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	Adobe After Effects Crowd Control: Pre-Keyed Alpha Stock footage In this article, CreativeCOW's Jim Harvey takes a look at royalty free stock footage... with a twist... pre-keyed alpha stock footage from All Bets Are Off Productions. Review Author: Jim Harvey

	Boris FX Stabilize Shaky Video Footage with Boris Continuum Complete's Optical Stabilizer Filter The BCC Optical Stabilizer filter enables you to stabilize shaky video footage. The filter uses optical flow technology to determine the movement of the camera and then adjusts the clip's position to compensate. Depending upon filter parameter settings, the motion in the clip will either be smoothed or completely locked down. Unlike many other image stabilization tools, the BCC Optical Stabilizer does not require you to set user-defined tracking points. This is useful for images where tracking data is unreliable. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Paul Ezzy

	RE:Vision Effects Twixtor Overview for FCP This video tutorial gives an overview of how to use Twixtor within Final Cut Pro, including how to apply Twixtor, how to speed up and slow down footage using Twixtor , and special considerations needed. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Lori Freitag

	Adobe After Effects Color Link In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern creates a colorful disco tunnel using shape layers and matching the look to a video footage using the color link effect. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Eran Stern

	Adobe After Effects The Pusher In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern creates a watery liquid push effect and color corrects the shot using the bundled Color Finesse plug-in. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Eran Stern

	Cinema 4D Tracking a 3D Object In this video, Chris Martin shows you how to track a 3D object onto a live action video shot using Syntheyes and Cinema 4D. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Chris Martin

	Cinema 4D Spooky Wall Tracking In this video tutorial, Chris Martin shows you how to create a hole in a wall and track it using Syntheyes and Cinema 4D. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Chris Martin

	Red Giant plug-ins Building an Airport Scene - Part 2: Compositing In this episode of Red Giant TV, Mathias Möhl continues his airport building project, and shows you how to motion track your footage with Mocha For After Effects. Then he'll use that data along with MochaImport (his own script) to easily rotoscope and create a solid composite. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Mathias Mohl

	Art of the Edit Molecule Fueled Imagination Film? Television? Production? Post? Visual effects? Animation? Stereoscopic 3D? Interactive design? By answering Yes, all of the above, The Molecule keeps its eyes beyond the horizon. Feature, People / Interview Author: Chris Healer

	Red Giant plug-ins Building an Airport Scene - Part 1: Backplate In this episode of Red Giant TV, Mathias Möhl shows you how to take footage of a parking lot, and turn it into the backplate for an Airport Scene. You'll pick up several great tips for Photoshop and some expressions to help you animate a still image of an airplane. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Mathias Mohl

	RE:Vision Effects Frame Rate Conversion with Twixtor Often times you need to make your edit in Premiere, Final Cut Pro or Avid and then import in After Effects to finish it or simply to do the final render, using tools such as Automatic Duck to import the project. This Tutorial demonstrates how to quickly setup large edits to do frame rate conversion with Twixtor in After Effects. In particular, we use footage from the Canon 5D Mark II that can only shoot 30 FPS and convert our edit for a 24P delivery, but this method can be applied to any frame rate conversion. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Lori Freitag

	RE:Vision Effects Marking Segments with Twixtor Optical Flow retiming might not work well when you work with footage that has cuts in it (i.e the gloopyness effect might not be what you want). If the footage was preedited elsewhere or you precomposed a set of layers, you might see some warping artifacts as you cross a scene cut point (or even a transition like a dissolve). In this tutorial we show you how to mark such segments in Twixtor so your retiming is not affected by such issue. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Lori Freitag

	Media 100 | Media 100 HD MultiClip Editing in Media 100 Suite In this new video tutorial, Floh Peters of Magic Eye takes a look at Media 100 Suite's new MultiClip Editing feature. Ideal for music videos, studio and on-location television, concerts, and live events, MultiClip Editing facilitates real-time editing of multiple video and audio sources in a familiar, easy-to-use interface. A camera can be added to an existing MultiClip as its source media becomes available, allowing you to begin cutting a multicam shoot faster than ever before. Cameras can be synced via timecode, sync marks, or in-points. When syncing via timecode, additional footage can even be assigned to an existing camera - extremely helpful in situations where a camera has been stopped to change tapes or batteries. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Floh Peters

	Stereoscopic 3D Setting a New 3D Home Standard Stereographic 3D hasn't arrived until it arrives in the home. TDVision has a proposal: a standard that works with any display, with both 2D and 3D in one stream, with no additional hardware. Feature Author: Ethan Schur

	Adobe After Effects AE: Quick Tips for Better Workflow: Part 1 In this video tutorial series, Creative Cow leader Gyorfi Szilard demonstrates a few tips for better workflow. This video will cover editing and working with keyframes. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Gyorfi Szilard

	Adobe After Effects AE: Quick Tips for Better Workflow: Part 2 In this video tutorial series, Creative Cow leader Gyorfi Szilard demonstrates a few tips for better workflow. This video will cover navigation tips. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Gyorfi Szilard

	Trapcode Creating a Waterfall 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 type of effect. This tutorial uses Particular 2.0, but the work flow and settings should work equally will with previous versions of Particular. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Michael Park

	Adobe After Effects Bessie Potter In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Michael Park demonstrates how to make a dark, cloudy Title reveal similar to the one seen in the Movie Which Must Not Be Named. All textures and fonts are available in the project download as well as the final CS4 project file. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Michael Park

	Adobe After Effects Interlacing Progressive Footage Weve all heard of de-interlacing footage, but what about re-interlacing? Marco Solorio of OneRiver Media shows us how -- and why -- to create interlaced footage from a progressive source. The results are picture perfect! Tutorial Author: Marco Solorio

	RE:Vision Effects Twixtor Overview RE:Vision Effects intelligently slows down, speed-up or frame rate convert your image sequence. This tutorial by Lori Freitag provides an overview of how to use Twixtor within After Effects, including how to apply Twixtor, how to speed up and slow down footage using Twixtor. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Lori Freitag

	Adobe After Effects File Management in After Effects In this video tutorial, Creative COW contributing editor Carl Larsen shows you how to archive a project with shared assets using the consolidate footage and collect Files commands. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Carl Larsen

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