Missed last Thursday’s live training event?

A must-see for anyone who uses Adobe Premiere Pro. Add fully animated 3D titling (and in this case, titles that shatter) to your editing arsenal with the combined power of BCC 8 and Premiere Pro. Bohus Blahut, Director of Chicago-based production company The Vantage Point, gives you a step-by-step breakdown (along with quick cheats) of the creative control and options available to you – all within Premiere Pro.

Watch the replay now.

Plus, download the original project file to follow along.

Thursday, August 29th, 1pm EST/10am PST (Click here for your time zone.)

Find out how to create high energy, 3D animated opening title sequences for your next tv or reality show right within Adobe Premiere Pro. All you need is Boris Continuum Complete filters specially designed to work with Adobe Premiere Pro. 

Bohus Blahut, director of The Vantage Point production company in Chicago, whose client list includes The Colbert Report, BBC, MTV, and PBS, guides you through the step-by-step process using BCC Extruded Text as the focal point.

You’ll end up with a rich, multi-layered template with titles exploding out of titles (!), video mapped to the front of the text, and animation inside virtual cameras – all without leaving Premiere Pro.

Register today.

All attendees are automatically entered into a raffle to win a BCC AE 8 license – a $995 value! 

Missed our live training event?

Learn from Creative Cow leader and Toronto-based Avid editor, Kevin McAuliffe, as he delves deeper into Avid FX 6. In one hour, you’ll discover how to convert bitmaps to vector (extremely handy when a client gives you a jpeg!), clone, create write-on effects, and lots more.

What people are saying:

“I’m an Apple Motion and After Effects user who is new to Avid and Boris. This was very helpful, thank you! I’d love more training like this!” 

“I enjoy Kevin’s lessons immensely. I always listen to his wonderful and informative lessons several times. I have learned lots and lots of new stuff from him.” 

Watch or download the webinar replay.

Date: Thursday, June 27th, 2013

Time: 1pm EST/10am PST (Convert to your time zone.)

Perfectly timed with the new Avid FX 6.3 release, Toronto-based Avid editor, Kevin P. McAuliffe, will be demonstrating the following features in Avid Media Composer: 

• Clone Paint – Use the paint tool and the Optical Stabilizer to clone one portion of a clip onto another portion.
• Image Paint – Use an image hose to spray paint images along a paint path.
• Paint On Mattes – Create a more believable composite by painting directly on the matte.
• EPS Import and Extrusion – Import a vector EPS file, extrude the vector file to create a 3D Object, and animate the 3D Object in 3D space.
• Raster to Vector Conversion – Convert a raster tiff file into a vector file, and extrude the vector file into a 3D Object animated in 3D space.

Plus, one lucky attendee will win a Final Effects AVX license! (Value: $895)

About Kevin P. McAuliffe

Kevin McAuliffe is a Senior Editor at MIJO, in Toronto, Canada, working in HD post production. He has been in the television industry for over 13 years, and cuts on the latest versions of Avid Media Composer and Apple Final Cut Pro. He also spends a chunk of his days in Adobe After Effects, which he has been using since version 3.5. Kevin’s HD onlining credit list includes concerts for Coldplay, Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies, Snow Patrol, Sum41, Paul Anka, Il Divo and Pussycat Dolls. Kevin is an instructor of Advanced Final Cut Studio at the Toronto Film College and has worked for Discovery Channel Canada and HGTV Canada as both an offline and online editor.

If you couldn’t join us for last Thursday’s training event, featuring motion graphics expert John Dickinson of Motionworks, take an hour to improve your movie trailer graphic skills.

Using the gritty “End of Watch” trailer as your guide, John teaches you how to quickly grab the attention of your potential audience with BCC 8 and Adobe After Effects.

Highlights included: Integrating 3D text into a scene using textures & shadows, combining BCC Damaged TV with BCC Mosaic for an edgy look, and pairing BCC Lens Flare 3D with BCC Stage Light for realistic atmospherics. Plus 10 more BCC 8 filters!

Here’s what people are saying:

“Each webinar host always gives us a gift of his or her fundamental approach
to tackle a project. In this webinar, John Dickinson made a comment about creating several mask layers and using these layers as adjustments. Way too cool!”

Watch it now.

Don’t have BCC 8 yet? Download your free 14-day trial.

You only have a few minutes to grab the attention of your potential audience. Join motion graphic expert John Dickinson as he demystifies the complex process behind creating an action-packed movie trailer using Adobe After Effects and the Boris Continuum Complete 8 effects package.

Filters covered include: Extrude Text, Lens Flare, Stage Light, Film Glow, Damaged TV, and many more.

All registrants are automatically entered into a raffle to win a FREE BCC 8 license – a $995 value!

About John Dickinson

Based in Sydney, Australia, John Dickinson is a cutting-edge motion graphics artist who is in demand. As Senior Broadcast Designer at Foxtel (foxtel.tv) and ambassador and presenter for Adobe Australia, John delivers highly creative yet commercially relevant motion graphics solutions. With Motionworks, John combines 15 years of industry experience with a proven teaching ability to provide high quality learning resources that encourage and challenge participants to break through to new levels of excellence and impact in their work.

