If you are new to After Effects and want to get up to speed quickly, The After Effects Apprentice was created just for you. With 11 core lessons plus a hip final project that pulls it all together, you'll learn how to tap this program's vast potential- whether you want to create motion graphics for network television, corporate communications, or your own work. Fully updated to cover After Effects CS4, this book presents a professional perspective on the most important features a motion graphics artist needs to learn in order to use this program effectively. You'll learn to creatively combine layers, animate eye-catching titles, manipulate 3D space, key and stabilize a shot to place it in a new environment, and use effects to generate excitement or enhance the realism of a scene.
Taught by Trish and Chris Meyer, principals in Crish Design (formerly known as CyberMotion), an award-winning motion graphic design studio.
Adobe Production Premium for Final Cut Studio Editors
In Adobe Production Premium for Final Cut Studio Editors you will learn how to put the Adobe Production Premium toolset to use throughout your production to realize astonishing efficiencies and creative opportunities. Adobe's CS tools are the perfect compliment to Final Cut Studio, with tools that improve your preproduction, production and postproduction capabilities in leaps and bounds. Move seamlessly between the toolsets -- always using the best tool for the job with the real-world practice that you get in this guide.
Taught by By Larry Jordan, Apple-Certified trainer in digital media with over 30 years experience as a television producer, director and editor.
The After Effects Illusionist
The After Effects Illusionist contains recipe after recipe that allow you to harness the full power of the native plug-in effects in the After Effects application. In a step-by-step manner, author Chad Perkins guides you through the creation and application of each and every native plug-in effect available for use in the AE toolset. The book also shows you how each can be used optimally in your media project, when and why it makes sense to use each, and also how to combine multiple effects.
Taught by Chad Perkins, Adobe Certified Instructor and Expert in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, After Effects, and Premiere. View All Training Book Titles in our Store
Planning on attending the San Francisco SuperMeet on Friday, February 5th?
Today (Monday, January 4th) is the last day to get Early Bird $10 pricing on SuperMeet tickets. Earlybird pricing ends Tuesday morning Jan 5, 2010 at 2:00AM PST.
After that, it goes up to $15.00, or $20 at Door. Get your tickets now!
The San Francisco SuperMeet promises to be the single largest Bay Area social gathering of digital filmmakers, content creators, Final Cut Studio, Adobe and Avid Gurus and users in all of 2010.
SPEND THE DAY WITH US IN SAN FRANCISCO Sign up for Free SuperWorkshops during the day by Canon, Adobe, Autodesk & Red Giant, some sessions almost filled & your choices will be narrowing soon!
WORLD FAMOUS RAFFLE Don't forget! We will be raffling away tens of thousands of dollars in prizes at the SuperMeet. Prizes include:
Canon 5D Mark II HDSLR (with 2010 Firmware Update) and 24mm-105mm F4 L IS lense ($3,499 value)
AJA KiPro ProRes Recorder ($4,495 value)
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium ($1,700 value)
Avid Media Composer 4 w/ Production Suite ($2,295 value)
AND A WHOLE LOT MORE!
Complete details and links to purchase tickets and sign up for workshops at: supermeet.com.
Thanks! Dan ---- Daniel Berube Co-Producer, SuperMeets BOSFCPUG
Adobe released a small update to Premiere Pro which fixed a memory issue that occurs when importing large numbers of AVC-Intra files. Use the Adobe updater or update it directly in Premiere Pro.
Dave Helmly give you a Sneak Peek at a future release of Premiere Pro (CS5!) featuring the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine. He explains this engine as a marriage between GPU and CPU. Did he say "like butter?" He did! Dave Helmly mentions in the comments "I recommend 8-16GB RAM so you can jump from Premiere to After Effects to Encore to Photoshop as needed. " You'll be able to work with all sorts of native formats and scrub back and forth with real-time preview and real time effects at full screen?! Seriously?! This is really impressive.
An exciting peek at what Adobe has up their sleeve was posted today by Dennis Radeke on the Genesis Project blog:
"Let's start with the big, bold, brash, brazen, big-time, blow-your-mind (are there any other 'big' adjectives I've missed?) statement about the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine: It is a game changer.
Haven't heard about the Mercury Playback engine yet? Good- Read on!"
Now is your chance to contribute directly to the improvement of After Effects.
From Todd Kopriva on the After Effects region of interest blog, who handles the documentation for After Effects for Adobe: "Please take one or both of the following surveys about tasks that you might do in After Effects. Your doing so will help us to learn what people are having trouble with and how we can make it better."
Starts in 45 minute! You still have time to join us!
Toolfarm is proud to sponsor a free online seminar featuring Adobe After Effects CS4 and its powerful integration with Adobe CS4 Production Premium. Harry Frank will be presenting a project using Trapcode Particular and Michele Yamazaki of Toolfarm will be showing the newest plug-in from Red Giant, Magic Bullet Mojo.
In this eSeminar you'll learn how:
Steve Whatley will show the deep integration between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro delivers time-savings and a smoother workflow on every project, so you can stay focused on doing your creative work.
Particular 2 expands your creative options by offering realistic natural effects, lighting control for shaded particles, 3D camera integration, custom shapes, depth of field, and physics controls
Red Giant's Magic Bullet Mojo helps you achieve a subtle coloring effect to warm up actors' skin tones while backgrounds and shadows get a cool blue treatment - all while keeping your talent in focus.
Use your Adobe Updater or update via the Help menu in Premiere Pro. There's new support for Native Panasonic AVC-Intra editing. Watch Dave Helmley's video this new support and how AVC-Intra users can work directly off their P2 cards or their local hard drive.
At the Adobe MAX 2009 conference in LA, California (Oct 4), Jon Landau, Producer of James Cameron's Titanic and the upcoming stereoscopic 3D film AVATAR, was invited to give an introduction and brief pitch on how Adobe products were used to realize the world of Pandora, for AVATAR.
Here Jon spends about 5-6 minutes explaining how Adobe products helped his team fulfill them. This came before a short demo screening of the film where audiences wore Real-D stereoscopic 3D glasses.
Follow this link to get a Flex Builder 3 serial numbers. The Flex Builder serial numbers are only available to customers who have purchased a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium or Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection on or after September 15, 2009.
