Chris & Trish Meyer’s series of tips, tricks, gotchas, factoids, and shortcuts continues with. This article, 1st of a group of 4 on 3D in After Effects, covers Rotation versus Orientation, 3D Views & Shortcuts, View Options, Axis Modes, and Mixing 2D and 3D Layers. That last section is because of the gotchas with Layer Styles and Adjustment Layers with AE 3D. Chris explains: Groups of 3D layers that are stacked between 2D layers in the Timeline panel are internally flattened down to a 2D result, as if they were in a precomp by themselves. The entire composition is then rendered as if it consisted only of 2D layers, with each group of 3D layers being treated as a single 2D layer in the middle of the stack.

Explains it this way: You can apply a layer style to a 3D layer, but a layer with a layer style can’t intersect with other 3D layers or interact with other 3D layers for casting and receiving shadows. 3D layers on either side of a layer with a layer style can’t intersect one another or cast shadows on one another. Eran Stern has launched a new product, with more than 4 hours of training for Adobe Premiere Pro and Production Premium. The package covers various features for intermediate users and ambitious beginners, with dozens of tips and tricks to tame a number of Premiere's quirks. Eran covers multicam and some editing, graphic design, titles, audio mixing, and transitions and effects. Over a third of the training deals with a single project using a Dynamic Link workflow with other software in Production Premium - Photoshop, After Effects, Soundbooth, and Encore to create a Blu-ray HD DVD and interactive content.

Eran's an old hand at After Effects, so his coverage is effects-oriented but really aiming to stay inside Premiere for fast render and playback, and only going to AE when really needed. 'According our very own people familiar with the matter, a small group of video editors were on the Apple campus recently in order to preview the new version of video editing software, which is in the same space as Avid and Adobe Premier sic. Apparently Apple is still putting the finishing touches on “the biggest overhaul to Final Cut Pro since the original version was created over 10 years ago” and wanted pro user feedback. Emphasis on “pro.” One source described the new release as encompassing everything from low level architectural changes to a complete redesign of the user interface. It’s safe to say the newest version will be 64 bit as that’s what users have clamored the most for. Early reports from people who have demo’d the new Final Cut Pro (FCP 8?) say that the changes are “dramatic and ambitious” and should alleviate concerns that Apple has shifted its video editing focus from the professional to the consumer space, shutting down work on FCP.

Apple plans on releasing the new product in Spring 2011 according to our source, in a launch possibly coinciding with the National Association of Broadcasters conference.' . is among several free-to-try springing up.

now installs spyware and must be avoided in 2013 (OpenCandy in the guise of browser toolbar, even if you choose not to install it).WAS: the Windows freeware GUI frontend, seems to have implemented the FFMEG patch. Super is quirky but packed with features and easy to use, though you may wonder why it wants to call home surreptitiously.

The rest of the GUIs for FFMPEG are bound to follow. If you must have command line control, see Dive Into HTML5 by Mark Pilgram. A is in early development. Andy Beach posted a video on.

An After Effects Portal: Omino Python For Mac Pro

Jan Ozer surveyed the scene last month in. He later posted a video,. David Van Brink released, a free After Effects CS5 plug-in for Mac OS X only ( for now) that embeds a Python interpreter: 'This plug-in lets you write a script in Python and then run it on every frame. The script can do drawing, access other layers, and so forth. Because sometimes, you just need to write code to get the job done. Omino Python gives you a straightforward way to provide drawing code directly in your After Effects work flow.

This isn’t for everyone; but if you have a little bit of scripting experience, Omino Python should be very easy for you to pick up.' Visit his for even more AE filters and other resources. It's not the first time scripting has appeared in After Effects - Adobe once had a in the SDK and Profound Effects had AE plug-in that found fans in and Chris Meyer, (with Profound Effects, now on the AE team), and others before it was sold to SONY.

Passed along news of a new free utility, from Monologue, a motion design studio in Greece. AE Render Manager is an After Effects command-line interface GUI for Windows that is supposed to render many projects faster than firing up After Effects. Another benefit is easing sometimes tedious command line setups, which are explained in AE Help in. There are three ways you can use AE Render Manager:. One is pre-configured, which allows you to render projects that already have jobs pre assigned in the After Effects render queue. Then you have Custom Settings, which allows you to set your render settings directly in AE Render Manager. The third, and probably most important, is using it in collaboration with Autodesk’s Backburner for network rendering.

For more information on rendering, see,. Mattias Peresini aka Mattrunks has some new and older Trapcode Particular project files on his blog and on. Mattias' motion design website, is in French and automatically translated if you surf with Google Chrome. His free After Effects video tutorials are intriguing but aren't available in English yet. That may change when an inexpensive membership system comes online allowing complete downloads.

It'll be interesting to see what the worldwide AE community really looks like as Mattrunks and other non-English After Effects websites are translated. Hopefully the project will find volunteers for its. CoreMelt is offering 33 free plug-ins collected from CoreMelt products (leaving 180 for purchase). Plug-ins run in After Effects, FCP, and Motion on the Mac ( only), but no longer require FxFactory. u pdate: Yanobox is now offering another free FxFactory filter,. Idustrial Revolution has more in and. Mac-only plug-ins with the trial install (about 14 with tutorials on their website), including (like iTunes CoverFlow) and (a title crawl generator).

By the way, if you're on Windows an easy way to do the effect is with an After Effect. You just have to animate some sliders. See also a from Alex ' and a tutorial by Mattrunks, which includes the project in English. Below is a list of the CoreMelt plug-ins and tutorial movies for some of them. Multipop Forward, Filmstrip, Carousel, Continuous Random Pan, Image Grid. Advanced Vignette, RGB Levels and Curves. Dewrinkler, Old TV.

Blowout, Godrays. 3D Shatter, Analog Glitch. Soft Edge Wipe, Blend Mode Dissolve, Curl Apart, Exposure Flash. Projector Malfunction, Random Crop, Video screens 2way.

8 Band EQ, 16 Band EQ, 127 Band EQ, EQ Line Segments, EQ Simple 3D, EQ Pixelstix 3D, EQ Tower Cities, VU Analog, VU Digital, VU Rolling Gauge, VU Audio Radar, WV Oscilloscope, WV Voiceprint, WV Waveforms 3D. What is a matchName? Under the hood, every object or property has a unique matching ID. Here's a description from: 'matchName will give you After Effects' internal name for any given layer or property type, so you can figure out what kind of layer or property you are dealing with. For example, a layer might also be an 'ADBE Camera Layer', an 'ADBE Light Layer' or an 'ADBE Text Layer', all fairly self explainatory really. So an 'ADBE AV Layer' is basically any kind of layer that might contain audio or video, in fact any kind of layer that isn't a Camera, Light or Text layer.'