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Trapcode | Particular Basic Training Session FOUR: Sticky Snow
In this fourth tutorial in the Particular Basic training series, Michael Park answers a user's forum question on how to accumulate particles on 2d footage using Particular. He will demonstrate a very handy technique to create an interactive layer perfectly tailored to the background elements and then have particles accumulate on those surfaces. As always, the project file is available for free download to reverse engineer or simply try out.
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Michael Park |
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Adobe After Effects | Virtual 3D Sets with After Effects
Rob Mize demonstrates techniques for creating a virtual set in 3D space. He shows how you can build sophisticated, detailed environments, where your actors appear to interact with their 3 dimensional surroundings. Build the set of your dreams using nothing more than After Effects, a few textures and your creativity.
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Rob Mize |
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Cinematography | Dante Spinotti, ASC
Dante Spinotti is this year's winner of the American Society of Cinematographers' Lifetime Achievement Award, which he will receive at the 26th American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards on February 12 in Hollywood.
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Debra Kaufman |
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Apple FCPX Techniques | Multicam Editing in Final Cut Pro X
In this tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how, with the newest update to FCPX, to edit multicam inside of FCPX. See how to set up your clips into angles, and then quickly and easily edit them together to create a seamless edit in no time flat.
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Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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Adobe After Effects basics | AE Basics 34: Font Selection and Faux Options
AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 34: In this tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to quickly select and change your font selection and modify its look and feel with the Faux options in the character panel.
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Andrew Devis |
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Apple FCPX Techniques | FCPX INs and OUTs - Multicam Part ONE
Finally it's here! FCP X has included a multi-camera workflow in its 10.0.3 update. Andy Neil will take you through the INs and OUTs of this amazing new feature in a two-part tutorial (there's THAT much to show).
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Andy Neil |
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Adobe After Effects | Lite Bite for After Effects: How do I create a simple Light Wrap?
"Lite Bites" are short no-frills tutorials giving quick answers for busy people. In this first AE Lite Bite tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to make a quick 'light wrap' effect for a keyed item so that the edge or alpha channel of the keyed item includes some of the pixels from the background element so that it starts to look as if the two items really belong together.
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Andrew Devis |
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Boris FX | Create a Realistic 3D End Tag in Adobe After Effects
In this Boris video tutorial, Kevin P. McAuliffe creates an end tag with Boris Continuum Complete 8 AE's new Stage Light effect. BCC Stage Light lets you create volumetric lighting from any light that you add to your After Effects composition. What would normally take a high-end 3D application to create can now be done in minutes inside of AE!
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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 | The Truth About 2K, 4K and The Future of Pixels
John Galt, Panavision Senior Vice President of Advanced Digital Imaging, led the team that created the Genesis camera, was responsible for the F900 Star Wars camera, and continues to play a leading role in guiding future digital cinema technologies. In this Creative Cow Magazine Extra, join us for a wide-ranging conversation, as John cuts through what he calls the intentional obfuscation of marketing pixels, and considers the range of options that are becoming available to digital filmmakers.
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John Galt |
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Broadcast Video | South Park: TV's Longest Week
An animated show that completes an entire episode, from writing to air, in only six days? Delivered to the network with only minutes to spare? Meet the producers and editors of South Park, winner of 3 Emmys, a Peabody Award for Excellence and many more, as they take you inside the tools and technologies enabling one of the most pressure-packed workflows imaginable.
People / Interview
Tim Wilson |
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Apple Final Cut Pro | Tapeless Workflow with Final Cut Pro 7
This tutorial gives an overview of the tapeless ingest workflow using Log and Transfer in Final Cut Pro 7. It encompasses a handful of the supported formats that FCP works with... including XDCAM EX, P2 AVCIntra, P2 DVCPRO HD, AVCHD, and Canon DSLR (5D, 7D).
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Shane Ross |
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Apple FCPX Techniques | FCPX INs and OUTs - Multicam Part TWO
This is part two of a two-part tutorial on the new multicam feature added to the 10.0.3 update for Final Cut Pro X. In this part, Andy Neil shows off the custom sync controls, syncing using meta-data and how FCPX handles non-pro sources.
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Andy Neil |
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Apple Final Cut Pro | Five Free Plug-ins for Final Cut Pro
If you love plug-ins for Final Cut Pro, youll love free plug-ins even more. CreativeCow.net Contributing Editor Stephen Smith highlights his five favorite free plug-ins for FCP, everything from eye candy to the ones that save your bacon.
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Stephen Smith |
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Adobe After Effects | Shape Layer Tip #3: Trim Paths
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use shape layers to easily create that Old-School look where a red dashed line animates over a map to indicate travel destinations.
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Aharon Rabinowitz |
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Trapcode | Particular Basic Training Session THREE: The 3D Starfield
In this third installment of the Particular Basic Training series, Michael Park will show how to use Particular to create a realistic 3d star field for all of your animation needs. Along the way, he will use and explore some features of Particular including motion blue, high dynamic range, and the physics time factor. As always, the project is available for free download.
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Michael Park |
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Adobe Photoshop | Photoshop and AE: 3-D Models
In this episode of Video Adrenaline for Photoshop and After Effects, Richard Harrington explores the interaction between Photoshop and AE when creating 3D models. Learn how to use Photoshop to retexture a model and import as a live 3D model into After Effects.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Richard Harrington |
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Adobe After Effects basics
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Adobe After Effects basics | Morphing In After Effects
Morphing is a distinctive effect that is best known from the movie Terminator 2 as well as the Michael Jackson music video Black and White. In this tutorial, Chris Zwar demonstrates simple morphs with the Reshape filter in Adobe After Effects 5.5 -- which is a Production Bundle only effect found under the Distort menu.
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Chris Zwar |
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Apple Motion | Kinetic Typography in Apple Motion
In this Apple Motion video tutorial, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Stephen Smith shows you how to get your text noticed. This tutorial shows you the ins and outs of kinetic typography, otherwise known as moving text. Plus, Stephen will take you beyond just learning how to use Motion and show you key text characteristics.
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Stephen Smith |
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DSLR Video | DSLR: Techniques for Slowmotion
In this video tutorial with Robbie Carman and Richard Harrington, learn various ways for converting DSLR footage into instantaneous, buttery smooth slow motion using After Effects, Twixtor, or Cinema Tools; you might also use Optical Flow in Apple Motion, Advanced Frame Blending in AE, and FCP .
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Richard Harrington |
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