We received an email from Adobe today that was quite interesting, with the subject line CS4 and Matrox & Premiere 4.2 & Adobe Story. It's from Dave Helmly, North American DMO TechSales Manager. He said:
As many of you know,over the past several weeks, Adobe has been working with the 3rd party I/O board vendors and their current CS4 drivers. This has been a joint effort between these companies and Adobe. CS4 introduced a number of changes ranging from 64 bit memory addressing to I/O calls and so on.
The recent Matrox Axio & RTX driver is working quite well with only a few minor issues for Windows users. We are highly recommending that Windows users upgrade to Vista64 (or Win7 64 when released) & 8GB or 16GB of RAM. Matrox is continuing to make improvements to their driver. Make sure to periodically check their website for updates.
He goes on to say that they are working on a Premiere 4.2 update that should be out next month. The update will include several fixes and support for Native AVC-Intra Import. We'll let you know when that is out.
Then there's Adobe Story, which I posted a link to a couple of weeks ago. Download the beta for free at Adobe Labs. I saw a short demo at NAB and it looked extremely useful for anyone in video production.
Lightroom 2.5 and Camera Raw 5.5 are now available on Adobe.com and through the updaters in Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2 (choose Help->Updates).
Camera Raw 5.5 replaces the original one that was installed with Adobe Photoshop CS4; Adobe Photoshop Elements 7; and Adobe Premiere Elements 7 software. Visit the Camera Raw page for a complete list of supported cameras.
Lightroom 2.5 update includes additional camera support for several new camera models including the Nikon D3000 and Olympus E-P1 as well as several fixes for issues introduced by previous Lightroom 2 releases. Buy Lightroom 2.5 here
There's been a lot of chatter lately about compatibility with Snow Leopard but it looks as if the CS3 owners are in the clear. You can still find out what's new in CS4 at the Adobe Creative Suite Web Premium seminar on CS3 vs. CS4, Wednesday, September 23, 2009 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM US/Pacific. Register here. Even if you're already a CS4 user it might be really useful to find out more about those features that you haven't had a chance to check out.
InfoWorld has tested the Adobe CS3 apps in Snow Leopard and says they work fine, which I'm sure is a big relief to those of you running CS3 who want to upgrade to Snow Leopard but heard that Adobe will not support CS3 in Snow Leopard.
Which is what I think Adobe was really trying to say: The company notes it has not tested CS3 on Snow Leopard (and doesn't intend to), so it's not guaranteeing -- "supporting" -- CS3 on Snow Leopard. Adobe could have chosen better wording.
If you want to upgrade to Adobe CS4, we have a bundle special that expires today! Adobe CS4 Bundle Upgrade Sale - Save $100 when you upgrade from an earlier version of Adobe Creative Suite, Production Studio, or Macromedia Studio to Creative Suite 4.
With Mac OS X Snow Leopard shipping tomorrow, Adobe has released some information about compatibility with Adobe CS3 products. The Adobe Snow Leopard FAQ states:
Older versions of Adobe creative software were not included in our testing efforts. While older Adobe and Macromedia applications may install and run on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6), they were designed, tested, and released to the public several years before this new operating system became available. You may therefore experience a variety of installation, stability, and reliability issues for which there is no resolution. Older versions of our creative software will not be updated to support Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6).
John Nack from Adobe had a follow up article, Information about Photoshop CS3 on Snow Leopard on his blog and says that Photoshop has been tested on CS3 and it works with the exception of a couple of small issues they're looking into.
That's great about Photoshop CS3, but what about After Effects, Premiere Pro, Flash and the other apps? I am really hoping they will work fine without much incident.
I can see both sides of the argument here for support of CS3 in Snow Leopard. Creative Suite 3 did come out a couple of years ago and Adobe could not have had an inkling what was in store for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. It makes sense to build your new software for the most current systems so that you can have optimal efficiency and performance.
That said, users who are still on CS3 are going to be forced to upgrade to CS4 if they want to use Snow Leopard, and that will certainly make a few people angry.
I'm curious how this will be received by Mac users. Hopefully the majority of the Mac users out there have upgraded to Creative Suite 4 and this is not an issue at all.
How do you feel about it? Does it affect you? It doesn't affect me because I'm running CS4 and I don't plan on upgrading to Snow Leopard right away. Leave a comment with your thoughts.
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The media landscape is transforming with the explosion of video available online
The Adobe® Flash® Media Server family of products has become the industry-leading solution for streaming video and real-time communication. The ubiquity of the Adobe Flash Platform provides a rich viewing experience across virtually all operating systems and screens through integration with the Adobe Flash Player runtime, adopted on 98% of computer screens worldwide.
With the release of Adobe Flash Media Server 3.5 software, customers will benefit further from a better video experience for their audience, enhanced digital rights management for H.264 video, DVR functionality, and scalability improvements.
Join Steve Forde, CEO of GridIron Software and John Nack, Principle Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop, LIVE - from your computer. Steve and John will be hosting a special web event next Monday, June 29th at 12pm EDT, showing something brand new - and VERY unique - between GridIron Flow 1.0 and Adobe Creative Suite 4.
P.S. 41 116 West 11th St., NYC (corner of 11th Street and 6th Ave.)
Thanks to our sponsors, the meeting is FREE. Our Lineup Includes:
Award-winning director, editor, & filmaker, Paul Del Vecchio, will show us how he uses After Effects in his films. If you are a fan of horror and thrillers, or want to get insight into using AE for that genre, don't miss this presentation!
Compositing and Photo Re-touching artist, Justin Paguia, will be showing how he takes his photography and compositing to the next level. If you want to up your Photoshop skill level, (and let's face it - we all use it in our work) this presentation is for you.
Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks: Desert sunrise, Arctic tundra, nighttime urban streets: the look of your footage defines the mood. Now you can define the style of your video or film, regardless of on-set conditions, with powerful imaging tools. Choose from more than a hundred Look presets, all neatly organized into 10 categories, to help set the mood for everything from a wedding to the next Sundance original.
