1. After Effects Scripts
2.Dan Ebbert’s Resource for AE scripting and expressions
3. Creative Cow After Effects Scripting
4. XScriptorium
5. AE Enhancers
Honorable mention
Greymachine’s 5 Favorite Expressions
1. After Effects Scripts
2.Dan Ebbert’s Resource for AE scripting and expressions
3. Creative Cow After Effects Scripting
4. XScriptorium
5. AE Enhancers
Honorable mention
Greymachine’s 5 Favorite Expressions
1. Video Copilot Blog
2. Motionworks
3. Aetuts+
4. Grayscalegorilla
5. VisualFXtuts
6. Maltaannon
7. Graymachine
8. Amateur Media
9. AE Portal News
10. Maxafter
XBreaker is a fantastic plug-in for fracturing geometry by Nitroman. It works with primitives, nurbs objects, splines and polygons. Integrating seamlessly with mograph and modynamics, it takes just a few quick clicks to set up an entire scene. Integrating seamlessly with mograph and modynamics, it takes just a few quick clicks to set up an entire scene. (Requires Cinema4D 11.5 and Mograph)
Download: XBreaker ver. 1.71 (Put the file in maxon/library/scripts)
Nitroman’s official website: Cinema4D Plugins
Pariah Studios: XBreaker updates
Version history: XBreaker forum thread
Tutorial videos: Nitroman’s YouTube
Harry Frank has started a free social network for Motion Graphic designers. The site is called The Motion Exchange and in two days it already has over 350 members. Go check it out for yourself and see what all the buzz is about.
I am pleased to announce that I am now an official AV3 Software affiliate. They are an online motion graphics and VFX plug-in retailer who sells all my favorite third party After Effects plug-ins such as Red Giants Trapcode Suite, Zaxwerks, and DigiEffects to name a few.
I will be producing short sample video clips showcasing the creative power of all their After Effects plug-ins. Stay tuned for more great discussion on AV3 Software.
Have you ever rendered an MP4 on your Mac using the H.264 codec to find that your newly encoded video was washed out? I have been stung by this phenomenon for far too long so I did some research to find the cure to this awful disease.
From my understanding the root of the problem involves an issue between QuickTime and Core Video. Since 2005, the release of QuickTime 7, this problem has resulted in a gamma shift that lightens the video on playback making it look washed out. source
The best solution I found was to render the video using the free x264 VideoLAN encoder. QuickTime can render this out as a .MOV file and ffmpegX can render it out as a .MP4.
Other solutions include changing your color profile settings on your OS, using a different video player that doesn’t utilize Apple’s Core Video such as Nice Player, or there are settings within Quicktime player to correct it:
“Select ‘Show Movie Properties.’ Highlight the video track then click on the ‘Visual Settings’ tab. Towards the bottom left you should see ‘Transparency’ with a drop-down box next to it. Select ‘Blend’ from the menu then move the ‘Transparency Level’ slider to 100%. Right after that, choose ‘Straight Alpha’ from the same drop-down and close the properties window. and finally, ‘Save.’ source
Written by Jeff McIntosh
I just started using a freeware program from Squared 5 called MPEG Streamclip. It is a great program that runs on Mac or Windows for encoding video into a variety of different programs. I have been using QuickTime Pro for many years to encode video and I am tired of the errors I run into when encoding long and high bit-rate video clips. For the past week MPEG Streamclip has been keeping up with my busy work flow by encoding videos quickly, being error free and providing an encoding preview window for piece of mind.
You can use MPEG Streamclip to: open most movie formats including MPEG files or transport streams; play them at full screen; edit them with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Trim; set In/Out points and convert them into muxed or demuxed files, or export them to QuickTime, AVI, WMV, DV and MPEG-4 files with more than professional quality, so you can easily import them in Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Toast 6, 7, 8, and use them with many other applications or devices.
Supported input formats: MPEG, VOB, PS, M2P, MOD, VRO, DAT, MOV, DV, AVI, MP4, TS, M2T, MMV, REC, VID, AUD, AVR, VDR, PVR, TP0, TOD, M2V, M1V, MPV, AIFF, M1A, MP2, MPA, AC3, …
One breakthrough that I made when developing my new website was the ability to track when Shadowbox.js was initiated to view an FLV file. Traditionally the standalone JW FLV Media Player that Shadowbox.js utilizes can call the flashvar “callback” with the value “analytics”. Unfortunately it looks like this flashvar is no longer supported and if it was it would not work because Shadowbox.js uses AJAX to load its player and content.
The premise of the solution comes from Google’s Analytics Help article: How do I track files (such as PDF, AVI, or WMV) that are downloaded from my site? The solution is to place a piece of JavaScript code within the HTML link’s <a> tag. Here is an example that relates to calling Shadowbox.js content from a website:
<a href="myvideo.mp4" rel="shadowbox;width=640;height=480;" onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/videos/myvideo');">Click here to play my video</a>
Here is the breakdown of what is happening: the video myvideo.mp4 is being called to play in my Shadowbox player at a resolution of 640×480. An onclick JavaScript is also being called at the same time telling Google Analytics to track the page view for the category “videos” for the item “myvideo”. The category does not have to be named “videos” however you will want to choose a name that helps keep things organized because this is what will come up in your Google Analytics Top Content Report.
One last note is that you need to place your Google Analytics Tracking code at the top of your page within your <body> tag and not at the bottom. This is necessary because the tracking code needs to be initiated before the onclick Javascript links can work.
Written by Jeff McIntosh
When I heard that Trapcode-people.net was abandoned I was very disappointed. It was a one of a kind community where people contributed there Trapcode plugin presets and allowed users to download them freely. Within the collection were a few very high quality files that became an important asset to my work flow. Whenever I had a project with a new challenge I would always click over to Trapcode-people.net to see if there were any solutions ready to be downloaded. More often than not I could find something that could be adapted to meet my needs. Now with the site gone I am at a loss and I know that other designers are too.
While the site was up I did manage to archive some of the preset files and find more using Archive.org. I want to offer all these files to you and hope that the spirit of Trapcode People will live on.
Here are some of the files the zip contains:
Download file
(Some of the files have errors in them and you cannot open them up directly. The workaround is to import the After Effects project file into an existing project file.)
3d-particle-line.aep, 3Dboxs2.aep, 3dlines.aep, 3dplant.aep, aboveclouds.aep, adifferentkindofsphere.aep, alphabet.aep, atom.aep, aurora.aep, birds.aep, confetti.aep, fireworks.aep, flare.aep, fuzzyflower.aep, glowball.aep, grass.aep, grassfreebie.aep, impacticular.aep, leavesparticular.aep, lines.aep, neon.aep, new_partiulcar_#8.aep, novaticularlux.aep, pyropackpalfireworkscascade.aep, rain.aep, slowrisingdust.aep, spermticular.aep, splaticular.aep, supernova.aep, text2circles.aep, tunnel.aep, volcanolavaexpl.aep.
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