Well, it’s that time of year again, NAB 2015 is just round the corner. It’s the event of the year for our industry. The who’s-who of the broadcast industry gather together in Las Vegas for this massive trade show, conference and countless parties. It’s a great opportunity to meet old friends, make new contacts, learn new techniques and see new products and technologies on show.
Interview with That Studio
Come to the That Studio booth, in the Plugin Pavillion at 1.15 on Wednesday to partake in the audience. I’ll be interviewed by the lovely Kanen Flowers about my relatively new venture The Creative Cabin. I’ll also be giving away some free Creative Cabin products!
Sessions and Demo’s
This year I’ll have a varied schedule – speaking at the Post Production World Conference and also doing software demo’s on the trade show floor. If you want to learn my latest tips and techniques and see new content from up and coming video tutorials, there’s plenty to see.
RE:Vision Effects Inc.
Booth SL5807
I’m proud to say I’ll be working the trade show floor on behalf of RE:Vision Effects Inc. Who make Academy Award winning Plugins for After Effects, Autodesk Systems, Avid Systems, Final Cut Pro, Fusion, genQ, HitFilm, Natron, Nucoda, Nuke, Premiere Pro, Resolve, Scratch and Vegas Pro.
I’ll be showcasing all of their plugins, in particular my personal favourite RE:Flex that I used on the Chris Cunningham’s Rubber Johnny music video. You can find us at booth SL5807. I’ll be there Monday from 2-6, Tuesday from 3.30-6 and Wednesday from 9-1.
Boris FX
This year Boris FX will be teaming up with their friends at Imagineer Systems to present awesome new time-saving technologies and vfx tools jointly developed for the first-time by the Boris FX and the Imagineer teams. Swing by thebooth SL4225 on Tuesday the 14th April at 12pm midday to see my talk about creating 3D titles right inside After Effects. See how to us Boris FX 3D plug-ins with the built in 3D Camera Tracker inside After Effects to mimic famous movie titles.
Post Production World Conference
South Upper Hall
I’ll also be speaking at the Post Production World conference during the week. This premiere technical training program is produced by Future Media Concepts. Click here to review the full schedule of this year’s Post|Production World offerings.
I have two sessions at this event this year;
Tue. April 14| 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM | N252
Designers can make extra income by designing templates for other designers. Websites like Adobe Exchange and VideoHive make it easy to market and sell them. In this session Angie Taylor will share tips and techniques for building solid templates and source elements for After Effects and Premiere Pro. She’ll also share information about how to protect your content legally and make money from it online.
This session will feature workflows in After Effects, Premiere Pro and Illustrator.
By the end of this session, attendees will know how to….
ā¢ Design templates that are useful and practical
ā¢ Organize template projects so they are easy to use
ā¢ Create expression controllers for adjusting template elements
ā¢ Lock and hide and add notes to project elements
ā¢ Create accounts to market and sell templates
ā¢ Make additional income by selling products
Wed. April 15| 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM | N252
The Cineware plugin allows users to integrate Cinema 4D, 3D objects and scenes into your After Effects projects. Angie will look at the many creative ways this powerful software combination can work. You’ll pick up all the skills you need to feel confident with Cinema 4D Lite as well as see some inspiring ideas to drive you forward. The session will finish with Angie showing you how you can use classic camera moves from famous movies in your 3D scenes.
By the end of this session, attendees will know how too…
ā¢ Build models from primitive objects Cinema 4D Lite
ā¢ Apply and modify materials in Cinema 4D Lite
ā¢ Animate properties in Cinema 4D Lite
ā¢ Make use of free content in Cinema 4D Lite
ā¢ Incorporate your 3D objects into After Effects
ā¢ Recreate classic camera moves with the After Effects 3D Camera Tracker
Conference: Post|Production World
Registration Package: A Post|Production World registration or SMART Pass will get you into these sessions. Please check here for registration prices.
I hope to see some of you there. I am quite short-sighted so often don’t recognise people from a distance so please make sure to come and say hello if you see me.
There are also other thunderbolt ports and a couplf of USB ports on the back fro connecting other devices. The box has power too so can be used to charge up your iPod or iPhone as well as powering bus-powered devices such as hard drives. There’s also a free utility that, when installed, provides your Mac support for high-powered USB.
At the front end is another USB port and Stereo audio in and out ports. These are useful for conference calls but I can alos use these to do some quick screen captures for my tutorials. Just attach a decent pair of headphones and my 
