Posts by: Aharon Rabinowitz
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Creating 3D Cloud Motion From a Still Image
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Apr 27, 2009
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Views: 56464
37 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to take a 2D image of clouds and use it to create realistic 3D cloud motion, in just a few simple clicks. No cutting up of the image needed! This Tip was sent to us by Noel Powell after he watched our weather replacement tutorials.
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More Techniques for Better Light Wraps
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Apr 20, 2009
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Views: 48943
16 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz continues his exploration of Light Wraps, focusing on improving Maltaannon’s free light wraping method (ceLightwrap), as well as covering a light wrapping technique for emergency situations.
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Big-Ass NAB sale on Crowd Control!
1 commentGet 40% off on Crowd Control from 4/19/09- 4/26/09 Hi everyone- I just wanted to thank all of you for your interest in Crowd Control. We at All Bets Are Off Productions hope you’re enjoying the library, and we thank you all for your support so far. This week I’ll be at NAB, and while [...]
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RGTV Ep. 16: Better Compositing with Light Wraps
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Apr 14, 2009
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Views: 6808
7 commentsIn this Episode, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to get better compositing results with Light Wraps – an effect used to blend the background light and foreground elements more convincingly during a composite.
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Getting Ready for NAB
3 commentsJust some stills from a presentation I’m doing for Red Giant @ NAB, focusing on Trapcode Form -although it also uses particular, warp, and knoll light factory. Of course, the women in the image are from Crowd Control. I’ll be presenting this at 10:00AM on Tuesday Apr. 21, at the Red Giant Software booth SL2529H. [...]
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Major Site Improvements Coming!
3 commentsHi folks- Just wanted to let you know that we have major site improvements planned for All Bets Are Off Productions – specifically with the speed of the Crowd Control site. Over the last 3 weeks (since we launched Crowd Control) we’ve been receiving your feedback about the way the site works and what you [...]
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Light Wraps
1 commentNot sure if I’m obsessed or just really bent on trying to help people get better compositing results, but if I can get these done before I head out for 3 weeks (2 for the holidays, 1 for NAB), I’m going to be putting out 2 tutorials on better Light Wraps. If you’re not familiar [...]
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RGTV Ep. 15: Better Compositing with Particles
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Mar 31, 2009
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Views: 14725
7 commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a technique for placing layers inside the middle of a particle system – crucial to truly integrating your CGI effects with your live action footage or motion graphics.
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Crowd Control Takes on Adjustment Lights
2 commentsEran Stern just did a great Creative Cow podcast tutorial on the subject of adjustment lights. And I’m proud to say that in it, he uses Crowd Control to help illustrate it. And if you’re more of a “Full-res” tutorial kind of person, it should be up this Friday in all of it’s full-sized glory. [...]
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Andrew Kramer at After Effects New York
13 commentsLast night, Andrew Kramer paid a visit to After Effects New York, the group I co-run with Jim Geduldick. We had an awesome turnout – over 300 people. His training was, of course, fantastic. I especially enjoyed his use of Windows Paint to show some high-end compositing techniques (if you think I’m kidding – I’m [...]
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Crowd Control is Here!
20 commentsOK folks- You’ve heard a few rumbling here, and our library of keyed out footage is finally here… but as of today, what was called “All Footage Keyed Out” is now called “Crowd Control.” 45,000 keyed out clips ready for use in all of your projects! This was a tremendous undertaking, and we at All [...]
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Frame Rates: Conforming from 25P to 24P
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Mar 09, 2009
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Views: 17848
30 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to take 25P footage (PAL) and quickly conform it to 24 P (Film Frame Rate) using eithe Adobe After Effects or Final Cut Studio. Also covered are some workflow tips for After Effects for quickly setting up Renders.
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RGTV Ep 10: Creating Traffic Patterns
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Feb 24, 2009
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Views: 9898
1 commentIn this episode, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create a realistic traffic pattern backdrop – great for a scene in which the camera overlooks a low lying, but developed area – perhaps looking down from a high hill onto a residential neighborhood.
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RGTV Ep 09: Creating a Watercolor Painting Look
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Feb 17, 2009
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Views: 5963
2 commentsIn this episode, Aharon shows you how to turn your video into an animated watercolor painting, and shares some techniques in varying the look and color.
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All Footage Keyed Out!
18 commentsIf you watch this week’s tutorial, you’ll see that I make a reference to a new product we’re working on bringing to you. A huge library of pre-keyed alpha footage – actors filmed on a green screen and then keyed out – so all you have to do is drop it into your projects. If [...]
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If you subscribed to any of my RSS feeds…
1 commentHi folks- If you subscribed to any of my RSS feeds, please re-subscribe. There was a bug in the feeds and it was fixed today. I want to make sure you get the most up to date tutorials…etc. Sorry for the trouble. the site is still in beta.
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That Baby DVD
3 commentsYou may have caught in one of my recent tutorials (Creating looping Particle System) that I’m a new Dad. In that tutorial, I mentioned creating a DVD to entertain my daughter Noa (now 6 months old). Well, I was contacted by an animator named Rob Wolf to say that he had, in fact, made a [...]
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RGTV Ep 08: Creating and Working with Complex 3D Projects
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 30, 2009
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Views: 15645
8 commentsIn this episode, Aharon shares some tips for simplifying and working with 3D compositions. You’ll also get a look at at some cool tools designed to easily distribute layers in 3D space, and that help create complex 3D shapes.
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RGTV Ep 07: Getting Better Control of Emitter Position in Trapcode Particular
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 30, 2009
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Views: 7633
8 commentsIn this Episode, we’ll look at some very useful techniques for Trapcode Particular that will give you better control of emitter position in 2D and 3D. You’ll also learn how to capture the motion of your mouse (or stylus) to control emitter position.
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After Effects New York January Meeting
No commentsWe had an awesome AENY meeting tonight. I’m too tired to write a lot about it, other than to say that we had 2 great presenters…
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Microsoft Comes Through
10 commentsI had a shockingly good experience with Microsoft tech support today. I was having trouble installing MS Windows XP SP3 (Adobe’s strong recommendation for CS4). No matter how many different ways I tried, it would not install. There was some sort of permissions issue. So I did the unthinkable: I called Microsoft and asked for [...]
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RGTV Ep 06: Controling Time with Audio – Pt. 2
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 23, 2009
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Views: 6901
12 commentsIn this episode, Aharon continues to explore how audio can be used to control time, but he expands on that by showing you how it can be used to change the look of the footage as well.
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RGTV Ep 05: Controling Time with Audio – Pt. 1
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 23, 2009
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Views: 8335
12 commentsIn this episode, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use audio to control time. You’ll learn how to make your video automatically move forward in time to the music’s beat – a technique used in tons of music videos and commercials.
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RGTV Ep 04: Better Compositing Techniques
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 23, 2009
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Views: 11068
4 commentsIn this Episode, learn about compositing techniques that fall outside of keying. Using tools available for After Effects, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Vegas and Avid, you’ll discover ways to improve the quality of your composite with less work.