After Effects weekly roundup

at PVC shares news on underwater scenes, AE 3D camera, game trailers, a push for better interfaces, and more.

Last week in After Effects

...the latest roundup @ PVC.

For those delaying until the last day, EFF posted How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect March 1. Pictured is Corner Cutters, a collection of utilities from AE Scripts.

After Effects weekly roundup

CC Hair, animation tools, plug-in news, multiplane & camera mapping, expressions, and more can be found in the latest After Effects roundup @ PVC.

Pictured is a frame from 'Create Your Own Little Fuzzy Friends' by Ran Ben Avraham, which leverages the rarely-used CC Hair plug-in and iExpressions physics.

Recently in After Effects

The latest roundup @ PVC samples news on After Effects.

Pictured is a snapshot from tutorials on Xbox Kinect mocap animation in After Effects by Victoria Nece.

The last 2 weeks in After Effects

2 roundups @ PVC sample news on After Effects:

Another week in After Effects (through Feb 6)
Last week in After Effects (through Feb 1)

Last week in After Effects

There’s another summary of news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts, etc at PVC. Someone already modified Grenade Throw, the latest from Kramerica:

After Effects weekly roundup at PVC

There’s another week or so of news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts -- with new tools, tutorials on Mocha tracking, "radar" animations, lens flares, wood patterns, and more. See After Effects weekly roundup at ProVideo Coalition, which includes Genarts flare presets by Mylenium:

Another week in After Effects

A return to the regular After Effects news cycle caught idle hands by surprise, with a promise of a big CS6 release, snakes in AE, tracking offscreen, plug-ins, and more. See the rest at ProVideo Coalition, except for this preview of a new tool for AE:

Recently in After Effects

There's news on a script for MIDI imports, free projects, type, shapes, and more at PVC in another summary of the last week of news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts.

Please note that these roundups are for quick review and comparison, and that there is almost always vital information from the originating authors at the links provided—and often free presets, projects, or stock footage too.

Last week in After Effects

At PVC, there’s another summary of the last week of news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts— including new plug-ins, scribble & write-on, Motion 5, a few “Best of” roundups, and more.

Please note that these roundups are for quick review and comparison, and that there is almost always vital information from the originating authors at the links provided—and often free presets, projects, or stock footage too.

Another week in After Effects

Over at PVC there’s another summary of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts -- with lots on color, explosions, ambient occlusion, tracking, and more.

Recently in After Effects

There’s another summary on PVC of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts -- with a new training section on AE Scripts, a new danger in the orange and teal saga, and much more.

Last week in After Effects

Thanksgiving was last week but there was substance from Video Copilot, a start on some broadcast-style graphics, LED light walls & casino-style text lights, green screen tips, 3D cubes and other shapes, linking objects with lines, and results of a user's choice survey on plug-ins.

Here’s another week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts and more...

Andrew Kramer posted 2 new tutorials on Video Copilot. In Dynamic Machine Gun he creates "a particle system for emitting specific particles based on a surface type.

Read the rest at PVC...

Another week in After Effects

With news on wiggles, organization, color, CUDA + more.

Another week in After Effects shares some of the latest news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts and more. Last week saw a little swarm of news on organization and workflow setups, wiggles & glitches, CUDA and Premiere Pro, and more.

Last week in After Effects @ PVC

It was a bit slower last week in After Effects, but there was plenty of news, tools, and tutorials for the restless posted at PVC.

Be sure to catch the Earth | Time Lapse movie at the very bottom.

Seamless jump cuts + weekly roundup @ PVC

Seamless edits for jump cuts on current and future solutions, and a weekly roundup for After Effects and Production Premium were posted on PVC. It was busy again last week, with iExpressions (a new approach to leverage expressions), tutorials from Red Giant, workflow, cameras, and Avid moving things forward.

After Effects Lately @ PVC

After Effects Lately is a news roundup on AE and beyond.

Here’s another week of some of the latest news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts and more. It slowed slightly last week, but there’s plenty of news, tools, and tutorials to keep even the unemployed busy.

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ryoung/story/after_effects_lately/

The previous 2 weeks were also summarized in Another week in After Effects and This week in After Effects

Recently in After Effects (crossposted)

Posted last week on AEtuts+. AE Portal continues at PVC...

It has seemed oddly slow in the updated world of After Effects CS 5.5. One bright spot was recent word on Newton: a 2D physics engine for After Effects. But actually there has been much more -- a steady stream of new resources on AEtuts+, ProVideoCoalition, AdobeAE Facebook, and elsewhere.

Adobe is hosting the upcoming Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium Road Show in Los Angeles (June 2), San Francisco (June 14), and New York (June 21). There's also a free one-hour StudioDaily webinar, Power Workflows for Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 on May 26 with Premiere Pro product manager Al Mooney and Tyler Ginter. More relevant webinars are available from FilmmakingWebinars.

