The Matrix effect in After Effects

There are a number of ways to generate the Matrix text effect in AE, and reflex dictates a list!

Please read The Matrix effect in After Effects at ProVideo Coalition.

Creating snow in After Effects redux

Creating snow in After Effects has been updated on PVC.

You can use dedicated snow filters or particle systems to create snow that can be either stylized or realistic. There's filters built into After Effects like CC Snow, CC Particle World, and Particle Playground -- or you can use 3rd-party filters like Trapcode Particular (which is AE 3D camera-aware), Boris FX Snow, Cycore FX HD Snowfall, DigiEffects Delirium Snow, and GenArts Monsters GT.

After Effects weekly roundup

...Particular update + tutorials, Element 3D, OrientWorld, cover flow, add & remove blemishes, and more are covered in the latest After Effects weekly roundup at PVC.

If you want to test Premiere v. FCP X fairly using last year's iMac (using GPU blurs on each), enable GPU rendering as seen in the video by Kanen Flowers, Mercury Playback on a 27″ iMac with AMD Radeon 6970M (Premiere Pro CS6). You may even skip that process and just take out the GPU supported cards list before starting Premiere.

Here's Three Premiere Pro Tips-A Video Tutorial by Jan Ozer (editing audio without unlinking; Fill Left and Fill Right to create stereo audio; and creating nested sequences for smoother edits and creating reusable set pieces in your projects):

The week in After Effects

...‘Avengers’ HUD, Orient World, Particular, shortcuts, and error codes are just a few of the latest news items. Read The week in After Effects at PVC.

Here's Trapcode Particular Essentials from Dan Stevers, which "covers the essentials of Trapcode Particular, a particle generating plug-in for After Effects that also happens to be the greatest plug-in of all-time!" Dan looks at how to use or make Dust, Rain, Snow, Sparks, Firework, Layer Emitters, Custom Particles, Snow w/ Custom Particles, and Light Emitters.

Another week in After Effects

... features wiggles, twitches, color, 3D, scripts, Premiere, & more from the last week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins.

Read it at ProVideo Coalition.

An extra via the Tao of Color Grading newsletter, here's Becoming A Colorist: A Preview, an excerpt from a documentary on color grading & finishing:





Big Science

Last week in After Effects

... features sync to beats, son of Ken Burns, roto, 3D, Production Premium, and more from the last week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old.

Among news of note is Beat Assistant from Mamoworld, a new tool from AE Scripts that detects “the bpm (beats per minute) of wav, mp3 and aif files and use it to generate markers or keyframes and to stagger layers.”

In case of a flexagon emergency

Risking hours of accidental math tourism, here's Vi Hart on hexaFlexagons (see the YT movie info):



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