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Video Tutorial: Aux Particles in Trapcode Particular 2
Tutor Harry Frank looks at "aux" particles in Particular 2, explaining how they're related to regular particles and showing how they can be precisely controlled to create subtle and unusual effects.
Video Tutorial: Particle Types and Properties in Trapcode Particular 2
Tutor Harry Frank presents an overview of different particle types in Particular 2, how their properties can be set and manipulated over time, and how they might be used to achieve specific effects like sparks and explosions, fireworks, or smoke and fog.
Video Tutorial: Avid Media Composer 5
Avid's Bob Russo highlights some of the new features in Media Composer 5, including native RED and QuickTime support.
Top Spot: The ABC's of Animation
New Zealand's Cirkus Animation uses cheeseball style to satirize (and gently instruct clients on) the review and approval process
Review: Adobe Premiere Pro CS5
Adobe Creative Suite 5 (CS5) has plenty of enhancements, but Premiere Pro received the biggest upgrade of all.
Ten Steps to SLIK Renders Inside Luxology modo 401
This 10-step guide will give you a running start to using 9b's Studio Lighting & Illumination Kit (SLIK) with Luxology's modo 401. SLIK lets you create your own HDR images inside modo as scenes that you can open, customize and save for your own HDR environments and looks.
Design a Title Using Artbeats HD Clips and After Effects
This tutorial, created to showcase a number of new clips from Artbeats, will show you some of the techniques we used here in the Energi Design studio on a recent title design for a foreign documentary called L’automne à Paris.
Review: Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE
The new effects in version 6 include a broad set of text and image-styling filters, including Extruded Text, Type-On Text, Extruded Spline, Layer Deformer, Extruded EPS, DV Fixer, Smooth Tone, Cartoon Look, Charcoal Sketch, Pencil Sketch, Water Color, Pixel Fixer, Lightning, Tile Mosaic, and Swish Pan. The first new filter I tried out was the "pixel fixer," a handy tool that aims to fix every camera owner's nightmare, dead pixels.