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Today’s big event is a new TemplateMonster’s discount promo that gives you a chance to save up to $1000 on any AfterEffects Logo Reveal buyout/unique order.
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AfterEffect products hardly ever go on sale, so if you want some designs to jazz up your e-space with a fabulous motion graphics – be sure to take advantage of a new 50% OFF price for buyout/unique purchases and stock up prior than anyone else will do it. The AfterEffects Logo Reveals would be extremely useful for creating intros, magically animated website headers or the whole site backdrops. And now it’s all going to cost you far less!
The promo discount is however time-sensitive and will be valid starting today and until October 31st 2011 for any AfterEffects Logo Reveal (buyout/unique purchase only). Right now you can pick a template for yourself for a huge 50% discount over. But you’d better get in quick to choose the design that will add a touch of Hollywood to your site! Because once your AfterEffects Logo Reveal template is bought by someone else it will be forever removed from our collection. Go and shop first with the best selection of AfterEffects Logo Reveals!
It’s upon February 14th that we’ve decided to bring you a round-up of Adobe After Effects tutorials to draw inspiration from when designing your own pretty romantic and lovable Valentine’s Day inspired works. With After Effects, this highly popular tool among the designers, you can enhance video production, produce vibrant visual effects as well as dynamic and expressively animated motion and web graphics. There’s no doubt that all people should adopt this perfect opportunity to create something fanciful, elegant, and imaginative for year’s loving event. Then, here goes the compilation for you:
Evolution Preview
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How to Create Glowing Elegant Lines
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Today’s choice for showcasing is a round-up of seriously impressive sports opening intros that proceed with some major global sporting events. The following offering comprises a set of outstanding After Effects motion graphics that are sure to take a leading stance in the sport TV or web marketplace. Those are intros to the sports shows, opening sequences for TV programs, idents for sports coverage and announcements that bring you awesome motion video along with spectacular special effects. So let’s scroll them down and see how they push the elegant style and professional technique to come out with eye-catching sporting sequences. Any your feedback would be highly appreciated.
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You all know by now that the video professionals that normally produce the beautiful AfterEffects templates that you can purchase at TemplateMonster are kindly sharing their priceless After Effects experience. This time it’s going to be about how to manage the colors of the video effects you work with. And there are two difficulty levels presented here – Basic and Advanced. Enjoy!
Basic
1. Tint
This effect transforms full-color image into a two-color one. You should notice that all dark tones will have color #1 and light tones will have color #2. Using white fractal with transparent background will give opportunity to change the color of the one-color animation into anything you want.
As you may know any parameter that has stopwatch icon could be animated. Tint allows color animating – it means while animation will played the color may be changing. By changing the amount parameter you can tint your color (by setting 30% value for this parameter).
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2. Hue/Saturation
The Hue Master will shift all your colors – it means that changing the hue value will shift the color scale (this scale shows what color will correspond the old color in the image).
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By checking the Colorize box you can turn on three options from the bottom of a panel. Colorize value creates one color tint effect similar to Tint. The Range channel shows the current tone color. Please note that this function can not be applied for black and white colors.
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For those of you guys who have purchased one of our After Effects Video products or have just had a chance to work with Adobe After Effects software it won’t be a big secret that the render speed influences the entire process of creating video effects.
Rendering is an essential operation that you have to perform to finalize your work in After Effects. So, we’ve decided to share the experience gathered by TemplateMonster video professionals and support team and provide you with some useful tips that will help you increase the rendering speed (based on the official help info from Adobe). These suggestions will save your time, money (because a) time is money and b) you won’t need powerful hardware) and improve your general After Effects skills as well. So, let’s start.
1. Improve Performance Before Starting After Effects
- Make sure that you’ve installed the current version of After Effects, including any available updates. To check for and install updates, choose Help > Updates from the top menu in After Effects.
- Make sure that you’ve installed the latest versions of drivers and plug-ins, especially video card drivers. To download updates for drivers and plug-ins, go to the provider’s website.
- Quit applications that are not necessary for your work. This may include some applications that start automatically when the operating system starts.
