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	Re: Mocha AE and Sony Vegas by Otis Lowe on Mar 3, 2012 at 4:33:06 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum I have scoured the internet looking for a solution to the problem(s) I am having. I have seen/read about other instances of this, but no solution has ever been given. Here is the issue; I upgraded and installed Vegas 11 Pro 64 bit onto my Dell Stud


	Re: Create Powerful Messaging with Lights and Particles by Marco Da Lima on Mar 3, 2012 at 6:41:02 am in the COW - Tutorials Forum WOW !! Never Much considered using Bcc, as i am a Major Particular fan an eye opener and really easy..... Many thanks i follow a lot of your tutorials. Kindest regards..


	News: MAXON CINEMA 4D Returns to SXSW 2012 by Cow News Droid on Mar 2, 2012 at 8:29:50 pm in the NEWS: Product News Releases Forum Company to Showcase Latest 3D Creative Solutions; Hosts Party with Austin Motion Graphics (March 2, 2012) Get into the groove with MAXON at SXSW 2012 – the singular event taking place in Austin, March 9th – 15th, where music, film and interactive


	Teardrop Effect by Steven Probets on Mar 2, 2012 at 7:42:01 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Hi All, I was wondering if anyone can point me in the direction to create a teardrop falling from someones eye? I cannot find any tutorials on this kind of thing. Thanks! Steven


	Re: MC 6 avid fx titles by Jonny Lightning on Mar 2, 2012 at 2:56:23 pm in the AVID Forum Search for Red 5 tutorials and you'll find some. It's the same program. borisfx.com


	Why keep files on scratch disk? by Matt Jacobs on Mar 2, 2012 at 1:34:20 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum I often read comments from people recommending that you should keep all your clips on a scratch disk and edit from there as opposed to keeping things on your internal hard drive. What are the reasons/advantages for doing that? I keep a fair amount


	Casting shadows of Bug Swarm by Scott O'Hara on Mar 2, 2012 at 8:11:49 am in the Adobe After Effects Techniques Forum Hey all, So I've bounced around to a lot of tutorials and different shadow making lessons and haven't really found one I'm looking for. The closest I came was one that explained placing a white solid on the ground and places where you want the sh


	Re: Mobile Platform Compression and Shooting: suggestions for resolution rates, codecs and compressi by Phil Balsdon on Mar 2, 2012 at 5:32:42 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum First up shoot the original footage in the highest quality possible, this means don't shoot 720p in T2i, shoot 1080p. Also don't expect anything but poor quality from the camera mic, use an external lav or boom mic. Really you should also record the


	Sony Vegas video speed problem by Atira Lee on Mar 2, 2012 at 3:53:32 am in the Sony Vegas Forum HI everyone, I have a love for editing and video but don't know all the correct terms. So sorry in advance. When I insert a video clip into the timeline on my Sony Vegas Platinum version, the video is slower than the audio. It looks like I am t


	Re: Canon 600D IMAGE QUALITY ISSUE by Peter Burger on Mar 1, 2012 at 9:48:47 pm in the DSLR Video Forum [Casey Petersen] "Are there any good tutorials out there for sharpening in post?" I don't know any sharpening tutorials especially intended for video, but I found this one quite useful: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/image-sharpening.


	Where do original source files come from? by Danielle Warren on Mar 1, 2012 at 9:23:16 pm in the Adobe Photoshop Forum Hi all, I'm an editor but trying to familiarize myself with basics in Photoshop & After Effects if called upon to do some basic graphics for projects. I love all the tutorials on here and Lynda etc. especially because they give you the project files


	Re: Can this kind of animation created in AE? by Stephen Smith on Mar 1, 2012 at 7:39:28 pm in the Adobe After Effects Techniques Forum Take a look at this post: http://www.videocopilot.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=40832 Take a look at this tutorial: http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/give-your-video-a-pencil-sketched-look/ Hope this helps and best of luc


