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Here's How to Upload Long-Form Content to Instagram's New IGTV Platform
It looks like vertical video is here to stay. Instagram just introduced IGTV, an all-new tool giving users the option to upload long-form vertical videos. IGTV is available within the standard...
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Take Your Typography to the Next Level with These 10 Plug-ins for After Effects
Up your graphics game with these add-ons. Creating compelling motion graphics with text is one of the main uses of Adobe After Effects. While you can accomplish a lot with the default text tools if...
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Here's How You Can Learn to Make a Movie (By Making a Movie)
This no-budget fantasy short teaches us that one man's trash is another man's spaceship. The Gapvoid is a short fantasy film that follows Black, an intergalactic smuggler who gets into trouble while...
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Watch: How to Make Your Own Compact Dimmers
Take control of your lighting with this cool DIY project. It's easy to spend a lot of money when you're investing in lighting equipment. There are, however, plenty of budget-friendly options. If...
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How to Add a Timecode Stamp to Your Premiere Pro Exports
It’s time to make time for timecode. Premiere Pro gives you a number of different ways to work with timecode. For example, you can throw the Timecode effect on individual clips to show source...
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Here's a Sneak Peek at Adobe After Effects CC v2019
Adobe's upcoming release of After Effects is packed with new features. While After Effects 2019 isn't scheduled for release until later this year, Adobe just unveiled all of the new features that will...
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Say Hello (and Get Upgraded) to Mocha Pro 2019
New, improved, and so 2019. Mocha Pro version 6 is here, and it’s going by a new name: Mocha Pro 2019. Boris FX has decided to name the program by the year for good reason. Starting now, the company...
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Learn Your Way Around Photoshop with These Keyboard Shortcuts
It's time to speed up your workflow in Adobe Photoshop. Working in the world of video post-production, I occasionally find myself using Adobe Photoshop. Sometimes it’s to retouch a photo for a...
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Check Out the New Puppet Tools in the Upcoming Release of Adobe After Effects...
Adobe's new Puppet pin tools offer new opportunities to create dynamic animations. The Puppet tool inside of After Effects is extremely powerful. The problem is that it can be a bit complicated to...
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How to Use the New Responsive Design Feature in After Effects 2019
Quickly speed up your motion graphics workflow with new responsive design tools. Adobe has introduced a handful of new tools in the 2019 version of After Effects, with one of the most powerful being...
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How to Use the New Adobe Fonts in Premiere Pro and After Effects
Adobe Typekit is now Adobe Fonts, and it's FREE. Earlier this month Adobe released Creative Cloud 2019, introducing major upgrades across all of their popular software applications. One of the most...
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How to Create Comic Book Style Speech Bubbles in After Effects
Get your characters to "speak up" with these motion graphics. Comic book style speech bubbles are extremely easy to create in Adobe After Effects, and it's all done with shape layers. Let's have a...
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How to Edit Video for Instagram in Premiere Pro
Up your Instagram game in Premiere Pro with these tips. In this tutorial, we’re going to take a closer look at how to properly work with Adobe Premiere Pro footage that’s destined for Instagram. If...
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How to Make Your Spidey-Senses Tingle in After Effects
'Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse' is a feast for the eyes. The animated web-slinger is currently in theaters and watching the film is like strolling through a comic book. Halftone, text bubbles and...
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10 Plugins to Add to Your Adobe After Effects Arsenal in 2019
Supercharge your After Effects experience with these plugins. Do you ever find yourself struggling with how to use Adobe After Effects? Whether you're a newbie or a seasoned veteran, plugins can bring...
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Create Beautiful and Realistic Animations with Google Earth Studio
Explore and capture amazing videos of Earth without ever leaving your office. You’ve probably already seen Google Earth animations in documentaries or on the news. These videos are generally created...
