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Dave Helmly has been working with Vision 3 for about year and half on this inexpensive plug-in to support our native tapeless formats in a Stereoscopic 3D workflow. This video will give you a general idea of how the plug-in works and some general guidance on setup.You can more info on the plug-in here: www.inv3.com/quicks3d

Here’s an ongoing list of plug-in compatibility and other information that you need to know about plug-ins in the new CC video apps.

In case you haven’t noticed the buzz on the interwebs, Adobe CC was released late last night.

It’s quite possible you’ll import Illustrator files into After Effects, either to produce finished content or to incorporate into dynamically linked compositions that you will hand over to Premiere Pro. This lesson introduces the workflow.

There are several ways to send your creative work from Premiere Pro CC to After Effects CC, and this lesson will walk you through all of them.

Quickly apply rich, beautiful, preset color grades in Adobe Premiere Pro CC thanks to the Lumetri Deep Color Engine. With the Looks Browser, preview and add looks from Adobe SpeedGrade CC as easily as adding a dissolve. Also import LUTs from other systems.

Modern productions are built on hundreds (if not thousands) of clips. It’s easy to lose track of files, proxies, and backups saved on multiple drives. Link & Locate in Adobe Premiere Pro CC helps you track down your clips quickly, making media management more efficient.

Edit more efficiently with a redesigned Timeline, intuitive track targeting, and dozens of new shortcuts in Adobe Premiere Pro CC. See critical info such as duplicate frames and through edits. With Paste Attributes, you can copy and paste the specific effects you need from one clip to another.

In a series of three tutorials, Steve Wright explains how to pull keys with KEYLIGHT.

Steve Wright explains how to pull keys using the IBK, A Keyer designed to cope with non-uniform blue or greenscreen backgrounds.

In two video tutorials, Frank Rueter explains all about Gizmos.

Steve Wright from vfxio.com covers basic NUKE colour management in a series of 4 tutorials

Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday! Richard Harrington show you how to use three-point edits to speed up your post-production workflow in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Vashi Nedomansky says “This is a technique I use for dramatically speeding up my initial rough cut. With tighter schedules and deadlines kicking on your door…every little bit helps.”

Beginning in After Effects CC (12.0), you can snap layer features to one another while dragging in the Composition panel.

Todd Kopriva of Adobe fills us in on some new key commands to help users find lost items.

If you want to make advanced adjustments to playback speed over time, you’ll go looking for time remapping. Premiere Pro makes the process very simple, though you may find yourself turning to After Effects for a fine finish. This lesson shows you why and how.

Boris FX regularly hosts free, live web-based training events covering a wide variety of topics related to VFX, compositing, titling, and workflow. Each presentation is recorded and available for free download and streaming following the event. Please check back frequently for information regarding the latest events.

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Part 2 of an 11 part Step Up to NUKE training series by Lee Lanier, VFX Trainer and Author of Digital Compositing with NUKE. Lee moves on from the basic interface and shows how to import footage and gives an overview of NUKE’s colourspace. Covering: NUKE’s read node, browsing, connecting to a viewer node and the 32-bit floating point space.

Part 1 of an 11 part Step Up to NUKE training series by Lee Lanier, VFX Trainer and Author of Digital Compositing with NUKE. Lee introduces The Foundry’s NUKE and showcases how easy to use and powerful it can be for artists used to working with After Effects. Covering: NUKE’s viewer, node graph, properties panel, toolbar and main menu bar.

Trapcode’s Peder Norrby has been doing some super cool stuff lately. Check it out on The Daily Dot.

The Next Generation in Skin Retouching has been beefed up! And did we mention that it is on sale?