Posts Tagged ‘After Effects’

  1. No comments May 05, 2011 FMX ’11, Day Two Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Computing, Films, Quotes, Reports, Technology

    fmx 2011 ReportI got up after too little sleep and staggered down to the common room for a breakfast — any breakfast. As I was pushing the wrong buttons on the Chinese water cooker for my tea and dropping the butter three times in a row I overhead a conversation among a bunch of young people on a table. I heard “plug-ins” and “Cinema” and “Color Grading” and what not.

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  2. 1 comment Mar 17, 2010 Tutorial: After Effects vs. Nuke Posted in Compositing, Tutorial

    After Effects vs Nuke Tutorial IconYay! Today my second tutorial for AEtuts+ went online. As usual, it was very labor-intense but from the first comments I got on it, it was really worth it. And that people like my hair.

    Feel free to check it out yourself here, where you can also see the sneak peek of it. Now I gotta get some some sleep, just came back from holding a live tutorial on the FH Salzburg. Exhausting, but fun!

  3. No comments Oct 18, 2009 On the comments to my AEtuts+ tutorial Posted in Compositing

    Sniper Scope iconRecently my first video tutorial for AEtuts+ went online. I have mixed feelings about it because I thought they would give it away for free. Instead it launched as a premium tutorial in the first place.
    Don’t get me wrong, I am flattered that it is that way (and the pay didn’t hurt either) but on the other hand this makes me seem like a greedy asshole, who posts a tutorial on a simple effect anybody could figure out for themselves.

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  4. 2 comments Apr 26, 2009 After Effects freezes at startup? Posted in Compositing, Tutorial

    I got this problem occasionally on different machines running Vista when firing up After Effects CS3. When it said “Initializing User Interface” it froze. Sometimes it would start after 15 minutes but, seriously, that’s not how I like to work, although I use any delay to excuse a round trip to my espresso machine. I didn’t find anything about it on the beloved internet so I had to figure it out myself. And here’s what you can do:

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  5. 3 comments Apr 22, 2009 Status Update: Still Alive Posted in Compositing, Dear Diary, Reports, Seph Carissa / texx sound

    It’s been quite a while since my last blog entry. In fact it has been so long, that I had to think twice to recall my password for this sweet blog o’ mine.

    You ask “What’s new? What’s cool?” and I tell you: A lot: I’ve been in the trenches with Nuke and fought After Effects so there’s a lot of stuff I want to show and tell what I’ve learned in the past weeks, not only about VFX.

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  6. No comments Jun 01, 2008 Digital Cinematography Posted in Compositing, Films, Reports, Technology, Video

    Another convention report, my apologies! I haven’t thought that I would be on so many (= two) conventions in the field of digital film in such a short span of time. But attending the Digitale Cinematographie convention this Thursday in Munich was something way out of the ordinary because a little dream never dreamed came true: Seeing my work on the grandeur of a real IMAX theater silver screen.

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  7. 3 comments Mar 14, 2008 The max_result_rect error in After Effects Posted in Computing, Rants, Vista Issues

    Just wanted to let you know: After Effects CS3 is bitchy, unstable and has a bad performance: It crashes suddenly and with no reason, while it stays in RAM and on screen forever when you quit. And it produces errors with gray-scale and/or CMYK PNGs.

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