Apple Seminars online

Apple Seminars are available online for various aspect of design, audio, and video using Apple software. These play externally in QuickTime Player and include: Motion for After Effects Users, Shake: Advanced Digital Compositing & Integration with Final Cut Studio, Enhancing Video Podcasts with Final Cut Studio, and Final Cut Studio Workflow with Sony XDCAM-HD and Panasonic P2 Media.

DE:Noise, a new AE filter

RE:Vision Effects just released a new de-noising product, DE:Noise. This filter "uses smart feature-sensitive spatial filtering and motion estimation (optical flow) techniques to help improve the visual quality of sequences with problems such as: noisy video (than can appear in low-light video captures), dust, excessive film grain, CG renders affected by ray-tracing undersampling, fingerprints, snow, drop-outs, and other small artifacts."

Nucleo Pro 2 ships

Mylenium noted that GridIron shipped Nucleo Pro 2, a significant upgrade to their plug-in and background render manager for AE. He added that "In addition to creating pre-composition proxies now, it also features support for a selection of 3D programs to also add to the background render queue." Nucleo Pro 2 will make you feel less envious of previewing features of Combustion or even Motion.

A look at Color

Oliver Peters, a regular on the FinalCutPro-List, has a review in Videography of Color, Apple’s new pro-level color grading application. Apple has demo movies.

Update: as a reminder, previous Color items include FreshDV's NAB Video Podcast - Apple Color Exclusive Demo, a tutorial at Ken Stone's FCP site Creating Node Trees in Apple Color, Stu Maschwitz's Color My Impression.

Update 2: Oliver has another review of Color at DV, First Look: Apple Color.

Graffiti Archaeology

Here's a gif made in AE from screenshots of Graffiti Archaeology, a site which shows how graffiti walls change over time. John Nack has more on this and related items.

Final Cut D'ough!

As Apple is making the dough and Avid is cutting staff, The Editor's Guild cover story is on The Simpsons Movie, where post-production included 7 Avid Adrenaline systems and 5 After Effects stations.

Ken Burns effect quick en masse

iPhoto provides an easy way (exporting a slideshow) to make a movie with the Ken Burns effect on a ton of pictures. Adobe has nothing like it as far as I can tell -- unless you're making a DVD then Encore has a slideshow feature.

Now, there's a new FxPlug filter that does something similar, though besides a few transitions I can't tell right now what Image Flow FX has over iPhoto, and it might be missing features. For more check out The Editblog's review of Image Flow Fx.