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Re: Embed Quicktime over sliced PSD? by Ryan Krumm on Sep 23, 2009 at 4:25:06 pm in the Adobe Dreamweaver Forum So I've tried adding the poster frame and it works... for the most part. I also referenced this Cow tutorial: http://library.creativecow.net/articles/chaffin_abraham/embedding-quicktime-movies.php But the movie won't play when the poster is clic New to Particular 1.5; Creating a ray gun effect? by Gary Hughes on Sep 20, 2009 at 3:12:35 pm in the Trapcode Forum I just got Particular 1.5 and am trying to create a ray gun effect. What's the best way to approach this project? Is there a Cow tutorial which might cover a similar effect? Creating a Waterfall by Michael Park on Sep 14, 2009 at 3:07:13 pm in the Trapcode Forum In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Michael Park demonstrates how to create a waterfall using After Effects and Trapcode Particular. This tutorial is in response to a couple of posts on the Trapcode Forum of CreativeCOW.net looking for this Compressor issue & Deinterlacing on the timeline by Matt Grover on Aug 9, 2009 at 10:49:32 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Hi All, Because I'm impatient I've been following a certain workflow for a while now when producing video for web, that workflow being to create a timeline/project to match my source footage, edit together, apply the deinterlace filter to all clip Re: Looking for a certain transition by Victor Perez on Aug 7, 2009 at 8:46:23 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum This Shane Ross Creative Cow tutorial should work also... http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/filter-transition.php unfortunately it is not yet a filter that comes with FCP, but as Ernie Santella mentions above the Nattress "Bi Using Text Jitter in Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE's Extruded Text Filter by Dirk de Jong on Jul 30, 2009 at 4:04:54 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum This video tutorial from Dirk de Jong gives you an in-depth look at the Jitter feature of Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE's Extruded Text filter. Basic functionality of the Jitter feature is explained and demonstrated. Then, the Jitter feature is shown Re: The look of Batman by John Fishback on Jul 17, 2009 at 7:43:50 pm in the Cinematography Forum If you haven't seen this COW tutorial by Stu Maschwitz (Sin City's Visual Effects Supervisor) on creating looks for summer blockbusters, check it out. It's terrific. http://library.creativecow.net/articles/maschwitz_stu/red-giant-blockbuster-film-lo Trapcode Particular - Custom Particle Type Not Showing in CS4? by Julie Lee on Jul 15, 2009 at 4:36:07 pm in the Trapcode Forum I was looking at this creative cow tutorial: http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/nano/video.php And was up to the part where you have to use 'Particle 50' as a custom particle type. But in AE CS4, there is no option for that? Re: OT: Audio for Walter's tutorial? by walter biscardi on Jul 6, 2009 at 6:49:48 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum I just opened it up from the Cow Tutorial site and the audio plays fine here. It's just a Quicktime movie. Walter Biscardi, Jr. Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author. Credits include multiple Emmy, Telly, Aurora and Peabody Award Re: Motion Trails by Roland R. Kahlenberg on Jun 30, 2009 at 2:14:29 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Good call Dave, although the OP asked for colourful trails which I thought would exclude trails based on the original bike. But here's a great COW Tutorial - Eran Stern's Time BlendFX COW Tutorial that does well to cover TimeBlendFX. Cheers RoRK Re: Problems with 3ds max tiff-sequence by Roland R. Kahlenberg on Jun 28, 2009 at 12:42:45 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum [Stefan Haas] " I exported the image-sequence with a pixel-aspect of 1,42. Doesn´t this mean that the new comp created with this sequence should also have a pixel aspect of 1,42?" With 1:42 PAR source, you have the option of continuing your work i Re: Newbie:White Edge in Dreamweaver by Fernando Mol on Jun 22, 2009 at 9:18:51 pm in the Adobe Dreamweaver Forum It's the background color of your page. What do you want to do? I suppose you want to change it with a black color. In the properties tab, at the bottom, choose "page properties", there go to the background section and select a color. That shou Re: Choppy