The Mac CS5 versions of Zaxwerks ProAnimator and 3D Invigorator are now shipping.

The Mac version of Freeform Pro was also delayed (problem with Apple's old ATI driver). But the Windows version is available (just as I migrate back to the Mac). There are a number of cool tutorials and presets already available, including the Folding Cube Preset by Mylenium. Tutorials include one now in 2 parts (and one more coming) by Tudor Jelescu on how to make 3D tunnels in AE using FreeForm Pro, and another by Ben Griggs on enfolding morphing 3D, Freeform Pro Gener8tor. Here's some example renders from the latter:

FreeForm Pro | 3D Morph | Ben Griggs from mettle on Vimeo.

CMG Hidden Gems: Effects Roundup Bonus by Chris and Trish Meyer features 6 videos on some general concepts and specific effects. They added another today, CMG Hidden Gems: Chapter 24 – Compound Effects. Awhile back Shortformvideo noted in AE Quick Tip – Show animation presets that effect presets are hidden by default.

CS5.5 Warp Stabilizer stop motion on SinusDigitalus and After Effects Warp Stabilizer by Tysk älg are both good examples of using this new feature in CS 5.5. For more see Todd Kopriva's outline and especially Chris Meyer's movies.

Greenscreen Quick Tip Video Tutorial by 360 Media considers basics on hair. For more see Greenscreen & keying resources.

Eran Stern has some thoughts beyond EdgeHancer on Delictae Color Correction tools from Fixel.

What is a Look Up Table (LUT), Anyway? is a guest post on Nofilmschool.com by producer/colorist Jay Friesen.

AE Portal @ PVC featured surveys on "looks" in After Effects, recent AE scripts, new basic training sets, text animation, effect demos, moving After Effects plug-ins to CS5.5, and more.

Plexus, the newish After Effects plug-in from Satya Meka and AE Scripts, was revved with 8 new strong features. Here's the feature tour from Satya:

How to make a Cinemagraph with Photoshop and After Effects by Kert Gartner explains how to approach making a popular style of animated GIF.

In Red Giant QuickTip #44: Creating a Rocket Ship Trail of Letters Harry Frank guides you through the set-up and expressions required to emit a paragraph of letters from a moving After Effects layer with Trapcode Particular.

Red Giant QuickTip #41: Adding Life to Interview Footage by Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to remove noise and add life to interview footage through color correction. The demo is in After Effects, but works for users of Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro (you can substitute filters though perhaps with less favorable or timely results).

VFX on Deadline: Monsters GT and Sapphire for After Effects featuring Marshall Fontaine is a webinar recording from Genarts.

Imagineer Systems mocha for AE CS5.5 is available, See Motion Tracking for Final Cut: iPhone screen replacement using mocha AE and other tutorials, and more on tracking see the AE Portal archive. There's a still role for the tracking feature inside of After Effects, so check out Motion Tracking tutorial by Hakan Zscherpe.

Creating Kinetic Type and Camera Rigs in After Effects (in 3D space) by Lake Keene takes a swing at kinetic type.

3D Extrude Tutorial by Alexander Dohr is a quicktip and expression for creating 3D text in AE. For oodles of similar tutorials, see 3D Text in After Effects at Aetuts+.

Create a Procedural 3D Paint Splat Logo Animation in After Effects (AE 3D text) by Esko Ahonen for Rampant Design Tools can be seen below. See also SplatterType: splatter animations with just a few clicks.

RampanTV Tutorial - Create a Procedural 3D Paint Splat Logo Animation in After Effects from Rampant Design Tools on Vimeo.

Rounding out this collection are some additional resources on stills & video:

Stu Maschwitz was way more than Mostly Coherent on TWIT's Mostly Photo show (in audio and video), which featured talk about shooting stills and video, post-processing, and video gear. Especially worthwhile was the discussion of color contrast and the split-tone controls in Adobe Lightroom.

Marc Lougee asks Shoot your film with an iPhone? and points to a substantial article in the Gamma and Density production journal.

Clay Asbury has some tips for Premiere Pro CS 5.5 - Creating a Custom Keyboard Layout at Vimeo.

Adobe’s Todd Kopriva has several new courses on Premiere and After Effects in the hopper at video2brain. They’ll be publishing a few of these courses as entirely free titles, starting now with What’s New and Changed in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.

CS Next is CS 5.5

CS Next is CS 5.5 at PVC has details and links to videos and more. New features include Warp Stabilizer, Camera Lens Blur, stereoscopic 3D camera rig, light fall-off, source timecode, & more!

 Continuing updates on CS 5.5 will be available at AE Portal on PVC.

Good sources of news on NAB include ProVideo Coalition. PVC authors like Alex Lindsay, Adam Wilt. and FreshDV are doing video reports.

Background on Warp Stabilizer: AEP on PVC

This blog is phasing over to a new home at the ProVideo Coalition!

Check out the first post, Background on Warp Stabilizer.