Adobe After Effects CS6 Features

Adobe® After Effects® CS6 software lets you deliver cinematic visual effects and motion graphics faster than ever before with new Global Performance Cache. Extend your creativity with built-in text and shape extrusion, new mask feathering options, and the fast, easy-to-use 3D Camera Tracker.



3D camera tracker

Track 3D elements with complete control over depth of field, shadows, and reflections. Automatically analyze and place 3D track points onto 2D footage in the background while you work.
Ray-traced, extruded text and shapes

Extrude fully ray-traced text and shapes natively and take full advantage of reflections, environment maps, and more.

Variable mask feathering



Create a separate set of splines to precisely control mask feathering. Get the exact shape you want with the proper degree of softness at any point along the mask edge, resulting in a big boost to creative flexibility.

Integration with Adobe Illustrator

Instantly convert Illustrator vector art (AI and EPS format) into shape layers. Easily animate vector art in 2D or extrude to 3D.

Rolling shutter repair

Remove rolling shutter artifacts such as skew and wobble without forcing stabilization.

New and updated effects

Enhance your creativity with 90 new and updated built-in effects, including the complete 16- and 32-bit CycoreFX HD suite.
Avid AAF and FCP 7 XML file import with Pro Import AE

Import and work with files created in Apple Final Cut Pro 7 or earlier versions, as well as Avid Media Composer and Symphony, letting you integrate After Effects with professional production workflows.

mocha for After Effects CS6



Launch mocha for After Effects CS6 directly within After Effects CS6*.

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Animating Birds with After Effects

Like a lot of motion designers I spend many hours trying to accomplish complex animations in a short amount of time, while attempting to optimize my workflow within After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator. This tutorial utilizes Trapcodes Particular, which is one of After Effects more popular 3rd party plugins. Creating an animation like a flock of birds is very versatile and is a great filler animation which can add a lot of style to a piece. You can also adapt this technique to create other flying creatures…. perhaps a flying skull with flapping wings? Here’s a short clip of the Go Media promo reel that utilizes the bird animation that you will learn to create. (To view the entire promo reel, click here and scroll down to the bottom of the tutorial). [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/LdC5vVI6VDg" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] What you’ll need: A working knowledge of Adobe After Effects Trapcode’s Particular Plugin Adobe Illustrator. So what we are going to do is create a flock of birds in After Effects using Trapcodes plugin, Particular. Readmore

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Latest Autodesk Siggraph 2011 Animation Show Reel

In this video see a compilation of some of the best animation material submitted to Autodesk this year using 3ds Max, Maya and Softimage.

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Realistic Muzzle Flare - After Effects CS5 Tutorial

In this video tutorial we will learn how to create Realistic Muzzle Flare in After Effects CS5...

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After Effects CS5 Tutorial- Motion Tracking

In This Video tutorial we'll learn Motion Tracking using After Effects CS5.

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Christmas Tree - After Effects Template

Christmas video intro.
Easy to customize
Resolution: 1920—1080 Full HD (Separate compositions for HD720, NTSC, and PAL resolution included)
Requiered Plugins:NONE
TRAPCODE FORM AND PARTICULAR 1 are prerendered but the plugin layers are also present for users who have the trapcode plugins.
Sound: link to free song included
CS3 CS4 and CS5 Compatible
Works on MAC and PC
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Christmas Tree Updated AE Template from Gyorfi-BlueFx on Vimeo.

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Face Replacements - Latest Nuke tutorial

This new video discussed several areas of Visual Effects in regards to doing facial / muzzle replacement techniques while in a compositing environment. We will show you how to stay in Nuke for the entire voyage of capturing the motion and turning it into a monstrous transformation


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Super Jump Effect - Latest After Effects Tutorial

This is ground breaking adobe after effects tutorial. You can see this type of Adobe Effects in movies like Hancock and games also.
 It’s got some pretty ground breaking techniques and covers quite a lot leaving very little up in the air. In honor of this being a leap year and all, here you go… jump in.

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After Effects Compositing Balcony Backdrops

 In This Video tutorial we'll learn how to  create weather effect using After Effects .Also cover the basic compositing using Adobe After Effects




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Adobe After Effects Tutorial - Use of Twixtor

hey guys, In this video tutorial we'll learn the use of Twixtor ( After Effects Plug in ) .Twixtor automatically does FRAME FILLING .Frame Filling is like slow mation effect.This tutorial cover the use of Twixtor using Adobe After Effects. .
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Pick up a car using Adobe After Effects

This is a simple Video tutorial  for  pick up a car Using Adobe After Effects.

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Light Effects Using After Effects

In this episode of Red Giant TV, I’ll shows you how to re-create the Music-to-Light effect (seen last season on Heroes), using Trapcode Particular 2. This is a deep exploration of the extremely powerful Aux System in Particular
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Fairytale Lighting in After Effects

In this quick tutorial you’ll learn how to take video and turn into something straight out of a fairytale. You’ll learn how to set up a down-and-dirty 3D track, add volumetric light and dust to a live action shot, and then finish it with some simulated camera lens blur.
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Fractal Noise Fade Effect - Adobe After Effects

Hi Friends In this Video Tutorial We will Learn how to use Fractal Noise to create a textured fade on a layer in After Effects. Then add some more effects and elements to finish up the title effect.
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After Effects Templates - Wedding intro

Features of the Teemplate
All made in After Effects,
No 3d application used. 
Everything can be edited.