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How to Use Google Earth with Adobe After Effects
With Google Earth Studio and Adobe After Effects, compositing has never been easier. Google recently introduced Earth Studio, a browser-based animation tool that allows users to create, customize, and...
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Reimagine Your Workflow and Put a Stop to Endless Revisions
Keep your clients in check (and your collaborators happy) with Wipster's review and collaboration tools. Working with clients can sometimes be nice and smooth, and other times it can turn into a...
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How to Extrude Text in Adobe After Effects
Up your 3D game in Adobe After Effects with extruded text. In this tutorial below, l I’m going to show you how to extrude text in Adobe After Effects, without the use of third-party plugins. This will...
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How to Create Animated Maps in Adobe After Effects
Create dynamic and customizable map animations with the GEOlayers 2 plugin for Adobe After Effects. A few weeks ago I reviewed Google Earth Studio, a browser-based animation tool which allows users to...
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Object Removal Made Easy with Content-Aware Fill for After Effects 2019
Perform quick object removal inside of After Effects with this brand new feature. NAB 2019 is here and Adobe just announced the latest updates to Creative Cloud. One of the biggest features is the...
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The New After Effects Expression Editor Goes Beast Mode
If you work with expressions inside of Adobe After Effects, you’re going to be a happy camper. Adobe just announced all of the new updates for After Effects ahead of NAB. While Content-Aware Fill is...
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Wipster Announces Collaborative Audio Review
Editors, musicians, sound engineers, and podcasters can now share feedback on audio files using Wipster’s interactive annotation tools. Wipster, renowned for its cutting edge video feedback platform,...
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Learn How to Use Adobe Premiere Pro in 15 Minutes
New to Adobe Premiere Pro? Then you're in the right place... This tutorial will give you a basic overview of how to edit video with Adobe’s Premiere Pro editing software. In just 15 minutes you’ll...
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Testing Out Aputure's Budget-Friendly Mini LED Lights
Get amazing lighting on a budget with Aputure's Amaran series of LED lights. Since 2005, the nice folks over at Aputure have been determined to create professional-grade equipment at an affordable...
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How to Retouch Skin and Apply Digital Makeup to Video
Learn how to smooth things out with Beauty Studio from Borix FX. What is Beauty Studio? When you’re retouching a single photograph, isolating an area of skin is usually pretty straight forward. When...
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Take Control of Numbers in Adobe After Effects with Digit Fiddler
Whether you’re creating complex infographics or you just want to add a simple countdown timer to your video, the Digit Fiddler plugin for Adobe After Effects can help. If you’ve ever worked with...
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The Pins & Boxes Plugin for After Effects Simplifies Text Animation
Quickly create complex motion graphics with this powerful After Effects plugin. Last week I reviewed a tool that helps you work with numbers inside of Adobe After Effects. The Digit Fiddler plugin...
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Animate to the Beat in After Effects with BeatEdit
Did you hear that? It's the sound of a powerful animation workflow. I love animating graphic elements to a good track of music. Over the years I've used a number of methods to make this work. There's...
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An Affordable and Easy To Use Solution for Subtitling in Adobe After Effects
Meet the Script Fighter plug-in. Adding subtitles to a video can be a tedious and time-consuming experience. Not only do you have to listen and transcribe everything that you want to put on screen,...
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Step Up Your After Effects Game with 3,600 Assets from Create Pack
Speed up content creation with the Create Pack extension for Adobe After Effects. As a content creator in 2019, you will many times find yourself publishing videos on a number of different platforms....
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Create Animated 3D Map Routes with This Easy After Effects Plugin
Maps are fun. Whether you’re an animator, a travel vlogger, a meteorologist, or a documentarian, an animated map can give your production value a boost. Creating one, however, can require quite a bit...
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Take Control of Your Cameras in Adobe After Effects with HandyCam
Simplify your 3D workflow in Adobe AE with this fun new camera tool. Working in After Effects' 3D workspace requires some knowledge. Light and shadow aside, the default 3D camera tool comes with...
