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I found a good tutorial on YouTube by Chad Perkins (of the brothers Perkins …) - it tells you how to export your video from Premiere to iPod.

If you want to put your video on an iPod or cell phones or YouTube, you’re one of those cool podcasters, just own an iPod and Premiere, whatever - this is a good tutorial for you:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1PmGWji4Szk

Chad also outlines how to export from After Effects too, and shows you some of the differences between the two programs.

I like his source footage too. Gotta love that actually-good free domain stuff. Good clip, Chad.  And a good video tutorial.

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One of the funnest.. ahem… most fun new features in After Effects CS3 is the Puppet Tool. It makes animation incredibly easy. If you’ve tried to do character animation before.. especially with something like Flash.. you’ll know how hard it can be to create all those keyframes and then add motion tweens and shape tweens and try not to break them down the road and so on and so forth.  But the Puppet Tool makes it much easier - you’re pretty much clicking and dragging to make things happen, and often you can end up with something that looks really cool.

We already have a couple tutorials on using the Puppet Tool, but another one can’t hurt.  This one combines Motion with After Effects to create an interesting result.

http://library.creativecow.net/articles/geduldick_jim/Motion_AE.php 

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This tutorial covers the essentials of motion tracking in After Effects CS3. You learn how to select a region to track, and then you learn how to have an object follow that region. In this tutorial, you have a block of text follow a sailboat that moves across the screen.

It’s a basic concept to learn, but very handy in creating neat effects in your compositions. Head over to the DVPA site and check it out:

http://www.dvpa.com/public/537.cfm

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In this tutorial, Jacquelin Vanderwood shows you how to create realistic curtains that wave using Adobe After Effects CS3.

Waving Realistic Curtains tutorial

It is a fairly simple tutorial to follow, and includes screen shots of all of the steps you need to take. It also includes a ZIP file download of the original source files.

(7 votes, average: 4.14 out of 5)

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