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Three Funny Videos About Film Editing
There’s nothing better than an industry in-joke, especially at the end of a long day in the edit suite, and these three videos should give you plenty of chuckles as anyone working in the world of editing. The Assistant Editor Song Written by Assistant Editor Mark Adams, the ‘Assistant Editor Song’ perfectly captures the

How to build a demo reel that gets clients [9 quick tips]
What is a demo reel? A Demo reel is a short video presentation of your best video work. Its purpose is to make a client contact and hire you for a project. As a video professional, your demo reel is your “sales person”, who will constantly bring you new clients. If it is done right.

How To Animate A “Dull” Logo In After Effects [VIDEO TUTORIAL]
Have your clients ever sent you logo files that just look dull and don’t even have a transparent background? In this tutorial video, Antonio Cerri will show you How to animate a logo in After Effects with no headache… Well okay..there will be a headache. But at least you’ll know the best way to do it.

After Effects Logo Animation Template [FREE DOWNLOAD]
Looking for a Free After Effects logo animation template? You are in the right place. Using The Bluefx Logo animation template you can get your after effects logo animation done in 3 minutes. Take a look at the video: Download The Free Template The template will work with any logo, you can see how easy it is

Animate Text In After Effects Using Free Presets & Adobe Bridge
Animating text in After Effects is hard work. But, did you know that you can use text animation presets, that eliminate all the keyframing work? You just drag and drop these presets onto your text layer and After Effects automatically animates your text, it even adds the necessary keyframes. Yes After Effects comes with free

Why After Effects CC 2015 Improved Previewing Will Make Your Work Easier
If you are lucky enough to be one of the members of our After Effects Academy, you must have already heard and even debated this issue with our Adobe certified instructor. If not, then just let me remind you that Adobe released several updates to After Effects that has arrived in its 13.6.1 version. There

BlueFx will pay you cold, hard cash for your After Effects templates!
Are you an After Effects Pro? Do you spend hours creating After Effects templates? Is it your life? Do you wish you could get rich doing it? Or at least, a bit richer than you are now? Great! We have awesome news for you! Bluefx is looking for After Effects template creators. We are Bluefx,

3 Simple Ways to Get the Best of After Effects CC 2015 Updated Workspace
As mentioned in our previous post about improved previewing in After Effects CC 2015 version 13.6.1, this wasn’t the only change Adobe made. Adobe has also updated the workspace in After Effects CC 2015 v13.6.1 Let’s see how this looks like. This is the workspace bar up here. Normally you would call this a panel:

9 Free Amazing Tips to Make You Excited about Adobe Character Animator
Today’s post is the third one in a series of posts about the updates that come with Adobe After Effects 13.6.1 version. While the improved previewing and the updated workspace are meant to make your work easier, today’s feature is a totally new one. So let’s talk about Character Animator. We will check: where the

How to create an awesome explainer video
An explainer video is a marketing video that explains your product or service in 60 – 90 seconds, helping you create powerful messages and engage your audience better than other channels do. Explainer videos can be be placed on landing pages, homepage or a prominent product page of your website. They are very popular after

How to use multiple viewers in After Effects [VIDEO]
Today’s post is about how to use multiple viewers in After Effects in order to see how the animation looks like in real time. We will be using the Whiteboard template which you can purchase in the Bluefx store. As you can see in the video, we have this scene with the text and the

Why Face Tracker is the coolest new feature in Adobe After Effects
Today’s post is about one of the two new features of the latest Adobe After Effects version. We have already checked the updates regarding the improved previewing and workspace in Adobe After Effects 13.6.1, as well as the first new feature which is Character Animator. Let’s see more about the Face Tracker, the second new