FX Console is one of those now indispensable enhancements for After Effects. In addition to easily searching for effects and presets to apply, it also serves as a gallery for taking, comparing, and exporting screen shots of your comps. KBar is another great extension to create custom toolbars …
Sometimes you want to select a group of layers in After Effects, and just move them all to the current time indicator and keep their relative timing. So you think ”I’ll just hit [ and move them all!” Only then you’re immediately hitting undo as you notice all …
Update: Turbulent Wipe is now a Fractal Wipe and part of Conigs Mixtape complete with a custom controller! Download it today! Last week I posted on Twitter about an effects stack for a less boring linear wipe. Enough people asked for a preset, so you'll find the base …
A lot of bounce expressions rely on either setting parameters like frequency and decay, leading to guess work for when bounces will end or how long they'll last. Or the expression will settle the bounce on the last keyframe, giving you no real idea how fast the object will …
Part of my everyday gear includes a Wacom. At home and my previous jobs, that would have been my personal Intuos 4. At Code 42, I received a brand new Intuos 5 which includes touch gestures, similar to a trackpad. Unfortunately, those gestures just don't work reliably. And …
Is there that one menu command you always use in After Effects and wish there was a keyboard shortcut? In the past, there were cumbersome methods of modifying a text file buried in the filesystem to change things. But there's a much easier way: System Preferences: Keyboard & …
Last week I was working on a retail spot where we needed a product that wasn't shot on-figure. But we did have a shot of a similar product. It just needed a little work. This is what I mean by "a little:" I'm pretty pleased with the end …
If you've worked on commercial project, you know there's only one constant: change… especially at the last minute. One of the things that seems to frequently change is color choice. If you have a complicated AE animation and many layers that use the same colors, this can be …
With so many newspapers seeing decline in their physical circulation, it's nice to see a paper like the New York Times embracing the flexibility of content that the Internet can offer. Recently, their After Effects workflow was posted on digitalartwork.net. It's a little rough and they fully admit …
UPDATE: Humble pie. I already had to fix a pretty critical bug. Post Haste 1.0.1 has just been released. One of the more tedious tasks in post, with the exception of rotoscoping, is just setting up a project. A while back, we discovered the usefulness using a template …