Adobe CC 2015 Update

And it's awesome! Adobe are hard at work making their CC applications the best they can be and are probably gunning for the high-end industry, but they still have some ways to go.

At NAB, Adobe announced a new update coming, and uploaded a bunch of videos to their channel demonstrating the new features, including this nice summary:

I'm particularly impressed by the new Character animation tools and the live playback in AE. Face-tracking is also cool, but I probably won't use that very often, much like the mobile applications. Color Tools in Premiere was a long over-due update, although they have the dedicated grading application, SpeedGrade, this makes things a little easier for editors.

Media Encoder is rapidly growing into a powerful standalone application that's reduced my uses of AE's Render Queue. Almost everything I do comes out of Media Encoder.

Let's take a closer look at some interesting new features:

King of Fighters In Real Life

Now that's pretty awesome!

AE | Build a Monuments Timeline with Shape Layers and Expressions

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We'll look at how to build a never ending timeline (or scale) that you can move around to any amount without hitting the edges using Expressions and a built-in effect, how to create the counting time, fast and easy method to extract the monuments and some tips on positioning comps while animating.

Compositing a Screen with Cinema4D and After Effects

Cinema 4D and After Effects do a pretty good job of working together. In this tutorial, we'll look at using tags, render settings and multipass to composite a screen onto a TV with a bunch of stuff in front of it.

Grab the project file and let's get started.