Motion

	Red Giant plug-ins Creating an Animated 3D Motion Graphics Logo In this tutorial, Telescope Media Group's Carl Larsen shows you how to create a motion graphics logo using an array of 3D particles, built with Trapcode Form. He'll show you how you can do in After Effects what, under most circumstances, must be done in a 3D application. Get ready to learn the true power of 3D particle systems in AE. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Carl Larsen

	Apple Motion Creating a 3D Text Fly In In this video tutorial series, Creative Cow leader Zak Peric demonstrates creating a 3D text fly in using Apple Motion. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Zak Peric

	Zaxwerks Autumn Movies In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern designs a high impact motion graphics promo using Zaxwerks 3d serpentine plug-in. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Eran Stern

	Boris FX Boris Continuum Complete's Witness Protection Filter In this video tutorial, we use the BCC Witness Protection filter in Apple Final Cut Pro to obscure the face of a surfer who is surfing a wave at great speed, moving across the frame from the center to exit on the right. We will use BCC Witness Protection's built-in motion tracker to automate this process. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Paul Ezzy

	Apple Final Cut Pro Get Your FCP Timelines in Motion with Final Cut Studio 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 projects organized! Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, shows just how easy it can be to take advantage of it all. Tutorial Author: Jiggy Gaton

	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

	RE:Vision Effects When to use Smart Blend in Twixtor Things that come in and out of the frame can cause difficulties to any motion estimator. This Tutorial explains when it is appropriate to use Smart Blend and shows Twixtor and Twixtor Pro with Smart Blend and compares a panning shot slowed down 10x with and without Smart Blend. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Lori Freitag

	RE:Vision Effects Twixtor and Unwanted Warping This Tutorial explains how to use the Motion Sensitivity control to avoid unwanted warping in your re-timed shot. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Lori Freitag

	Apple Motion Motion Templates 101 Motion templates are a great feature that can get you great results in no time. This video tutorial from CreativeCOW leader, Stephen Smith will go over the fundamentals so working with templates is easy. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Stephen Smith

	Trapcode Trapcode Suite Reviewed In this article, CreativeCOW's Jim Harvey takes a look at Trapcode Suite from Red Giant Software--nine plug-ins that will get a workout in any studio. Review Author: Jim Harvey

	DaVinci - NEW ! Blackmagic Design Buys DaVinci: Part 1 In this article, Tim Wilson begins his series on the big news already beginning to leak from IBC 2009. Blackmagic Design has acquired da Vinci Systems and yes, you read that right. BMD owns and will be developing and marketing da Vinci's award-winning colorgrading technology. What's in store? Here's Part One of Tim's look at the fast-breaking news... Editorial, Feature, People / Interview Author: Tim Wilson

	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

	DaVinci - NEW ! Cinefilm's Ron Anderson: da Vinci User Since 1986 In this article, Tim Wilson talks with da Vinci user Ron Anderson in his Part Three look at Blackmagic Design's acquisition of da Vinci Systems. Ron Anderson’s relationship with da Vinci has also taken places over several decades, starting as a customer, and evolving into demo artistry even while he continues working with da Vinci systems at Atlanta’s Cinefilm. Editorial, Feature, People / Interview Author: Tim Wilson

	Apple Motion Painting with Apple Motion Painting in Final Cut can be a lot of fun without the mess. This tutorial by Contributing Editor Stephen Smith showcases the new paint feature of Apple Motion. Learn how it can be used to create a brush stroke across your video. So enjoy the great tips in this video tutorial, Painting with Motion. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Stephen Smith

	Adobe After Effects Analyzing Motion In this tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Carl Larsen will show you how to use offset tracking to analyze the motion of an object over time. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Carl Larsen

	Adobe After Effects Using the AE CS3 Puppet Tool with Motion Particles In this article, Toolfarm's Jim Geduldick talks about his workflow for using Apple Motion's particles with the AE CS3's Puppet tool. Tutorial Author: Jim Geduldick

	Apple Motion Creating Customized Motion Templates If you thought the pre-built templates that came with Motion were cool, how about building your own? This Apple Motion video tutorial by CreativeCow.net Contributing Editor Stephen Smith will show you what you need to know to create your own custom Motion templates. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Stephen Smith

	Apple Motion wondertouch Particle Emitters for Motion wondertouch's Particle Emitters for Motion, is a high-performance emitter package based upon the company's particleIllusion software technology. In this article, David Saraceno reviews the product for CreativeCOW. Review Author: David Saraceno

	Apple Motion Peter Wiggins looks at the New, Revolutionary Motion from Apple: Intro Peter Wiggins takes a thorough look at the new Motion from Apple. Never before has there been such interest and anticipation over a piece of software and Peter Wiggins hopes that this article gives an insight into the creative capabilities, workflow and SPEED of Motion. Review, Tutorial Author: Peter Wiggins

	Apple Final Cut Pro Final Cut Studio 3 is here, and all is good! Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, likes to live for danger. He installed a major software upgrade mid-project, with virtually no preparation, just to see what would break. Lo and behold, it all worked! And the more Jiggy works with it, the better he's liking it. Join him in this Creative COW, Real-world, Real-time Report on Final Cut Studio 3. Review Author: Jiggy Gaton

	Apple Final Cut Pro Fast Flowing Montages for FCP & Motion Alongside such compositing projects as "The Lord of the Rings" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," Roger Bolton designs "CoreMelt Visual Effects" for Final Cut Pro and Motion. They take advantage of Apple's core video technology for amazing high-quality, real-time performance. This tutorial shows you how to harness that power to solve an age-old problem: how to quickly and creatively create image montages. Best of all, you'll find links to free effects filters, exclusively available to Cow readers! Tutorial, Feature Author: Roger Bolton

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