Category Archives: Workflow
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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 #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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QuickTip #59: Fast Musical Scoring for Motion Graphics with SmartSound Sonic Fire Pro
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Jan 27, 2012
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Views: 912
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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Views: 1806
7 commentsIn this Quicktip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to animate the tools in Magic Bullet Looks.
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Red Giant TV Episode 59: Trapcode 3D Stereoscopic Workflow Basics
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Aug 09, 2011
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Views: 3559
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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RGTV Ep. 37: Creating a Holographic Interface Effect
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Feb 15, 2010
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Views: 27550
19 commentsIn this episode of Red Giant TV Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to quickly create the look of a holographic interface effect using Red Giant Software’s Holomatrix. He’ll also be using Digital Juice’s motion Designer Toolkit 2 for the screen elements, as well as Magic Bullet Looks for the color grading. Note from Aharon: This [...]
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Intro to Holomatrix, Pt. 3: Transform Properties
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 16, 2009
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Views: 7396
2 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz walks you through the Transform properties found in Red Giant Software’s Holomatrix – A set of tools he and Dan Ebberts created together, for Adobe After Effects. The software creates the look of Holographic Imagery, Digital Signage, Bad TV and Ghostly Apparitions.
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Intro to Holomatrix, Pt. 2: Corner Pinning and 3D
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 16, 2009
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Views: 6280
3 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz talks about perspective corner pinning and 3D with Red Giant Software’s Holomatrix – A set of tools he and Dan Ebberts created together, for Adobe After Effects. The software creates the look of Holographic Imagery, Digital Signage, Bad TV and Ghostly Apparitions.
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Intro to Holomatrix, Pt. 1: Getting Started
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Nov 16, 2009
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Views: 12595
14 commentsIn this tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz gives you a basic introduction to Red Giant Software’s Holomatrix – A set of tools he and Dan Ebberts created together, for Adobe After Effects. The software creates the look of Holographic Imagery, Digital Signage, Bad TV and Ghostly Apparitions.
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RGTV Ep. 26: Score! Working with Numeric Text
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Aug 03, 2009
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Views: 9361
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: 25939
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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Frame Rates: Conforming from 25P to 24P
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Mar 09, 2009
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Views: 18215
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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Shape Layer Tip #3: Trim Paths
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 49129
23 commentsIn 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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Changing Shortcuts with After Effects
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 1709
1 commentIn 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
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 2260
No commentsIn 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
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 2873
1 commentIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to combine several shapes to make a complex shape.
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AE Quick Tips #4: Copy Expression Only
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 704
No commentsIn 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
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 2337
1 commentIn 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
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 1249
No commentsIn 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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AE Quick Tips #2: Preserve Transparency
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 989
1 commentIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you an often-missed feature in AE that can help you when trying to create transparency in an image by using the layers below as the source of that transparency.
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AE Quick Tips #1: Grow Bounds
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 2121
4 commentsIn 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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An Introduction to Shape Layers
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 2666
4 commentsIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz introduces you to Shape Layers, one of the most powerful features in Adobe After Effects CS3.
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Photoshop Layer Styles in AE CS3
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 719
No commentsIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz introduces you to Photoshop Layer Styles in After Effects, a new feature in After Effects CS3.
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Vanishing Point in AE CS3
- By Aharon Rabinowitz Dec 29, 2008
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Views: 1576
2 commentsIn this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use Photoshop CS3′s Vanishing Point tool to convert a flat 2D image into a 3D object in After Effects CS3.