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How Adobe After Effects Can Help You Make Dynamic Path Animations
The foxReveal script for Adobe After Effects allows users to create dynamic and complex path animations with just a few clicks. Here's how it works. In this tutorial, we will be creating a simple...
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Create a Looping GIF and Win Over $4,500 in Video Prizes
First things first: Is GIF pronounced with a hard G? Or is it "jif," like with the popular brand of peanut butter? Look, there have been excellent arguments for both sides. For example, the word...
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Circle the Globe in After Effects with 3D Earth Connections and Video Copilot
Map route animations have never been this much fun or this easy. With 3D Earth Connections users can quickly create custom point to point animations on a 3D globe. It’s as simple as typing in two...
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How to Create and Animate a Custom Google Map
Want to create your own map and bring it to life? In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a custom Google Map animation. First, I’ll add markers and a route to a map inside of Google My...
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Import Social Media Posts and Edit Them However You Want
This is huge if you need to put social media content on a screen. Social Importer allows you to import posts from Instagram and Twitter into After Effects, then split all of the elements into...
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Mark Your Calendars for Aputure's Free Lighting Masterclass
Learn all about RGB lighting in this free masterclass from Aputure and Quasar Science. If you happen to be in Southern California this week, Aputure is holding a free masterclass all about RGB...
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14 Plugins to Add to Your After Effects Arsenal in 2020
Expand your creative possibilities with these premium plugins for Adobe After Effects. Whether you’re an After Effects newbie or a hardened veteran, plugins and extensions can make life easier. From...
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How to Create Vox Style Maps in Adobe After Effects
Want to emulate Vox-style map animations? Here's how. When it comes to animated maps, Vox is the gold standard. Their Vox Atlas series is especially map heavy, and if you aren’t watching, you should....
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7 Ways to Create Maps in Adobe After Effects
Learn how to create dynamic map animations in Adobe After Effects with these 7 tools. Whether they are template projects, plugins, scripts, or standalone applications, there are a number of tools...
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Here's How to Calculate the Cost of Shooting Any Video Format
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to calculate the per-minute cost of shooting any video format in three easy steps. It costs me 88 cents to shoot and store just 1 minute of Blackmagic RAW...
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Video: Learn How to Give Your Motion Graphics Texture in After Effects
In this step-by-step tutorial, we'll take a look at how to use displacement maps and blend modes to add texture to motion graphics elements in Adobe After Effects. Displacement Maps can seem quite...
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Light Film Noir Shots with a Projector and Adobe After Effects
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create the classic film noir light look... in an unconventional way. Here's what I'll be using to bring this shot to life: Atmosphere AerosolBlackmagic Pocket...
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How Smooth is Zhiyun's Smooth X 2-Axis Gimbal?
While Zhiyun's Smooth X isn't so smooth, it certainly packs a punch for the price point. Love or hate them, gimbals are all the rage right now. If you’re one of the crafty creators shooting short...
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Is the New AI-Powered Roto Brush 2 in After Effects Any Good?
Will artificial intelligence save you from carpal tunnel? With the latest release of After Effects (version 17.5), Adobe has officially rolled out the much-anticipated Roto Brush 2. This new and...
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15 Plugins to Add to Your After Effects Arsenal in 2021
Whether you’re a newbie or a seasoned After Effects veteran, a good plugin can help get the job done. Plugin creators from around the world are consistently putting out new tools to make both your...
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The Easiest Way to Rotoscope in 2021
Harness the power of machine learning and simplify your rotoscoping workflow with Runway ML's Green Screen app. Rotoscoping has always been a painstakingly slow process, requiring relatively expensive...
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How to Replace Media for Essential Graphics Using Premiere Pro and After Effects
Adobe released their latest updates to Creative Cloud and Premiere Pro. After Effects users... get ready to rejoice. Of all the included new features, my favorite is one that's certainly long overdue...
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