You also get Magic Bullet LooksBuilder, a stand-alone application that lets you pre-visualize looks on set or anywhere, using a JPEG or TIFF image. Look presets are portable and load into any of the editing hosts, so the same Looks you create on set are the ones you finish with in the editorial suite. It's no longer necessary to have an expensive finishing system. Magic Bullet Looks provides hundreds of options with one click.
Through May 2009, buy any Adobe product or Apple Final Cut Studio, including upgrades, and you can add Magic Bullet Looks for just $99! Looks normally retails for $399. Offer expires May 31, 2009. View Details.
If you're in the Bay Area, check out SFMograph, San Francisco's user group for animation, design, motion graphics, and visual effects professionals.
Tonight, Mark Coleran will be presenting GridIron Flow, which just had another public beta released yesterday. We'll have info to come on that shortly. Also, Adobe's Kevan O’Brien will walk you through the latest CS4 updates released at NAB.
You must pre-register for the meeting. The meeting takes place at Adobe, 601 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94103 on Thursday, April 30, 2009 from 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM (PT).
Boris Motion Graphics Pack for Adobe and Final Cut Pro on Sale through April 24th!
Boris Motion Graphics Pack combines the power and flexibility of Boris RED, Final Effects Complete and Continuum Complete. Create projects faster, for less money. Motion Graphics Pack takes the place of multiple plug-ins, while also offering features that no other plug-in offers. Meet tight production schedules. Create dynamic titles, composites, effects and vector graphic inside your editing system and take advantage of cutting edge support for OpenGL hardware acceleration, the perfect combination of efficiency and raw speed. If you need effects for your NLE, build them inside your NLE. No tedious cycle of exports and imports, no media management issues, and no format hassles.
Boris RED adds motion graphic features that have never before been available inside of nonlinear editing systems: 4-point motion tracking with corner pinning, vector paint, rotoscoping, EPS file import, animation, & extrusion, 3D animation, and exceptionally powerful vector titling. Continuum Complete FxPlug provides the widest range of compositing, image processing, keying, color, distortion and temporal effects ever offered to Final Cut Pro and Avid editors - all using their native filter interfaces.
Final Effects Complete FxPlug delivers a comprehensive collection of effects plug-ins for leading digital nonlinear editing and compositing solutions. Ranging from graceful blurs and edges to radical warps and particle generators, Final Effects Complete dramatically augments your creative arsenal without forcing you to learn an entirely new application.
Regularly $1595, NAB Special ONLY $995- Get 3 Boris products for the price of Boris Continuum Complete alone!
So you just bought a fast new computer and dread the process of having to transfer your licenses to your new computer. It can be a hassle, but here is a guide for a few products you may own, to help things go a bit more smoothly. If you have questions, please post a comment below.
Adobe:
If you want to uninstall your product and reinstall it on a different computer, then you must first deactivate it. In the program, click Help > Deactivate, and then follow the instructions in the wizard to deactivate the program. If you have installed a suite product, you can deactivate the entire suite by deactivating any one of the point products included in that suite.
Automatic Duck:
After installing again on the new system, you will get a new Product ID to use for a new Activation Key. DO NOT try to activate the old Product ID on the new system.
Reset your serial number on the registration server so that you will be permitted to activate again. Please reset your serial number at this web page.
Register using your email address that you used to activate and you'll be able to log in and reset your serial number.
Quit After Effects, trash your plug-in's key file, click here to find it. Now you'll need to go through the activation process again.
BorisFX:
Requires a license transfer. Send license transfer request to us with your new Unique Product ID to obtain a new permanent code. Follow your original install instructions to obtain your Unique ID.
Digieffects:
Just reinstall on the new machine. Your serial number will work on either Mac or Windows, and does not require uninstalling your previous system's version.
The Foundry:
To obtain a new license, first fill out the license transfer form. You cannot transfer any of The Foundry products to a different host system.
GenArts Sapphire:
First uninstall the plugin: On Windows: go to Start->Control Panel->Add or Remove Programs. Find 'GenArts Sapphire Plug-ins' in the list, and press the Change/Remove button. On Mac: go to the /Applications/GenArtsSapphireAE folder and double click on Uninstall Sapphire.
During the uninstall, select the option to register that uninstall via the web. As long as the uninstall is successfully registered, you should then be able to install your serial number on the new machine. The license is cross-platform so you can transfer a serial number between Windows and Mac systems in this way.
GridIron:
Requires a license deactivation. Send your old serial number and the MAC Address of the new machine to us.
First uninstall from the old machine by launching the FxFactory application and choose the "Uninstall FxFactory..." command under the Actions menu: Then install as normal on the new machine.
If you uninstall FxFactory, it will uninstall everything, including all the FxPacks.
Furthermore you can also deactivate and remove individual FxPacks. This can be done by launching the FxFactory application.
To turn FxPacks on/off simply click the checkbox to the left of each FxPack in the FxFactory Application interface.
To completely remove an FxPack simply drag it out of the FxFactory application and into the trash.
Red Giant Software:
Just reinstall on the new machine. Your serial number will work on either Mac or Windows, and does not require uninstalling your previous system's version.
Re:Vision Effects:
Request a License Transfer. Delete plug-ins from the old machine, and send an email with serial number requesting a transfer. Note: License transfer fees may apply for certain hosts.
Tiffen Dfx:
First deactvate your license on the old computer by opening the licensing Menu and clicking "Internet Deactivate". On the new computer, select "Activate Dfx" and follow the instructions.
Trapcode:
Just reinstall on the new machine. Your serial number will work on either Mac or Windows, and does not require uninstalling your previous system's version.
We have two great upgrade deals for this week from Trapcode and Adobe! These deals end Friday, April 17th.
Upgrade any Trapcode product to the FULL SUITE for only $399, or upgrade any two products to the FULL SUITE for only $299! The full suite includes all 9 Trapcode plug-ins; Shine, Starglow, 3D Stroke, Soundkeys, Lux, Particular, Echospace, Horizon and Form! Upgrade to the Trapcode Suite Now and Save
Upgrade any Adobe Product and you will receive Boris Continuum Unit: Glitters for Free! Boris Glitters Includes the Famous Glint, Glare, and Glitter filters from Continuum Complete! Upgrade to CS4 and get Boris Continuum Glitters for Free
Mapsoft provides a wide variety of plug-ins for the Adobe Acrobat platform. These allow users to edit, markup and modify pdf documents for distribution and publishing purposes. Tools include Bookmarking, Table of Contents, TOC, stamping, numbering, masking, changing media sizes and contents, security, optimizing and many more.
