PVC Rick Young’s May 2023 After Effects Rounded
As usual a must read and watch.
As usual a must read and watch.
This is pretty cool, check out this tutorial from Film Riot.
A good article, especially on the changes of layer based vs node based compositing.
I was watching a video with some VFX guys talking about working on their videos and they talked about this plug-in for After Effects, and was thoroughly impressed. Now it is subscription based, so you will likely only get it when you need it.
From Eric Philpott’s article at Adobe Blog.
This is huge and I love that it’s awesome transcription feature is being expanded out of for captions into actual editing.
I will have to see automatic tone mapping in action, I always get footage from different cameras, but I don’t think this will be what I need (I tend to throw the clips in DaVinci and make a LUT that will match them perfectly).
Background Auto Save is exciting, and I might turn it up so it saves more often.
Dragging to select track targets should have been there from the start! I will use that literally every day!
And bulk editing titles in the Timeline is huge, and has been needed since you could see all the Text of titles with the text tool.
And After Effects Properties panel could be a huge game changer, as on a daily basis i get frustrated when duplicating sequences how it doesn’t show the same properties that I was manipulating on the copied layer, but with a properties panel this should be faster, and anything faster I will adopt immediately.
And I really need to do a deep dive in to ACES and OpenColorIO workflows so I can try it out in After Effects.
And select able track mattes usable for multiple layers is pretty awesome, though you could do it by doing it on a matte layer and using it as the matte.
And defaulting colorama to the default color picker to save clicks is another time saver, and I always want time savers.
Another interesting article on using Adobe on the Amazon Prime Video TV show, Somebody I Used To Know. I always use love seeing Adobe used on a project that would normally be AVID.
From No Film School, an interesting sponsored article. I am surprised that they did this in Premiere Pro and After Effects.
MagicNodes for After Effects. A license is $89 for a basic license and only corrective updates, or $149 with Premium with 1 year free maintenance, learning center, and $69 a year maintenance after the first year.
I have not given this a try but would like to. I really loved node based compositing in Shake, and then in DaVinci Resolve, so the ability to have it in after effects is amazing.