Book description
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe
After Effects 7!
Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software
training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software
quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book
or training program does--an official training series from Adobe
Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product
experts.
Adobe After Effects 7.0 Classroom in a Book contains eleven lessons
and a bonus DVD with lesson files. The book covers the basics of
learning Adobe After Effects, and countless tips and techniques to
help you quickly become an After Effects artist. You'll get
thorough training in digital video effects and production as well
as learn about After Effects 7.0's new features, including motion
tracking, powerful animation and keyframing controls, HDR color
support, network rendering, and more. You can follow the book from
start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest
you.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- What’s on the DVD *
- From the Authors
- Welcome Letter
- Getting Started
-
1. Getting to Know the Workflow
- Lesson overview
- 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
- Exporting your composition
- Customizing the workspace
- Controlling the brightness of the user interface
- Using After Effects Help
- Using Adobe online services
- Review
- 2. Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets
-
3. Animating Text
- Lesson overview
- Getting started
- About text layers
- Creating and formatting point type
- Using a text animation preset
- Animating with scale keyframes
- Animating using parenting
- Animating imported Photoshop text
- Animating text using a path preset
- Animating type tracking
- Animating the letters’ opacity
- Using a text animator group
- Cleaning up the path animation
- Animating the dragonfly
- Adding motion blur
- Review
- 4. Animating a Multimedia Presentation
- 5. Animating Layers
- 6. Working with Masks
-
7. Keying
- Lesson overview
- About keying
- Getting started
- Changing the background color
- Adding the foreground subject
- Creating a garbage mask
- Applying the Color Difference Key effect
- Choking the matte
- Removing spill
- Adjusting contrast
- Adding the background animation
- Adding the title
- Adding the animated logo
- Copying effects across two layers
- Review
- 8. Performing Color Correction
- 9. Building and Animating a 3D Object
- 10. Using 3D Effects
- 11. Advanced Editing Techniques
- 12. Rendering and Outputting
- Contributors
Product information
- Title: Adobe® After Effects® 7.0 Classroom in a Book®
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2006
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 0321385497
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