I should mention that we've extended our upgrade special through this Friday. Upgrade any Adobe product to CS4 and receive Digieffects Simulate: Illuma and Simulate: Camera for free! More Info
If you were a student and bought the academic versions of Adobe software, you can upgrade it to CS4, just like you bought a regular, full license.
Upgrade any Adobe program to CS4 now and get Digieffects Simulate: Illuma and Digieffects Simulate: Camera for free through next Friday, March 6. ($198 value).
There are also a couple of upgrade deals where you can save $100-$200 on Adobe upgrades. These deals expire February 28. See the post about the Adobe deal for all of the information.
If you upgrade any Adobe CS3 product or bundle to CS4 at Toolfarm and you will receive a free copy of DigiEffects Simulate: Illuma and Simulate: Camera, a $198 value entirely for free.*
Please note: Special introductory prices on Path 2 upgrades ends February 28, 2009.
There is a known bug when exporting from Premiere Pro or After Effects involving modified bitrate values. If you modify the bitrate value of an encoding preset, the default bitrate for that preset will replace the custom bitrate you specified.
As a workaround, you can:
Manually change the bit rate of the video file you are exporting to the desired value once the file is in the Adobe Media Encoder encoding queue...
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Add your video to the list of files to encode from Adobe Media Encoder itself. You can drag a file into the list, or click the Add button and select a file on your computer.
Note: To add Adobe Premiere Pro sequences or Adobe After Effects compositions to the list of files to encode, you must use the File > Add Adobe Premiere Pro sequences or File > Add Adobe After Effects Compositions menu commands. These file types cannot be dragged into the list of files to encode.
Personally, I've been having a problem exporting from Premiere Pro through the Adobe Media Encoder, period! It starts in the Media Encoder, then fails. As a workaround, I've had to use dynamic link and send it to After Effects, then go through and fix any transitions and titles I may have used. I still love to edit in PPRO, but I hope this issue is fixed asap. Anyone out there have a better solution for me? Thanks in advance.
My friend Matt of WMAEUG.net sent me this. I don't think he's talking about pirating, but about being able to get Blu-Ray support in Pro Apps and other software.
I would like to recommend anyone interested in being able to author 'replicatable' Blu-Ray titles to sign this petition that hopes to simplify the licensing and especially reduce the cost of AACS copy protection implementation. It's the only way we'll ever see Blu-Ray support 'officially' in Apple's Pro Apps, or in Adobe Encore DVD.
I'm behind disk authoring because I'm a movie lover who eats up the hours of extras on special edition releases - the same documentaries that are glaringly missing from digital downloads.
The Adobe Lightroom 2.2 update is now available for download [ Mac | Win ]
The release includes new camera support for the following models: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon PowerShot G10, Panasonic DMC-G1, Panasonic DMC-FX150, Panasonic DMC-FZ28, Panasonic DMC-LX3 and Leica D-LUX 4.
If Adobe Update Manager hasn't taken care of this for you, you can do it manually by going under the Help Menu > Updates. Alternately, download the Mac update or Windows update from the Adobe site.
There are many fixes in this update, including the Puppet Tool, the Illustratorlayers importer, the Exposure effect, and stability of 3D object layers from Photoshop. They've also added Red Camera support. Here's a movie about that from Adobe TV.
If you're one of those people who got up at 5am to shop for the best bargains, I hope you had fun. If you're like me and you'd rather sleep in and avoid the crowds, there's plenty of good deals here at Toolfarm.
Boris Continuum Unit 50% Off Promo! The sale includes Film Look, Lens Flare Advanced, Motion Key, Glitters, Pan and Zoom, UpRez, and Chroma Key. Ends Dec. 1.
GridIron Nucleo Pro 2 - Save $100 through November 30, 2008! Nucleo Pro makes your workflow REALLY work.
GenArts Sapphire 2.0 for AVX - Save 15% on new licenses in November plus get a free upgrade to the upcoming version 3!
They've updated the site with the new features of PPRO 4.0.1, including OMF Export, working with XML files from Final Cut Pro and working with Red Camera.
Introduces Final Cut Pro project import, RED camera compatibility, OMF export, and other enhancements
Today, Adobe Systems Incorporated introduced Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.0.1 software, a major update to the leading start-to-finish professional video production solution. A pivotal component of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.0.1 leads the way in delivering open, flexible post-production workflows by providing virtually seamless project exchange with Final Cut Pro, Digidesign Pro Tools, and Avid workflows. Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.0.1 enables users to import Final Cut Pro projects via XML interchange, export to Open Media Framework (OMF) format, and import and export projects in Advanced Authoring Format (AAF). Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.0.1 also offers significant performance and stability enhancements, including full support for 64-bit computing platforms to accelerate compute-intensive post-production tasks.
Top new features in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.0.1 include:
More flexible, open workflows: Editors who are using Final Cut Pro, Digidesign Pro Tools, and Avid solutions can now more easily tap the high level of integration and unique features offered in Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium. Final Cut Pro users can transfer projects directly to Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.0.1 without conversions or re-rendering, preserving commonly used effects and transitions. Once files are in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, features such as Adobe Dynamic Link provide tighter-than-ever integration when moving assets among Adobe After Effects CS4, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, and Soundbooth CS4, saving invaluable time that would otherwise be spent in intermediate rendering. To help users manage footage, Speech Search in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 turns spoken dialog into text-based metadata that makes video searchable. Project output can be delivered virtually anywhere, including exporting through Adobe Encore CS4 to Blu-ray, DVD, and the Web. Customers can also streamline audio editing by exporting audio in OMF for interchange with audio workstations, and then importing the final mix back into Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.0.1 also includes enhanced AAF project interchange for improved integration with high-end workflows and tools.
