the ramp effect will follow the layers position. Normally you have to reposition everything each time you make a change to the text position, which is a huge annoyance.

2008 05 02 Michele Yamazaki After Effects
Adobe
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Tutorial: Create a Credit Roll with Boris Plug-ins

What is the oldest text animation effect in film history? You guessed right: the credit roll. Traditionally, a long page of text is rolled from the bottom of the screen revealing line after line. In the early days of cinematography, a paper print was physically rolled before the film camera to produce this effect. Hence the name: Credit Roll.

A complete set of tools for creating credit rolls is included with Boris Graffiti, Boris RED, and Boris Blue. The same functionality is available in Boris Calligraphy which is bundled with Apple Final Cut Pro and Apple Final Cut Express and Boris Title Toolkit which is available for Adobe After Effects.

Learn How to Create a Credit Roll with Boris Plug-ins

2008 04 29 Michele Yamazaki Boris Red
Boris
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