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VC Reflect Plug-in Out Soon

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We have developed a fancy new plug-in for After Effects that simplifies the creation of 2D reflections as seen one of our early tutorials. The plug-in offers many helpful new features and a tutorial will be out soon. The best part of all, you get it absolutely FREE.

Patrick should be posting the tutorial sometime tomorrow and the project file will include the Plug-in. Should work with AE 7 and newer and when 64 bit After Effects comes around, we’ll port it as well.

NOTE: Our Easy-Reflect preset will most likely be retired since it lacks many features and relies on awkward recipe.  Look, we had some fun… but I think it’s time we see other people. We’ll still be friends.

ALSO:  QuickMatte, my other pet project, will be out when I have time to explain how to use it fully. I haven’t had a lot of time to dedicate to it with so many projects going on but I will tell you that, everything the plug-in does can be done in AE, it just makes things easier. It will be out soon, I was planning on releasing after the 100th tutorial sometime.

82 RESPONSES TO “VC Reflect Plug-in Out Soon”

by madison reynolds

that is amazing can’t wait

Nice! Looking forward for this one =)

I dont understand the note… Who’s gonna see other people?

Excellent. Will look forward to that tomorrow.

Thanks Guys :)

awesome! can’t wait!

sick man! can’t wait

that looks Amazing Can’t Wait. especially if its free!

Nice!!!. Thank you Andrew!

Good stuff Andrew hope your having a productive week in LA….this is good but still waiting for the lens flares….BTW I got to watch the Star Trek movie for the first time as my location is without a cinema……loved the opening, was that a sapphire plug-in you used for the lens flare in the title?…I use Sapphire all the time its one of my favorites and have just ported it over to AE…..also I could have sworn the movie was littered with YOUR lens flare,,,did you inspire them or vice versa?

What happened to Quickmatte? Is that coming out sometime soon?

NIce looking reflection, thanks :D

Andrew do you know when the quick matte plugin is comeing out? Not that I’m not thankful for this but you said you would release it a momth ago.

Yeah… Quickmatte will be out when I have time to explain how to use it fully. I haven’t had a lot of time to dedicate to it with so many projects going on. I will tell you that, everything the plug-in does can be done in AE, it just makes things easier. It will be out soon, I was planning on releasing after the 100th tutorial.

Thx in advance for this plugin :)

Wow amazing can’t wait

thx

Awesome news. We have missed your coolness. Can’t wait for these plugins and thank you, thank you, thank you! :)

Awesome!

One question bro…. how the heck do you make a 3d room from still images (like that white house one you did)? Also that video of NY with spidey at the end?

Andrew when Optical Flares will be release
and can run on AE 64 bit ?

You are a scholar and a gentleman and a fine judge of goats mr. Kramer.

Thank you for all you do.

Excellent!! you are great!! I can`t wait!

Sweet! An easier way to do something awesome is always welcome :)

cool!!!!!!!!!!
my mmmmmmmmmm…….

Sniff, sniff, please? I’ll change, really!

Awesome work VC team, looking forward to it. Can’t wait for Optical Flares either its gonna be an awesome year!!

Hi Mr.Andrew!!!! That sounds very exciting… Can’t wait for the new plug-in…..

by Peter Somers (TC-Productions)

Great stuff!
Looking forward to it!

Awesome! Can’t wait. Thanks Andrew. Great to have you back man, it was like an empty hole in my heart :)

YES!!!!!! I need a plugin like this for a project I’m working on! THANK YOU ANDREW!!!! Your the best man!

Can’t wait till tomarow!

Great! Looking forward to it!

BUT!!!! Andrew Where is Lens Optical Flares Plugin ??? m waiting for that please some one tel me the time when its coming?

:(

Again a new free plug-in. I definitely can’t wait, but I’m really waiting to see the features of quickmatte

wow!! awesome Sir Andrew!

Can’t To Have it!!

You’re a genius.

CANT WAIT lol
:) TEE
I LUV VC
YAY
YAY
ayyay
ayay

hi andrew this is old tutorial or im crezy?!!!

great, i can’t wait for every things you provide :)

@kawa3d

Yes your right, there was a tutorial about 2D reflections. But this is a NEW plugin for creating reflections quicker, easier and better ;)

hey Ak how did you do that floor…. Im still fairly a newbie to AE! I used particular flipped it on the z axis it doesnt look the same tho…. BUT CANT WAIT FOR THE PLUGIN DUDE KEEP IT UP

Uauuuuuuuuuu !!! Andrew Kramer reinaaaaaaa. É isso ai Andrew, but why you said “but I think it’s time we see other people…”. hauhaau não entendi mano louco. Comments for us.

hey andrew….you are nice, but you know what would make you super-nice is a 3D text extruder plug in that is easy to use [twitch=totally freaking amazing]

@ marcello if you flip particular on its axis it will still look 3d. u mite have to make the floor and precompose it before flippin it

Awesome stuff, as always.

