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Complete Introduction to AE CS 5.5

Complete Introduction to AE CS 5.5

Chris Meyer introduces his favorite new features in AE CS 5.5 in a complete video training series through Adobe, AE CS 5.5: New Creative Techniques Introduction. He looks at Warp Stabilizer, enhancements to 3D space, the stereoscopic 3D camera rig, Adobe Audition and more.

After Effects Easter Eggs

After Effects Easter Eggs

People are sometimes surprised discovering Easter Eggs in After Effects — apparent oddities in the interface. Some of these have been around for a very long time, maybe even since the inception of After Effects. MographWiki collected these stray items a few years ago, and to celebrate Spring, we have another one for you.

Optimizing Performance for Premiere & After Effects

Optimizing Performance for Premiere & After Effects

Adobe’s Todd Kopriva posted the link to a recording of the recent webinar on optimizing for performance for Premiere Pro & After Effects. Todd also provides addition links to relevant resources supporting this update on tweaking performance.

Aetuts+ Book Review: Creating Motion Graphics

Aetuts+ Book Review: Creating Motion Graphics

Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Fifth Edition for CS5 is an essential guide to After Effects, convenient comprehensive, authoratative, and designed for learning at all skill levels. It’s oriented towards features rather than tasks or tutorials. This 5th edition adds sections for new features of CS4 and CS5 like Roto Brush, Refine Matte, and Mocha/Mocha Shape, adds a chapter on the “Parallel Worlds” of 3D layer types and interactions, and reworks sections on text, color management, and cameras, lighting, & reflections.

Use Color To Control Your Textures – Part 2

Use Color To Control Your Textures – Part 2

In the second part of this tutorial you will learn how to animate the cubes bounce in a realistic manner. using only expressions linked to a custom made “control panel”.
A very useful, and time-saving technique to easily control and manipulate expressions.

Track Your Golf Swing Form Like A Master

Track Your Golf Swing Form Like A Master

Use Motion Tracking to create a motion swing path behind a golfer’s club head. This effect would work perfectly to show your friends how bad they need to work on their form… just a thought. But honestly, this simple principle can be used to create endless effects and could really spice up any sport-themed projects you work on.

Generate a Dynamic Morphing Background Design with Sinedots

Generate a Dynamic Morphing Background Design with Sinedots

In this tutorial you will learn how to work and use the free plug-in Sinedots, which is a very powerful tool for creating interesting abstract motion background. There haven’t been many good tutorials for this plug-in so I hope you find this useful!

Give Your Video A Pencil Sketched Look

Give Your Video A Pencil Sketched Look

I think we all used to create little cartoons in school by drawing on each page of your text books and flipping through them to animate. Well, lets all save a tree. In this tutorial we’ll be creating a similar looking animation in AE using Trapcode Particular’s Aux Particles. From there we’ll bring it over into Photoshop and learn a little bit about how to apply filters to video with the help of Filmstrip format.

Double Stuffed Tracking Walkthrough

Double Stuffed Tracking Walkthrough

We’ve seen lots of tutorials on how to do basic planar tracking, but we’re gonna take it to a hole notha level. This tutorial demonstrates how to use 2D planar tracking and 3d tracking together to create graphics that pop off a board that you can hold and walk with.

Leap Into Hancock-Style Super Jump Effect

Leap Into Hancock-Style Super Jump Effect

You may have to get up and stretch out a little before starting this tutorial. It’s got some pretty ground breaking techniques and covers quite a lot leaving very little up in the air. In honor of this being a leap year and all, here you go… jump in.

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