How YouTube Works + YouTube Comment Reconstruction

How YouTube Works, posted at PVC, still has me wondering about caching, but they say more is in the works.

Not surfing the biggest swell, here's YouTube Comment Reconstruction #1, a Dead Parrot reading of music video comments, that's slightly derivative but still unexpected and funny. It's hard to see yet what effects the new YT comments system will have.

Brainstorming After Effects

A new roundup was posted on PVC, Brainstorm in After Effects.

Given a cool reception by some on its initial release, some may have wondered if Brainstorm in After Effects was more useful than the now defunct Variations feature in Photoshop. As shown in various tutorials, Brainstorm might be useful to help stir creative juices, even if it can bog down rendering previews of something as straightforward as the Radio Waves effect.

Music: Philip Glass and Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté

Revisiting some the heuristics of the mystics, without Brian Eno:

Creative Dojo’s free After Effects resources

Creative Dojo’s free After Effects resources: Light leaks, glitches, ink, and more is at PVC.

VinhSon Nguyen has a number of free products hidden away on his Creative Dojo site, including the Dojo Toolkit and Dojo Glitch scripts for After Effects, and as well as Free Ink Mattes, Free Light Leaks, and Dojo Color Preset packs.

Features in the forthcoming Premiere Pro 7.1 update

Features in the forthcoming Premiere Pro 7.1 update is at PVC, and notes a new video from @reToolednet.

Announced at IBC last month, the update should be coming  in the next 2 weeks, barring any difficulties (speculative or not). See also the previous note, Creative Cloud October update - over 150 new video features.

CuteDCP for Premiere Pro

with workflow for After Effects too posted on PVC.

Fandev has released CuteDCP for Premiere (Mac / Windows), a DCP (Digital Cinema Package; explained) render tool for Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder. It allows users to export DCPs from any file imported into Premiere Pro or Adobe Media Encoder, and has been tested on most major play-out servers for digital cinema theaters.

This export format plug-in does not work inside After Effects – there's already a Fandev plug-in for that – but there's a workflow path for After Effects too. 

Split, cut, join without recompression

Sometimes even crude jumpcuts are better than trying to gather nearly forgotten source files or recompressing an old madly-compressed live stream archive. Split, cut, join without recompression at PVC  shares a few apps that can make quick work for those looking for a low-cost way to provide free content for social media.