General Specialist

Tips, tricks and tutorials for visual effects, broadcast design, motion graphics, animation and my other tinkerings in both 2D and 3D. Since I work mainly in Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, 3ds max, Maya and Cinema 4D, that's what I write about. My other ramblings are (also) for free!

2010-04-10

See What I Find at NAB 2010

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I'm at the NAB 2010 show all week, and want to share what I find. Head over to http://generalspecialist.posterous.com/ where I'll p...
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Just Released: Free and Open Source Broadcast Graphics Server

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We’ve finally released the new version 1.8.0b4 of the CasparCG system, a broadcast graphics system that plays QuickTime and Flash out to SDI...
2010-01-20

Great stroll down After Effects' memory lane

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Thanks to Matt Silverman for posting this great video with an informal talk by three of the engineers of Adobe After Effects. SFMOGRAPH - Af...
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2008-12-11

Patches for After Effects CS4 and Premiere Pro CS4

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Don't miss the updates! After Effects 9.0.1 patch for Mac OS X After Effects 9.0.1 patch for Windows Read me file (PDF) Premiere Pro 4.0...
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RED Finally Cuts in Adobe Apps

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While RED has published a picture of the Premiere Pro 1.0 box on their RED Adobe CS4 Installer (beta) page , you'll actually need the n...
2008-12-04

RED's Latest Line-up

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The December 3rd updates to RED's earlier announcements seem to be moving in the right direction. However, I can't really figure o...
2008-11-14

Why the RED cameras won't be seen at pool parties

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If RED was aiming their new Scarlet to be a " DSLR killer ," they missed the mark, unfortunately. I love what RED is doing to the...
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2008-10-09

Learn VFX from the Masters of the Universe

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The world's best supervisors including John Knoll , Scott Squires , John Dykstra , Pablo Helman , Dennis Murren , Mike Fink , Ken Ralson...
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2008-10-08

Watch and Embed YouTube Clips in High Quality

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The term "High Quality" has to be taken with a bucket of salt when we're talking about YouTube, but there's an easy way t...
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2008-08-29

ProRes 422 Codec Finally Cross-platform (Sorta...)

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Before you get all excited about the Apple ProRes QuickTime Decoder 1.0 for Windows , let's remember that you can only render to ProRes ...
2008-08-16

After Effects CS4 Will Not Work on PPC Macs

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The next version of After Effects (CS4) is dropping support for PPC Macs. While this may upset some people, I think it's better to spend...
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2008-08-13

Importing RED (.r3d) Files Into After Effects CS3 and Premiere Pro CS3

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UPDATE 2: It's been a long wait, but it now looks like the plugins will be released on Nov 20th 2008 . UPDATE: Here's a sneak peak...
2008-08-04

Building a Pro Camera Crane / Jib, part 1

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I was once told that my favorite interest seemed to be collecting hobbies. That may be truer than I'd like to admit, and for the last si...
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2008-07-22

Even More Great VFX Courses

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I've been on a long vacation, so I haven't had a chance to write about the new term. I won't bore regular readers who already kn...
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2008-05-11

Phun and Typography 2.0

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Not enough distractions? Here's a couple of ways to seriously kill your productivity: Phun: Real-time Physics Sandbox FontStruct : Onl...
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