Toolfarm Blogs

Jon Barrie of Adobe in Australia has been putting some great content on the “Moving to Adobe Premiere Pro” group on Facebook, plus a few other hot tips for you.

RiTutorialsHD uploaded this great freeze tutorial: “In this video i will teach you how to create the effect where water freezes in realflow and cinema 4d.”

Jared Flynn, a Toolfarm customer, made a fantastic animated 3D Toolfarm logo! He was one of the winners of the Product Reviews drawing. More info on that coming next week!

Check out these incredible inspirational showreels from the Foundry featuring several selections which played at NAB 2012.

Cornershops new video by Rocketscience Lab combines stop motion, visual effects, and all sorts of interesting textures and editing.

Sapphire Edge v2 Now Available for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X and Sony Vegas Pro. Designed with the busy, modern editor in mind.

With Adobe CS6 out in just a few days, this tool will remove older versions of Adobe software from your system.

Eran Stern shows you how make an instant Motion Graphics Promo using the new Create Shapes from Vector Layer in After Effects CS6.

Brain Maffitt posted this excellent free training preview on the new camera tracking feature and new performance cache and persistent disk cache in After Effects CS6 to the AE list.

Plot Device, a project by Seth Worley and Red Giant Software won the Webby for Best Editing.

Mary Poplin from Imagineer explains the difference between The Foundry Camera Tracker v Mocha AE v3 Camera Solver Feature.

The NAB 2012 Maxon presentations are up on Cineversity site. See presentations from Nick Campbell, Colin Sebestyen, Chris Smith, Casey Hupke, EJ Hassenfranz, Barton Damer, Rob Garrott, and others. This is inspiring stuff!

Post by Matthew Perks/AEtuts+. Use puppet pins tracked to motion data from dots on a face to animate a face or other objects in your scene.

Digital Anarchy Beauty Box 2.0 offers a significant upgrade to 1.0, including more speed (espicially on ATI cards), better Premiere Pro support, FCP X support, better masking capabilities, and the ability to minimize shine on a face.

FxFactory 3.0.3 introduces new products and a better user interface for all effects running in Final Cut Pro X. This update is recommended for all users. Some FxPacks now support Adobe After Effects CS6.

RowByte Plexus has been updated to v1.4.5.  This update addresses Minor Bug Fixes, UI Tweaks and CS6 Compatibility.

There are a few NAB Sales that are ending today and one later this week. Don’t miss out on the savings!

We had so many posts about NAB 2012 that we thought it might be easier for you to review them in a single post.

One of our affiliates at Toolfarm, Andreas Hohl of Vader Video, has published a pdf ebook called Shut Up and Shoot that is very popular and he’s been getting great feedback on it. He interviewed me at NAB about Toolfarm and the Adobe CS6 release.

We’ve been a very proud sponsor of The MediaMotion Ball for the past several years. On it’s 15th year we take the opportunity to talk with IMUG Founder Carey Dissmore about the past, present and future of this excellent event that takes place each year during NAB.

SpeedLooks is a series of look presets for the new Adobe SpeedGrade CS6 color correction software that emulate 35MM film in real-time, with the use of deep color 3DLUTs that will change how you work in Adobe CS6.

Richard Harrington goes over keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 to speed up your workflow.

Todd Kopriva of Adobe explains a few removed features and how to make the most of After Effects CS6.

Let’s break it down to see if it’s better to rent or buy.

Do you like explosions, giant futuristic battling robots and watching the Chicago Loop getting destroyed? Check out the vfx reel from the Transformers VFX team: Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier.