Archive for mai, 2009

Adobe Story Survey

30.05.2009

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The Adobe Story team is conducting a survey focused on the pricing and the payment options you would expect for such a Script Writing / Pre-production tool.

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Quickie: After Effects CS4 9.0.2 update

29.05.2009

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Adobe released a new update of After Effects last night. Fireup AE, and go to help > update

If you have the production suite or the Master collection, you will also be prompted to update Premiere Pro to 4.1 and AME. This update solve the crash on quit with ScriptUI scripts on mac, enhance the memory management, and add support for Red files.

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Mocha Import UI, clic the image to be taken to the tutorial hosted on vimeo

Mocha Import UI, clic the image to be taken to the tutorial hosted on vimeo

Ross Chain from the After Effect Mailing List pointed us to a new script from Mathias Möhl, the mastermind behind the Tracker2Mask and KeyTweak scripts, both of them pushing your tracking workflow to the next level.

MochaImport helps you importing the way you want, the Mocha tracker data, from the bundled Mocha tracker inside CS4, to the new standalone Mocha for After Effect v2. To run the script, you’ll need After Effects CS3 or CS4.

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Brasofilo, a www.aenhancers.com user pointed us to a very usefull script for Final Cut users. The scripts allows you to work flowlessly inside AE without the need to render your Final Cut timeline. You can check the author tutorial just behind.

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Tip of The Day
Todd Kopriva, the After Effects documentation lead, just posted on his blog the full list of the « Tips of the Day»  that almost every AE user close after the first time they opened the application.

You can grab the pdf right here.

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RedGiant is running a promo on Trapcode Particular (along with other software) until tonight.

Get 30% off regular price.

That means that you can get Trapcode Particular for as low as $209.30. And remember that if you buy Particular v1.5 now, you will be entitled for a free upgrade when v2 is out. Particular v2 will be released at 399$, so if you buy it today you almost have a 50% discount !

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If you’re working with Duik, Duduf’s IK tools for After Effects, you will be pleased to know that a new version just got released.

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After Effects Expressions Reference

18.05.2009

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Ever wondered where you could find a source code repository for After Effects Expressions ? Well William Polito just turned a dream into reality with his new website. Everybody can register and start adding expressions on his website. Nice.

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Seeing that only 5000 people downloaded the additional scripts for After Effects CS4, I wondered why people wouldn’t care for such great additional content. Seeing that so much people are still asking online for a way to change shortcuts inside AE made me wonders. How can it be that so many people are just not aware of scripts ? Are they affraid that it’s just « too comlicated»  ?

If you are not using scripts yet, or if you’ve just heard about them, then fear not. Scripts doesn’t require you much more than downloading them, and moving them into the right folders (see below on how to install scripts).

Scripts are my everyday savers, and thanks to them (and to the people who made them), i’ve been able to push my AE workflow a step further. I even started to develop some for my very specific needs, that I plan to release one day.

But for now, i’ve compiled my Top 10 list of scripts. This list is not saying that a script is better than another. This is list doesn’t even lists some really great scripts. No, this list is just the list of the scripts I use the most on a project basis. So if your favorite script is not here, it doesn’t mean i don’t like it, or that i think that it’s a useless one. And now, it’s time for me to unveil my list… Read More (+ inclus une version française)

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Check this page on AETuts for an amazing list of 26 tracking / matchmoving tutorials, for After Effects (including some tutorials on how to transfert tracking data from a 3rd party software like Boujou into After Effects).

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AE Tip of the Day

Work at a resolution setting of Half and a Draft quality setting for faster production.

Use the Full-resolution/Best settings options for checking specific frames and final renders.

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