Category Archives: Red Giant TV
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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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Views: 2105
No 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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Red Giant Quicktip #57: Animating a Look
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 27, 2012
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Views: 1143
6 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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Views: 1533
1 commentInspired 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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Views: 483
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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Views: 2005
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 QuickTip #48: Digitally Re-Lighting a Green Screen Background with Primatte Keyer 5
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Aug 09, 2011
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Views: 2744
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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Views: 2159
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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Views: 2849
No commentsIn 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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RGTV Ep. 39: Creating a 1980′s Retro Video Game Look
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Mar 16, 2010
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Views: 6261
14 commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz walks you through the process of creating the look of a vector style arcade game from the early 1980′s. He’ll use PlaneSpace, Particular, & Text Anarchy, as well as expressions and other techniques.
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RGTV Ep. 26: Score! Working with Numeric Text
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Aug 03, 2009
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Views: 9036
10 commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz gives you some cool tips for working with numeric text, for things like video game scores and other digital readouts. No 3rd Party Plug-ins are used in this tutorial – Just straight After Effects. This tutorial uses 2 powerful expressions. Here they are: 1. Round to [...]
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RGTV Ep 25: Creating a Crowd Scene with Particular 2
- By Harry Frank Jul 21, 2009
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Views: 25393
25 commentsIn this rockin’ episode of Red Giant TV, Motion Designer Harry Frank shows you how to create a realistic crowd scene using Trapcode Particular 2. He’ll also create a similar scene using Trapcode Form. This tutorial is from Harry Frank, a truly truly talented Motion Designer and teacher, but also a great guy we enjoy [...]
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RGTV Ep. 23: Peel-Away Vortex Transition
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jul 07, 2009
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Views: 52182
40 commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create an insanely cool transition for text and other elements. This tutorial builds on RGTV Episode 21, where Aharon covered a text-to-sand transition, so make sure to check it out.
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RGTV Ep. 21 – Creating a Text to Sand Transition
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jun 09, 2009
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Views: 90042
38 commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use Trapcode Form to create the effect of text (or a logo) dissolving to sand and blowing away. You’ll also learn how to reverse the transition, so that sand forms into text. You can see an example video of the end result [...]
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RGTV Ep. 16: Better Compositing with Light Wraps
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Apr 14, 2009
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Views: 6813
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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RGTV Ep. 15: Better Compositing with Particles
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Mar 31, 2009
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Views: 14742
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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RGTV Ep 10: Creating Traffic Patterns
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Feb 24, 2009
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Views: 9900
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: 5971
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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RGTV Ep 08: Creating and Working with Complex 3D Projects
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 30, 2009
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Views: 15656
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: 7640
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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RGTV Ep 06: Controling Time with Audio – Pt. 2
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 23, 2009
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Views: 6902
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: 8339
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: 11070
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.
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RGTV Ep 03: Looping a Particle System
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 6695
1 commentIn 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
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 6365
5 commentsIn 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
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 11254
5 commentsThis 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.