After Effects Roundup of November 2022

After Effects Roundup of November 2022 was posted at Pro Video Coalition!

After Effects Roundup (June 2021) is at PVC

Recently in the world of After Effects, there’s news on animated maps, travel video effects, multi-frame rendering, top tutorials, support issues, Premiere Pro color and rendering, and more. 

A snapshot of the action is After Effects Roundup (June 2021) at PVC.

After Effects Roundup (April 2021) is at PVC

Welcome back to some recent news on After Effects -- at Pro Video Coalition!

After Effects Roundup (April 2021)

The media landscape for AE hasn’t changed much too much... See new on releases, performance, HDR, NFTs, MGRTs, free plug-ins, and more here:

Getting started: beginning After Effects

The beauty of Adobe After Effects is that it's approachable for simple tasks and at the same time has a feature set capable of producing complex film quality effects. In the olden days we had to walk miles through snow to pay for After Effects tutorials, if there were any, but now there's tons of worthy free stuff. The biggest gotcha with this material for beginners might be the new previewing features expected in the 2015 version of After Effects CC.

General sage advice is to start at the beginning, but knowing Photoshop and Premiere or Final Cut gives you a big head start. And remembering to "divide & conquer," that is subdividing tasks into doable chunks, will keep progress moving.

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Read the article at Pro Video Coalition, Start At The Beginning In After Effects.

Flicker removal in Premiere Pro and After Effects

Although flicker has had its uses in experimental film, in video flicker can induce epileptic seizures – although it's mainly just annoying.

Removing flicker is often easy but can also be quite vexing with certain combinations of out-of-sync lights, electricity, and cameras found in time-lapse and slow motion footage. For discussion of some of the issues, tutorials, and 3rd-party plug-ins, see Flicker removal in Creative Cloud and beyond at Pro Video Coalition.

In the meantime, here's some Philip Bloom in Premiere Pro CC:

Next Adobe Creative Cloud video tools at NAB 2015

At NAB 2015 next week, Adobe plans to preview the latest features coming to Creative Cloud pro video apps. A webcast from the NAB 2015 show floor on April 16 is also planned. The webcast will provide a chance to see highlights of the release and chat in real-time with presenter Jason Levine and #TeamAdobe.

Read the rest at Pro Video Coalition... 

Project Candy creates a Look from the colors of an image.

Nebula construction in After Effects @ PVC

[PVC refreshed]

Nebulas can be created several ways in After Effects: with "cards in space" of real images, or generated by Fractal Noise or 3D particle systems, commonly fractal-displaced particle arrays like Trapcode Mir, Form, Hitfilm Atomic Particle, and other particle systems.

Read the roundup at  Pro Video Coalition:
http://www.provideocoalition.com/nebula-construction-in-after-effects

70+ After Effects roundups

Here's a list of AE Portal topic roundups on PVC through 2014. Many of them have been updated since their initial release.

Alt link: http://www.provideocoalition.com/ryoung/a-roundup-of-after-effects-roundups

On PVC: Premiere Pro News Notes #11

There's another collection of news on tutorials, tips, and related tools assorted with Adobe Premiere Pro at PVC:

Premiere Pro News Notes #11.

Shattering glass in AE

Shattering glass is not that easy if you're looking for realism.

The quickest way to simulate shattered or broken glass in After Effects is with Shatter, but there are other options available if Shatter doesn't work for your needs. For a roundup of resources to create this effect in AE, see Shatter glass in After Effects at PVC.

At PVC: Premiere Pro News Notes #09

There's another collection of news on tutorials, tips, and related tools assorted with Adobe Premiere Pro at PVC:

Premiere Pro News Notes #09.

Premiere Pro News Notes #08

Catching up on the latest news on Adobe Premiere Pro tutorials, tips, and related tools. And there's more to come.

See Premiere Pro News Notes #08 on Pro Video Coalition.

CycoreFX plug-ins in AE & Premiere Pro

Over the last several years a few users have experimented with using CycoreFX ("CC") plug-ins built into After Effects inside of Premiere Pro. The current version that ships with AE, the only supported host app for the product, is CycoreFX HD (AE Bundle Only). CS6 saw an upgrade of dozens of the effects to 16-bpc and 32-bpc color depth.

Perhaps because of piracy, it's become trickier to use these plug-ins in Premiere CC 2014.

Read the rest at PVC, in Using CycoreFX plug-ins in Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Halftone techniques for After Effects at PVC

There's something new and some things old in Halftone techniques for After Effects at Pro Video Coalition.

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A halftone is an image or printing technique that "simulates continuous tone through the use of dots varying either in size, in shape or in spacing." In the Illustrator and Photoshop worlds, there's long lists of halftone filters, swatches, and compositing techniques used for printing and newsprint, comic, retro, and other effects. But the fun of After Effects is animation, and some techniques may not be immediately apparent without built-in filters.

If you've never used the Color Halftone effect in Photoshop, check out how a gradient is effected by the filter in Creating Synthetic Backgrounds in Photoshop:

Chromatic aberration roundup at PVC

[fix for PVC]
A few years ago there was a spate of interest in chromatic aberration -- fixing footage containing the color fringing, but mostly creating it for motion graphics and VFX realism. Now, Quba Michalski has a new tutorial & preset (and donate button) in Chromatic Aberration Rig. 

Read the rest in Chromatic aberration: creation and fixes with After Effects at Pro Video Coalition.

Premiere Pro News Notes #03

Creative Cloud, a new Mac Pro, color, scaling, codecs, audio and more is featured in Premiere Pro News Notes #03, the latest in the Pro Video Coalition series of as-they-come notes on news of assorted Premiere Pro tutorials, tips, and related tools.

Premiere Pro News Notes #02

Creative Cloud, the Timeline, aspect ratios, Encore DVD, color, and more are noted in Premiere Pro News Notes #02
at Pro Video Coalition.

Premiere Pro News Notes #01

...is the beginning of a PVC series of as-they-come notes on news of assorted Premiere Pro tutorials, tips, and related tools.

After Effects News Notes #01

...is the beginning of a series of as-they-come notes on news of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins.

Does the small text say "To punish and enslave"?

A roundup of After Effects roundups

Over on PVC, there's a roundup of AE Portal roundups on topics like fire, scripts, lens flares, light wrap, 3D text, character animation, the Shatter effect, volumetric lighting, muzzle flashes, sky replacements, lens wacking & light leaks, and so forth.

It's really just a list, but easier to keep updated at PVC.