Native RED R3D support: Both Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.0.1 and Adobe After Effects CS4 version 9.0.1 provide a true file-based workflow for RED R3D files, without transcoding or rewrapping, via RED’s beta plug-in available at www.red.com/support . Native handling of RED R3D augments Adobe’s existing support of Sony XDCAM EX, Panasonic P2, and AVCHD tapeless formats, providing users with software-only HD workflows from capture to output. In addition to downloading the RED plug-in, customer must update their software to Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.0.1 and Adobe After Effects CS4 version 9.0.1, accessible for free throughout the Adobe update manager in the Help menu of the applications. To learn more about RED workflows with Adobe video solutions go to: www.adobe.com/products/premiere/pdfs/red_adobe_cs4_beta.pdf
Faster performance and responsiveness, with full support for 64-bit computing platforms to accelerate compute-intensive post-production tasks. Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.0.1 is architected to take advantage of the additional memory available in 64-bit systems. In addition, version 4.0.1 includes numerous performance enhancements in all areas of the workflow.
Adobe Labs posted a new item today, Configurator, which is a utility that enables the easy creation of panels (palettes) for use in Adobe Photoshop CS4. Sounds useful.
Join the Digital CONNtent Creators and BOSFCPUG for a Soiree in New York City!
The Boston Final Cut Pro User Group (BOSFCPUG) and Digital CONNtent Creators (DCC) are back in the Big Apple to host the 2nd Annual NY Post-Production Conference FCPUG Soiree in conjunction with Future Media Concepts' New York Post Production Conference on November 12, 2008! We'll open the doors to the big show at 5pm with a FCP Tradeshow with more than a dozen exhibitors! The event starts at 7pm with a bunch of raffle prizes being handed out. That's right, a raffle to start AND end the show! Join BOSFCPUG and DCC and all of the top editors, D.P.'s and motion graphics artists in the tri-state area for food, fun, and prizes totalling in value of over $20K!
This event is FREE and open to the public - BUT you must REGISTER to attend! EVENT HIGHLIGHTS-
- Matt Stoneking of Blackmagic Design will start off the Soiree with a toast to the FCPUG Community and to all those attending and also give us the latest BuZZ on Blackmagic Design!
- Francesco Scartozzi of Matrox will be on-hand to demonstrate the highly affordable MXO2 and FCP workflow solutions.
- Rock out with SonicFire Pro as Stephanie Joyce jets in from sunny California to dazzle you with all the new features in the great music authoring program we've come to know and love. One big new feature? Let's call it, "Turning the Beat Around..."
- Special Guest David Thaler will give a hands-on explanation of his six camera (Canon XL-H1 and XH-G1 cameras with HD-SDI) multicam FCP HD workflow in which he records live with all six cameras sharing the same timecode straight to Final Cut Pro on his MacBook Pro and an external hard drive without the use of expensive recording decks! This is a must see workflow for all interested in affordable HD multicam production.
- Come see how to implement Adobe Creative Suite 4 as part of your FCP workflow as Adobe's Dennis Radeke is in the house to show you all of the latest and greatest features crammed into the CS4 Production Premium Suite.
- Meet many of the important third party partner companies and see products that make Final Cut Studio the most versatile Post tool set available for every workflow imaginable from capture cards to effects filters and automation.
So, let's recap: FREE admission, inspirational, educational, and eye-popping presentations. Thousands of dollars in raffle prizes. The raffle begins at 6pm and continues throughout the night so get there early and grab your tickets! Oh, and did we mention FREE food and drink? Folks, this is one event that you don't want to miss. Chase away those late autumn blues at the 2nd Annual NY Post-Production Conference FCPUG Soiree!
November 12, 2008 at 5:00pm Venue: AMC Theater, 34th Street, New York, NY (between 8th Avenue and 9th Avenue) - 212-244-8686
Sponsors exhibiting at the FCPUG Soiree are: - Adobe (http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/) - AJA Video Systems (http://www.aja.com) - Blackmagic Design (http://www.blackmagic-design.com) - Boris FX (http://www.borisfx.com) - Canon (http://www.canondv.com) - Data Robotics, Inc. (http://www.drobo.com) - Euphonix (http://www.euphonix.com) - Focal Press (http://www.focalpress.com) - Matrox (http://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mxo/) - Mediasilo (http://www.mediasilo.com) - Smartsound (http://www.smartsound.com) - Roland (http://www.roland.com) - Adrienne Electronics (http://www.adrielec.com) - Logic Keyboards (http://www.logickeyboard.com)
Contact: Daniel Berube, BOSFCPUG (dan@bosfcpug.org) Keith Larsen, Digital CONNtent Creators (keith@digitalct.org) Alan Spaulding, Digital CONNtent Creators (alan@digitalct.org)
I've been away a lot lately, traveling and I did a brief stint in the hospital due to a ruptured appendix. Not fun, but while I was away, I've missed posting a few news items and tutorials. Here's a quick rundown Adobe news items, blog posts, tutorials, and more from the past couple of weeks. Enjoy.
Milestone Release Radically Improves Creative Workflow Efficiency; Redefines Collaboration Between Designers and Developers
Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the immediate availability of the Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 product family, the highly-anticipated release of industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. Delivering radical breakthroughs in workflow efficiency - and packed with hundreds of innovative, time saving features - the new Creative Suite 4 product line advances the creative process across print, Web, interactive, film, video and mobile.
Customers can choose from six new versions: Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, Web Standard, Production Premium and Master Collection. The combination of Creative Suite and the new capabilities of Adobe Flash® Player 10, also available today deliver new levels of creativity and expressiveness across media channels. Designers using the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product family will gain unprecedented creative control using the new expressive features and visual performance improvements in Adobe Flash Player 10 to deliver breakthrough Web experiences across multiple browsers and operating systems.
"Creative Suite 4 and Flash Player 10 introduce vital time-saving features, new levels of integration and the jaw-dropping innovations our design and developer customers expect from us," said John Loiacono, senior vice president, Creative Solutions Business Unit at Adobe.
"CS4 continues to fulfill our promise to customers to break down more barriers in cross-media workflows, while also providing new services and collaboration tools that help them manage complex client demands."
As part of the CS4 product launch, the largest in Adobe’s history, also available today are brand new versions of Photoshop® CS4, Photoshop CS4 Extended, InDesign® CS4, Illustrator® CS4, Flash CS4 Professional, Dreamweaver® CS4, Fireworks® CS4, Contribute® CS4, After Effects® CS4, Adobe Premiere® Pro CS4, Encore® CS4, Soundbooth® CS4 and Adobe OnLocation CS4.
