Free Lower Thirds plus... [now on PVC]

For some Free Lower Thirds plus Additional Resources to leverage Photoshop, Premiere, and After Effects, see the roundup at AE Portal on PVC.

Automating lower-thirds with After Effects

Adam Everett Miller has a new workflow tutorial on AEtuts, Enough Lower Thirds To Feed A Small Country, which uses the well-documented CompsfromSpreadsheet script by Mike Cardeiro from AE Scripts.

This post has been expanded and update, see Free lower thirds and tutorials: Leverage Photoshop, Premiere, and After Effects at PVC.

Artbeats Lower Thirds?

Ninja Crayon has a funny take on the new Artbeats collection in Artbeats Lower Thirds?

This post has been expanded and update, see Free lower thirds and tutorials: Leverage Photoshop, Premiere, and After Effects at PVC.

Text tutorials use free scripts and expressions

AETUTS editor Lloyd Alvarez has a new 2-part tutorial, Cinematic Opening Title Redux, with over 80 minutes of training. Using built-in After Effects tools and several free scripts and expressions (listed on AETuts), Lloyd shows you how to harness a large amount of text and quickly format and animate it. I couldn't get Firefox (Windows) to play the videos fullscreen anywhere, but Safari worked.





Update: Graphics Mafia, "a place for those who create sports graphics," reminded me of something related that was noted earlier, Expressions and external documents by Harry Frank, a QT tutorial for automating lower thirds.

Free templates for TV news-style lower thirds

These might come in handy... Video Copilot has some free templates for TV news-style lower thirds.

This post has been expanded and updated, see Free lower thirds and tutorials: Leverage Photoshop, Premiere, and After Effects at PVC.