	Re: fake post reflections on a 3d render? by Joseph W. Bourke on Mar 1, 2012 at 6:29:03 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hi Jim - I have a suggestion, and it's right in your back yard. The Foundry makes a plugin for After Effects called Camera Tracker for AE: http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/cameratracker/ If you've got a decent ground plane with


	Tutorial recommendations by Jason Shamai on Mar 1, 2012 at 6:27:52 pm in the Cinematography Forum Hi there, Can anybody recommend good video tutorials for cinematography? I'm hoping to find something along the lines of lynda.com's more extensive and structured courses. I shoot primarily with a 7D, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciat


	MC 6 avid fx titles by dan luke on Mar 1, 2012 at 4:49:53 pm in the AVID Forum Anyone know of any tutorials for doing titles with fx title plugin?


	Re: Canon 600D IMAGE QUALITY ISSUE by Casey Petersen on Mar 1, 2012 at 4:09:02 pm in the DSLR Video Forum Are there any good tutorials out there for sharpening in post? I know barely enough to be dangerous, but I know I could get significantly better results if I actually knew what I was doing. Casey


	Re: AVID for an FCP Editor by Michael Hancock on Mar 1, 2012 at 3:37:13 pm in the AVID Forum Avid Agility by Steve Cohen: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1460985451/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?redirect=true&ref_=as_li_tf_tl&tag=splnow-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=1460985451 Also look for Steve Hullfish stuff. I think h


	Re: need to create a goopy chocolate wipe by John Cuevas on Mar 1, 2012 at 3:28:53 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum You might want to take a look at this tutorial using Freeform to create a waterbox, you probably could adapt it to your needs: http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/create-a-water-box-using-shapeshifterae/


	Retouching Black skin in PHOTOSHOP... hints or tuts? by david lincoln brooks on Mar 1, 2012 at 2:07:20 pm in the Adobe Photoshop Forum I'm currently trying to make 3D facemap of a black woman, who has very dark mahogany skin. This involves uniting and blending three super-closeup, high-res photographs into one: a front view, and two side views. Black skin presents a dif


	Duplicating / Cloning in a Panning Shot? by Caleb Trevatt on Mar 1, 2012 at 11:33:59 am in the Adobe After Effects Techniques Forum Hey Guys, Are there any tutorials for cloning people in a panning / moving shot? We're doing a shot for Film and TV where the camera's positioned and panning in the middle of a circle of people wearing paper bags on their heads. Strange I know. T


	Re: Going crazy trying to understand the ins and outs of AE by Jon Bagge on Mar 1, 2012 at 5:02:12 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum I'd also suggest looking at tv shows/documentaries/advertising/films or whatever interests you and see what other people are doing. Find something you like (which isn't too complicated), and try to figure out how to make it yourself. Copying othe


	Progress... by Chris Bobotis on Mar 1, 2012 at 3:08:19 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Created entirely in AE. Refinements to the color and displacement maps and some help from RGS Magic Bullet + Trapcode Suite. Tutorials coming soon.


	I can't believe how fast can work in FCP X already. by Daniel Rutledge on Feb 29, 2012 at 11:37:07 pm in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum I just finished my first small job with X. It was a small agency piece incorporating some existing assets into a new promo. I have done some tutorials, so I was familiar with the work flow (theoretically) already. I remember the first time I opened X


	Re: Twixtor Slowmotion is not really working even with a Matte by Peter Litwinowicz on Feb 29, 2012 at 9:29:17 pm in the RE:Vision Effects Forum From what I see you will need multiple layers of mattes. because the arm of the guy on the left crosses in front of his other arm.. you need another matte to separate the closer arm from the arm in the back. Just a matte for the whole character i


	Re: FCP-X and the Odd Couple intertwine. by Neil Goodman on Feb 29, 2012 at 6:45:15 pm in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum btw.. I havent missed any deadlines or failed to deliver because i wouldnt use this on a paid freelance job, Unless the client asked for it, and i fully explained to him the consequences of it. Ive simply been putting it through the paces, doing tuto


	Re: Compressing to MPEG 2 by Stephen-Curtis Silva on Feb 29, 2012 at 6:07:35 pm in the Compression techniques Forum When exporting with the Program Stream I'm not getting audio. I followed instructions from other forums and tutorials, am I doing something wrong inside compressor?