Intuitive Workflows Improve Creative Efficiency A simplified workflow in Adobe Creative Suite 4 enables users to design across media more efficiently by making it easier to complete common tasks and move content seamlessly among applications. InDesign CS4 includes a new Live Preflight tool that allows designers to catch production errors and a newly customizable Links panel to manage placed files more efficiently. The revolutionary new Content-Aware Scaling tool in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended automatically recomposes an image as it is resized, preserving vital areas as it adapts to new dimensions. An expanded version of Dynamic Link in CS4 Production Premium enables users to move and update content between After Effects CS4, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Soundbooth CS4, and Encore CS4 without rendering, saving countless hours in production. With deep XMP metadata support, the production workflow is simplified, resulting in online content that gives viewers new ways to interact with and search for video, while giving content owners new opportunities to track and monetize content.
Adobe Creative Suite 4 brings 3D center-stage providing the ability to paint, composite, and animate 3D models using familiar tools in Photoshop CS4 Extended. Flash CS4 Professional now offers the ability to apply tweens to objects instead of keyframes, providing greater control over animation attributes. Also in Flash CS4 Professional, the new Bones tool helps create more realistic animations between linked objects. With a searchable library of more than 450 dynamically updated device profiles from leading manufacturers, Adobe Device Central CS4 enables users to easily test mobile content designed using many of the Creative Suite 4 products.
New and Expanded Services Extend Capabilities for Online Collaboration Adobe Creative Suite 4 now also offers a host of services for online collaboration. Adobe ConnectNow, a service of Acrobat.com, allows real-time collaboration with two colleagues or clients. Designers can also share color harmonies with Adobe Kuler. Other online resources include: Adobe Community Help for technical questions; Resource Central for accessing video and audio product-related news and tutorials, as well as Soundbooth scores and sound effects; and Adobe Bridge Home, a customizable resource for tips, tutorials, news and inspirational content.
Pricing and Availability Adobe Creative Suite 4 and its associated point products are immediately available through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store. To reward customers for staying current, Adobe is offering Creative Suite 3 customers moving to Creative Suite 4 a lower upgrade price than it offers to those moving from older, qualifying versions. For a limited time, a special introductory offer enables customers with older qualifying products to enjoy the same lower price with savings of up to US$200 off their actual upgrade price.
Adobe Flash Player 10 is available immediately as a free download for Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms (including new support for Ubuntu 7 and 8) from www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer
From Brandon Grande, Marcello Grand and Matt Silverman, the hosts of SFMograph:
FIRST LOOK AT ADOBE CS4
SFMograph hosts a first look at Adobe Production Premium CS4 featuring Adobe After Effects. Our favorite software company, Adobe, will be on-hand to demonstrate the recently announced Creative Suite 4 (CS4) Production Premium.
Matt Silverman, Creative Director at Phoenix Designs (and sfmograph co-host) will break down the motion graphics stinger his team created for the Adobe CS4 launch. Created in collaboration with Nando Costa from Portland design studio Nervo, and Barcelona's Vasava, the piece explores the CS4 Master Collection as we travel through the Nervo and Vasava artwork. Phoenix completed this heavy AE project in After Effects CS4 (along with Photoshop CS4, Maya, and Cinema4D), and will go over some of the new features which they used to complete the animation including 3D model import and separate X/Y/Z transforms, as well as go over an interesting use of 3D transmission layers with falloff lighting using Buena Depth Cue. Bring the kids for this one... it's going to be swell. A QuickTime of the stinger can be seen here: http://www.phoenixedit.com/html/gfx_spts.html
"Plug-in of the Month" for October is MochaAE. One of the biggest shortcomings in After Effects has been it's motion tracker. Instead of trying to re-invent the wheel, Adobe turned to Imagineer Systems to license it's industry leading planar tracker for CS4. Planar tracking is a revolutionary way to track objects. Instead of tracking four individual points points which are all independent of each other, MochaAE looks at these four points as the corners of a 3D plane, and can not deviate the shape of this plane over time. The result are rock solid tracks, even if one of the corners becomes obscured. There is no other tracker in the world that comes close to the power of Imagineer's planar tracker (even the big guys can't compete on million dollar systems). We'll show how to track in MochaAE, move Corner Pin data into After Effects, and extract stabilization data for scale and rotation based on the corner's points using some fancy expressions.
Now you may be saying, "MochaAE is not a plug-in... it is an application!" This is true. So in the spirit of "Plug-in of the Month", we are going to show a first look at a brand new Red Giant plug-in, "RG Warp". RG Warp comes with a few killer plug-ins, most notably RG Corner Pin. This advanced corner pin filter is the perfect complement to MochaAE. It provides high quality filtering and anti-aliasing (including super-sampling), "to" and "from" pins (like Nuke), offset channels (like Flame), secondary transforms, and MochaAE import. It is a must-have for anyone interested in using MochaAE to it's fullest potential. RG Warp also includes some other killer plug-ins which we will detail at the event.
Finally, we are working hard to gather a bunch of great prizes for the raffle. We'll provide more details as we get closer to the meeting and post updates on our site, sfmograph.org.
Adam Meisel emailed me about a site he created, along with Erik Frick, called Dear Adobe
Adobe has been very positive about their site and has gone so far as to respond directly to the After Effects Top 25 gripes. It's a VERY entertaining read. Enjoy!
Oct 1-3 - Final Cut Studio Conference, Mt. Pleasant, MI. I'll be teaching some Apple Motion Seminars at the conference. As far as conferences go, this one is very inexpensive and there are excellent classes being held. Plus, Mt. Pleasant is home to the world famous Sweet Onion restaurant. :-)
Oct 8-9 - Rocky Mountain VidExpo, Denver, CO. Toolfarm will be running a booth at the show. Stop by and say hi to Alicia and Michele from Toolfarm (that's me!). Also, if you register by October 2, you can get into the exhibit hall, the keynote address and some of the seminars for free.
