Tutorials
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Red Giant TV Episode 89 – Tempo: Up in Flames – Realistic and Slow Motion Fire Effects
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 18, 2012
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2 commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz walks you through the workflow used to create realistic fire for our film Tempo. He’ll be using a combination of real fire footage, Trapcode Particular, and some 3rd Party plug-ins. Note from Aharon: One thing I did not mention – the particles’ life is set to [...]
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Red Giant QuickTip #77: Handheld Camera Look
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 29, 2012
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No commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shares a few tips for giving a handheld camera look to video that was shot locked down on a tripod. This is useful for situations where you need to shoot locked down for an FX shot, and want to add in shake later.
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Red Giant QuickTip #75: Creating Compound Clips for Combined Effects in FCPX
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 13, 2012
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No commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to combine clips on your timeline in FCPX. You might use this to add an effect to all clips at once (ex.: an 8MM film look) or to effect clips that are being composited (ex:. light leaks over video). LINKS: Red Giant Retrograde: 8MM & 16MM film [...]
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Red Giant QuickTip #73: Old Film – Working with Retrograde and Looks (FCPX)
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Oct 30, 2012
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No commentsIn this QuickTip, Aharon Rabinowitz gives you some ideas for adding mood and additional effects to Retrograde’s old film look, without ruining the authenticity of the effect. Get Red Giant Retrograde from our friends at CrumplePop HERE. Watch this video to learn more about why Retrograde looks so convincing in creating 16MM and 8MM film [...]
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Free Shatter Object Presets for Element 3D
16 commentsHey folks – so I’ve been Playing around with Videocopilot’s Element 3D, and really enjoying breaking objects apart. Since I realize that so many of the people getting started with Element are new to 3D, I wanted to give you all some fun stuff to shatter. These are just some basic primitives that I have [...]
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Episode 84: Trapcode Mir – Amplitude Mapping
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Aug 14, 2012
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No commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to take Trapcode Mir in a whole new direction using Amplitude Layers. You’ll learn to create looping animation, cityscapes, audio-triggered displacement and more.
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Red Giant QuickTip #68: Seamless Tunnels in Trapcode Mir
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Aug 02, 2012
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No commentsIn this QuickTip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how close up the mesh to create a seamless tunnel in Trapcode Mir.
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Episode 79: Soylent Screen – The Secret Ingredients for a Filmed Computer Screen Look
- By Aharon Rabinowitz May 17, 2012
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No commentsIn this Episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create the look of a filmed computer screen (what it looks like when you film it with a handheld camera) using After Effects and elements created with screen capture software. Expression for Creating Wiggle with Ease: freq=.5; //frequency: fill in or tie [...]
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Episode 75: Video to Cartoon – Getting Better Results
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Apr 03, 2012
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No commentsOften people apply ToonIt as a last step in their video process, and wonder why the end result doesn’t look all that cartoonish. In this episode, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to plan and shoot for video-to-cartoon, and get a convincing result.
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Red Giant QuickTip #61: Adding Digital Distortion to Your Footage
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Mar 01, 2012
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No commentsIn this QuickTip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to add some digital distortion/displacement to your footage.
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Red Giant TV Episode 69 – Cosmodius: Creating a Retro Sci-fi Logo Animation
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 27, 2012
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3 commentsn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz walks you through the process of creating a Retro Sci-Fi logo. In addition to creating the logo, he’ll show you how to age the video to make it look like it came out of the early 80′s. Links: Inside the Nebulae – Space flight video by [...]
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QuickTip #59: Fast Musical Scoring for Motion Graphics with SmartSound Sonic Fire Pro
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 27, 2012
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No commentsIn this QuickTip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how he quickly generates a soundtrack for Motion Graphics, using Smartsound SonicFire Pro. This is a tool Aharon uses to score most of the videos created for Red Giant and many of his non RG projects. Learn more about SonicFire Pro and Smartsound’s library of Royalty-Free music at [...]
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Red Giant Quicktip #57: Animating a Look
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 27, 2012
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7 commentsIn this Quicktip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to animate the tools in Magic Bullet Looks.
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Red Giant Quicktip #56: Sketchy Stop-Motion Text Look
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 27, 2012
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2 commentsInspired by a video he found on Vimeo, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you some quick tips and techniques for creating a sketchy stop motion look for text. Links: Get the Sketch Rockwell font at urbanfonts.com/fonts/Sketch_Rockwell.htm Watch Working with the Scribble Effect Part 1 (Creative Cow Tutorial by Aharon) at allbetsareoff.com/tutorials/working-with-the-scribble-effect-part-1/ Get the Project Files at people.redgiantsoftware.com/explore/presetdetail.aspx?presetid=2047 [...]
