Book description
This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.
Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects CC choose Adobe After Effects CC: Classroom in a Book from Adobe Press. The project-based lessons in this book show you step-by-step everything you need to know in order to use After Effects CC to create cinematic visual effects and sophisticated motion graphics.
The 14 project-based lessons in this book show students step-by-step the key techniques for working in After Effects and how to work efficiently and deliver in the widest possible range of media types.
In addition to learning the key elements of the After Effects interface, this revised edition (updated for the 2015 release of After Effects CC) covers new features and techniques, including the innovative Adobe Character Animator, Face Tracking, uninterrupted Preview with user-configurable behaviors, Creative Cloud Libraries (for sharing assets among multiple users and CC applications), and more.
Students redeem a unique code provided inside the book that grants them access to the downloadable lesson files they need to work through the projects in the book, and to electronic book updates covering new features that Adobe releases for Creative Cloud customers.
Students redeem a unique code provided inside the book that grants them access to the online companion files, including lesson files (allowing them to work along with the step-by-step tutorials in the book) as well as updates when Adobe releases new features. And new to this release, all buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition: a Web version of the ebook enhanced by embedded videos and interactive multiple-choice quizzes. As always with the Classroom in a Book series, Instructor Notes are available to teachers by download from adobepress.com.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- How to Get Your Lesson Files
- Contents
- Getting Started
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1. Getting to Know the Workflow
- Getting started
- Creating a project and importing footage
- Creating a composition and arranging layers
- Adding effects and modifying layer properties
- Animating the composition
- Previewing your work
- Optimizing performance in After Effects
- Rendering and exporting your composition
- Customizing workspaces
- Controlling the brightness of the user interface
- Finding resources for using After Effects
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 2. Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets
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3. Animating Text
- Getting started
- About text layers
- Installing a font using Typekit
- Creating and formatting point text
- Using a text animation preset
- Animating with scale keyframes
- Animating using parenting
- Animating imported Photoshop text
- Animating type tracking
- Animating text opacity
- Using a text animator group
- Animating a layer’s position
- Timing layer animations
- Adding motion blur
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 4. Working with Shape Layers
- 5. Animating a Multimedia Presentation
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6. Animating Layers
- Getting started
- Simulating lighting changes
- Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
- Animating movement in the scenery
- Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte
- Animating the shadows
- Adding a lens flare effect
- Adding a video animation
- Rendering the animation
- Retiming the composition
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 7. Working with Masks
- 8. Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
- 9. Using the Roto Brush Tool
- 10. Performing Color Correction
- 11. Using 3D Features
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12. Working with the 3D Camera Tracker
- About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
- Getting started
- Tracking the footage
- Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
- Creating realistic shadows
- Adding ambient light
- Creating additional text elements
- Locking a layer to a plane with a null object
- Animating the text
- Adjusting the camera’s depth of field
- Rendering the composition
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 13. Advanced Editing Techniques
- 14. Rendering and Outputting
- Appendix: General keyboard shortcuts
- Index
- Production Notes
- Contributors
Product information
- Title: Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2015 release)
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2015
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780134306834
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