Hello Brother Andrew, Still in L.A.?
This is JAVED BALOCH, I am new to AE, I Didn’t know anything thing about this Software earlier. But Just a Couple of Months Back, I Saw the Introductory Video of the Product “EVOLUTION”, on Youtube and I was Like OMG After Effects Can do this? Meanwhile I rushed to the Software House and Got AE. and Since thn I am Following Your Tutorials.
I hope I will even learn more. God Bless you Brother Andrew.

i don’t even know what plugin is :(

@Tokidoki

A plug-in is A computer program module, a snippet or device that interacts with another machine or software to add a specific function, or to support a specific file format or device. Plugins Basically Helps user to do things the Easy Way. :)

The plugin is a rare bird that lives in the middle of the Great Victoria Desert in Australia.

Utterly rare, can hardly be found because it always sleeps.

Aha, just took time to read the post rules. Sorry, wasn’t really informative..

@tokidoki I cannot agree more with Javed.

Forget the above post, I was messing lol.

Hey Andrew
You always amaze me man.

But I’m madly waiting for Optical Lens Flare.

Interesting, but still lookin’ forward on the optical flares plug ins

by Jack Daniel Jenkins

Very cool stuff, lovin’ that you keep providing us with these awesomely bad@$$ plugins, tutorials and project files. On a completely related note, any news on when the Lens Fare plugin will be up for sale? I was watching the new Star Trek and got a hair up my butt to play with lens flares.. i wonder why that is. =p

jd

Great Andy,

Big fan since the first tutorial.
VC did got bigger indeed!!!

Greeting from Argentina,

looking forward both plug in

Hmmm… FREE??? i love free stuff :-D

@Paul

That’s what I thought too. The credits from Star Trek looked a lot like the lens flare effect. Anyway, good job on this one :)

@Jack Daniel Jenkins He said it was coming out in November but he’s usually a month late so prob mid-December.

I don’t know how you do it…but you are the best!
Thanks for this plugin and other stuff!

Nice!
I await your awesome 100th tutorial!

Greetings from India! :)

waiting for more plugins from the genuis of graphic >>ANdrEw

sounds nice! :)

Awesome, free stuff is always apreciated by everybody.
This is the way Video Copilot will grow even more.

@Javed Baloch thanks man
but one q will it count cheating ???
i think the designing from scratch more professional

awesome…looking forward to this plugin…this will be very useful!!

AWESOME!!… THANK YOU ANDREW

WOW!!! Awesome!!!

can’t wait for it

I wouldn’t be a Dutchman if I didn’t liked free stuff. :D

gr8 as always! :)

i like your new way in the tutorials .seing you inside the tutorials looks very good idea.you are my teacher andrew kramer

after effects is amazing

An early xmas present ! Thank you so much Andrew !

Woot! Thank you in advance!

I often need to reflect multiple layers in 3D space for my projects, and have them reflect properly on the ground (so the semi-transparent reflection doesn’t reveal the layer behind it). I’ve overcome this limitation by precomposing all the 3D positioned elements, turning on collapse transformations, duplicating that layer, then setting the vertical scale to negative on the reflection. This produces a perfect reflection of elements positioned in 3D space. Maybe Andrew’s plugin will support applying it to a precomp with collapse transformations?

awesome plug-in like always

thnk you andrew

by Rick Rodriguez

Andrew, I just wanted to say thanks for your Tutorials.
I can’t express how much i appreciate the free help given on learning these techniques. You have made me look like a pro. please continue what you have been doing which is building an army of new generation VFXers, i hope to pass this information to my son who is also into video effects.

Thanks once again,
rick

lol!
just created some reflections yesterday and they look pretty rough.
dan

by Steve Favaloro

Andrew once again your an absolute time savior! I love the reflection look and I’ve always been used to doing it in Photoshop and importing into After Effects. This will be a greatly useful plugin and thank you very much for putting in the time to develop it.

Steve

really shock about this. .

hahaha. .

great job VCP!

hey. . wat about the bar graph tutorial?

Andrew,,Your Tutorial Very Nice,,,,Ilike Your Tutorial
Very Good

I From Indonesia
Smarinda
Jl.Jahrah

How whas L.A Andrew?

Very cool Plug-in !!!

Mr. Andrew

i like it.

I think VCP is the best source for learning AE. Iv been visiting this site for the past 8 months, watching tuts and buying few dvds. Its too good, Andrew keep up the good work (Y).

Thanks for this tut.

I was looking forward for a jumper effect tut, iv seen many on youtube but im sure what you;re going to make is gonna be the undisputed champion. ;)

Hi, Andrew!
This is a realy great plug-in!
And the best thing is it’s reeeeealy useful.
I was thinking, maybe with a little re-encode you can make another plug-in for making shadows. I think it’s a very similar process: duplicate the instance, fill with black, adjust opacity, make a fall off, blur, etc.
I don’t know, it’s just an idea.
Maybe I’m wrong, so just forget about it.
Anyway, thank you very much for make this great product free.
All the best for you.

Fantastic plugin, using it for a few projects right now in CS3.

However, I’ve had a few failures on render. I seem to have come down to this plugin as the culprit, but only where an item using it is moved off stage. Ie, text or ojects sliding out to the side.
You can detect if the render will fail because in the viewport seeking one frame at a time, the viewport won’t update for two or three frames.
Turning vc reflect off for those items half on and off stage at that time will allow those frames to render in viewport and now not crash the render.

Sure it’s something small, not a HUGE problem, just thought I’d let you know since apart from that vc reflect is fantastic!

Dave

Hi there

looking forward to the Quickmatte plug-in which is coming soon. Thanks for all the hard work. God bless

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