Creative COW Tutorials

Sony Vegas Pro Basics FOUR: Media Bins and Importing Assets
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In this tutorial, we look at how to import and organise assets inside our projects and how to use and create a custom bin structure so we can easily find our assets when we begin editing.

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Andrew Devis

Sony Vegas Pro Basics THREE: Creating, Saving & Organising
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In this tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to organise your media assets on your hard drive and what to do when Sony Vegas Pro can't find an asset because it has been moved. Andrew also goes on to show how to open new empty projects and save your project - which is not the same as 'exporting' your projects which would be the final process to create your final video file (covered later on in this series).

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Andrew Devis

Sony Vegas Pro Basics TWO: The User Interface
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In this overview tutorial, Andrew Devis goes over the User Interface (UI) of Sony Vegas Pro, showing how to customise the UI, save new UI layouts (called workspaces) as well as showing how to add events to the timeline, trim them and create simple transitions very quickly.

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Andrew Devis

Adobe After Effects Techniques

Sony Vegas Pro Basics ONE: Introduction
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In this introductory tutorial to the new Sony Vegas Pro Basics series on Creative COW, Andrew Devis talks about purchasing options for Sony Vegas Pro and the advantages of using Creative COW to view and download the tutorials as well as to access world-leading forums for Sony Vegas Pro.

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Andrew Devis

Advanced AECC Techniques: ONE - Extruding Text in CINEMA 4D
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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe gets you up and running quickly inside of Cinema 4D lite by showing you how easy it is to not only extrude text, but texture it and give it a quick animation, and get it back into After Effects before your client even knows you left!

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Kevin P McAuliffe

Learn Apple's Motion: Lesson 14 Text Part 1
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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe begins his look at creating basic text inside of Apple's Motion 5. This lesson is essential as most of the work you do inside of Motion 5 will have some kind of text element in it, and it's important to have the fundamentals down, before tackling your first project.

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Kevin P McAuliffe

Learn Media Composer Lesson 84: Creating DVDs Part 2
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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about encoding your exported Media Composer timelines using Apple's Compressor. This lesson is specifically focused on Editors who have made the switch from Final Cut Pro/Studio to Avid's Media Composer, but still want to get the most out of the applications in the bundle, and not have to use a new third party encoding application. Compressor has some huge workflow enhancements like Droplets, that will make the encoding process a breeze.

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Kevin P McAuliffe

Learn Apple's Motion: Lesson 13 The Canvas Part 8: Particles
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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe gives you an introduction to Particles inside of Motion 5, and shows you how, with a little bit of forethought, you can create 3D particle elements in your compositions. Normally this type of element is created with a third party plug-in, but everything you see in this lesson was created with only the tools you have when Motion 5 is installed.

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Kevin P McAuliffe

Learn Media Composer Lesson 83: Creating DVDs Part ONE
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In this first of a multi-part tutorial series, Kevin P McAuliffe takes a look at setting up your Media Composer or Symphony timelines for creating SD DVD's. He covers formatting issues you need to keep in mind, as well as the proper way to export your sequence in three important, but very different ways.

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Kevin P McAuliffe

Learn Media Composer Lesson 82: Consolidate/Transcode
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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe answers a common question, and that is "What is the difference between Consolidating and Transcoding?". Not only does he explain the difference and show you how easy both are to use, but he also discusses Batch Importing, and how what might seem like the best way to work, isn't.

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Kevin P McAuliffe

Learn Apple's Motion: Lesson 12 - The Canvas Part 7
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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe continues his talk about navigating around the canvas by looking at the Replicator, and how you can use it to not only create video walls quickly and easily, but also to create awesome 3D text right inside Motion, with no 3rd party plug-ins required.

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Kevin P McAuliffe

Autodesk 3ds Max

Particles in 3ds Max 2014: Adjusting Size
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In this Autodesk 3ds Max 2014 tutorial, Creative COW leader Michael Hurwicz uses the Data operator to adjust the size of particles on the surface of a sphere, based on the separation between the particles.

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Michael Hurwicz

Learn Apple's Motion: Lesson 11 - The Canvas Part 6: Effects
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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about Effects inside of Apple's Motion, and not only shows you how to create a cool basic effect, but he also show you how to create an effect for FCPX, and how to have complete control over the effects parameters.

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Kevin P McAuliffe

Learn Apple's Motion: Lesson 10 - The Canvas Part 5
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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe continues his trip across the Canvas and discusses Behaviors, how they differ from Keyframes, and why you will want to use them as much as possible in your workflow, as they will save you a ton of time.

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Kevin P McAuliffe

Learn Media Composer Lesson 81: Multichannel Audio Exports
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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe answers a viewer's e-mail about creating multichannel audio exports. Most people think that this is a hardware limitation for most PC's and Mac's, but Kevin quickly shows you that this is very easy to set up right from within your export settings, and once you have a preset, you can set it and forget it.

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Kevin P McAuliffe

Autodesk 3ds Max

Creating a 3D Particle Ball in Autodesk 3ds Max 2014
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In this Autodesk 3ds max 2014 tutorial, Creative COW leader Michael Hurwicz uses the Data Operator (available (available for the first time as a standard feature) to create a sphere of particles with random 3D motion. This is done by taking particle rotation data and using it to determine particle position.

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Michael Hurwicz

Autodesk 3ds Max

3ds max 2014: Data Operator & Data Presets for Particle Flow
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In this Autodesk 3ds max 2014 tutorial, Creative COW leader Michael Hurwicz looks at two features that are now a standard part of the product: The Data Operator allows you to use math, via a graphical user interface, to manipulate particles. Presets allow you to save and load Data Operator setups previously created by you or others.

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Michael Hurwicz

Learn Apple's Motion: Lesson 9 - The Canvas Part 4: Lights
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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe continues his look at the Canvas by talking about creating lights, and the ins and outs of figuring out and adjusting their parameters. He also starts out the lesson by creating basic geometrics inside of Motion 5 to work with, to create realistic lighting effects in no time flat.

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Kevin P McAuliffe

Learn Media Composer Lesson 80: Creating Client Approvals
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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe answers a viewer's question about how to create client approval Quick Time files in MC/Symphony. To take things to the next level, Kevin also shows you how to create HD YouTube files ready to upload to show your work to the masses.

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Kevin P McAuliffe

Learn Apple's Motion: Lesson 8 - The Canvas Part 3 & The HUD
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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe continues his look at the canvas, and talks about the most important tool in your Motion 5 work, and that is the HUD (Heads Up Display). He also discusses Camera basics, and how to get the best positioning in your scenes by using Motion's viewports.

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Kevin P McAuliffe

Adobe After Effects

Creative Fireworks in Adobe After Effects
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Rob Mize shares his techniques for using After Effects to create a variety of fireworks displays. All you need is CC Particle World, a few expressions and a reason to celebrate and you can light up your world with dazzling pyrotechnic effects.

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Rob Mize

Learn Apple's Motion: Lesson 7 - The Canvas Part 2
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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe continues his tour of the canvas by looking at the transport controls inside of Motion 5, and the tutorial takes a turn to look at keyframing with the introduction of the "Record Keyframes" button that is tucked in right beside the Play button.

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Kevin P McAuliffe

Learn Media Composer Lesson 79: Power Keyboard Settings PT 2
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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe continues his talk about Power User keyboard settings and you'll quickly see that you don't need to remap the entire keyboard to speed up your workflow. In most cases, it's simply about choosing the right tools to have at the tip of your fingers to get the job done that much faster.

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Kevin P McAuliffe