Our first Advanced Training DVD will be available on May 20th along with the Series One Tutorial DVD. So now you know!I will be demonstrating the Bullet techniques for Cinema 4D, 3D max and the free multi-platform Blender, including all of the necessary steps to work between After Effects and each program. I'm back from NAB and it was a lot of fun but now I've got to get back to work.

As promised, here is the second tutorial this week with minutes to spare here on Saturday night.

In this new 2-part tutorial you will learn a great method for stabilizing footage in After Effects that smooths the result rather than freezes the tracking center. We will also create smoke flying behind a police car, which is as fun as it sounds.

This one tutorial has many great tips and techniques including, rotoscoping, expressions and matte blending.

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Download the footage and try the technique out for yourself. I'd also like to thank Mark Christiansen for allowing me to demonstrate his stabilize technique in this tutorial. For more information about his great After Effects book Click Here.

PS: Getting ready to go to NAB, more info about the T-shirt contest when I get back.

The short answer is so that more people are able to utilize the project files. Most of the techniques I demonstrate do not require the newer version and I like to focus on core techniques and workflows. I'm sure I'll start using it in my tutorials but I just haven't made the leap.

I do use CS3 for my own work because there are many great new features.

In this tutorial we will use various compositing techniques to create these smoke designs in After Effects, this tutorial also covers a couple new expressions.

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Although we were not able to secure a booth in time for NAB 2008, I will be lurking around the Plug-in Pavilion on Monday and Tuesday. I'll probably be unrecognizable but Sam Loya is going to be with me so look for him and please stop by to say hello. Now if you can count cards, we should really talk