Adobe licencing – Creative Cloud
New licence policy of Adobe calls Adobe Creative Cloud.
This is great, because it is possible to buy licence only for month for accesible price.
Adobe CS6
highlights in After Effects CS6
- 3d tracker
- new workflow of cache
- rolling shutter
- extruding of shape
- raytrace render engine
- BG layer
- bending of layer
and Master and Premium suite will contains Speed Grade.
Davinci Resolver Lite 8.1.1 or 8.2
Amazing, now these lite versions are not so limited.
There are still limits, but it is perfect useable. Now we can use more then 2 nodes and track nodes are working.
SpeedGrade and FrameCycler
We can expect SpeedGrade and FrameCycler in Adobe Master Collection.
Color grading
great free software for color grading is DaVinci Resolver by Blackmagic Design
SA Color Finesse and Tangent Wave
Tangent Wave is controler for color grading. It works well with SA Color Finesse.
Mac Pro 12core 16GB SSD 500GB
Mac Pro 12-core system at up to 2.93GHz 16GB and two SSD
Amazing mashine, but first thing, you have to do, ejeck the damn ATI Radeon HD 5870 with 1GB and plug the one or two nVidia GTX 285. After then you will have online for Premiere Pro CS5, After Effects CS5 and Blackmagic Davinci Resolver.
After Effects CS5.5
two new great tools:
- warp stabilizer – automatic stabilization
- camera lens blur – very fast lens blur, fixed problem with antialiasing on depth pass
fix problem with open exr
project 32bpc and 8bpc or 16bpc plug-ins
When we have 32bpc project, sometimes we need some plug-in which works only in 8bpc or 16bpc.
In case, that it is some pixel over 1 (RGB > 1), all plug-in not 32bpc will clip all highlights.
But it is easy way, what to do.
Here is an example. We have to use Vibrance, but highest highlight is
- HDR compander → compress range → gain=2
- Vibrance – 16bpc plug-in
- HDR compander → expand range → gain=2
problem with .exr and depth pass on PC
If Maya rendering through Mental Ray to open exr only for exmpl. depth pass, AE CS3 or CS5 crashing. Not on MacOS
Solution is, .exr has to have something in RGB channels, actually always use multichannel.
wiki for VFX in After Effects
wiki.aftereffects.cz
Main point of this site is VFX compositing in After Effects and some work flow tips. Do not expect to much motion graphics tips.