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Brian Mulligan

Brian Mulligan is a multi-award winning editor, and has a strong commitment to his craft and to broadcast television. Local broadcast television reflects and influences the ideals of a community and for the past 20 years, Brian has helped shape the on-air television culture at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis where his work is seen by 1.2 million households everyday.  Being a broadcast editor often means you are an editor, producer, writer, & graphic designer. His main tool is Autodesk Smoke, and has been a Smoke editor/artist since 2003.  Brian is also comfortable with Adobe CS6 Production tools, so he is ready to handle any creative task that comes his way.

Brian believes that completely understanding your creative tools is the key to using them creatively, efficiently, and effectively.  Brian's blog posts will be focusing on Autodesk Smoke at Premiumbeat.com.  He is active in social media, so feel free to drop him a message on Twitter at @bkmeditor.  And check out his work on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/bkmsmoke

May 14, 2013 Author:

We’ve got more hot tips for Autodesk Smoke! In this post learn how to add a Smoke preset menu to other nodes, remove the OSX menu bar from Smoke and create custom power nodes in ConnectFX. Read More

Autodesk Smoke: Preset Menus, Full Screen UI & Group Nodes

  • February 22, 2013

    Autodesk Smoke: Action Node

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    We show you how to get the most out of Smoke’s powerful Action node! Action is the heart of 3D compositing in Smoke – motion designers and video editors will definitely want to check this out! Read More

  • February 11, 2013

    Compositing in Autodesk Smoke: Nodes vs Action

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    New to Autodesk Smoke? Don’t miss this post, showing you how to use the Action node to speed up and get more flexibility when compositing in Smoke! Read More

  • February 4, 2013

    How To Share Projects Between Multiple Smoke Systems

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    Discover how to achieve real-time collaborative video editing with Autodesk Smoke. In this post we show you how to open Smoke on multiple systems, working on the same project at the same time! Read More