playback of 24P by John Fishback on Jun 12, 2009 at 2:05:43 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Yes, FCP prefs. Here's a Cow tutorial on the subject. http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_trashing_preferences.php John MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870 AT Re: Lensflares don't move in Horizon by Jon Geddes on Jun 11, 2009 at 1:55:17 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum There is a creative cow tutorial that does exactly what you want: http://library.creativecow.net/articles/larsen_carl/cube_world4.php Jon Geddes Motion Graphics Designer www.precomposed.com Re: Two FCP Questions- Lighting and Tilting by Mark Suszko on Jun 9, 2009 at 8:01:47 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum This is more an event video question, but what the heck, I'll bite. When you have a flaw like that, you cover it up in editing by making it look like a deliberate aesthetic choice:-) You can hide the edges by vignetting, like with an artistic pho Re: Final Cut Messing Up After Export? by John Fishback on Jun 3, 2009 at 2:12:11 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Cow tutorial on trashing prefs: http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_trashing_preferences.php And repair permissions using Disk Utility. If you have Disk Warrior run it. If you don't have it I suggest you get it. It Creating a Helix in Adobe Illustrator - Part 3 by Vincent Rosati on May 28, 2009 at 11:07:55 am in the Adobe Illustrator Forum In Part 3 of this 3 part Adobe Illustrator tutorial series, Vincent Rosati shows you how to perform flat shading on the helix created in the previous tutorials. Re: Making a color object shine with 'leave color' effect by Roland R. Kahlenberg on May 25, 2009 at 11:08:38 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum No guarantees but do take a look at my COW Tutorial on a two-color effect. I recall a procedure was used to isolate the left behind color and then processed to create an alpha channel. HTH RoRK broadcastGEMs - AEPro Volume 02 (Professional Adobe Creating a Helix in Adobe Illustrator - Part 2 by Vincent Rosati on May 20, 2009 at 10:55:14 am in the Adobe Illustrator Forum In Part 2 of this 3 part Adobe Illustrator tutorial series, Vincent Rosati uses the pen tool to draw the helix structure. Re: Can you stop light affecting a layer? by Roland R. Kahlenberg on May 20, 2009 at 1:57:23 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum That's a good of doing things. Another option is to use an Adjustment LIght Layer. Eran Stern has a COW TUtorial on this subject. HTH RoRK broadcastGEMs - AEPro Volume 02 (Professional Adobe After Effects Project Files - Now Available). Adobe Af Patch and Heal Tools by Richard Harrington on May 18, 2009 at 9:25:51 am in the Adobe Photoshop Forum In this tutorial, Richard Harrington uses the patch tool and healing brush tools to teach patching, healing and the vanishing point in Adobe Photoshop. Creating a Helix in Adobe Illustrator - Part 1 by Vincent Rosati on May 15, 2009 at 10:38:00 am in the Adobe Illustrator Forum In Part 1 of this 3 part Adobe Illustrator tutorial series, Vincent Rosati explains how to use the free transform tool to take the first step in creating a helix with AI. flash video by Ryan Seville on May 13, 2009 at 11:07:30 am in the Web Streaming - Audio|Video Forum Hi, I am having some problems creating good quality flash video for progressive download and I have noticed that the creative cow tutorial videos are of excellent quality. The main issue is with text, I lose the sharp edges and artifacts appear arou Re: How would you have done this? by Roland R. Kahlenberg on Apr 28, 2009 at 4:30:07 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum JIm Tierney has a COW tutorial that uses Caustics and WAve World to create exactly what you want. HTH RoRK broadcastGEMs - AEPro Volume 02 (Professional Adobe After Effects Project Files - Now Available). Adobe After Effects Training in South Ea Masks Panel by Richard Harrington on Apr 27, 2009 at 11:39:23 am in the Adobe Photoshop Forum In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at how to use the masks panel in Photoshop CS4. This is a new feature in CS4 that can speed up your workflow by allowing you to quickly manage the masks on a layer. Re: After Effects - Effects Library by Timothy Ford on Apr 20, 2009 at 2:10:17 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum I don't know of a resource like the one you have requested, but