| | | | Re: CC Light Sweep 2 by Walter Soyka on Aug 30, 2011 at 12:29:06 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum The green (or red) X indicates over the frame is a watermark that indicates a trial version.
After Effects ships with licensed 8-bit versions of the Cycore effects (including CC Light Sweep), but Cycore also sells a package of the same effects tha | | | | |
| | | | Re: Creating a flipping calendar on the wall. by Kevin Pinga on Aug 12, 2011 at 2:43:57 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum I looked at the videos Greg Burrus gave below, and it explains exactly how to do what you said David. Thank you both!
But I don't what you mean by this line:
then composite the calendar precomp onto the wall.
I hope you can explain what that | | | | |
| | | | Re: Creating a flipping calendar on the wall. by David Johnson on Aug 12, 2011 at 11:37:16 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Perhaps build the pages of the calendar as PS layers, bring that into AE as a comp, animate flipping the pages with a Page Turn effect, then composite the calendar precomp onto the wall.
I like the Page Turn in Boris Continuum Complete better, but | | | | |
| | | | Re: plug in directory by stanly boon on Aug 10, 2011 at 4:45:57 am in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum i am an apprentice at a big studio. the technical man is horrible and wont help me . my ae [ cs5.5 on win7 ] does not have cycore installed but i found a disk containging a 64 bit version of the cycore effects them slef with no istaller. having does | | | | |
| | | | Re: Cycore Particle World Tutorial by Kevin Camp on Aug 3, 2011 at 10:23:51 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum have you checked out cycore's manuals, tutorials and samples:
http://www.cycorefx.com/dloads_ccfx.php
videocopilot.net has several too (you'll need to sift though them to find the particle world specific ones):
http://www.videocopilot.net/tu | | | | |
| | | | Cycore Particle World Tutorial by Mark Jackson on Aug 3, 2011 at 1:22:55 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Can anyone please recommend a good tutorial for Cycore Particle World? I've searched all over and I can't find one that covers a variety of effects you can produce with their particle system.
Thanks.
Mark | | | | |
| | | | Re: CS5.5 Cycore effects plugin missing by Walter Soyka on Jul 12, 2011 at 12:37:55 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum [Anil kumar] "After installing AE cs5.5 I see that the Cycore effects are missing in the Effects library. Any body know the reason for it."
Third-party effects are not included in the trial. Have you installed the trial, or the full version? | | | | |
| | | | Which Particle Generator do you recommend? by Stephane Bonvallet on Jul 8, 2011 at 12:16:12 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hello,
I am looking at buying a particle generator but I admit I am kinda lost. There are so many options out there. From what I read Trapcode Particular seems to be a classic. I was also looking at Cycore Particle World which seems to be easier t | | | | |
| | | | Re: CC Particle World by Kevin Camp on Jun 27, 2011 at 6:57:15 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum here's a link to a page that has the manual for all the bundled cycore effects several tutorials/projects, one of which covers linking particle world's 3d coordinates to ae's 3d environment:
http://cycorefx.com/dloads_ccfx.php
videocopilot.net | | | | |
| | | | Re: Managing plug-ins in CS5 by Dave LaRonde on Mar 16, 2011 at 8:53:18 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum I'm not making accusations, mind you, but it sounds suspiciously like you may have procured a copy of AE from a not-entirely-trustworthy source.
I got mine straight from Adobe -- no friend-of-a-friend or anything like that, I know its provenance - | | | | |
| | | | Re: Trapcode versus Cycore FX by Nicholas Buck on Mar 9, 2011 at 2:35:29 am in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Sound advice, which I already knew, but continually refuse to believe in because the plugins look like SOOOOOOO much fun! Thank you though. I appreciate that and I think I will wait until I can at least pay for the software with the returns from my f | | | | |
| | | | Re: Trapcode versus Cycore FX by Kylee Wall on Mar 8, 2011 at 4:03:34 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum I would personally not spend money on Trapcode early in your AE career. Learn how to do as much as possible in AE instead of going to a plug-in, and you'll be much stronger later so when you DO use it plug-in, it'll be on top of already amazing stuff | | | | |
| | | | Re: Trapcode versus Cycore FX by Nicholas Buck on Mar 7, 2011 at 2:02:46 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum I double checked and I do have the Cycore products. So would it be worth it to buy the Trapcode suite? I really want to start using after effects and working with the tutorials, so if anyone can let me know I would really appreciate it. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Trapcode versus Cycore FX by Joey Foreman on Mar 6, 2011 at 3:32:33 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum I tutor a student who has the academic version of AE CS4, and I can confirm that it does indeed include all effects, Cycore, Keylight, and Color Finesse.