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Red Giant QuickTip #53: Layer Sampling – Generate Particles Where and When You Want Them
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 27, 2012
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No commentsIn this Quicktip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to control the way particles are emitted from a picture or text, when using a layer emitter. He’ll be exploring a feature called Layer Sampling. Layer Sampling is a feature controls whether or not particles are revealed by a layer’s alpha channel, or, depending on the setting, [...]
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Red Giant QuickTip #50: From Torch to Plasma Fireball – Building new FX from a Red Giant People Preset
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Oct 04, 2011
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No commentsSomething old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. In this QuickTip, Aharon Rabinowitz builds a beautiful blue Plasma Fireball effect with the help of a Torch preset created by Harry Frank for Red Giant People. Presets: Get the FREE Plasma Fireball preset at Red Giant People: people.redgiantsoftware.com/Explore/PresetDetail.aspx?PresetId=1949 Get the FREE Form 2 Torch Preset at [...]
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Red Giant TV Episode 59: Trapcode 3D Stereoscopic Workflow Basics
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Aug 09, 2011
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2 commentsIn this Episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz explores the basics of 3D Stereoscopic Workflow with Trapcode 3D plug-ins.This tutorial is a great intro to Stereoscopic 3D in After Effects. If you have them, bring your 3D Glasses – it will help. Watch it here: Check out Pinkau.com to get the FREE stereoscopic tools [...]
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Red Giant QuickTip #48: Digitally Re-Lighting a Green Screen Background with Primatte Keyer 5
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Aug 09, 2011
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No commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a new feature in Primatte Keyer 5 that helps you fix poor lighting on your green screen (or other chroma background), by unifying the background color to make it easier for you to key and composite. Watch the tutorial here: Learn more about Primatte Keyer at: http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/primatte-keyer/
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QuickTip #47: Glassy Look with Magic Bullet Looks 2
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Aug 09, 2011
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No commentsIn this QuickTip, Aharon Rabinowitz explores some fun new tools in Magic Bullet Looks 2, to create a cool distorted “glassy look.” Watch the tutorial right here: You can get the preset at: people.redgiantsoftware.com/Explore/PresetDetail.aspx?PresetId=1836 you can get Magic Bullet Looks 2 at redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-looks/
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Red Giant QuickTip #45: Compositing and VFX with Color Correction
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Aug 09, 2011
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1 commentIn this QuickTip, Aharon Rabinowitz talks about the process of color correction/grading, when you are also compositing or adding visual effects. He’ll show you how to avoid a common mistake that kills the composite. Watch the video right here:
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Red Giant QuickTip #41: Adding Life to Interview Footage
- By Aharon Rabinowitz May 17, 2011
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Views: 6308
5 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to clean up (remove noise) and add life to interview footage through color correction. Though Aharon demonstrates in After Effects, the tutorial works for users of Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and more. Watch the tutorial below.
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Red Giant QuickTip #35: Kaleidoscopic Effects with Trapcode Form
- By Aharon Rabinowitz May 17, 2011
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1 commentIn this QuickTip, Aharon Rabinowitz explores the Kaleidospace features of Trapcode Form to create 3D mirrored kaleidoscopic effects. Watch the tutorial below.
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Film Flash: New FREE Preset For After Effects
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 01, 2010
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20 commentsPlain and simple, Film Flash is an automated, dynamic preset for After Effects that bumps up the exposure of the footage to create a cool transition effects between two video clips. All you have to do is add a layer marker right at the point of transition, and Film Flash does the rest. The effect [...]
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Spy Photo: New FREE Presets For After Effects
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 21, 2010
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27 commentsIntroducing Spy Photo, a new set of FREE presets for Adobe After Effects that makes it easy to create the look of snapshots taken by a spy or private investigator, as seen in film and TV. The presets are dynamic, and require no keyframes. Just marks where you want the effect to happen. After Effects [...]
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FREE Template Project: Movie Magic
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 09, 2010
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Views: 12113
13 commentsA template project I’ve been working on with 3D text and cool light-based transitions. Has a bit of a movie theater messaging vibe (like “please turn your cell phones off” and “Buy Popcorn”), or maybe a futuristic holiday feel. Uses Trapcode Form, Knoll Light Factory and Magic Bullet Looks. Get it for FREE at Red [...]