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Free AE Titles & Graphics

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These Poly Titles bring a hint of abstract, customizable animation to your titles, logo, or any footage you wish to include into your project.

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Attach Text to the Ground in After Effects

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Learn how to make your text stick to the ground using the 3D camera tracker in After Effects. Source: Cousteau Christopher: http://tinyurl.com/hjg5onr

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Camera Settings Before You Shoot

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When you embark on any video project, the path from inception to a finished project requires making a vast number of decisions that will affect the look and feel of your project. When you fire up your camera, you’re immediately

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Free After Effects Templates

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Impressive, customizable, easy to integrate. Get these amazing templates and elements for free and elevate your video projects. Download the After Effects templates today!

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Great Hyperlapse with any Camera

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The biggest downside to timelapses is that you usually have to remain in a single location (motion timelapses excluded). This is where a hyperlapse comes in and changes all that. You can take a timelapse and ramp it up by

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10 Production-Saving Accessories

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Inclement weather, dead batteries, missing assistants, cars that break down, tripod legs that snap, shoots being delayed for hours, getting kicked off of locations, duck attacks in short… knowing what will eventually go wrong and being prepared for it is

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Free Plugins

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CoreMelt makes over 50 free plugins and motion templates available for FCP X. These include: LUTx Basic, SliceX powered by Mocha and CoreMelt Motion Templates.

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How POV affects your Filmmaking

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Different POVs (points-of-view) can invoke vastly different emotions, so it’s important to be able to distinguish between them for maximum effect on your viewers.

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Logging Interviews in FCPX

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A list of 7 tips that make FCP X an exceptional tool for logging interviews, so you can save time in your edit and tell the most compelling story possible.

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Flow State in Film Making

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Arthur Moore speaks about his ‘Flow State’ when making his top notch videos. “The Zone” he talks about when creating his films is a place of “Limitless Creative Flow”. This guy is very likeable and does amazing things with FCPX.