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Category Archives: After Effects

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    More Techniques for Better Light Wraps

    In 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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    RGTV Ep. 16: Better Compositing with Light Wraps

    In 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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    RGTV Ep. 15: Better Compositing with Particles

    In 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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    Frame Rates: Conforming from 25P to 24P

    In 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

    In 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

    In 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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    RGTV Ep 08: Creating and Working with Complex 3D Projects

    In 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

    In 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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    RGTV Ep 06: Controling Time with Audio – Pt. 2

    In 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

    In 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

    In 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.

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    RGTV Ep 03: Looping a Particle System

    In this Episode, you’ll learn how to set up a seamless looping particle system. We’ll be using Trapcode Particular and Starglow to create a stylized holiday snowstorm, but the concepts can be adapted for anything from backgrounds to lower 3rds.

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    Red Giant TV Ep 02: Binary Transition – Part 2

    In this Episode, Aharon shows you how to improve on and finish the binary transition project by working with Time Remapping and Camera animation. Plus, see how Magic Bullet Looks and Trapcode Shine help add the finishing touches.

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    Red Giant TV Ep. 01: Binary Transition – Part 1

    This episode shows you how to use Trapcode Form to create a dramatic transition where footage breaks into binary code, and re-forms as different footage.

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    The Bourne Flashback: Creating a Flashback Look

    In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create the flashback look as seen in the film The Bourne Ultimatum with some extra touches and hints.

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    Creating a Looping Particle System

    In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz (Along with the help of his daughter Noa) shows you how to create a looping particle system in After Effects.

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    Shape Layer Tip #3: Trim Paths

    In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use shape layers to easily create that Old-School look where a red dashed line animates over a map to indicate travel destinations.

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    Creating the Jumbotron Look in After Effects

    Its game time baby! In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create the look of a giant monitor, such as the kind you might see at a stadium or concert.

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    Changing Shortcuts with After Effects

    In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to be an AE road warrior by changing the keyboard shortcuts to account for missing keys on a laptop – such as the Ram Preview key or the Audio Preview key.

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    AE Quick Tips #6: Remove Color Matting

    In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz adds to the concepts he covered in his tutorial Straight Vs. Premultiplied.

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    Shape Layer Tip #2: Complex Shapes

    In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to combine several shapes to make a complex shape.

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    AE Quick Tips #5: Perspective Offset

    In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a cool tip for adding depth to your Fractal Noise animations.

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    AE Quick Tips #4: Copy Expression Only

    In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a menu item for speeding up the process of copying expressions to other layers, without typing or altering the current values.

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    Shape Layer Tip #1: Custom Shapes

    In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to move beyond the Basic shape tools to create your own custom shapes.

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    AE Quick Tips #3: Show Waveform

    In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz returns to the subject of Audio (Workflow tips #8) and shares a tip for working with audio waveforms that he got from an AE user via email.

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