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    QuickTip #59: Fast Musical Scoring for Motion Graphics with SmartSound Sonic Fire Pro

    In 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

    In 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

    In 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

    In 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

    In 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

    In 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

    In 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

    In 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

    In 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

    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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    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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    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 #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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    AE Quick Tips #2: Preserve Transparency

    In 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

    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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    An Introduction to Shape Layers

    In 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

    In 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

    In 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.

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    Working with Adobe Clip Notes – Part 2

    In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to perform collaborative commenting with Adobe Clip Notes. He’ll show you how using Clip Notes can save you from stress, and how to import Clip Notes into AE.

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    Working with Adobe Clip Notes – Part 1

    In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to export your video as Adobe Clip Notes. Part 1 will show you how to prepare and export your AE composition so your notes appear in a PDF document alongside the video.

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    Freeze Frame with Time Remapping

    In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a simple technique for quickly creating freeze frames in After Effects, and explains some basic concepts of time remapping.

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