redefinery » consulting http://www.redefinery.com/blog refine+definition+factory = where ideas go to be refined Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:10:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 updated studio techniques for cs4 http://www.redefinery.com/blog/20090106_updated-studio-techniques-for-cs4/ http://www.redefinery.com/blog/20090106_updated-studio-techniques-for-cs4/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:55:25 +0000 redefinery http://www.redefinery.com/blog/?p=101 Mark Christiansen‘s Adobe After Effects CS4 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques book, to which i contributed a Scripting appendix (on the DVD), is now available. the appendix contains an overview of After Effects scripting, breakdowns of three scripts (trim layers to zero opacity, render slates from tab-delimited text, apply light wrap using the recipe from mark’s book), a script to set up the camera projection technique covered in the book, and small updates to the existing Duplink and Merge Projects scripts. be sure to check out contributions from dan ebberts, the man when it comes to expressions, and lloyd alvarez, who continues to crank out awesome scripts, on the DVD.

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in the mean time, check out the latest books from Stu Maschwitz (The DV Rebel’s Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheapbook) and Mark Christiansen (Adobe After Effects 7.0 Studio Techniquesbook) for my latest scripting work. enjoy.

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