A FREE FCPX workflow tool that delivers your entire timeline to After Effects

A FREE FCPX workflow tool that delivers your entire timeline to After Effects | GLJ Media Group:
A simple post-production workflow tool that delivers your entire timeline to After Effects or batch exports selected clips as Quicktime movies or Nuke files. Free and open source.

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Fandev CuteDCP - An After Effects DCP exporter

Fandev CuteDCP - An After Effects DCP exporter
CuteDCP is a DCP (Digital Cinema Package) creation tool for After Effects. CuteDCP is an exporting (output module) plug-in which allows users to create DCPs from any file imported into After Effects and reduces the number of steps creating a DCP to a minimum.

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solutions for problems with QuickTime files in After Effects CC (12.0) because of conflict with DVCPROHDVideoOutput QuickTime component

solutions for problems with QuickTime files in After Effects CC (12.0) because of conflict with DVCPROHDVideoOutput QuickTime component | After Effects region of interest:
This problem occurs because QT32 Server, the process that After Effects uses to read and write QuickTime files, is crashing. One cause of QT32 Server crashing is a bad interaction with the QuickTime video out system when the Apple DVCPROHDVideoOutput QuickTime component is installed.

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After Effects CC Harnasses Your Network As A Render Farm

After Effects CC Harnasses Your Network As A Render Farm:
If you’ve been working on your own project and your effects are taking forever to render on your computer. You either have to go away for lunch or coffee while it renders out your sequence, or invest in a pricy render farm rentals when going to your final render.  But Adobe has created a way for independent filmmakers to harness their networks and turn them into their own custom render farm thanks to Adobe After Effects Network Rendering.

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Multi-machine rendering in Adobe After Effects

Multi-machine rendering in Adobe After Effects - video tutorial by James Whiffin! - motionVFX Blog:
James Whiffin is a freelance motion designer who lives in Australia and he spends most of his time creating visual effects and motion graphics for his clients and personal projects. He works in After Effects and Nuke for compositing and uses Maya and Mental Ray for 3D. He also shares his knowledge in many video tutorials and here's one of them. In this video he explains in detail how to setup a network for rendering in After Effects on multiple machines and shares some tips on how you can speed-up this process. Some cool and useful stuff!

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How to Transfer a Project from Final Cut Pro to After Effects

How to Transfer a Project from Final Cut Pro to After Effects | wolfcrow:
This article will show how you can transfer a project from both versions of Final Cut Pro to Adobe After Effects.

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new commands for finding missing footage, missing effects, and missing fonts in After Effects CC (12.0)

new commands for finding missing footage, missing effects, and missing fonts in After Effects CC (12.0) | After Effects region of interest:
When you have isolated a composition that contains references to a missing item, such as missing effects, simply double-click that composition in the Project panel to open the composition in the Timeline panel and automatically execute the search for the missing effects. This filters the layers in the Timeline panel to show only instances of missing effects.

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new OpenEXR and DPX importers for After Effects CC (12.0): better performance and additional functionality

new OpenEXR and DPX importers for After Effects CC (12.0): better performance and additional functionality | After Effects region of interest:
After Effects CC (12.0) includes version 1.8 of the OpenEXR importer plug-in from fnordware and version 1.8 of the ProEXR plug-ins, EXtractoR and IDentifier. (For details about how to use the ProEXR plug-ins to use 3D channels and other data in OpenEXR files in After Effects, see this section of After Effects Help.)

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MAXON CINEMA 4D Integration in After Effects CC by Chris and Trish Meyer

MAXON CINEMA 4D Integration in After Effects CC by Chris and Trish Meyer:
As we noted in the preview referenced above, with After Effects CC you will be able to import a .C4D project file directly into After Effects, which will treat it as a footage item. Once you add this .C4D footage item to a composition, a new CINEWARE plug-in will automatically be added to that layer, which will render requested frames from the .C4D project on demand inside After Effects, without the need to render the whole project ahead of time in CINEMA. This process is laid out in the following movie:

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Technicolor Color Assist 1.5 adds support for Adobe After Effects

Technicolor Color Assist 1.5 adds support for Adobe After Effects - IT Enquirer:
Technicolor, a worldwide technology leader in the media and entertainment sector, announced the latest version of Technicolor Color Assist, its video colour correction and grading software package. Key improvements of version 1.5 include compatibility with Adobe After Effects and support for AVCHD video and still images.

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Blog Archive » Linear Workflow in Cinema4D and After Effects

helloluxx » Blog Archive » Linear Workflow in Cinema4D and After Effects:
This article aims to explain the concept behind Linear Workflow (LWF) and in the process look at the correct techniques, file formats and procedures when using LWF in your studio pipeline.

