Archives: April, 2006

NAB: Integrating Adobe Applications

Monday 24 April 2006

Marcus Geduld, the author of ‘Premiere Pro Editing Workshop’ and the co-author of ‘After Effects on the Spot’, will be making a presentation, Graphics Galore: Integrating Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects, at NAB on April 26 between 4-5pm. As part of the show-n-tell session focusing on the integration between AE and Flash, Marcus will […]

After Effects 2 Flash: Audio Amplitude

Saturday 22 April 2006

*View: AE Audio Amplitude data mapped to a BitmapData Object.
Have you ever wanted to automatically sync the audio amplitude of a song or audio file to any combination of your MovieClips properties or Bitmap Matrix Transformations?
Until Flash can analyze audio in real-time, we need to pre-process the audio analysis and have an ace up our […]

OFFF: BCN

Thursday 20 April 2006

OFFF: Barcelona, Spain
on may 13th, i’ll be doing a show-n-tell session at the OFFF: Barcelona conference on the personification of mr. pixel and his friends. it’s about the experiments and applications that i have been developing lately, as told from the perspective of a pixel. the usual suspects will be there, including brushes.paints.stencils., in the […]

After Effects: Transform Property Keyframes -> XML -> Flash

Tuesday 11 April 2006

the story
after months of anticipation and on-going and rewarding conversations with the incredible john nack from adobe about improving the communication between after effects and flash, i finally had the honor of meeting the after effects engineers in a break-out room at flash forward in seattle. as you may have read in my previous posts, […]

Director + Flash 8 = Exporting an image sequence

Wednesday 5 April 2006

Rendering/exporting images out of Flash 8 while the swf is playing can be done online as the legendary Mario Klingemann has demonstrated, however, there are times when I would be prefer to render files locally, without the frame drop out issues that happen within flash ants. E.g., exporting a sequence of 32-bit alpha pngs in […]