	Re: Transform Node by Eddie Gali on Feb 29, 2012 at 5:51:13 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum I've watched a few of those Video Copilot tutorials and I will be making sure to finish them off soon. Thank you Walter!


	Blog: iBook Creatives – A new site about iBooks Author by Richard Harrington on Feb 29, 2012 at 4:38:00 pm in the COW - Blogs Forum I've joined a new website, it's all about Apple iBooks Author. If you missed Apple's announcement, this is the change in publishing that we've all been waiting for.Be sure to check out iBooksCreative.comThis is the official home of iBookCreatives.co


	Re: Going crazy trying to understand the ins and outs of AE by Scott O'Hara on Feb 29, 2012 at 4:14:40 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hey all, Thanks for the replies. It definitely gives me a pointer of where I should go. I absolutely get everyone's point that the basics are a must, and really understanding the nuts and bolts of AE is the way to go to fully harness the capabil


	Constant rendering problems with Sony Vegas Pro 11 by Courtney Polk on Feb 29, 2012 at 2:36:43 pm in the Sony Vegas basics Forum I am new to Sony Vegas altogether but I am figuring it out slowly but surely. I created a video and I have tried to render it about 5 times. The first time, it came out with picture but no audio, second time, audio and no video, third and fourth time


	iBook Creatives – A new site about iBooks Author by Richard Harrington on Feb 29, 2012 at 8:38:00 am in the Forum I've joined a new website, it's all about Apple iBooks Author. If you missed Apple's announcement, this is the change in publishing that we've all been waiting for.Be sure to check out iBooksCreative.comThis is the...


	Re: HD quality DVD playbacks by eric pautsch on Feb 29, 2012 at 5:07:13 am in the Apple DVD Studio Pro Forum There's no such thing as HD on DVD. DVD has always been standard def. We need alot more info from you like the original sequence settings, length, bitrate, ect Here's a good article to read: http://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_hdvideo_t


	AE Basics 37: Animating Source Text by Andrew Devis on Feb 29, 2012 at 3:36:34 am in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 37: In this tutorial, Andrew Devis starts to show how to do basic source text animation in the timeline including changes in fonts and other parameters and how that text i


	Re: HDV to DVD by eric pautsch on Feb 29, 2012 at 3:01:34 am in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum Actually This question is probably asked on a weekly basis in one form or another on the Cow. Here are some good articles to read: http://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_hdvideo_to_dvd.html and http://www.precomposed.com/blog/category/a


	FS: Digital Juice Jumpback collection + Editors Toolkit + Media Mixers by Dan Mockensturm on Feb 29, 2012 at 2:36:16 am in the Classifieds, Personal Forum Digital Juice Jumpbacks – Cleaning out the old studio and must let these go. You can see from the pictures that many of these have never been opened. If they have been, they’ve maybe been used once or twice max. The are no scratches on these dis


	Re: What effects being used? by Phil Balsdon on Feb 29, 2012 at 12:50:04 am in the DSLR Video Forum The first video looks like a camera with colour balance set on tungsten with the blue coming from badly over-exposed day light balanced monitors behind. There also appears to be a window letting behind day light from behind the camera which is causin


	Export from different view by Daniel Roth on Feb 28, 2012 at 11:42:41 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum This may be somewhat remedial, but I am trying to export the "bottom" view of a 3D comp in After Effects. I'm using particular and bouncing particles off a layer on the bottom of the 3D comp, so they are "bouncing" off the lens of the camera. How c


	Re: Liquid Simulation in After Effects by Tudor "Ted" Jelescu on Feb 28, 2012 at 7:38:32 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum You can use FreeForm (stock plugin with AE) or FreeForm Pro to displace in 3d the cake mix texture by animating a depth map. If you are not familiar with Free Form and how the displacement maps work, here are a few tutorials: http://library.creati


