Posts Tagged after effects
REIC Logos
Posted by Bryce Randle in Motion Graphics on May 18, 2010
Here is some work that Garrett Smith has done for us recently. Very simple, but great looking logo work in After Effects. We just wanted to remind Garrett that we have a great time working with him.
REIC Write On Logo from Post Fifth Pictures on Vimeo.
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Transparent Graphics in After Effects
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Featured, Post Production Workflow on April 5, 2010
You may be an expert in Avid or Final Cut Pro, but there may have been a couple times where you’ve had to open After Effects to do one quick change. This may have been easy, but in many cases you’ve never opened After Effects before. You figure you know can work your way around in Photoshop so how hard could it be? Well, if you need to send something to the render queue and need to export something with a transparent background, it could be tough.
First you need to learn the terms After Effects uses. When you want to export something with a transparent background the correct term is having an alpha matte. If you export something with only an alpha matte, you won’t see any of your artwork or lower thirds.
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After Effects CS4 Cheat Sheet
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Motion Graphics on January 20, 2010
I found a great resource while browsing Scott Simmon’s blog’s January 2010 linkage. An After Effects cheat sheet. I’m very much a keyboard friendly person while editing and I feel dumb moving to After Effects not being as quick. I am sure this resource will help me out.
http://ae.tutsplus.com/articles/news/adobe-after-effects-cs4-keyboard-shortcuts/
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An Experience with Final Cut Pro, After Effects and Gamma Issues
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Film | Video Editing, Post Production Workflow on January 1, 2010
I’ve put off writing this entry for about three weeks because it was such an awful experience for me. I just finished a documentary and for the SEO sake of it I will refer to it as Hockey Doc. Overall it was a great experience. I finished the edit, locked picture and sent it off to Technicolor to get colored. It comes back, looks great and I plug in the newly colored version into my sequence. While editing the project I created these left or right third graphics that gave biographic information on each of the players, coaches and the others interviewed. So I took the raw file (before color correction mind you) from Final Cut Pro, exported the 7-10 second clip, imported it into After Effects, animated the clip in and out (see the example below) and then spit it back into my Final Cut Pro project.
It all seemed to work really well. That wasn’t the case though.
I got my colored version back, spit the new color corrected versions back into my After Effects compositions and then exported again. I rendered for DVD output using compressor. I burned a master DVD of the project in DVD Studio Pro. It should have just worked, right? Well it didn’t. The color of the After Effects clips would change slightly, becoming a little darker. The graphics also did not slide smoothly across the screen either way. Now normally I would spend a lot more time trying to fix the problem, but I had a deadline. This was on a Tuesday and it needed to be back in Valencia, California on a Thursday morning at the latest. I ended up staying awake until 4 AM trying to figure the issues. Here are a few steps I tried.
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3D Text in C4D Into After Effects
Posted by justinsmith in Blogging on November 3, 2009
Jared Moench | Motion Graphics Reel
Posted by Jared in Motion Graphics on February 16, 2009
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