what I can tell you is that the Brainstorm feature directly inside After Effects is invaluable. You can set a few simple parameters and AE will automatically spit out a bunch of itera Adding Depth of Field by Richard Harrington on Apr 20, 2009 at 7:47:00 am in the Adobe Photoshop Forum In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington shows how to perform depth of field blurring techniques using the lens blur feature in Adobe Photoshop CS4. Re: Sony Z1U and Color Correction by Michael Gissing on Apr 15, 2009 at 10:20:13 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum My experience of grading Z1 footage is that it often looks a tad cold in the skin tones but not highlights. The video looks well shot and LIT, which is the first ingredient in getting a professional look. It may have been graded in Color but that Content Aware Scaling by Richard Harrington on Apr 13, 2009 at 5:47:46 am in the Adobe Photoshop Forum In this episode of Photoshop for Video, Richard Harrington takes a look at a new feature in Adobe Photoshop CS4 called content aware scaling. This feature allows a user to define a region or a graphic to scale or not to scale when the image is resize Get Your FCP Timelines in Motion with Final Cut Studio by Jiggy Gaton on Apr 7, 2009 at 10:00:05 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Having both FCP and Motion in Final Cut Studio means more options for effects creation with your video projects -- and FCS integration makes it easy to work with them together. Having Motion projects sitting on your FCP timeline even helps keep your Make Your FCP Timelines Sing By Roundtripping to Soundtrack Pro by Jiggy Gaton on Mar 30, 2009 at 7:02:50 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum The COW's Jiggy Gaton owns an audio studio -- but has created a tutorial for those of us who don't have an audio studio within earshot when editing video in Final Cut Pro. He's not sure if he's being lazy, or just efficient, to use an integrated Soun Camera Raw - Part 2 by Richard Harrington on Mar 30, 2009 at 9:30:57 am in the Adobe Photoshop Forum In the second part of this Photoshop tutorial series, Richard Harrington goes deeper into the camera raw interface. Richard looks at the tone curve tab which controls the contrast, the detail tab which controls the image sharpening and noise reductio Warp, Deform, and Explode 3D Extruded Text with Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE by Dirk de Jong on Mar 27, 2009 at 12:31:05 pm in the Boris FX Forum In this Boris FX video tutorial we show you how to employ the power of vertex shaders to warp, deform and even explode 3D extruded text using Adobe After Effects and the new 3D Objects from Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE. Camera Raw - Part 1 by Richard Harrington on Mar 23, 2009 at 7:49:30 am in the Adobe Photoshop Forum In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the camera raw files and the camera raw interface. Many video professionals do not know much about the camera raw interface because it is a technology mainly used by digital photographers Re: Graphic Fill & Key output from laptop w/Photoshop? by Mark Suszko on Mar 19, 2009 at 9:25:52 pm in the Broadcast Video Forum This COW tutorial by Rich Harrington may give you some ideas... http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_video_preview.php I have echofire on my mac, but I have never gotten it to work correctly. Likely I haev soemthing Auto Blend Command by Richard Harrington on Mar 16, 2009 at 8:11:00 am in the Adobe Photoshop Forum In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the auto blend command that allows you to merge multiple pictures together into a single larger document. When you have a large scan and you have to scan it in multiple pieces and then st Re: Exact Placement of a Layer Map by Serge Hamad on Mar 10, 2009 at 6:23:10 am in the Zaxwerks Forum Hi guys, Just to make things clear, in order to get a perfect map (None stretched)The aspect ratio is important! When you create a map at the same size then your object you are starting to do the right thing but let us imagine that your object was Re: Green Screeen by Randall League on Mar 4, 2009 at 5:59:08 am in the Canon Cameras Forum The HV30 is a good well priced HDV cam. The next step up would be a XH-A1 which is a great camera for the price but costa rund 3000. Remember that even good lighting is the most important thing, so make sure you have descent lights. Also get