If you couldn’t join us for last Tuesday’s training event with Steve Holyhead of Bloomcast, use your next lunch break to learn something new. Steve’s engaging presentation shed light on three everyday VFX problems, Pan & Zoom, Beauty Pass, and Transitions, which he solves using an array of filters from the BCC 8 AVX package.

Highlights included: a Ken Burns style pan & zoom with no key framing needed (!); a 1-2-3 step approach (BCC Smooth Tone, BCC Film Glow & BCC Film Grain) to giving your talent that Hollywood glow; and the power of BCC transitions – quick, easy, and versatile.

Plus, get a sneak peak of the soon-to-be released BCC v8.2 AVX with up to 100% improvement in render time, the additions of lots more “green dot” effects, and enhanced real-time performance.

Watch it now.

Here’s what people are saying:

“Thank you so much for one of the best planned and timed presentations/webinars to date. Kudos to Steve Holyhead for his excellent preparation and clear presentation.”

“Love your stuff – Great for adding a little spice or completely altering a clip or transition!”

When: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 @ 1:00 pm Eastern Time

One lucky attendee will win a Final Effects Complete AVX license!

Join Steven Holyhead as he teaches you the ins-and-outs of creating vfx that you’ll use daily. From generating a Ken Burns-style pan and zoom to making your talent look Hollywood glam with a beauty pass to quickly creating highly stylized transitions, you’ll learn how to efficiently and effectively produce a more professional look, while also discovering some of BCC’s unique features.

About Steven Holyhead

Steve’s education began with 16mm film, and he transitioned to videotape when he started his career in television. In Toronto in the mid 1990s, he edited his first TV series using Avid Media Composer. Steve quickly became an expert user of Media Composer and other non-linear editing systems, and he began training others in how to use them. He is known for masterfully synthesizing complex information into a plain-English, user-friendly learning experience.In 1999, Steve post-produced and edited Wilfred, one of the very first UK 35mm digital intermediate (DI) projects. Since 2000, through his work in the Hollywood and Burbank production communities, Steve has become an expert in HD cameras, film and DI processes, file-based production, and visual effects. He has worked for world-class media and technology companies, including Autodesk, Avid, BBC, and Discovery Communications, in addition to running his own company BloomCast.

One lucky attendee will win a one year Adobe Creative Cloud Membership – a $600 value!

Attend this free live training event and learn how to create and customize a variety of professional transitions using Boris FX v10 on the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 timeline. Presented by Adobe Master Trainer and Adobe Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book author Maxim Jago, this live training event will cover the following topics:

• Using Boris FX as a single-track transition
• How to create thumbnails and previews of transitions using your footage in the Boris FX Library Browser
• Customizing factory-installed preset templates
• Building unique custom transitions with Boris FX’s built-in image processing filters
• Sharing transition presets across platforms and host applications
• Installing and customizing third-party transitions

About Maxim Jago
Maxim Jago is a media trainer, stage presenter, and filmmaker as well as an author of several media technology courses and books, including the Adobe Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book. He’s an Adobe Master Trainer, Grass Valley Master Trainer, and Avid Certified Instructor. Maxim developed his own approach to making complex technologies accessible and meaningful for creative minds, called the ESP Teaching System. He presents internationally at media events and conferences, has trained editors all around the world, has been published in magazines and quoted in books, while teaching everyone from schoolchildren to professors, from ABC in Australia to the BBC in the UK. Maxim’s primary focus is on techniques that work in the real world, and he shares his time between teaching and producing films. His forthcoming feature film project, Orpheus Rising, based on an award-winning script he wrote, is currently in development.

One lucky attendee will win a one year Adobe Creative Cloud Membership – a $600 value!

Attend this free live training event and discover project-saving methods of restoring and touching up images in Adobe After Effects. Presented by Michele Yamazaki, author of “Plug-in with After Effects: Third Party Plug-in Mastery”, this live training event will cover the following topics:

• Saving shots with skin blemishes or substandard makeup
• Removing moving foreground objects from shots
• Noise and grain reduction
• Repairing flicker, damaged pixels, or dust
• Scaling SD to HD, HD to 2K, or even 2K to 4K while maintaining image integrity

About Michele Yamazaki
Michele Yamazaki is VP Marketing & Plug-inologist for Toolfarm, a value added reseller and distributor of visual effects software. She recently wrote Plug-in with After Effects: Third Party Plug-in Mastery, published by Focal Press. In 2009, she co-authored Greenscreen Made Easy: Keying and Compositing Techniques for Indie Filmmakers with Jeremy Hanke. Michele started at Postworks as a motion graphics artist in 1995 and worked there for a decade before joining Toolfarm. She also taught Adobe After Effects and Photoshop at Kendall College of Art & Design. In 2001 she launched AEFreemart.com and in 2002 co-founded the West Michigan Animation and Effects User Group. She is the former president of MCA-I Mid-Michigan and a former board member of West Michigan Film & Video Alliance. Michele has a BA in Communications from Grand Valley State University.