March 2008 Archives

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.

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

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.