Make: television

Make: television debuts at 7am PST on 1/3/09 - over the weekend on public television (broadcast tv). You can also visit makezine.tv and watch all 4 parts, in HD, DRM free, download them and share them! They'll also be on iTunes, you can subscribe here.

To see more of what Make does, see the blog.


MAKE: television Preview Reel from make magazine on Vimeo.

Likes & Dislikes of Premiere CS4

Paul Del Vecchio has some thoughts on Premiere CS4 in 2 videos with another to follow. He welcomes comments...

Kaleidoscopic creatures & Mad Men

An icon of one view of a hypercube, to go with selections from Year-end motion bits: Kaleidoscopic creatures, Mad Men, & more by John Nack:


Larytta's «Souvenir de Chine» video, directed by Körner Union




The Simpsons Spoof The Mad Men Intro

Even more AE quick tips

Chris & Trish Meyer have been busy, and add another post of tips with After Effects Tips - Installment 3: The Tips That Got Away. See the previous ones too: [1] [2].

Motionworks also has a category for Tips, which come single-serving in text or video, and sometimes with projects, presets, or pictures -- like the useful Levels Quick Reference Guide and the Curves Quick Reference Guide.

Also, Video Copilot occasionally throws down some tips that don't fit in tutorials like in AE Quick Tips and Useful Tips, and Computer Arts recently posted 50 motion graphics tips, a collection of pithy reminders by 4 broadcast designers.

Additive Graphic Styles in Illustrator CS4

AppClinic podcast #134 shows various aspects of Additive Graphic Styles in Illustrator CS4. AppClinic podcasts can be basic, but that's good if you've ignored some apps for years.

Deke has more on Styles in Illustrator (even before he gets there) in "Using Appearance and Graphic Styles" on AdobeTV (fullscreen):

Getting Animated About Human Rights

Chris Meyer boings a Seth Brau video done in After Effects, Getting Animated About Human Rights: A stunning animation brings a simple text document to life.

Update: AETUTS added a how-to for something similar with Design Rhythmic Motion Typography in After Effects, but careful with the filthy mouth:

Google Search Tricks

Among the most useful of Lifehacker's Most Popular Top 10's of 2008 is the Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks -- if you want to go beyond Google's handy (and redesigned) Advanced Search and Language Tools (translations & more).

To go even further, check out Google Guide, an online interactive tutorial and reference for experienced users, novices, and everyone in between. See especially the Google Guide Quick Reference "Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)."

Also interesting for real-world visualization with video is Analytics, AdWords, and Big Spenders and Motion Charts at the Google Analytics Blog.

For Google in general, see Official Google Blog, Google Operating System, Search Engine Watch, and Google Blogoscoped (as well as their view of current posts at all Google blogs). A useful overview of Web 2.0 blog feeds can be found at Original Signal.

Update: And as Todd Kopriva reminds us in comments below, "The After Effects Community Help search engine is just a custom Google search engine, so all of these tips work there, too."

http://community.adobe.com/help/search.html?l=aftereffects_product_adobel

Update 2: Technology Review collects its reports on search in Special Reports Next-Generation Search and in Special Reports IT: Next-Generation Search.