Oct 12-15 - Motion08 Conference (special offer expires September 30), Albuquerque, NM. Use that link to get a fantastic special offer. Save $600! For real! Trish and Chris Meyer, Mark Coleran and others will be presenting so this is a big show not to be missed. Not only that, the NM Hot Air Balloon Festival is at the same time. Toolfarm may have a booth at the show. We're in this little contest and we're very close to getting in.
Oct 13-17 - MG Fest, Orlando, FL Toolfarm is a sponsor of the MG Fest. It's a traveling show this year and will be hitting loads of US cities. I'll be teaching some classes at the Chicago stop in January. Nothing like Chicago in January...
Oct 24 - The Nobody Hole Contest Ends The contest just launched last night! This is something like we've never done before and we're very excited about it. There are boatloads of prizes. Check it out!
Are product names getting longer and longer every year or is it just me? :-)
Lightroom 2.1 is out but they would like that people continue to test it, so if you use it and find a bug, please help 'em out and post it to their User to User Forum. They've fixed several bugs and stability issues and added support for new cameras too.
Using Red Camera? They've busily been working on the Red Camera Adobe Importer plug-in for Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Encore for both Intel Mac and Windows. Get the full sneak peek here.
Enter your work to be show in the Adobe MAX Events which will be stopping in San Francisco, Milan and Tokyo. Enter in one of six categories: Advertising & Branding, Enterprise, Mobility and Devices, Public Sector, Rich Internet Application, and Video.
The top three finalists will get to go to San Francisco where a winner will be selected, as well as the People's Choice. The deadline for all entries is Friday, September 5, 2008.
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Reasons to buy Creative Suite 3 Production Premium for Final Cut Pro editors
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Major Software Upgrade Further Simplifies Photography Workflows
(San Jose, California - July 29, 2008) Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2 software, the photographer's essential toolbox for managing, adjusting and presenting large volumes of digital photographs.
With new enhancements such as dual-monitor support, radical advances in non-destructive localized image correction, and streamlined search capabilities, Lightroom 2 is a compelling upgrade that simplifies photography from shoot to finish. As Adobe's first application to support 64-bit for Mac OS X 10.5 Macintosh computers with Intel® processors and Microsoft® Windows® Vista® 64-bit operating systems, Lightroom 2 also provides improved memory performance for dealing with large scale images.
"A worldwide community of photographers provided valuable insight and feedback, as part of the Lightroom 2 public beta program, ultimately helping us deliver a better product," said Tom Hogarty, senior product manager for Lightroom and Camera Raw at Adobe. "We've considered their requests which helped us develop useful features that make it easier than ever for our customers to quickly refine, enhance and present brilliant photographs."
Photoshop Lightroom 2: Smarter, Faster and More Accurate The enhanced Library module in Lightroom 2 helps streamline and accelerate photographers' workflows. With the ability to visually organize images across multiple hard drives, Lightroom 2 and its powerful Library Filter Bar makes it easy for users to quickly find the images they need. The Suggested Keywords feature helps photographers keyword their images by making intelligent suggestions based on their own previous efforts. New dual-monitor support allows users to expand their workspace, giving them flexibility to edit and organize images in a way that maximizes an additional display.
In the Develop module, the new Local Adjustment Brush lets photographers fine-tune specific areas of an image to precisely adjust color, exposure and tonal range without affecting other areas of the image. The new Graduated Filter expands the toolbox in Lightroom, allowing for edits to larger areas by applying gradually diminishing or increasing adjustment effects such as exposure, clarity, and saturation, alone, or in any combination. Lightroom 2 also helps photographers print more efficiently by quickly arranging photos of multiple sizes on one or many pages with flexible and customizable templates to maximize paper and ink.
Intelligent algorithms automatically determine optimal sharpening for screen or print, producing crisper images faster. Developers can further extend the Lightroom workflow with Web, Export and Metadata Software Development Kits available at the Adobe Developer Connection, http://www.adobe.com/devnet/.
Ground-Breaking Innovation in Raw Technology New raw technology gives photographers access to flexible camera profiles. Camera profiles are the visual starting point for the raw processing workflow, but image preferences vary for every photographer. To minimize surprises, Adobe is supplying default camera profiles that closely emulate the visual looks that photographers are used to seeing from their favorite camera, while also providing the ability to create highly customized profiles to suit different tastes. Camera profiles are available for immediate download on Adobe Labs (http://labs.adobe.com ) for use with Lightroom 2 and Camera Raw 4.5, along with the DNG Profile Editor for the community to test and create their own profiles.
The Adobe Camera Raw 4.5 plug-in and DNG Converter 4.5 are also now available on Adobe.com and support over 190 camera models including the Olympus E 420 and E 520 models.
"One of the big reasons why Lightroom has become such a phenomenon among serious photographers is that Adobe built it with the input of a very vocal user community," said Scott Kelby, president of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). "Adobe really listens to the issues and challenges today's photographers face and they've built a complete solution that not only meets the needs of photographers; it really feels like it was made just for us. The enhancements to Lightroom 2, combined with the power of Photoshop, give photographers the ultimate freedom to produce professional images quickly."
Pricing and Availability Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 is available now through the Adobe Store at www.adobe.com/store in English, French and German with the Japanese language version planned to be released at a future date. The estimated street price is USD$299 for new users with an upgrade price of USD$99 for registered users of qualifying Lightroom customers. Recommended system requirements are Macintosh OSX 10.4, 10.5 1 GHz PowerPC G4 or G5 or Intel® based processor, or Microsoft Windows® XP SP2 or Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise, Intel Pentium 4® processor, 1 GB RAM and a 1024x768 resolution screen. Additional information on product features, upgrade policies, pricing, and language versions is available on www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/.
About Adobe Systems Incorporated Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information - anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.
Pixel Bender is formerly code named known as Hydra, which you may remember reading about here about six months ago. This Pixel Bender Toolkit Preview Release 4 includes a high-performance graphics programming language that Adobe is developing for image processing, named Pixel Bender and an application to create, compile and preview Pixel Bender filters and effects. The toolkit contains a specification for the Pixel Bender language, several sample filters, and sample images provided by Pixel Bender team members.
I just got an email from Mason Dixon of MG Chicago and he said:
Also btw, Flash 9 new features: After Effect Style Timeline!!!! Actionscriptable plugin-style visual filters.... like photoshop filters but scriptable in realtime and 2.5D... um wow.
