Stephen Kampff has this article at Fstoppers on some basic tools for a photographer to use when jumping into after effects. I am a huge fan of AEScripts and many of these are tools from there that I love and use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZnTe6IQtpM Andrew Kramer of Video Copilot has been pretty quite for a few years, but he recently updated all his apps to M1 and here is his tutorial in a while.
Honestly I never realized this i set a single frame in and out, so check out this tip.
Yea this has been out for a while, but have to post it. Rich Young's roundups are always a must read.
Video Copilot has added M1 support to all of it's paid and free plug ins, and they are of course free updates. Also nice to have download links to all the free plug ins in one place. I love all these plug ins and use them all extensively, so this is great news. In fact I am really using the free ORB for a short I am working on right now.
Motion Island has done an extensive article on Blend Modes in after effects that is quite useful.
Adobe has released the May 2022 (Version 22.4) . The one new feature is a separated Dimensions Preference, so you can use this checkbox and separate x & y positions in the timeline by default. The April 2022 release (version 22.3) had many more features, including Frame.io integration, native silicon support, extended viewer, scene edit detection, binning indicators for 3D layers, coach marks, and constrained shapes.
Enchanted Media posted links to 3 videos on making confetti in after effects with built in plug ins and Trapcode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQG5BfHv2QE Red Giant has updated Universe to version 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZUeLt-ynXU VFX Suite 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnddPjuAtVQ Magic Bullet Suite 16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q152QWFo_XE And a new tool Real Lens Flares. In past Red Giant has also released in depth videos showing off how to use the new features, but unfortunately it looks like they haven’t done that this year. Hopefully this isn’t how things will always be with the now Maxon owned company, bug I have the feeling it is. I guess will just have to play around. The video for Real Lens Flares looks good, but will have to see if it is better than optical flares from Video Copilot.
Adobe has released After Effects April 2022 (Version 22.3). This brings native Apple Silicon M1 Support to the production version of After Effects. Still not sure about M1 Ultra Support as of yet. It also includes Frame.io integration with the free account you now get with you adobe account. 3D Extended Viewer for 3D previews. Scene Edit detection for which I have been using Magnum 3 from AE Scripts. Love that this is built in now. Binning indicators for 3D layers to see how layers are composited. And constrained shapes, where you can create perfect squares and circles by holding down the shift key when you double click the rectangle or ellipse tool. And in the Beta, Separated Dimensions Preference. So you can have x, y as separate lines.