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Creating A Cool Credit Crawl With Digital Anarchy's Toonit! And After Effects' Levels Effect
About a week ago, I heard another one of my favorite lines from a producer. "Can you create a cool look for our show's credits?" Since I'm always up for a good challenge, I came up with a very interesting look for the end credits for a piece I was working on, and I thought that for this article, I would show a quick and easy way to create a great credit look for any show you are working on. For this tutorial, I am going to use Digital Anarchy's Toonit! and Adobe After Effects' Levels effect. Read More

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Total Training for Adobe After Effects CS3: Keying part 3 and 4
In part 3 of keying, host Ko Maruyama discusses screen mattes as well as inside and outside masks. He also covers foreground colour correction and edge colour correction. He shows how to enable the colour corrector and shows how to change the saturation, contrast, and brightness if you need to. He also details the tools in the Colour Suppression tool, and how to suppress a certain color based on the color values. Read More
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Total Training for Adobe After Effects CS3: Keying
In this clip, host Ko Maruyama covers keying and starts out with an intro to simple keys. He discusses how to prepare shots, such as with live footage and extracting foreground information and leaving the transparent background information as is so you can composite the background information later in After Effects. He also shows how to bring up the different color channels as well as the alpha channel. Read More
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Total Training for Adobe After Effects CS3: Color Range in 3D text
In this clip, host Ko Maruyama covers the color range in 3D text. He works in the camera orbit tool as well as the camera control properties in the timeline. He then shows how to increase the range of color that After Effects can see. He also shows how to change the color channels and explains what each change will do to the project. Read More
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Total Training for Adobe After Effects CS3: Keyframes
In this clip, host Ko Maruyama works with Character offset and Character value offsets. He deetails what will happen when you select character offset or character value. He shows how changing the character values will change the character. He also shows how to offset the values as well by changing the character offset. Read More
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Total Training for Adobe After Effects CS3: Motion Tracker part 4
In this clip, host Ko Maruyama discusses stabilizing data, and uses the tracker controls to stabilize motion. He moves track points on the subject, in this case a moving helicopter to track the data. He also works in the Motion Stabilizer Options window to change the Confidence levels. He also uses the attach point to move the object in order to have a reference. Read More

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