Attached was the link to Pixel Bender. I'm not going to even begin to understand all this can do but I thin kits something we should keep our eyes on.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - June 25, 2008 - Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced dates and locations for its MAX 2008/2009 event series. MAX is the premier industry forum for designers, developers and business decision makers focused on creating and delivering rich, engaging digital experiences across mediums and devices. The series begins Nov. 16 to 19 in San Francisco, followed by events in Milan from Dec. 1 to 4, 2008, and Tokyo from Jan. 29 to 30, 2009.
Adobe also launched its call for entries for the 2008 worldwide MAX Awards program, which recognizes the most innovative work from designers and developers around the world. Entries are being accepted through Sept. 5, 2008.
Under the theme, "Connect. Discover. Inspire." the San Francisco event will feature keynotes from CEO Shantanu Narayen and CTO Kevin Lynch, as well as technology "sneak-peeks," business discussions, technical sessions, hands-on workshops, exhibits and networking events. More than 200 sessions will engage designers, developers and business strategists on the topics of:
Designer/developer workflow
Cross-media design, including Web, video, mobile, print and interactive
Rich Internet applications
Services, components and tools
Designing for multiple screens
"MAX inspires creatives and technologists to design, build, and share new ways for people to deliver engaging experiences over the Web and on any screen," said Adobe chief technology officer Kevin Lynch. "Nowhere else can passionate members of the Adobe community learn from the best, be on the inside track of breaking industry news, connect with peers and industry experts while discovering cutting-edge technologies."
MAX 2008 promises to deliver a glimpse into the future of digital experiences, enabling designers to dive into the art and science of designing across media, while developers broaden their expertise in architecting, building and deploying next-generation Web, mobile, enterprise and rich Internet applications. 2008 MAX Awards
2008 MAX Awards will honor the most engaging and innovative work from designers and developers using a broad spectrum of Adobe products and technologies. Categories include: Advertising and Branding, Enterprise, Mobility and Devices, Public Sector, Rich Internet Applications, Video, and People's Choice. Adobe is accepting nominations now through Sept. 5, 2008. All entries must be submitted online at www.max.adobe.com/awards/ . To see last year's finalists, visit: www.adobemax2007.com/awards/2007/finalists/ . The 2008 MAX Award winners will be announced on Nov. 18 at an awards ceremony during the North America event. Exhibits and Sponsorship
Companies interested in exhibiting or sponsoring MAX North America should contact Robb Trost at 1-650-226-0656, robb.trost@gpj.com . For MAX Europe, email sponsorships-europe@max.adobe.com. Registration
To register for MAX North America, visit www.max.adobe.com/na/reginfo/ . Register before August 31, 2008 to qualify for the early bird discount.
Registration for MAX Europe will open in mid July. More details about MAX Japan will be announced later in the year.
About Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information - anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com .
Many Adobe bundles have been updated to version CS3.3. The bundles now come with new Acrobat 9 Pro plus Fireworks CS3. There are new productivity features and tighter integration to simplify creative and production tasks and they support for the latest Mac and Windows systems.
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium Updated!
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium delivers a dream toolkit for print, web, interactive, and mobile design.
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection Updated!
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collectionenables you to design across media - print, web, interactive, mobile, video, and film — in the most comprehensive creative environment ever produced.
Share your ideas Use Acrobat 9 to create polished PDF files, present multiple documents in a PDF Portfolio, and even add multimedia. And all in a single file.
Control your work Use Acrobat 9 to apply passwords, set permissions, and permanently remove sensitive information — so you can feel confident your work is safe.
Work better with everyone With Acrobat 9, your entire team can view and respond as comments are being made — streamlining your reviews and approvals.
Simplify form creation
With just a few clicks, you can create a form that virtually anyone can fill out and save electronically.
Boris Final Effects Complete has been added to the Boris Motion Graphics Pack, which also includes Boris RED and Boris Continuum Complete. The best part? The price is the same!
Digital Media Artists / Los Angeles (DMA/LA) is an association for professionals creating imagery for video, film, and other media using desktop tools. MGLA was formed in August 1997 through the merger of several previously-existing groups. DMA/LA is an extention of that - continuing in 2008. DMA/LA's area of discussions are not restricted to a specific hardware or software solution, understanding that an artist often has to employ 2D, 3D, and other digital tools to realize their vision - and that artistic inspiration can be universal.
Lineup: Q&A with Tom Luth / SonicFire SmartSound / Trapcode Horizon / Chevon Hicks - HeavenSpot
7:00 - 7:30 Q&A with Tom Luth
In addition to a short Q&A session, DMA's Tom Luth will show off the bit of title design that we missed last month.
With the new version soon to be released, Stephanie Joyce will be presenting a sneak peek for us at DMA/LA. If you're a motion graphics artist or producer, you'll want to be sure to see the new features.
Stephanie will be demonstrating all the amazing new features in SmartSound Sonicfire Pro 5. Building on the recent success of their Multi-Layer Music and the famous Mood Mapping® feature, the new Sonicfire Pro 5 does things you never imagined possible with library music. Want to move a music beat to align with an event in your video? Come check it out.
Presented by Sean Safreed of Red Giant Software (site to all Trapcode, Magic Bullet, Knoll Light Factory Pro, Instant HD and more), Trapcode Horizon is the latest offering from Peder Norrby for After Effects users. Taking advantage of some simple steps, AE users can create scenes that, well, stretch to an unending horizon.
8:35 - 8:55 Break
Get to know some of the other members, grab a snack or drink in the lobby, or ask the presenters some of those questions you didn't want to raise your hand for.
9:00 - 9:50 Chevon Hicks : Heavenspot
Chevon will be presenting some of the company's recent work for FOX's NASHVILLE which will incorporate both motion graphics for promo and interactive. It is a great case study on a newly emerging trend, where the website design took an interesting influence on the broadcast look.
The After Effects Apprentice 2nd Edition
Adobe Production Premium for Final Cut Studio Editors
The After Effects Illusionist
Award-winning director, editor, & filmaker, 
Compositing and Photo Re-touching artist, 
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