- Make sure that your system includes a display card that supports OpenGL 2.0 or later. Though After Effects can function without it, OpenGL accelerates various types of rendering, including rendering to the screen for previews
- Adjust the size of the virtual memory paging file (Windows only). Virtual memory enables the system to use hard disk space to store information normally stored in RAM. Windows manages virtual memory using a paging file. To improve performance in After Effects, adjust the size of the paging file to a maximum of twice the amount of installed RAM—the default in Windows XP.
- Defragment all hard disks regularly. See the documentation for your operating system for details.
- Make sure that your system has enough RAM. Optimum performance is achieved with computer systems with at least 2 GB of installed RAM per processor core. See the documentation for your operating system and computer for details on how to check the amount of installed RAM and how to install RAM.
- Stop or pause resource-intensive operations in other applications, such as video previews in Adobe Bridge.
- When possible, keep the source footage files for your project on a fast local disk drive. If your source footage files are on a slow disk drive (or across a slow network connection), then performance will be poor. Ideally, use three fast local disk drives: one for source footage files, one from which the application runs, and one for rendered output.
2. Improve Performance By Simplifying Your Project
By simplifying and dividing your project, you can prevent After Effects from using memory and other resources to process elements that you are not currently working with. Also, by controlling when After Effects performs certain processing, you can greatly improve overall performance. For example, you can avoid repeating an action that needs to happen only once, or you can postpone an action until it is more convenient for you.
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We’ve started posting our small tutorials for Adobe After Effects beginners – that in turn was inspired by the launch of After Effects Logo Reveal animations. Judging from the first post success you really like those tutorials so today we’re rolling out a new portion of them (not to mention the fact we’ve been planning to publish a second part from the very beginning).
And of course today we’re also sharing a nice little freebie in the end of the post. So make sure you stay with us and read the tutorials to get to the freebie. Here go the tutorials:
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Picture Breaking Into Pieces
(based on animation from Dynamic Flash Photo Galleries presentation)
- Create new composition 730х411, 5 sec, 30 fps, Square pixels
- Create a new layer
- Apply Trapcode Particular
- Place a picture that will be breaking into the composition and make this picture’s layer 3D. In the Particular settings set this layer as an Emitter
- Apply settings as shown below
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You may have heard we’ve recently launched these beautiful After Effects Logo Reveals – the most dynamic way for you to display your corporate logo in any kind of video or animation. So we assume not all of you know exactly just how awesome Adobe After Effects is as a software. That is why our video professionals have prepared a couple of basic After Effects tutorials on how to work with After Effects so you could see how simple and efficient it is.
Now please welcome the first of two portions of basic Adobe After Effects tutorials, plus a bonus in the end of the post.
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Particles Flowing Around the Sphere
In these tutorials we use third-party plugin Trapcode Particular 2.
- Create a new composition 512х288, 4 sec, 30 fps, Square pixels
- Create a new layer
- Apply Trapcode Particular
- Apply settings like this:
Hey video fans! Today we’re about to share a little secret to you all – after all our dearest blog audience deserves some cool insider info from TemplateMonster. The thing is we have this new YouTube channel (you may have heard of it by now) and we’re sharing some exclusive video content with our subscribers there. Approximately once a week we publish an AfterEffects intro there, and not just any intro – it’s got to be the intro that has not yet been made available for general TemplateMonster audience. Take a look at this week’s one:
Looks nice, huh? Once it goes live at our website there will be a 15% discount available on it – just type “youtube” on checkout to have the price reduced for any of our AfterEffects intros. Plus, very soon we’ll start publishing the video testimonials from TemplateMonster customers there and guess what – you can also become a star of TemplateMonster YouTube channel AND receive a 50% discount for that. That’s right – we give out a 50% discount to our customers for making a video testimonial about how great their experience of working with us was! Feel free to check out more details on this promo and don’t hesitate to share your own video testimonials!
If you ever struggled with AfterEffects and need to brush up your skills, than here is the list of highly effective video tutorials to get started with. They will guide you through advanced and challenging aspects of massively popular AfterEffects multimedia application. Plus you’ll be able to master this software to create compelling effects and deliver unmatched creative power for film and broadcast, video productions or animated web graphics.
Get into the multimedia field with truly professional standards. To begin getting the very most out of powerful AfterEffects please review the sections below to view helpful video tutorials. With thorough understanding they provide, you will be able to easily solve some of the trickier design aspects. Feel free to experiment and enjoy the new AfterEffects masterpieces.
Glass Orbs
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Knowing Earth
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