plex·us noun |ˈpleksəs|

We are very excited to announce that Satya Meka’s (Rowbyte) new plugin Plexus will be released very soon is available now. Here is a teaser animation created by Simon Bronson (http://www.simonbronson.com), music by Parks in the Fire-Trifonic (http://www.trifonic.com/music/)

• Plexus_Horiz

   

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• Plexus_Vert

   

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• Plexus_Sample1

   

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• Plexus_Sample2

   

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• Plexus_Sample3

   

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• Plexus_Sample4

   

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• Plexus_Sample5

   

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Get Plexus Here

pt_EffectSearch:

Search for effects used in your After Effects project. Find where specific effects have been used, turn them on or off, delete then, or link them together to create cloned effect instances.

pt_ExpressEdit:

Use this script to search, apply and edit expressions throughout your project. Expressions can be saved, or instantly applied to one or more properties. It can also check for broken expressions, re-enabling them automatically where possible.

pt_TextEdit:

Use pt_TextEdit to search for and edit text layers in your AE project. You can create your own text style presets and apply them to multiple layers at the click of a button.

Get all the three scripts for only $49.99

• pt_EffectSearch  $24.99
• pt_ExpressEdit  $24.99
• pt_TextEdit  $24.99

Total  $75 Limited Offer $49.99

2011 is going to be a very exciting year for Aescripts + Aeplugins. We’ve started with a bang with the critically well received, super action packed, all new BG Renderer 2. However, we have so many exciting new tools coming up this year that we wanted to give you all a sneak peek of what is ahead .  What better way to do this than having bi-coastal user group presentations:

• Lloyd Alvarez will be presenting at AENY in New York City.
• Marcello Grande will be presenting at SFMOGRAPH in San Francisco

Both meetings are on Thursday January 27, 2011.  Please click on the corresponding links above for more details.

If you can make it to either of those meetings then you can see first hand what we have coming up.  Hope to see you all there!

You can also use the  ft-Toolbar or redefinery’s  rd_ScriptLauncher script.

Unfortunately this does not allow you to run the script as a dockable panels but at least you can run it!

Hope you freelancers out there find this tip helpful.

Here is a complete list of the authors and scripts mentioned:

• Immigration
• pt_EffectSearch
• Zorro-The Layer Tagger
• KeyTweak
• ReverseMaskPath
• rd: Pre-compose
• Arrange Project Items into Folders
• True Comp Duplicator
• BG Renderer
• Render, Email, Save, and Shutdown
• Batch Search-n-Replace Paths
• Throttle-n-Purge
• TrackerViz
• MochaImport
• Tracker2Mask
• Trajectory
• ft-Cubic Lens Distortion
• Separate RGB
• Lloyd Alvarez
• Jeff Almasol
• Paul Tuersley
• Mathias Möhl
• Charles Bordenave
• Brennan Chapman
• Michael Cardeiro
• François Tarlier
• Satya Meka

We are very happy to announce that fxphd.com is offering an introduction to After Effects scripting class.  We have gotten many requests to teach a course on scripting and we think partnering with fxphd is the best possible way for us to do it. Fxphd is the clear leader in online VFX training and we are very proud to be associated with them for this course. Lloyd Alvarez will be teaching the course with the aim to teach non-programmers. The only pre-requiste for the course will be a good working knowledge of After Effects since that will be the foundation that will be built upon.  The course will aim to teach you the basics necessary for you to write your own workflow solving scripts.

Here is the full course description and curriculum: http://www.fxphd.com/courses#AFX210

You can sign up here: https://www.fxphd.com/lounge/payments.php

We are trying to track how many people are referred from here so if you enter: lloydalvarez in the referring member field we’ll be able to track it.  Thanks in advance for that.

Teaser 2

Satya Meka has a hot new plugin on aescripts. It is called Data Glitch and it creates awesome realistic digital image glitches with total ease. Something you would see during a satellite transmission or a cable broadcast or from a damaged disk. Bad TV plugin is great for analog TV look, but this is 2010 and you hardly see anything thatâ??s analog anymore. This plugin simulates a realistic digital glitch effect.

