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60 Best After Effects Tutorials Of All Times. We have collected numerous Photoshop Tutorials and we felt the need to showcase some tutorials on After Effects Tutorials as well. As you must know, Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics and composting software, used for post-production of films and videos. It organizes 2D and 2.5D animation, visual effects composting and finishing (image adjustment, color correction etc.). After Effects can also be used as a basic non-linear editor and a media transcoder. The next generation, representing two decades of excellence. This application contains everything you need to create blockbuster visual effects and high-end motion graphics. For those artists whose work demands more than the basic application, There is a Adobe After Effects out of few available tools to satisfy their every needs that utilizes digital motion graphics. After Effects integrates with other Adobe software titles such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Encore, and Flash.

Advertisement 3D Text in After Effects. TriCaster - Accessories | NewTek. LightWave - LightWave Store. Sex in the Ancient Egypt - The Turin Erotic Papyrus. The Best or Greatest Film Scenes and Moments. Basic Glossary of Film Terms. A Basic Glossary of Film TermsAdapted from: Hayward, S. Key Concepts in Cinema Studies (London: Routledge, 1996) Monaco, J.

How to Read a Film (Oxford University Press, 1981) This glossary is divided into alphabetical order. Index Aerial ShotA shot taken from a crane, plane, or helicopter. BacklightingThe main source of light is behind the subject, silhouetting it, and directed toward the camera. Bridging ShotA shot used to cover a jump in time or place or other discontinuity. Falling calendar pagesrailroad wheelsnewspaper headlinesseasonal changes Camera AngleThe angle at which the camera is pointed at the subject: LowHigh Tilt CutThe splicing of 2 shots together. this cut is made by the film editor at the editing stage of a film. Cross-cuttingLiterally, cutting between different sets of action that can be occuring simultaneously or at different times, (this term is used synonomously but somewhat incorrectly with parallel editing.)

Match cutThe exact opposite of a jump cut within a scene. Dymtryk Notes on Editing. A marvelous little book entitled ON FILM EDITING. I re-read it twice yearly. Buy it. Here are my condensed notes on it. To download, option+click for Macs; for PCs, right click: Content, then form. (With the exception of certain musical sequences).

All properly made cuts are unnoticeable. The finer the editor’s technique, the less noticeable her decisions because most cuts are specifically done to pass unnoticed. Never make a cut without a positive reason. Stay with a shot as long as that shot is the one which best delivers the required information. Cut on action whenever possible. Excluding cuts made at the beginnings or endings of sequences and cuts involving exchanges of dialogue, the editor should look for some movement of the actor who holds the viewer’s attention and use that movement to trigger the cut from one scene to the next in order to make the cut invisible.

Cut into and away from a scene while it is still "alive". 10. 15.