Chapter: Distribution

Topic: Encoding Techniques

Gamma correction for Mac and PCs

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/gamma_mac_pc.html

TAGS: “Cleaner, Final Cut Pro, Sorenson Squeeze”

Chapter: Compositing Tools and Techniques

Topic: 3D Objects (or pseudo 3D) Objects for 2D Space

Here’s another article for an AE Forum user: How to make a cube in AE 5.x+. If you’re new to 3D or are simply having trouble figuring out how to make all these layers parent together in order to form your cube, don’t worry. This might help.

http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=18978

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Chapter: Color Correction

Topic: Advanced Techniques

Using the new color corrector in eyeon Software’s Digital Fusion 3.1 to suppress a color can be quite useful when your footage has undesired elements. It will selectively remove a color from the footage, leaving the rest of the spectrum. But what if the color doesn’t quite fit into one of the 6 suppression slots? No problem. In the following example I will show you how to deal with this.

http://oceania.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=12588

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Chapter: Titling

Topic: Effects

Logo ripples and glows out from the center. Could be adapted for growing force field or other effect. Great way to bring on a title. Ayato’s tutorials are very advanced. Because English is his second language you really need to know After Effects moderately well to follow all the steps. Some additional plug-ins are needed, but most are available in demonstration form.

http://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae26_e.html#

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Chapter: Visual and Creative Effects

Topic: Reproducing TV or Film Effects

In this tutorial, Satish Kumar demonstrates the famous Matrix style Bullet-time effect in Vegas Video: A man leaps in the air with a gun, fires a shot, and then hovers in the air while the camera moves†around him 180 degrees. To create this effect, we have the shot of the man leaping in the air as a video and 6 still shots of him in the air at different angles. We will morph between the still shots using the†WinMorph plug-in for Vegas. This morphed video is composited with a moving background giving the 180 degree camera rotation effect.

http://www.creativecow.net/articles/kumar_satish/vegas_morph/index.htm

TAGS: morph

Chapter: Visual and Creative Effects

Topic: Simulation

I got a few e-mails asking how I created the flying swirls around the Mindsprung emblem in the Radio Waves tutorial. It is fairly simple if you know how to manipulate 3D, and in this exercise, we?ll create a 3D atom using nothing more than the out of the box After Effects Production Bundle.

http://www.creativemac.com/2003/05_may/tutorials/atom.htm

TAGS: electron, nucleus, expression

Chapter: Visual and Creative Effects

Topic: Simulation

this tutorial, Colin James demonstrates creating something with glass planes that refract & blur footage behind them ~ much like the opening to the show, CSI:Miami

http://www.creativecow.net/articles/james_colin/glass/index.html

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Chapter: Video and Computer Technology

Topic: Operating System Issues

It’s inevitable that many of you out there will, at some point, need to network your Mac with a Windows machine. Of course, there have been ways to do this before, either through expensive network servers or through Thursby Software’s Dave. But with the release of Mac OS X 10.2, the capability is built right into the Macintosh operating system. Here’s how you do it.

http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=13202

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Chapter: Titling

Topic: Titling Tools

Creating a title animation using the tools introduced in After Effects 6

http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=18940

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