16 Useful Expressions in After Effects

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There is always a need for speed in this fast paced motion design world. It’s definitely something we can all agree on. You can always get more money, but you can’t get more time. That’s the truth. Everyday I look for ways to speed up my workflow, and there are so many ways to save time. I highly recommend checking out my tips and tricks tutorials here.

See timeline shortcuts on each of the 16 expressions here where you can see more of this article.

 

Adobe Updates All Their Media Applications

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by Larry Jordan

Yesterday, Adobe updated and released updates for:

• Adobe Premiere Pro CC
• Adobe After Effects CC
• Adobe Audition CC
• Adobe Media Encoder CC
• Adobe Character Animator (beta)

OVERALL THEMES

Adobe has three “themes” for this update:

• The Power to Create
• Seamless Collaboration
• Streamlined Workflow

As with past updates, Adobe continues to focus on Premiere as the hub of their media applications. That trend continues with more features, or more controls, from other applications migrating into Premiere.

Every one of these applications is available for download right now – free – via the Creative Cloud app. You can learn more about all these updates at Adobe’s website.

What’s New?  Read It Here.

The Essential Graphics panel appears in both Premiere and After Effects.

The Essential Graphics panel in After Effects provides more functions when creating templates, including the ability to specify which settings are controllable from within Premiere.

Storyboarding made simple

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Helping creatives spend more time doing what they do best

The Boords story started as a conversation over a burger between Tom Judd and James Chambers, the co-founders of award winning London animation studio, Animade. Tom, complaining about the laborious and time-consuming process of storyboarding and James quietly taking it all on board… then the lightbulb moment occurred. Boords. Storyboarding made simple!

We know how frustrating it is to spend time fiddling with storyboard layouts when you could be focusing on the fun stuff. Boords has completely transformed our workflow and we hope it is something that will help other creatives save time, heartache… and the occasional desire to break a computer. Leaving you with more time for better things!

Shift Your Editing into Overdrive with These 5 Awesome Premiere Pro Tips

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By Caleb Ward, Premiumbeat

 5 Faster Editing Tips for Premiere Pro

Sometimes, even the slightest change in your workflow can save you dozens of hours on a project in Premiere Pro. Even if you’ve been using Premiere Pro for a while, you can surprise yourself by learning something new. Personally, I didn’t know about allocating memory until two years after I started editing in Premiere.

The following video from Cinecom.net takes a closer look at five distinct ways to increase your editing speed in Premiere Pro. If you’d rather read than watch, you can follow along with the tips below…

Read More 5 Faster Editing Tips for Premiere Pro.  Oh yeah, want to download some free video clips so you can try out these techniques? Simply click the link for a custom collection of footage.

Premiere & Resolve Round Trip Workflow

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by Casey Faris, Ground Control

Here’s a quick tutorial on how Casey takes a finished project from Premiere into Resolve for grading then back into Premiere for final graphics and render! We hope it gives you a good overview of how we do things! I know it’s really short and fast, but hopefully it’ll give you a good overview of how I do things.

(FREE) Workflow plug-ins can be cool too!

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by Video Copilot

The Video Copilot After Effects workflow plug-in is now available for free!

Speed up After Effects by making it work your way.  Manage the design progress with the new Snapshot tool and find the effects you need instantly.

Main Features:

• Access FX & Presets quickly
• Create FX Shortcuts
• Create FX Overrides
• Customize FX Search
• Export Snapshot with PNG
• Access Multiple Snapshots
• Automatic Snapshot Tool & Gallery
• Sample colors from Gallery
• Re-import directly from Gallery
• Dockable Panel & More!

Learn More | Download the FREE Video Copilot FX Console

Tips for Better Editing in Premiere Pro

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by Jonny Elwyn

Adobe Premiere Pro continues to develop it’s powerful editing software in the most recent update (August 3rd 2016) which brings the version number to 2015.4. This essentially brings a welcome array of bug fixes and stability improvements to the new features that shipped in June 2016 (2015.3) and were initially announced at NAB 2016 in April.

For a detailed look at all of the new features in 2015.3, across Premiere Pro, Audition, Media Encoder and After Effects, jump to this previous post.

Read More…

Free Friday: Say Hello to Helios

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by Thibault Houdon

Helios is a Maya utility that will speed up your workflow by allowing you to execute hundreds of commands just by typing them. For FREE!

Execute everything you want

Helios comes with hundreds of pre-built commands and it supports both Mel and Python. Not only can you create objects, you will also be able to open windows such as the UV Editor or the Outliner or enter any Maya tool (Multi Cut Tool, Create Polygonal Tool…).

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Custom commands included

Helios comes with some commands which were built specifically to save you time. These commands are not available by default in Maya and are small python scripts that will help you work faster.

Some of the custom commands included are:

• Fill Selection.
• Move Pivot to Selected Vertices.
• Create Joints from Nulls.
• Snap Object to Center of the World.

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Make Helios work the way you want

You can make Helios yours and custom it to your needs. All the commands are listed in an python dictionary that you can easily edit to change the name of the commands or add yours.

Click here for DOWNLOAD, download instructions and more information.

 

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How To Roundtrip To Audition From Premiere

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by Dan Bernard Media

In this video, Dan Bernard Media shows you a few simple ways to use the powerful dynamic link system to seamlessly transition between Premiere and Audition so you can get your work done faster!

FREE SOUND EFFECTS: wavebrigade.com

‘EVERYTHING You Need to Know About the New DaVinci Resolve 12’ by Tristan Kneschke

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August 3, 2015

by Tristan Kneschke, nofilmschool

The Blackmagic team must not sleep!

They just released the first Public Beta for Davinci Resolve 12, which you can download here. Resolve 12 brings over eighty new features to the popular color grading tool, with a host of editing, audio, workflow, and of course, color grading improvements.

First, here’s a video from Blackmagic that gives us a great rundown:

Now let’s get super in-depth with some of the more exciting improvements…

DaVinci Resolve 12 Manual

DaVinci Resolve 12 Configuration Guide