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Chad Smashley made this video explaining how to render out EXRs from 3ds max/VRay and how to use them in Adobe After Effects. Vray EXR Tip from chad smashley on Vimeo .

Check out this sweet demo reel for the Company of Science and Art(CoSA) After Effects , (before Aldus and Adobe took over the product), circa 1993: My how motion graphics software has progressed! I rememeber being blown away by the first version Of After Affects I got my hands on, It was a errr... cough, "free version", called "Adobe Dancing Monkey 3.1", way back in 1997 and had a sketch of a monkey on the splash screen :) I was hooked from the beginning! Thanks to www.creativetools.se for the link

Ever had an Adobe After Effects render that just wont render because it keeps crashing? I had one recently, and I found this video tutorial on CreativeCow that solved my problem - tutorial Essentially what you do is hold down the SHIFT key, while going to Edit>Preferences>Click on any preference....and the secret menu appears! There is then a menu that enables you to purge the RAM cache. However, be warned that this will slow the render down. A slow render is bettwer than no render though! Luckily the tutorial's author Aharon has another trick that can speed renders up. (I will be going into hospital for a while, so this will probably be my last post for the next week...take care)