Where to watch free horror movies online

If Sarah's not scary enough, Yahoo Tech collected a list of where to watch free horror movies online.

The Internet Archive also has some MP4 and MPEG2 that can be downloaded, like Night of the Living Dead.

Spatial View Stereo 3D plug-in for After Effects

Spatial View has a new 3D plug-in (in late beta) that allows "easy" creation of 3D clips for glasses-free stereoscopic 3D displays: SVI Stereo 3D Editing 2.0 for After Effects. There's also plug-ins for Flash and 3D apps like Cinema 4D.

This is different than the built-in 3D Glasses effect (for making anaglyph images), which has been discussed at the Creative Cow and Adobe forums at times. The Spatial View install has a pdf manual with details.

Free FxFactory Pan and Zoom plug-in (Mac)

FxFactory is offering a complimentary Ken Burns-style Pan & Zoom plug-in that requires no keyframing. Pan and Zoom is available immediately for Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 3, Final Cut Express 4, Adobe After Effects CS3 and CS4 running on Mac OS X. The Pan and Zoom plug-ins require the latest free FxFactory engine for Leopard.

More help on color management

Todd Koprivia, the After Effects Helper, posted more on color management and image state adjustments in After Effects CS4 and Photoshop CS4. This follows up on the previous color management whitepapers for AE CS4.

Update: Todd has posted that After Effects CS4 Help is live in several more languages.

'Replace with AE Composition' in Premiere CS4

Studio Daily has a short video from AlphaDogs Editors' Lounge, where Jacob Rosenberg demonstrated "how to use the 'Replace with After Effects Compostion' tool from Premiere to jump back and forth from Premiere to After Effects timelines." The same stuff can be since in the Premiere CS4 feature tour starting around 2:20:

Mocha for After Effects +Corner Pin thread

Mocha for After Effects, a standalone motion tracking tool based on Imagineer’s 2.5 D planar tracking system, is included in CS4.

Getting things done in Mocha is a bit different than using the tracker in AE. Besides UI, workflow, and file format support differences, masks themselves are not exported. And data is exported from Mocha -- so you have to make sure start frames are aligned and frame rates and CS4 aspect ratios match. Jeff Foster details his experience in his recent post Tips for Motion Tracking with Mocha for After Effects CS4. (Update: later Jeff added a summary, 3-minute Podcast: Mocha for After Effects CS4 Workflow)

Mylenium adds another caveat, "Now the only unresolved matter is finding a corner pin effect that supports motion blur and provides some more features, for which you can use Revision FX’ RE:Map Planar or the Corner Pin effect included in the soon to be released Red Giant Warp from Red Giant Software." Back in May 2008, Chris & Trish Meyer noted how to use animation presets and expressions to simplify the use of CC Power Pin (instead of Corner Pin filter) with Mocha AE; see mocha AE to CC Power Pin (you get the preset too). Basically Chris automates a tip from Forest Maready and Ross Shain to replace the filter label to CC Power Pin in the AE keyframe data.

(Update: A thread on the AE-List provides additional answers to corner pin problems; see posts by Chris Zwar, David Torno (update), Phil Spitler, and Jim Curtis.)

Here's a few video tutorials for exploring MochaAE; no doubt more are on their way:

• After Effects CS4 Mocha by Richard Harrington shows the basics, perhaps more succinctly than Morning After Effects on Adobe TV.

• Imagineer Mocha Perspective Corner Pin Effect by Aharon Rabinowitz on Creative Cow (which also has an Imagineer Forum).

• Imagineer has several more tutorials for Mocha for After Effects.

If you're in the NYC area, you can checkout these upcoming events:
12-Nov-2008: Free Imagineer training clinic in New York City
28-Oct-2008: Imagineer and Adobe at AENY in October

Top 10 AE & Premiere features

Update: Motionworks' New Features in After Effects CS4 video tour is up to part 3.

Dennis Radeke of Adobe broke from his regular beginners format to present movies outlining his Top 10 After Effects features and his Top 10 Premiere features; again these movies have better controls on Adobe TV.