VideoCopilot has released Element 3D

VideoCopilot has finally released it's long teased Element 3D plug in for After Effects for $149.95. or $195.50 with Pro Shaders, $249.50 with Motion Design Pack and Pro Shaders or $495 including all 6 3D packs and over 500 in 3D models to use with it.Looks pretty damn cool actually and I would love to give it a try! Been watching videos for some time, and it looks really damn powerful without having to have extensive 3D skills.Looks like you can do particle effects with real 3D elements, very very cool. I have some ideas just from looking at the footage.

Biscardi Creative FCP to CS6 Part 3

Biscardi Creative has posted part 3 of it's switch to CS6 from Final Cut Pro 7. A good read with interesting points.•Because of Native editing, they their render time is basically down to realtime render, so a 30 minute show has around a 30 minute render! That is a huge change!•It requires more setup before hand, and it is smart to organize everything before import.•Still using FCP 7 for videotape ingest!•Use Davinci Resolve for grading, though it does not support all the files that Premiere Pro does, so a flattened ProRes Quicktime file is created from final timeline and use resolve's scene detect tool!There is of course more, and this is a must read for switchers!

Had issues with CUDA and After Effects CS6 11.0.1 Update but FIXED THEM

After updating to After Effects CS6 11.01 I started getting an error message about CUDA not working.Strangely CUDA was still working fine in Premiere Pro CS6, so it had to be the AE Update.And I am running the latest CUDA.The thing is it just wasn't showing up in After Effects and was using CPU instead of CPU for CUDA.I tried trashing After Effects preferences, but that didn't work, so I found and downloaded the standalone 11.01 update installer and that fixed the issue for now.

Adobe Releases new Encoder Presets for Media Encoder CS6

Adobe Blogs has the news on this one. Adobe has releases a set of Tablet settings for the Amazon Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble Nook, iPad 1 and 2 and Android Tablets as well as XDCAM EX and AVC-Intra in MXF wrappers for Windows and for Mac.And for Mac OS only they have released a set of ProRes 422 Encoding Presets.Basically you download them and exract them, then open Adobe Media Encoder CS6 and chose Preset > Import and import the presets.This is great, and these should have come with the program, and they need to make presets for the New iPad as well!

Layers Magazine on Photoshop CS6 Type Styles

Layers magazine has an excellent article on the powerful new Type Styles in Adobe Photoshop CS6. This is very cool, as you can apply layer styles to different type layers, and then if you change the style, you automatically make global changes to text. TOO COOL!

Larry Jordan on Adobe Prelude

Larry Jordan has an excellent article on the new Adobe Prelude CS6 for ingesting and logging footage.I knew it was for logging and even cutting a rough assembly, but didn't realize it could export to either Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro 7. Very cool.And it sounds like the biggest issue is the lack of ProRES presets for Media Encorder, which I always found odd, but not hard to create for oneself.Larry also offers a complete 2 hour tutorial on how to use Prelude at his site.