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		<title>AE: Scripting Notes</title>
		<link>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2009/08/04/ae-scripting-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david van brink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[after effects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extendscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bug]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://omino.com/pixelblog/?p=380</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note about a bug and an optimization when scripting After Effects CS4 (and probably earlier versions, too).
addProperty() bug
When adding several effects, each addition invalidates the object variable references to earlier ones. Here&#8217;s a code fragment which shows the problem and the solution.

var comp = app.project.activeItem;
var layer = comp.layers.addNull();
layer.name = "null_layer";

var slider1 = [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AE: Feature Wishes</title>
		<link>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2009/07/06/ae-feature-wishes/</link>
		<comments>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2009/07/06/ae-feature-wishes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david van brink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[after effects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expressions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://omino.com/pixelblog/?p=378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After Effects is just about my favorite software application. Very elegant model, and a clean &#038; responsive UI.
But I think I can articulate two well-considered features that would boost its utility quite generally.
Feature Request 1: Foldering
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		<title>AE: Projecting a Movie Onto a Complex Surface</title>
		<link>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2009/05/23/ae-projecting-a-movie-onto-a-complex-surface/</link>
		<comments>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2009/05/23/ae-projecting-a-movie-onto-a-complex-surface/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 06:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david van brink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[after effects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pixel bender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3d]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://omino.com/pixelblog/?p=356</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
This is a rendering simulating an image projected onto a simple 3d scene. There&#8217;s nothing too exotic about it, except that the projection was done in 2d, in After Effects.
And&#8230; here&#8217;s a moving sequence of the same scene. With old family movies.

    
        
  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AE: Fake Spotlights</title>
		<link>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2009/04/18/ae-fake-spotlights/</link>
		<comments>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2009/04/18/ae-fake-spotlights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david van brink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[after effects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3d]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lighting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://omino.com/pixelblog/?p=348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another variation on additive lighting tricks&#8230;
This one is a little experiment using After Effects&#8217; spotlights on still images which have been rendered with similarly-located light sources.
Here&#8217;s one of the several still images.

And here&#8217;s a short movie showin a little more of the procedure, and some results.

    
     [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AE: Compositing Lights</title>
		<link>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2009/04/01/ae-compositing-light/</link>
		<comments>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2009/04/01/ae-compositing-light/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david van brink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[after effects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compositing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lighting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radiosity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://omino.com/pixelblog/?p=327</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Long, long ago I saw an article or talk by Paul Haeberli, of SGI. Oh, he covered many interesting and clever graphics tricks. One of them was the idea of &#8220;synthetic lighting&#8221;, or, &#8220;doing lighting in post&#8221;.
He has a page about it, here.
The idea is pretty simple. If you have images (or animations) of individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AE: A Stupid Text-Control Trick</title>
		<link>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2009/03/17/ae-a-stupid-text-control-trick/</link>
		<comments>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2009/03/17/ae-a-stupid-text-control-trick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david van brink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[after effects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expressions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://omino.com/pixelblog/?p=320</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a little movie that demonstrates a text track being used to &#8220;trigger&#8221; the opacity of another track.

    
        
            one-part.mov
            
  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AE CS4: Pixel Bender Quick Notes</title>
		<link>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2009/03/14/ae-cs4-pixel-bender-quick-notes/</link>
		<comments>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2009/03/14/ae-cs4-pixel-bender-quick-notes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david van brink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[after effects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pixel bender]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://omino.com/pixelblog/?p=284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some super short notes about using Pixel Bender inside of After Effects CS4. This post is just another dicing of the available info culled from the After Effects help, and the Pixel Bender Developer Guide.
But it&#8217;s the stuff that I most needed to get started, as well as a handy copy-and-paste source for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Effects CS4: Ultrabrief First Impressions</title>
		<link>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2009/03/13/after-effects-cs4-ultrabrief-first-impressions/</link>
		<comments>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2009/03/13/after-effects-cs4-ultrabrief-first-impressions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david van brink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[after effects]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://omino.com/pixelblog/?p=266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Joy!
I finally have returned from several months away, back into the usual routine. My fresh copy of After Effects CS4 was waiting! (Thanks so much, you know who you are!)
Verrrry brief first impressions.
Darker, Darker
I love how each successive version is a bit darker, more mysterious looking. It&#8217;s just like Luke Skywalker, remember how in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AE Feature Request (Dear Adobe)</title>
		<link>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2009/01/11/ae-feature-request-dear-adobe/</link>
		<comments>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2009/01/11/ae-feature-request-dear-adobe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david van brink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[after effects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feature request]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://omino.com/pixelblog/?p=262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: Dear Adobe &#8212; please acquire and incorporate ObviousFX&#8217;s Copy Image plugin as part of After Effects proper.
The plugin, available for Mac and Windows, adds an Edit menu item, Copy Image, which copies the current composition image to the clipboard.
Thanks, ObviousFX and thanks, Rich, for pointing it out for me. Great stuff.

Original post:
Hopefully, someone will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AE: A Snowflake</title>
		<link>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2008/12/27/ae-a-snowflake/</link>
		<comments>http://omino.com/pixelblog/2008/12/27/ae-a-snowflake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david van brink</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[after effects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extendscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scripting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snowflake]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://omino.com/pixelblog/?p=237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
download snowflakeSteps.aep
Featuring: Bevel Alpha, omino kaleidoscope, and animated paths.
Sounds like the USA has had a heck of a Christmas weather run! Folks taking their vacations on airport waiting benches, and so forth. In particular, Seattle, home to After Effects. Where I am, it&#8217;s 7:33 pm, and I&#8217;ve just returned, sweating, from a nice bowl of [...]]]></description>
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