Adobe Premiere Pro
How to Choose the Right System for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
"What’s the best system for Premiere Pro and After Effects?" This is a question that any editor or content creator has to go through every few years as technology changes. Dave Helmly is the Head of Strategic Development for Professional Video - Broadcast at Adobe, and gets asked this question almost daily by broadcast IT departments, filmmakers, and YouTubers. Before laying out the answers about the right system for you, Dave lays out the additional questions that you need to ask first.
Editorial
Dave Helmly |
Adobe Photoshop
How To Put Yourself In Any Movie with Photoshop: Part 1
Filmmaker and artist Cody Pyper shows how to insert yourself or someone else into any movie using Adobe Photoshop. To finish the effect, you'll want to add some compositing, lighting, and perhaps some additional VFX finesse in Premiere Pro or After Effects, but here in Part 1 of his three-part series, Cody lays out how to conceive of the shot you want, how to set it up, and how to get started by building a clean background plate in Photoshop.
Cody Pyper |
Adobe After Effects
After Effects Advanced Content-Aware Fill With Photoshop
In part three of his series on Adobe After Effects Content Aware Fill, filmmaker and After Effects artist Cody Pyper takes his deepest dive yet! Following requests from viewers in the series so far, Cody takes a closer look at how Adobe Photoshop can help you remove unwanted objects from your video footage in After Effects.
Cody Pyper |
Adobe Creative Cloud
Reimagining Terminator 2's HUDs and Graphics with Adobe XD
What looked futuristic for heads-up displays and graphic overlays just a few years ago looks primitive today, which inspired the designers at Territory Studio (responsible for HUD and screen design in Avengers: Infinity War, Blade Runner 2049, The Martian, Guardians of the Galaxy and many more) to ask themselves about new approaches to the future of interface design. The decision to try Adobe XD surprised them, and surprised Adobe too! These kinds of intensely futuristic designs are far from the web and mobile app prototyping that XD was first intended for, but the challenge was too intriguing to pass up. Creative COW Contributing Editor Hillary Lewis takes a look at Territory's creative process, and what it might mean for both moviegoers and software developers in the future.
Feature, People / Interview
Hillary Lewis |
Adobe After Effects
Compositing Secrets Everyone Can Use: Pt. 3 - Alpha Channels
When most people hear the words "alpha channels", they think "transparency", but that's not exactly accurate. The truth is more complex, and a quite bit more interesting! Join longtime VFX artist, editor, software developer, and business owner Simon Ubsdell for Part 3 of the best look behind the technology of compositing that you've ever seen, packed with practical advice for applying the secrets of alpha channels that's simply not possible before understanding these underlying principles. No matter which applications you're using for editing, compositing, or visual effects, this one is a must-see!
Tutorial
Simon Ubsdell |
Adobe After Effects
Compositing Secrets Everyone Can Use: Pt. 1 - Blend Modes
Join longtime VFX artist, editor, software developer, and business owner Simon Ubsdell for the best look behind the technology of blend modes that you've ever seen. This isn't just for graphics and VFX, but for video editors too -- anyone who puts anything together, and wants to learn more about HOW images combine at the most basic level, in a way that applies to every application you might use, whether Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple FCPX, Avid Media Composer, DaVinci Resolve, VEGAS Pro, and yes, graphics and VFX programs like After Effects, Motion, Fusion, Nuke, Scratch, and many more.
Tutorial
Simon Ubsdell |
Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe MAX 2016: Breakthroughs in Design and Productivity
You might be excused for thinking that, barely a month since Adobe announced massive updates to their Creative Cloud suite at IBC, there might not be much more to add, except that there’s no way that Adobe would bring 10,000 people to San Diego for the Adobe MAX creativity conference and not have some truly compelling new news. Read on for news of new design tools for app prototyping, photorealistic comping/visualization, the new Adobe Sensei framework of intelligent services built into the entire Creative Cloud Platform, the integration of Reuters video and photography into Adobe Stock’s editorial collection, and, of particular interest to folks working in web video, the introduction of the new Social Publishing Panel within Adobe Premiere Pro.
COW News |
Adobe Photoshop
THE BLUR LAB
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Adobe Photoshop CS6 includes three new blurring filters. Rich Harrington will show you new ways to blur specific areas in a photo, as well as achieve tilt sheet and vignette effects.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Richard Harrington |
Adobe Photoshop
THE ADAPTIVE WIDE ANGLE COMMAND
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Adobe Photoshop CS6 adds to an existing feature that you may not have even been using called Photomerge. Rich Harrington will show you the new Adaptive Wide Angle command to remove all of the lens and perspective distortion in merged photos. You will also learn how to use these exact techniques with video footage, too.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Richard Harrington |
Adobe Photoshop
COACM: Plug In, Tune Out
Adobe created quite a stir when it recently announced a public beta for the next major update to Photoshop. Is this the result of some very smart marketing, or perhaps an act of desperation, due to the harsh economic realities facing most creatives these days? What is the future of this critical production tool?
Editorial
David Biedny |
Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop and AE: Content Aware Scale in Video
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In this installment of Photoshop and AE Video Adrenaline, Richard Harrington demonstrates how to combine new features in Adobe After Effects to stabilize a shot with Content Aware Scale and Content Aware Fill in Adobe Photoshop to change the background. You'll become better prepared to use these powerful tools in your own project after viewing this informative tutorial.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Richard Harrington |
Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop and AE: Content Aware Scale
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In this installment of Photoshop and AE Video Adrenaline, Richard Harrington demonstrates how to combine Photoshop and After Effects to look at a great feature called Content Aware Scale. In Photoshop, you can detect skin tones or choose to protect a selected area from transform, but be able to completely re-scale an image while leaving the selected area unchanged. Richard then brings these concepts into After Effects for video in the next installment of Video Adrenaline for Photoshop and After Effects.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Richard Harrington |
Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop and AE: Device Central
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In this installment of Photoshop and AE Video Adrenaline, Richard Harrington demonstrates how to combine Photoshop and After Effects to utilize a helper application designed for mobile -- Device Central CS5.5. In 2010, more money was made on mobile phones just delivering text and sms messages than all of Hollywood put together. In the future, getting content to mobile devices will be increasingly important. You're going to want to know how to get content to a wide range of devices.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Richard Harrington |
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