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Difference in AE file Imported into PPro with MPE in Hardware vs. Software Mode

Adobe Community: Difference in AE file Imported into PPro with MPE in Hardware vs. Software Mode:
I am getting an undesireable result when importing AE files into a PPro Sequence with MPE in hardware mode. The top (or left) pic is accurate, with MPE in Software mode (nice soft glow). In the bottom pic, MPE is in Hardware mode. Note the undesireable (and inaccurate) harder glow. These AE files are output in an uncompressed AVI with alpha channel. The pics below were imported into PPro with the AE file placed over a black clip in PPro (Video Layer 1=Black. Video Layer 2= AE text w/Alpha). Any thoughts, or better yet, solutions?!

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4 Things You May Not Know About the After Effects Render Queue

Toolfarm.com :: Tips: 4 Things You May Not Know About the After Effects Render Queue/ Adam Miller:
Cut down on your render time using these simple tricks right in the Render Queue! Covers: Post Render Action, Drag Comps to Adobe Media Encoder, Render Region of Interest and Image Sequence Rendering.

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VIDEO: After Effects ExtendScript Training: Ep. 1, 2 & 3 by David Torno

VIDEO: After Effects ExtendScript Training: Ep. 1, 2 & 3 by David Torno:
Welcome to the After Effects ExtendScript Script Writing Training series. My name is David Torno and I will be taking you through the process of creating scripts using Adobe's scripting language called ExtendScript. This is a weekly series focused on teaching you, the After Effects artist, how to create scripts using the ExtendScript programming language. Scripting can drastically improve workflows, speed up repetitive tasks as well as capture and output project information. If you have never tried ExtendScript or wanted to, but just couldn't find enough info to help you get started, then this series is for you. Seasoned programmers looking to understand how ExtendScript works could also benefit as well.

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After Effects Render and Replace in Premiere Pro and FCP7 – Using reLink reTooled

reTooled.net – After Effects Render and Replace in Premiere Pro and FCP7 – Using reLink reTooled:
A lot of films, TV shows, and commercials use After Effects as their go-to motion graphics, visual effects, and compositing platform. In some workdlows, its okay to render your final out of After Effects, but personally I find that workflow too limiting. After all, how often is an edit really “locked” when your client, producer, director, etc. say that it is? And to start tweaking an editor or worse have to play back edit changes from After Effects, isn’t ideal to say the least.

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Meet Cineware & Cinema 4D Lite

AE Users: Meet Cineware & Cinema 4D Lite | Motionographer:
Holy magic toolbelt Batman! When Adobe and Maxon announced a “strategic alliance”, I never dreamed this big. Todd Kopriva announces what’s new in the upcoming version of AE, including importing C4D files directly into AE.

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RE:Vision Effects Releases RE:Match Multicam Color-Matching Plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects

RE:Vision Effects Releases RE:Match Multicam Color-Matching Plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects - Streaming Media Producer:
RE:Vision Effects, acclaimed effects plug-in industry leader and makers of Academy Award winning software, announces the initial release of RE:Match for Adobe® After Effects® and Adobe® Premiere Pro®. RE:Match takes intuitive color and texture matching to a whole new level by addressing common problems on multicam and stereo shoots. RE:Match is a set of plug-ins to match one view of video or film to another so that it looks as if it was shot with the same camera and settings. RE:Match assumes that both image sequences are taken roughly at the same location but perhaps were not shot at the same time or from the same point-of-view.

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ProEXR 1.8

ProEXR 1.8: Eagle-eyed Adobe watchers who have read through the list of features in the next version of After Effects have seen that it will include version 1.8 of the ProEXR plug-ins. Yes, such a thing does exist, and I'm releasing it today. The next AE may not ship for a little while, but you can grab these plug-ins now and use them in whichever version you've got, all the way back to CS3.





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Final Cut Pro to After Effects

Final Cut Pro to After Effects:
So, I’ve been working with learning more of After Effects this week.  I’m a Final Cut Pro 7 user, and wanted to know how to import my FCP7 project into AE CS5 to add more effects & grading.  Upon further research, I found these two videos…

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What’s new and changed in the next version of After Effects

What’s new and changed in the next version of After Effects | After Effects region of interest:
As our product manager Steve Forde just announced, today we are revealing the next version of After Effects, as well as our other professional video and audio applications.
For information about the next versions of all of our professional video and audio applications, including videos and illustrations, check out the snazzy reveal portal page.

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