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):