All the images can be easily changed, 

Resolution: 1920×1080 Full HD (Separate compositions for HD720, NTSC, and PAL resolution included)

Required Plugins: NONE,

Sound: NOT Included

Compatible : CS3 CS4 and CS5 

Works on :  MAC and PC

Instant Download File Size: 175 MB

Wedding Template from Gyorfi-BlueFx on Vimeo.

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Autodesk Combustion

Combustion 2008 is the newest version of Autodesk's visual effects and compositing software tool.

Combustion is a computer program "for motion graphics, compositing and visual effects" (Discreet, n.d.). The software retails for US$995 (MacMinute, 2004). It is commonly likened to Adobe's After Effects, and shares a timeline based interface with Autodesk's (formerly Discreet) higher-end compositing systems Inferno, Flame and Flint. This is in contrast to the node based interface used by some other compositing applications.

Since the release of version 2, Combustion includes both node view and time line views.

It has since been replaced by Toxik, which is now called Composite.
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Foundry Nuke

Nuke is a node-based compositor produced by The Foundry, and used for film and television post-production. Nuke is cross-platform, and is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Nuke's users include Digital Domain, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures Animation, Framestore, Mr X, Weta Digital and Industrial Light & Magic, and Nuke has been used on productions such as Avatar, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, King Kong, Jumper, I, Robot, and Resident Evil: Extinction
Click here to download latest Nuke Training videos

Features

Fast, memory efficient, scanline-based image processing engine

NUKE's rendering engine only processes the part of the frame being viewed to give fast artist feedback and support for massive image sizes. Multi-threading is supported on all platforms taking full advantage of multiple processor systems and multi-core CPUs.

Resolution independent multi-channel pipeline
Read and output at any image size and manage up to 1023 user-definable 32-bit floating point colour channels. Cleanly manage multi-pass renders in a single compositing stream, separate out passes for individual manipulation and work natively with HDRI.

A comprehensive and tightly integrated 3D environment
Interactively construct and edit 3D scenes using the OpenGL accelerated 3D viewer. Set up cards, extended bicubic and bilinear meshes and standard geometric primitives or import pre-constructed meshes using OBJ and Autodesk FBX® support. Transform, texture, projection map, light and render with multi-sampled motion blur.

Multi-view and metadata aware framework
Manage multiple user-defined views and apply local or global processing changes at an individual node or parameter level - perfect for efficient stereoscopic, 2D to stereoscopic conversion and multi-camera post production. Directly access and modify arbitrary metadata, ingested and created in the processing stream.

Intuitive node graph based workspace
Rapidly construct and edit complex 2D and 3D composites, working and sharing scripts with a variety of node annotations, colour backdrops, groups and thumbnail images. Reference and pre-render external pre-composites for efficiency and artist collaboration.

See and adjust, anywhere
Concurrently open multiple 2D or 3D viewers and adjust parameters of any node process. Compare and flip book results with flexible import, export and display colour management. Integrated Iridas FrameCycler™ Professional playback and video preview display via BlackMagic Decklink and AJA Kona output cards.

Define your own workflow and interactively build custom tools
Take advantage of NUKE’s simple but extensive user interface and node customisation capabilities. Use the inbuilt Python script editor, parameter expressions, linked clones and define Gizmo-macros to rapidly prototype and deliver complex procedural effects – accessible later at the touch of a button.

Automate and batch process
Interact with NUKE outside the graphical user interface from a straightforward command line interface or using flexible script control. Draw on extensive third-party render queuing application support.

Open a complete visual effects toolbox
Powerful animation curve editor for visualising, drawing and editing parameter value curves and mathematical expressions.
Concatenated 2D and 3D transformations with high quality filtering options, 2D tracking and image stabilisation.
NUKE’s own IBK™ advanced Image Based Keyer.
Integrated Foundry Keylight, Primatte™ and Ultimatte™ keyers.
Key spill suppression tools.
Multiple colour correction approaches, histogram, curves, look up tables and configurable colourspace conversions.
Extensive set of image processing tools including noise, Gaussian and vector blur, defocus, dilate/erode, grid and spline warping, a variety of image composition and merge methods and a vector-based, anti-aliased text generator.
Rotoscope and vector paint toolset Bezier and spline shapes with variable point feather and individual motion blur. Paint with multiple brushes including dodge, burn, reveal, blur, sharpen, smear and recursive clone with full source transformation and onion skin. Intermix shapes and paint strokes with a layer hierarchy and blending modes. Animation curve editor and scripting integration.

