Please Take Our GPU Survey, Win Plug-ins!
Please help us by taking this short GPU survey, designed to help Digieffects and Red Giant learn more about After Effects users GPU setup. It will take less than 5 minutes and you have he opportunity to win a copy of Digieffects FreeForm AE, Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite or Digieffects MegaSuite! Thanks for your help!
Toolfarm :60 Ep 11: Ghost Effects
Alicia VanHeulen of Toolfarm walks you through how to make a spooky ghost effect. It’s very easy!
See all of the Tooolfarm :60 episodes
Unplugged 13: Chris & Trish Meyer – Part 1
John Dickinson interviews Chris and Trish Meyer, pioneers of desktop video and authors of Creating Motion Graphics, After Effects Apprentice and other books. Watch the interview here.
Expression To Drop Every 10th Frame In After Effects by Brad Chmielewski
Brad Chmielewski, who I follow on Twitter has posted a new tutorial. I didn’t know this trick!
Expression To Drop Every 10th Frame In After Effects from Brad Chmielewski on Vimeo.
In this After Effects tutorial I show you how to add an expression to your footage that will drop every 10th frame. Here is the expression used;
f= timeToFrames();
p = Math.floor(f/1);
framesToTime(p*1.1)
For more information on expressions in After Effects check out aenhancers.com and the tutorials by Harry Frank over at graymachine.com.
A free Adobe eSeminar presented by Toolfarm!
Toolfarm is proud to sponsor a free online seminar featuring Adobe After Effects CS4 and its powerful integration with Adobe CS4 Production Premium. Harry Frank will be presenting a project using Trapcode Particular and Michele Yamazaki of Toolfarm will be showing the newest plug-in from Red Giant, Magic Bullet Mojo.
In this eSeminar you’ll learn how:
- The deep integration between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro delivers time-savings and a smoother workflow on every project, so you can stay focused on doing your creative work.
- Particular 2 expands your creative options by offering realistic natural effects, lighting control for shaded particles, 3D camera integration, custom shapes, depth of field, and physics controls
- Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Mojo helps you achieve a subtle coloring effect to warm up actors’ skin tones while backgrounds and shadows get a cool blue treatment –– all while keeping your talent in focus.
Free LME Template: Cubes From Above
A free sample template for After Effects from LME. You can swap out the placeholders for any video or still images you want, customize the floor plane and sky plane and completely make it your own. Download the template here. It requires After Effects 7 or above.
More Presets & Templates from LME Presets
After Effects CS4 Help update, now with easier-to-search keyboard shortcuts
Todd Kopriva, the guy in charge of documentation for After Effects has updated his site, After Effects Region of Interest, with information about the new updates to the Adobe After Effects online CS4 Help.
Get the PDF version here. Check out the better Keyboard Short Cuts section here.
The Fractal Explorer Pixel Bender Plugin
The Fractal Explorer Pixel Bender Plugin is uses the Pixel Bender Toolkit, which you need to download from Adobe to use this plugin. The filters generate Mandelbrot and Julia set fractals in AE or Photoshop.
Free Video Hive File of the Month: August 2009
Video hive file of the month august 2009
This gorgeous (and free!) After Effects project from our friends at Video Hive is titled Strange Dancing Lights created by an artist known as Generator!
Move Projects from FCP to AE Seamlessly (and Free!)
Richard Harrington has a script up at ProVideo Coalition for After Effects that allows you to move projects from FCP to AE. Get the info here.
Note, Automatic Duck also makes great tools for this task. Check out Automatic Duck at Toolfarm too!
