In Spline Tricks Parts 1 and 2, we looked at an overview of Auto-trace (an easy way to create splines for masks) and how to use some of those splines as positional data. While there are some advantages to using Auto-trace in some instances, other uses may not be so "press and play." So, in this latest installment in our Spline Tricks series, we'll examine some of the obvious and not so obvious issues and explain some fixes that may help you to work around the problems. (CreativeMac

Several years ago, my PaintBox initiation began with rotoscoping signatures for a game show that featured celebrities' names in the promo. For the show's promotional campaign, I was charged with the task of replicating the light-pen animation that was used on the set to animate each signature for the 15 celebrities that would appear that week. (DigitalMediaNet.com)

You are probably familiar with the X,Y, Z pixel coordinate placement of layers in After Effects. But what if you need to nudge something less than a full pixel? You can certainly do it, but why is it helpful? In this beginner Adobe After Effects exercise, we’ll examine how nudging along the Z space can create a two sided object. (DigitalMediaNet.com)

A great number of you like the project based After Effects exercises I have done over the years. One area that continues to be a favorite is the station interstitial. Interstitials are those bumper pieces you see between shows that tie everything together. In this After Effects 6.0 Pro exercise, we’ll create an ‘Up Next’ bit for our make believe station. To help us out, we’ll also you an effect from Profound Effects’ Useful Things. (DigitalMediaNet.com)

Your footage is pristine. Your graphics are immaculate. And it's time to put them all together into the greatest DVD presentation in history using Apple's DVD Studio Pro. One hitch though: Despite your painstaking efforts to get your assets to look just right, there's a problem with your menus, namely a shift in color between still and motion graphics. (DigitalMediaNet.com)

Sometimes if you use flash and javascript or layers on the same page, you will have some problem with your layers or javascript - they will go behind your flash.

Make text look as if it was being hand written.

here are two ways to make flash file transparent, one is to export as a transparent file when you are publishing from Macromedia Flash and another to insert a line of code in the HTML. We will cover both ways in this tutorial.

Use Audition to record, edit, and mix at high-resolution 32-bit files using any sample rate up to 10MHz, including standard rates such as 44.1kHz, 88.2kHz, 96kHz, and 192kHz.

This tutorial will teach you how to create a clip of animated snowflakes which fall down. This technique is called programmed animation. And this effect looks really great!