Steve Whatley's After Effects Cookbook

Plugins for After Effects are a favorite subject of mine, and I am excited to share the news that GenArts has released version 2.03 of their Sapphire plugins. These have become industry standards for anyone serious about effects work. They have been used in movies like: X-Men3, Spiderman and commercials galore. I have included there demo reel here and a basic overview as well.

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The tour is going well, San Francisco, Vancouver and Seattle yesterday. People interested in Cinema 4D and After Effects integration are learning a great deal from this tour, and expanding their services by looking at the unique and seamless workflow offered by Adobe Production Premium. Here is a sample of just one of the Broadcast News open pieces...I will be posting a few tutorials from this tour over the next week. The C4D tutorials will be on the Maxon site. Check out the Flash video

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Well, maybe I spoke too soon. For the most part, my previous post about QT 7.4.1 was accurate, but after launching Encore on the Mac, I found an issue with Flash export. The Windows version of Encore has no problem with Flash Build feature.

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I am now running Quicktime 7.4.1 on my MacBookPro and After Effects and Premiere Pro seem to be running fine. Qt 7.4.1 addresses the issues when using After Effects with QuickTime 7.4. This release is recommended for Adobe customers who are using QuickTime 7.4.

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This is the podcast I did for Terry White's Creative Suite Podcast, It is all about 3D layers, light and Cameras in After Effects. There is also some information on my upcoming tour The Adobe Maxon Power Integration Tour which will show how to integrate 3D files from Maxon's Cinema4D into your workflow. This is a very cool tour and well worth your time. I will be posting video of the tour in small segments so those who don't make it can see the tour. Enjoy!

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