Book description
Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects CC (2017 release) choose Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2017 release) from Adobe Press. The 14 project-based lessons in this book show users step-by-step the key techniques for working in After Effects. Learn how to create, manipulate, and optimize motion graphics for film, video, DVD, the web, and mobile devices. Gain hands-on experience animating text and images, customizing a wide range of effects, tracking and syncing content, rotoscoping, and correcting color. Learn to create 3D content with both After Effects and Maxon Cinema 4D Lite (included with the software).
The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers to complete the projects featured in each chapter as well as ebook updates when Adobe releases new features for Creative Cloud customers. All buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition: a Web-based version of the complete ebook enhanced with video and interactive multiple-choice quizzes. As always with the Classroom in a Book, Instructor Notes are available for teachers to download.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Where are the 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® (2017 release)
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2016
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780134666051
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