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.

Over 30 new effects and many enhancements in version 2.
Includes support for Adobe CS3 and Smart FX.
Support for Mac OS 10.5 Leopard and Mac Intel hardware.
Support for Windows Vista.
More than 200 total plug-ins for image processing and synthesis.
All plug-ins have multiple options and parameters that can be adjusted and animated for creating an unlimited range of effects.
Resolution independent, antialiased, high quality images.
Online hyper-linked documentation for all plug-ins.
Dual, Quad, and 8-core support for faster rendering.
On-screen user interface for visual control of parameters in After Effects and Premiere Pro.
Only one license is needed to use the plug-ins with all AE compatible applications on the same computer.
Free network rendering on After Effects

I am will be looking at these effects and cranking out a few demos of my favs.

for more information: www.genarts.com/sapphire-ae.html

Posted by Steve Whatley at 12:58 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Steve Whatley at 03:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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.

Everything works fine on the Mac except when you do File>Build> and choose Flash to create a Flash website. DVDs build fine but not the Flash build feature. We are looking at what QT 7.4.1 broke for us and a fix is on the way.

Thought you should know, we will update soon as we get the fix in place.

Thanks for bearing with us.

Posted by Steve Whatley at 02:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)