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Pinnacle Commotion Pro

Commotion is a visual effects application, originally released by Puffin Designs. Puffin Designs was founded by Scott Squires (an award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic) and Forest Key to market Commotion.
Commotion set a very high standard for a rotoscoping application, introducing rotosplines and offering features like motion tracking[disambiguation needed] and motion blurring for masks. it was the first desktop application to allow real-time playback of full quality video clips from RAM.
Puffin Designs was later acquired by Pinnacle in 2000. After another release, Pinnacle let the program languish. Pinnacle has since been acquired by Avid, who shows no signs of reviving the product.
The last release was version 4.1.
Apple Computer briefly bundled a limited version of the program with Final Cut Pro.

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Blender

Blender is a free open source 3D graphics application, available under the GNU General Public License for the Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Blender's features include 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water and smoke simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and the ability to create interactive 3D applications, video games, animated film, or visual effects. More advanced tools include rigid, realistic body, fluid, cloth and softbody dynamics simulation, modifier-based modeling, character animation, a node-based material and compositing system, and embedded scripting in Python.

Features
Blender has a relatively small installation size and runs on several popular computing platforms. Official versions of the software are released for Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and FreeBSD. Though it is often distributed without extensive example scenes found in some other programs, the software contains features that are characteristic of high-end 3d software. Among its capabilities are:

1.Support for a variety of geometric primitives, including polygon meshes, fast subdivision surface modeling, Bezier curves, NURBS surfaces, metaballs, digital sculpting,outline font, and a new n-gon modeling system called B-mesh.

2.Integration with YafaRay, a free software ray tracer.

3.Internal render engine with ray tracing, indirect lighting, and ambient oclusion that can export in a wide variety of formats.

4.Keyframed animation tools including inverse kinematics, armature (skeletal), hook, curve and lattice-based deformations, shape keys (morphing), non-linear animation, constraints, vertex weighting, soft body dynamics including mesh collision detection, LBM fluid dynamics, smoke simulation, Bullet rigid body dynamics, particle-based hair, and a particle system with collision detection.

5.Modifiers to apply non-destructive effects.

6.Python scripting for tool creation and prototyping, game logic, importing and/or exporting from other formats, task automation and custom tools.

7.Basic non-linear video/audio editing and compositing capabilities.

8.Game Blender, a sub-project, offers interactivity features such as collision detection, dynamics engine, and programmable logic. It also allows the creation of stand-alone, real-time applications ranging from architectural visualization to video game construction.

9.A fully-integrated node-based compositor within the rendering pipeline.

10.Realtime controll during physics simulation and rendering.
Use in the media industry

Blender started out as an inhouse tool for a Dutch commercial animation company, NeoGeo.[citation needed]

Blender has been used for television commercials in several parts of the world including Australia,  Iceland,  Brazil, Russia  and Sweden.

The first large professional project that used Blender was Spider-Man 2, where it was primarily used to create animatics and pre-visualizations for the storyboard department.

"As an animatic artist working in the storyboard department of Spider-Man 2, I used Blender's 3D modeling and character animation tools to enhance the storyboards, re-creating sets and props, and putting into motion action and camera moves in 3D space to help make Sam Raimi's vision as clear to other departments as possible." - Anthony Zierhut,Animatic Artist, Los Angeles.
The French-language film Friday or Another Day (Vendredi ou un autre jour) was the first 35 mm feature film to use Blender for all the special effects, made on GNU/Linux workstations It won a prize at the Locarno International Film Festival. The special effects were by Digital Graphics of Belgium.

Blender has also been used for shows on the History Channel, alongside many other professional 3D graphics programs.

Tomm Moore’s The Secret of Kells, which was partly produced in Blender by the Belgian studio Digital Graphics, has been nominated for an Oscar in the category ‘Best Animated Feature Film’.

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Apple Shake

Shake is a discontinued image compositing package used in the post-production industry. Shake was widely used in visual effects and digital compositing for film, HD and commercials. Shake exposed its node graph architecture graphically. It enabled complex image processing sequences to be designed through the connection of effects "nodes" in a graphical workflow interface. This type of compositing interface allows great flexibility, including the ability to modify the parameters of an earlier image processing step "in context" (while viewing the final composite). Many other compositing packages, such as Blender, eyeon Fusion, Nuke and Cineon, also use a similar node-based approach.
Shake was available for Mac OS X and Linux. Support for Microsoft Windows and IRIX was discontinued in previous versions
On July 30, 2009, Apple discontinued Shake. No direct product replacement has been announced, but some features are now available in Final Cut Studio, such as the SmoothCam filter.


Uses
Shake has been used in such films as Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and King Kong, as well as Harry Potter movies and Cloverfield. It was also used by The Embassy to create a television advertisement for Citroën with a dancing car. Shake was used by Broadway Video for restoring the release of “Saturday Night Live: The Complete First Season” DVD box set. It is also in use by CBS Digital for creating new visual effects for Star Trek Remastered.

Other major productions using Shake include the 2005 adaptation of War of the Worlds, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Fantastic Four, Mission Impossible 3, Poseidon, The Incredibles, Hulk, Doctor Who, The Dark Knight and Pirates of the Caribbean 2.

Shake is also used for video post-production, but in this field Autodesk's Flint, Flame and Inferno systems are usually used in conjunction with Shake for a fast turnaround of projects. Shake's historical strength has been the ability to work better with very high resolution formats such as 2K, 4K and IMAX used in the motion picture industry.

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