In real-life most of the glitches occur due to problems in encoding/decoding and sometimes data corruption. This plugin does exactly that. It encodes the data, glitches the data and then decodes it similar to the real life situation.

Get Data Glitch here: http://aescripts.com/data-glitch

First of all, After Effects launches more quickly — more than twice as fast.

Dealing with files is faster. Reading and writing certain compressed file formats is twice as fast. We have also parallelized QuickTime export. This improves the performance of common tasks like transcoding files into other formats.

Rendering is faster. In the simple cases, when rendering on a single core, we are seeing 20-40% shorter render times. This is a result of general efficiencies gained during the 64-bit conversion. As a result, each core on your system is being used more efficiently and you can expect to see greater utilization for each CPU core.

Of course, virtually everyone has multi-core CPUs nowadays. Have you ever used the “Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously” option in the preferences? There are several key improvements in this area as well. We have completely rewritten the After Effects multi-core processing engine for CS5. Benchmark projects are rendering with 30-50% shorter render times. That’s up to twice as fast!

In CS4, there was a significant lag when starting up multi-core processing (MP). For short renders, it was often faster to use fewer cores. This is no longer the case in CS5. Starting an MP render may have taken 30 seconds in CS4, but it is 1-2 seconds in CS5. If you’ve been avoiding using MP for RAM previews for this reason, this one is for you.

As with every After Effects upgrade we will make sure all our scripts are clearly labeled to let you know which version they are compatible with.

Check out the interview on Motionworks

Besides the new pretty graphics, the site is designed to be easier to navigate and find scripts. The biggest change however, is how you will go about obtaining the scripts. In the past we just let you download the script and then kindly asked that you “buy Lloyd a beer” and while a few of you did buy a beer or two, the vast majority of users didn’t.

This was not much of an issue at first since this is all a labor of love, but as the site grew increasingly popular there were mounting maintenance costs. Having seen the massive success that the iPhone App store brought to small developers, we thought: could we do something similar for the scripting community? Make a centralized and easy to use site that offers incredibly powerful tools on the cheap. This of course meant really thinking about how to monetize something that most people have come to expect for free.

We think we came up with a clever solution. Most of the scripts on the site are still free (if it used to be free if will continue to be free) but when you add them to the cart they are added with a suggested donation amount. You can modify this amount to whatever you want, including zero, but the hope is you will find it easy to throw a few bucks back to the developers in one easy transaction. The other benefit of centralizing is that you can now come to one place where you can find the best scripts available for After Effects and you can get them all at once. We are starting out with some very well known names in the scripting world, but the hope is to add more so if you’d like to see your scripts here please get in touch.

Finally to celebrate the re-launch and welcome two brand new scripts: sParticular and Immigration, the first commercial script for After Effects, enter the promo code ImmigrationLaunch at checkout for $10 off Immigration. (This coupon code is now expired)

In case you were not able to make it you canwatch the presentation courtesy of AENY (make sure to watch it in HD).

This edition also features an entire chapter on scripting written by non other than Jeff Almasol who is the man when it comes to scripting and has been my mentor all along as I’ve learned to write scripts.

It also features an entire chapter on expressions written by the man whom I learned expressions from and all around great guy Dan Ebberts.

First, the tag prefix is changing from the bullet to an asterisk.

Second, to be able to continue working with legacy projects which have already been tagged using the bullet prefix download the Zorro-Tag Prefix Changer.jsx script below that will convert legacy projects from the bullet to the asterisk. I also put together a video tutorial to show you how to do it:

Watch tutorial in HD on Vimeo

Lastly make sure you download the new version of Zorro to work with asterisk and be cross-platform compatible.

******* This tag prefix changer script is only necessary if you tagged a project with the 1.0 version of Zorro and are now using version 1.2 or above. IF YOU NEVER USED V1.0 OF ZORRO THEN YOU DON’T NEED THIS SCRIPT ********

Since this update was only required for v1.0 of Zorro we took this update offline. If you still require this script for a legacy project please contact us directly and we will get you the script.

From 00:00 MST (Mountain Standard Time) to 11:59pm July 4th, 2011 Only.

This sale is now over. Thanks to everyone that participated.