plent Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Alpha Channels by Creative COW on Mar 2, 2009 at 4:09:52 pm in the Adobe Photoshop Forum Adobe PhotoshopAlpha ChannelsIn the Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at making an alpha channel based upon the luminance in an image. Alpha channels allow you to store transparency in a graphic and transfer that transparency to ano Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Alpha Channels by Creative COW on Mar 2, 2009 at 4:09:52 pm in the Adobe Photoshop basics Forum Shape Layers by Laurie Gibbs on Feb 27, 2009 at 2:24:48 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hello, Can anyone tell me an easy way of copying and pasting keyframes and expressions between shape layers? Currently if I paste keyframes onto a shape layer they will show up on a new group layer. I can't seem to work out how this group layer work Re: Upconvert Through Kona 3 or Other? (hardware vs. software) by walter biscardi on Feb 25, 2009 at 3:11:22 pm in the AJA Kona Forum [Andrew Saliga] "I read a COW tutorial explaining the process of upconverting through Kona 3. Are there better hardware-based solutions? What are the advantages/disadvantages of using a hardware solution vs. a software one? " Terranex and Alchemist Upconvert Through Kona 3 or Other? (hardware vs. software) by Andrew Saliga on Feb 24, 2009 at 11:27:26 pm in the AJA Kona Forum I'm researching the best way to upconvert DVCAM footage to HD. I read a COW tutorial explaining the process of upconverting through Kona 3. Are there better hardware-based solutions? What are the advantages/disadvantages of using a hardware solu Re: Morphing an image into text by Roland R. Kahlenberg on Feb 23, 2009 at 3:06:14 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Take a look at this COW tutorial - http://library.creativecow.net/articles/zwar_chris/morph.php HTH RoRKbroadcastGEMs - AEPro Volume 02 (Professional Adobe After Effects Project Files - Now Available) Re: Revealing Lens Flares from Behind Footage Elements by Roland R. Kahlenberg on Feb 23, 2009 at 2:56:42 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Here's a COW Tutorial from Trent Armstrong - Making Light Disappear & Reappear Behind Objects Using Expressions Cheers RoRKbroadcastGEMs - AEPro Volume 02 (Professional Adobe After Effects Project Files - Now Available) New Flash Tutorial - Simple Multi-Video Player in AS3 by Creative COW on Feb 13, 2009 at 4:05:27 pm in the Adobe Dreamweaver Forum New Flash Tutorial - Simple Multi-Video Player in AS3 by Creative COW on Feb 13, 2009 at 4:05:27 pm in the Web Design Forum New Flash Tutorial - Simple Multi-Video Player in AS3 by Creative COW on Feb 13, 2009 at 4:05:27 pm in the Adobe Flash Forum Adobe FlashSimple Multi-Video Player in AS3In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Tony Ross demonstrates how to create a simple multi-video player in Flash using Actionscript 3. Also learn to have several videos use a single flv player.Tutorial, New Flash Tutorial - Simple Multi-Video Player in AS2 by Creative COW on Feb 6, 2009 at 3:54:35 pm in the Adobe Flash Forum Adobe FlashSimple Multi-Video Player in AS2In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Tony Ross demonstrates how to create a simple multi-video player in Flash using Actionscript 2. Also learn to have several videos use a single flv player. Tutorial New Flash Tutorial - Simple Multi-Video Player in AS2 by Creative COW on Feb 6, 2009 at 3:54:35 pm in the Adobe Dreamweaver Forum Adobe After Effects Using Text Jitter in Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE's Extruded Text Filter This video tutorial from Dirk de Jong gives you an in-depth look at the Jitter feature of Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE's Extruded Text filter. Basic functionality of the Jitter feature is explained and demonstrated. Then, the Jitter feature is shown in the context of a more developed effect involving audio and After Effects Camera and Lights. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Dirk de Jong Adobe Flash Using After Effects and Flash This is part of a presentation Jim Tierney will be giving at After Effects West. The presentation will be on using AE and Flash together, with some intro tips for Flash, info on what is supported as vector (the info presented here), the best way to get it out of AE, the best way to get it into Flash, and when and why you should use AE to create Flash content. Tutorial Author: Jim Tierney

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