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RGTV Ep. 15: Better Compositing with Particles
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Mar 31, 2009
- Views: 14451
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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RGTV Ep 10: Creating Traffic Patterns
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Feb 24, 2009
- Views: 9731
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
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Feb 17, 2009
- Views: 5756
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 07: Getting Better Control of Emitter Position in Trapcode Particular
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Jan 30, 2009
- Views: 7486
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
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Jan 23, 2009
- Views: 6752
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
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Jan 23, 2009
- Views: 8175
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 03: Looping a Particle System
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 6541
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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The Bourne Flashback: Creating a Flashback Look
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 8774
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
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 3988
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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Creating the Jumbotron Look in After Effects
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 6544
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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AE Quick Tips #5: Perspective Offset
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 4095
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 #1: Grow Bounds
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 1955
In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you an often-missed tool that can help you out in a pinch, by expanding the boundaries of your footage.

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Using the Echo Effect with Animated Layers
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 2801
In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shares some tips and tricks for working with the Echo effect.

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Creating a Hologram Look in After Effects
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 18222
In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz returns to one of his earliest tutorials, Creating TV Look, and shows how it can be used to create the look of a Hologram as seen in science fiction movies.

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Weather Replacement in AE CS3: Part 3
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 4916
In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz finishes his series on weather replacement and shows you how to add realistic lightning to the shot.

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Weather Replacement in AE CS3: Part 2
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 5258
In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz continues his weather replacement tutorial, and shows you how to add rain to your shot, as well as drops of water on the camera. Also, 3D compositing and color correction are covered.

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Weather Replacement in AE CS3: Part 1
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 5535
In this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to change the weather from a sunny day at the beach to a very cloudy day, with a chance of showers. Youll learn techniques is color correction and compositing.

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Light Writing – Part 2
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 5410
In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to improve the look of the light writing effect covered in part 1, adding intense points of light and other improvement ideas.

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Light Writing – Part 1
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 6476
In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use AE to simulate the popular light writing effect seen in recent Sprint commercials.

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Perspective Corner Pin Effect
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 9395
In this Tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a complete workflow for using Imagineer Systems Mocha with Adobe After Effects to create a perspective corner pin effect – an effect typically used for sign replacement or compositing video on a computer or television screen. Even if youre not using After Effects as your compositing application, you [...]

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Using the Puppet Tool with Particles
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 5116
In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to simulate airflow over an object by using the After Effects CS3 puppet tools with the CC Particle World particle system.

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Creating a Heart Monitor
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 2059
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz uses the Vegas Effect in After Effects to show you how to build your own EKG Machine in the Comfort of Your Own Home (or Office). (Flatline not included)

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Creating a Magnifying Glass Effect in AE
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 1974
In this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a technique for creating a magnifying glass in After Effects using an adjustment layer and distortion effects.

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Working With the Scribble Effect – Part 2
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 2728
In this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use Auto-Trace and Illustrator to create complex scribble animation in AE.

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Working With the Scribble Effect – Part 1
- By Aharon Rabinowitz
  Dec 29, 2008
- Views: 2222
In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create Scribble-like animation with shapes and text in After Effects.

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