	Linking keyframes? by Lasse Gjertsen on Feb 28, 2012 at 7:04:10 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hey, my first post. I'm pretty new to expressions, but it has surely opened up a lot of doors for me! I'm trying to do some advanced lip syncing for a cartoon character, and I will narrow it a bit down here to explain my problem. The shape of t


	Linking keyframes to slider? by Lasse Gjertsen on Feb 28, 2012 at 7:03:22 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hey, my first post. I'm pretty new to expressions, but it has surely opened up a lot of doors for me! I'm trying to do some advanced lip syncing for a cartoon character, and I will narrow it a bit down here to explain my problem. The shape of t


	Re: Going crazy trying to understand the ins and outs of AE by Walter Soyka on Feb 28, 2012 at 6:05:20 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum I think there are three parts to producing good work: a good concept, good design that supports the concept, and good technique to implement the design. Tutorials teach technique: how to use AE as a tool to achieve a specific goal. What tutorials


	Re: Going crazy trying to understand the ins and outs of AE by Matthew Keane on Feb 28, 2012 at 5:15:05 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hi, I don't think you should consider tutorials as 'spying' - they're a good way to learn new techniques. I've been using AE for a good number of years now (since v3.1) and still regularly see tutorials about using an existing plug-in in a new way


	Re: Going crazy trying to understand the ins and outs of AE by Dave LaRonde on Feb 28, 2012 at 4:53:20 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum When I was first learning AE -- version 3.1, for those scoring at home -- I relied on two different kinds of training materials: Adobe's Classroom in a Book, and Total Training's AE course. Since it was for work, the boss paid for this stuff. On


	Going crazy trying to understand the ins and outs of AE by Scott O'Hara on Feb 28, 2012 at 4:41:40 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hey all, Couple things that are driving me nuts. I love AE and what it can do. I watch tutorials and think it's amazing what can be produced out of this program. The problem I'm having isn't copying a tutorial to make something look pretty darn


	Re: Roundtrip to FCP7 question by Matt Jones on Feb 28, 2012 at 12:21:07 am in the Apple Motion Forum Thanks Stephen, Your tutorials rock, btw. My graphics created in Motion are using the Broadcast SD preset, (720x486) and without a doubt look the best (output) when imported into 720x480 timeline, w/ Apple ProRes as my compressor...maybe tha


	Background scrolling into distance? by Alex Hutchinson on Feb 27, 2012 at 11:12:24 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hi guys! New poster but have been quietly lurking for some time. Lovely tutorials and amazingly useful resource! However, I'm in a spot of bother that I can't seem to find a solution for. We're working on a small animation project and have a s


	Re: FCP 7.0 GoPro footage editing by Chris Mercadante on Feb 27, 2012 at 8:35:37 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum I just discovered something with my GoPro footage. Prior to which I have read all the tutorials and as said, transcode footage to Apple ProRes422. At some point I downloaded GoPros CineForm studio and it installed a codec or two and now I can nativ


	Expressions Question by Yiannis Poulakas on Feb 27, 2012 at 5:55:25 pm in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum Hi, I'm looking to convert a timeline based animation that I've created to a more code driven approach. The animations very simple, it involves several objects being faded onto my composition at the speed/rate but at different times. I've been


	Re: hi. i'm looking for a plugin for AE CS5 for awesome slideshow by Tudor "Ted" Jelescu on Feb 27, 2012 at 5:31:33 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum I would start on the adobe site. The Cow has a good series as well for basics. Lynda.com is a good resource as well. You will have to take some time and dig in- even if you want to do just one thing. Because AE is so complex, you will need to go thr


	Re: Turning Corner Pin into 3d coordinates by Chris Wright on Feb 27, 2012 at 3:12:53 am in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum Create 3D depth from 2D planar tracking using corner pin into quatra points in 3d space. bam? http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/magic_tracking/

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