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Quick Tip – Enhance Your Footage With 32 BPC

Quick Tip – Enhance Your Footage With 32 BPC

on Apr 27th 2010 with 16 comments

In this Quick Tip we’re going to look at the difference you can make to your footage by converting it to 32BPC with a little help from “Glow”. For even more information on this subject, check out this Quick Tip: Understanding Bit Depth.

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QuickTip – Find Your Way With Shapes and Modifiers

QuickTip – Find Your Way With Shapes and Modifiers

on Apr 20th 2010 with 30 comments

In This QuickTip you will learn how to use shape layers with modifiers and create this cool looking compass.

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QuickTip – Creating Circular And Spiral Motion Paths

QuickTip – Creating Circular And Spiral Motion Paths

on Apr 8th 2010 with 23 comments

Here’s a simple expression, using a little bit of mathematics, that will let you create circular and spiral motion paths. The expression can be applied to anything in After Effects with a ‘position’ property to create a variety of effects. Here it’s used with a light and Trapcode Particular.

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Quick Tip – Understanding Bit Depth

Quick Tip – Understanding Bit Depth

on Mar 11th 2010 with 18 comments

Ever wonder what Bit Depth is? What’s the 8bpc box below your window? Here are all the answers. Learn about Bit Depth and how it can help you!

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Quick Tip – Better Compression With X264

on Feb 25th 2010 with 38 comments

H.264 is certainly the most popular codec out there and Quicktime Pro is mostly used by many users. Videos that are encoded in H.264 using QT Pro sometimes look faded out and experience heavy banding. In this QuickTip we see the possible remedies for this problem using the x264 encoder for Mac/Win platforms.

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QuickTip – How To Create A Realistic Pool Of Blood

on Feb 16th 2010 with 24 comments

In this gory QuickTip, Ben shows us how to create a realistic 3D pool of blood that expands on the ground, and can be modified instantly to create any shape desired without messing up the animation.

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Quick Tip – Add Lux To Your Lights (Without Lux)

on Feb 4th 2010 with 25 comments

Here is another QuickTip for those of you who still haven’t procured the amazing Trapcode Suite. Though we advise you get the plug-in yourself, here is a handy little tip to to help generate the look of Trapcode Lux.

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