Premiere Pro News Notes #01

...is the beginning of a PVC series of as-they-come notes on news of assorted Premiere Pro tutorials, tips, and related tools.

After Effects News Notes #01

...is the beginning of a series of as-they-come notes on news of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins.

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HUD and GUI graphics in 'Oblivion'

...is new at Pro Video Coalition.

Oblivion, a new movie directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Tom Cruise, features a unique mix of practical and digital effects. The HUD and GUI graphics seem to have been mostly shot in-camera after being created by a team lead by Bradley G. Munkowitz, aka GMUNK.

Slideshows in After Effects

is another roundup at ProVideo Coalition.

Despite the clunkiness of Adobe features for creating slideshows (or because of it), there still a steady stream of interest. Traditional slideshows can be easily built with audio in Lightroom and Encore DVD, and with only a little more work you can pull them off in After Effects and Premiere, and go beyond into creative motion graphics. There's a few resources to help in Slideshows in After Effects.

The Story of an Egg: pastured v. cage free

...just what is cage free or free range eggs? PBS shares the work of The Lexicon of Sustainability in The Story of an Egg.

 

Watch 2013 Festival | The Story of an Egg on PBS. See more from PBS Online Film Festival.

Charts and graphs in After Effects

is another roundup at ProVideo Coalition.

On one level creating and animating charts and graphs in After Effects is easy, but it can get tricky quick if you go much beyond transformed shapes or the Write-On filter. Here's a few tools and tutorials that may help get you through and beyond the basics.

A roundup of After Effects roundups

Over on PVC, there's a roundup of AE Portal roundups on topics like fire, scripts, lens flares, light wrap, 3D text, character animation, the Shatter effect, volumetric lighting, muzzle flashes, sky replacements, lens wacking & light leaks, and so forth.

But hey, it's really just a list, now updated:

1. Slideshows in After Effects
2. Charts and graphs in After Effects
3. Vignettes in Premiere & After Effects
4. Sunbursts or radial rays in After Effects
5. Set Matte: a 32-bpc node for After Effects 
6. Volumetric lighting in After Effects
7. The Matrix effect in After Effects
8. Muzzle flashes in After Effects
9. Creating Fire in After Effects
10. Using and creating After Effects scripts
11. Lip Sync in After Effects
12. Remove banding in After Effects
13. The Shatter Effect in After Effects
14. 3D Text in After Effects
15. Lens wacking, free lensing, and light leaks
16. How to Light Wrap
17. LED and Casino light text effects in After Effects
18. Creating snow in After Effects
19. Animate a Photo Mosaic in After Effects
20. Lens Flares in After Effects
21. Seamless edits for jump cuts
22. Adding motion blur in After Effects
23. Colored Light Strokes and Streaks
24. Reflections in After Effects
25. Free Lower Thirds plus Additional Resources
26. Animate a character in After Effects
27. Sky Replacement with After Effects
28. Bleach bypass, cross-process, and other looks for After Effects