I suspect that the ones without those fx that have been cropping up are trial or cracked vers | | | | |
| | | | Re: Trapcode versus Cycore FX by Nicholas Buck on Mar 5, 2011 at 3:22:38 am in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Thanks Dave!
I do have the academic version and I checked out the official page for the student teacher editions. They stated that there was absolutely no difference between the commercial and the student. And I believe that information, unless th | | | | |
| | | | Re: Trapcode versus Cycore FX by Dave LaRonde on Mar 4, 2011 at 9:37:10 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum If you have AE 10 and you DON'T have the Cycore effects, you must have the academic version.
You may want to look at getting the full-price version -- it has the Cycore AE effects plus Keylight, a fine chroma keyer, Freeform to warp & shape laye | | | | |
| | | | Trapcode versus Cycore FX by Nicholas Buck on Mar 4, 2011 at 7:38:20 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum I am looking to add some plugins to my existing Adobe Production Suite CS5, particularly for work in aftereffects, but also in photoshop. I was looking at both trapcode and cycore. While Trapcode's website looks great compared to cycore's, their pric | | | | |
| | | | Re: Best way to learn about particles? by Kevin Camp on Feb 25, 2011 at 3:30:17 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum here's a link to cycore's bundles ae effects tutorials and samples (fyi, cycore makes all the effects in ae that have 'CC' in the names, including several of the particle systems that would be of interest to you)
you can also search for tutorials | | | | |
| | | | Re: CC Split 2 by Dave LaRonde on Feb 22, 2011 at 9:32:36 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum [Stephen Odom] "Is there any way to attach a bezier line with control points tracked to the lips motion and then apply that shape to CC Split 2?"
Sorry, no can do. It works with a straight line. If you don't already have it, I'd get the Cycore E | | | | |
| | | | Re: Will After Effects run on my laptop? by Dave LaRonde on Feb 16, 2011 at 4:26:07 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum I expect the OS is just fine for AE 10, but just to cross the t's and dot the i's, could you tell us the version?
After Effects is all about utilizing the processors, their cores and lots and lots of RAM. However, you have only 2GB -- you'll re | | | | |
| | | | Re: cc composite by Walter Soyka on Jan 19, 2011 at 3:13:35 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum [Michael Kocan] "Im working with 32 bit exr's in a project and wanted to use cc composite. I noticed it was an 8bit effect and wasnt sure if it was okay to ignore, or if there was a similar effect for 32 bit?"
Don't ignore it -- using an 8-bit eff | | | | |
| | | | Re: Favourite Filters Folder? by Jason Mettler on Jan 12, 2011 at 2:50:05 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Drop all your common effects/presets (copy them, don't just move them) into a folder and put it in the preset or plugin folder for AE. The location should be similar to:
C:/Program Files/Adobe/After Effects/Support Files/Presets
Search the Plug | | | | |
| | | | Re: PLEASE READ!! Just copied over project by Dave LaRonde on Nov 22, 2010 at 10:21:11 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum [Fred Matthews] "Maybe I have finally found a reason to get those updates I've wanted for 7 years."
Ooooh, lots of improvements in that time, you bet!
You'll love the improved chroma keying, improved text animation, shapes, cooler effects, an | | | | |
| | | | Re: No Options button in CS5 by Kevin Camp on Nov 16, 2010 at 6:16:56 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum sorry for the confusion, i'm still on cs4, and don't have that issue...
all i can do is point you cycore's manual for ae bundled effects... i did notice that it has been updated for cs5:
http://cycorefx.com/dloads_ccfx.php
maybe the options | | | | |
| | | | Re: CC Poly question. by Dave LaRonde on Sep 2, 2010 at 5:58:34 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum I don't know what you want it to look like, but you might want to apply CC Pixel Polly to a precomp if you haven't done so.
It probably wouldn't hurt to read the Cycore Effects manual, either:
http://www.cycorefx.com/downloads/cfx_hd_std/CycoreFX | | | | |
| | | | Re: World's most bizarre AE error... by Tristan Nieto on Jul 20, 2010 at 4:10:20 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Thanks for your help.
I can say straight away that it's not a footage issue - the project in question is a motion graphics animation that doesn't use any footage. I don't have multiprocessing or Open GL on. The only plugins I'm using are the cycor | | | | |
| | | | Re: 2 random questions (file size and plug ins) by Dave LaRonde on Jul 19, 2010 at 7:27:54 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum [Mike Vo] "Thanks, I did, on three occassions. I can see the cycore files unpacked and in the folder, its just not being recognized by AE..."
If you haven't done so already, just shut down your computer and start it up again. Goodness should foll | | | | |
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