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Adobe After Effects basics | Creating a Sunset View
In this simple tutorial, Omar Alkattan demonstrates how to create a sunset view with After Effects and only After Effects. We'll touch on 3D layers, Fractal Noise Effects, simple masks and reflections.
Tutorial 11/05/2009
Author: Omar Alkattan |
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Adobe After Effects | The Pusher
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern creates a watery liquid push effect and color corrects the shot using the bundled Color Finesse plug-in.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 10/30/2009
Author: Eran Stern |
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Genarts Sapphire | Boombox Sonic Wave Effect
Learn to make the most requested effect shot in the GenArts Demo Reel. In this tutorial, Todd Prives will take you through the steps to create a series of sonic waves emitting from a boombox using Sapphire plug-ins and Adobe After Effects as seen in the GenArts Demo Reel.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 10/27/2009
Author: Todd Prives |
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Adobe Encore DVD | Encore: Frameserving From Adobe Premiere Pro
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Jeff Bellune guides you on a trip from Adobe Premiere Pro to Adobe Encore using the Debugmode Frameserver plug-in. Adobe Encore CS4 added a new feature that allowed a live Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 sequence to be added to an Encore DVD or Blu-ray project. But what about Encore version CS3 or earlier? The Debugmode Frameserver lets you send a Premiere sequence to older versions of Encore without having to first render an intermediate file from Premiere.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 10/22/2009
Author: Jeff Bellune |
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Red Giant plug-ins | Creating a Motion Graphics Film Title Treatment
In this tutorial, Motion graphics designer and director Chad Bonanno helps you recreate the titles he designed for the feature film Dreamgirls. You'll learn how to create a cool shimmering confetti effect with Trapcode Particular, as well as how to reveal text with Knoll Light Factory Pro.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 10/21/2009
Author: Chad Bonanno |
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Cinema 4D | Spooky Wall Tracking
In this video tutorial, Chris Martin shows you how to create a hole in a wall and track it using Syntheyes and Cinema 4D.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 10/20/2009
Author: Chris Martin |
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Business & Marketing | Business as Unusual as Possible
Sitting tight through changing times isn't a solution. It's the opposite of a solution. Great ideas are a dime a dozen. The challenge is finding a way to earn more than a dime from them. As encouragement, here are some insights for success that I've come across lately.
Business 10/15/2009
Author: Tim Wilson |
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Art of the Edit | Making Big Plans
Today, South Africa. Tomorrow, the world. Eugen and his colleagues at 3DTree carefully plan every job, plan how to extend their creativity - and yes, their expansion into Hollywood.
Feature, People / Interview 10/15/2009
Author: Eugen Olsen |
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DaVinci - NEW ! | DaVinci - Rebuilding the Brand for the 21st Century
How's this for chutzpah? The DaVinci customers at Blackmagic Design buy the company, to set it back on the right path - making big investments, expanding service while slashing fees, accelerating development, and rebuilding Da Vinci from their own experience as its customers.
Feature, People / Interview 10/15/2009
Author: Grant Petty |
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Art of the Edit | Molecule Fueled Imagination
Film? Television? Production? Post? Visual effects? Animation? Stereoscopic 3D? Interactive design? By answering Yes, all of the above, The Molecule keeps its eyes beyond the horizon.
Feature, People / Interview 10/15/2009
Author: Chris Healer |
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HD High-End | Driving Toward Success
No matter how unexpected and varied the routes, the roads to success are often marked by customer service, attention to detail, and the imagination to see that success is even possible.
Feature, People / Interview 10/15/2009
Author: Philip Garvin |
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Business & Marketing | Small Steps to Big Success
Thinking big doesn't always mean having the whole vision at once. For Walter Biscardi, it combines client service, calculated risks, and big investments - especially during down markets.
Editorial, People / Interview 10/15/2009
Author: Walter Biscardi |
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Stereoscopic 3D | Setting a New 3D Home Standard
Stereographic 3D hasn't arrived until it arrives in the home. TDVision has a proposal: a standard that works with any display, with both 2D and 3D in one stream, with no additional hardware.
Feature 10/15/2009
Author: Ethan Schur |
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Business & Marketing | Participating in Your Own Rescue
Your greatest tool - the one that is guaranteed to have the surety to gain you your next achievement, or to keep you from it - is there between your ears. It's in the way that you think, believe, and act.
Editorial 10/15/2009
Author: Ron Lindeboom |
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Boris FX | Text Effects with Final Effects Complete
Are you tired of solid stroke and soft shadows on your text styles? Do you need something unique and catchy for your project? Final Effects Complete 5 from Boris FX may offer a fresh treatment for your old title or lower third. FEC packs a wealth of eye-catching visual effects. Most of the effects are designed to work on full color images, but some can be used on alpha channel bitmaps such as text slates.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 10/09/2009
Author: Paul Ezzy |
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RE:Vision Effects | Twixtor Overview for FCP
This video tutorial gives an overview of how to use Twixtor within Final Cut Pro, including how to apply Twixtor, how to speed up and slow down footage using Twixtor , and special considerations needed.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 10/09/2009
Author: Lori Freitag |
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Cinema 4D | Tracking a 3D Object
In this video, Chris Martin shows you how to track a 3D object onto a live action video shot using Syntheyes and Cinema 4D.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 10/07/2009
Author: Chris Martin |
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Red Giant plug-ins | Recreating a Classic 1950's Science Fiction Show Opening
In this episode of Red Giant TV, Chad Perkins shows you how he built the various elements he used to re-create of the opening sequence from the classic sci-fi TV series, the Twilight Zone. In the tutorial Chad gives you tons of valuable hints and techniques for use in Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator and Maxon Cinema 4D.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 10/06/2009
Author: Chad Perkins |
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Cinema 4D | Fracture Text Breaking News Open
In this tutorial, Broadcast Designer Jason Brown will show you how to use the fracture object feature in Maxon's Cinema 4d to make a quick Breaking News open when you are pressed for time.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial 10/02/2009
Author: Jason Brown |
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Windows Hardware & Software | HP SkyRoom: Sharing is Nice
You might look at HP SkyRoom and see a videoconferencing system, which indeed it is. But it is also a powerful tool for desktop sharing and collaboration, taking advantage of advanced technologies for maximum performance.
Feature 09/22/2009
Author: Tim Wilson |
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Windows Hardware & Software | HP Skyroom: Power & Simplicity for Remote Workgroup Tasks
In this article, Ron Lindeboom looks at the powerful HP Skyroom technology, which allows team members to interact in high definition video with one another, as they work on projects and approvals remotely. Highly powerful, yet priced within reach of many small to medium-sized companies -- nevertheless, the system is powerful enough for even major players like Dreamworks Animation, who used the system during the making of the blockbuster 'Monsters vs Aliens.' Powerful, elegant, simple to use.
Review, Feature 09/22/2009
Author: Ron Lindeboom |
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