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Atmosphere plugin for after effects

Digieffects launches Atmosphere plugin for After Effects Digieffects has launched Atmosphere, a new After Effects plug-in for simulating atmospheric conditions. The plug-in is capable of generating haze and fog effects within videos, while several configuration options allow users to adjust the effects depending on lighting and distance to the camera. Layers [...]

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Avatar, StarTrek, District9 get visual-effects Oscar nods

As usual, the Academy chose just three films as visual-effects nominees. That number seems smaller this year, given that it’s the first time that 10 movies were singled out as the potential best film of the year. Still, to those who follow visual effects, there’s probably little shock this morning in the fact that the three [...]

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How to clone people in after effects

I found this video tutorial on you tube on doing a cloning special effect A very easy tutorial on cloning in after effects  (youtube user: videofxuniverse) —————————————————————————————————————- A quick tutorial video on doing a cloning special effect with a hand off between clones (youtube user: helishorn) —————————————————————————————————————- How To Clone Yourself In After Effects. (youtube user: techsupportgonebad) That’s all folks…bye

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List of free compositing/editing tools

Avid Free DV (Geedie says XP only): Avid Free DV is simply a streamlined version of Avid’s professional video editing software and has many limited capabilities. Once you’ve had a chance to familiarize yourself with the Avid editing interface we recommend upgrading to Avid Xpress DV or Avid Xpress Pro where you will benefit dramatically [...]

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