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OpenEXR is the advanced floating point image format created at Industrial Light and Magic and the best format to use when working with 32-bit HDR imagery in Photoshop and After Effects. However, Adobe's support for the format is minimal - only with ProEXR can digital artists finally access all the power available in OpenEXR.

Learn how to master smooth text appearances and animation using Offset and Ramp Up settings in After Effects.

We are proud to introduce mocha; a standalone tracking tool based on Imagineer’s unique 2.5 D planar tracking system. Designed as a cost-effective tracking solution with a variety of features mocha affords you the ability to generate solid 2D tracks, even on the most difficult shots, while saving both time and money.

Morphing is a distinctive effect that is best known from the movie Terminator 2 as well as the Michael Jackson music video Black and White. After Effects can do simple morphs with the Reshape filter - which is a Production Bundle only effect found under the Distort menu. Basically, a morph consists of one image changing its shape over time until it becomes another image. Morphing can be used as a visual effect - for example an actor may morph into an alien - or as an invisible technique - for example to change the perspective of a miniature so it can be composited more accurately with live action

There's enough AE scripts and expressions floating around to make my head swim, and many of them have gestated at AE Enhancers, the uberforum for scripts, expressions, and presets.

The Beam Effect is a simple way of producing fairly good looking blasters. The effect can look quite nice if you put some time into it. But it will probably never look quite as good as rendering the blasters in your favorite 3D modeler and using After Effects to just supply the glow. I'm not saying the Beam Effect is bad, it's just that it's limitations can sometimes make the effect pretty hard to get.

Adobe After Effects Video Tutorials Free Video Training for After Effect 6.5, 7.0 and CS3

We all use presets. They are very powerful and handy to use, but sometimes, when there are many expression controls involved it starts to get very messy. And that’s where CustomEffects come in. CustomEffects are standard presets but they look like and behave as standard plugins. After Effects need to know the definition of the preset in order to interpret them correctly. Some time ago I’ve started to publish my heavily expression based presets as CustomEffects.