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by Adobe Creative Team
Adobe® After Effects® 7.0 Classroom in a Book®
Copyright
What’s on the DVD *
From the Authors
Welcome Letter
Getting Started
About Classroom in a Book
Prerequisites
Installing After Effects
Optimizing performance
OpenGL support
Installing lesson fonts
Restoring default preferences
Copying the lesson files
About copying the sample movies and projects
How to use these lessons
Additional resources
Adobe Certification
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
Preparing the layers
Adding a radial blur effect
Adding an exposure effect
Transforming layer properties
Animating the composition
Preparing the text composition
Adding the text
Animating with Position keyframes
Adding ease in
Adding an animation effect
Previewing your work
Using standard preview
Using RAM preview
Exporting your composition
Customizing the workspace
Using predefined workspaces
Saving a custom workspace
Controlling the brightness of the user interface
Using After Effects Help
Searching and bookmarking Help topics
Checking for updates
Using Adobe online services
Review
Review questions
Review answers
2. Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets
Lesson overview
Getting started
Setting up the project
Importing footage using Bridge
Creating the composition
Importing the foreground element
Working with imported Illustrator layers
Applying effects to a layer
Applying a preset animation
Precomposing layers for a new animation
Previewing the effects
Adding transparency
Rendering the composition
Rendering broadcast-quality output
Exporting a composition for the web
Review
Review questions
Review answers
3. Animating Text
Lesson overview
Getting started
Setting up the project
Importing the footage
Creating the composition
About text layers
Creating and formatting point type
Using the Character panel
Using the Paragraph panel
Positioning the type
Using a text animation preset
Browsing presets
Previewing a range of frames
Customizing an animation preset
Animating with scale keyframes
Soloing a layer
Creating the scale keyframes
Previewing the scale animation
Adding Easy Ease
Animating using parenting
Animating imported Photoshop text
Importing the credits
Editing imported text
Animating the subtitle
Animating text using a path preset
Customizing the preset path
Animating type tracking
Customizing placeholder text
Applying a tracking preset
Customizing the tracking preset
Animating the letters’ opacity
Using a text animator group
Skewing the range of text
Preview the entire composition
Cleaning up the path animation
Animating the dragonfly
Copying the mask shape
Orienting the dragonfly
Coordinating the text and dragonfly timing
Adding motion blur
Review
Review questions
Review answers
4. Animating a Multimedia Presentation
Lesson overview
Getting started
Setting up the project
Animating the scenery using parenting
Setting up parenting
Animating the parent layer
Animating the bee’s position
Trimming a layer
Applying motion blur
Previewing the animation
Adjusting an anchor point
Masking video into a vector shape
Creating a new composition
Creating the mask
Swapping a composition into a layer
Keyframing a motion path
Keyframing scale and rotation transformations
Adding motion blur
Previewing your work
Animating additional elements
Animating the passing traffic
Animating the buildings
Adding Easy Ease
Copying the building animation
Applying an effect
Adding a solid-color layer
Applying the effect
Creating an animated slide show
Importing the slides
Making a new composition
Positioning the slide show
Fading in the first slide
Adding an audio track
Looping the audio track
Zooming in for a final close-up
Previewing the entire composition
Review
Review questions
Review answers
5. Animating Layers
Lesson overview
Getting started
Setting up the project
Importing the footage
Creating the composition
Simulating changing lighting
Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
Animating movement in the scenery
Animating the birds
Animating the clouds
Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte
Precomposing layers
Creating the track matte
Adding motion blur
Animating the shadows
Adding a lens flare effect
Animating the clock
Rendering the animation
Retiming the composition
Viewing time remapping in the Graph Editor
Using the Graph Editor to remap time
Adding an Easy Ease Out
Scaling the animation in time
Review
Review questions
Review answers
6. Working with Masks
Lesson overview
About masks
Getting started
Setting up the project
Importing the footage
Creating the composition
Creating a mask with the Pen tool
Editing a mask
Changing the mask mode
Creating curved masks
Breaking direction handles
Feathering the edges of a mask
Replacing the content of the mask
Repositioning and resizing the news clip
Rotating the clip
Adding a reflection
Applying a blending mode
Creating a vignette
Adjusting the color
Review
Review questions
Review answers
7. Keying
Lesson overview
About keying
Getting started
Setting up the project
Importing the footage
Creating the composition
Changing the background color
Adding the foreground subject
Creating a garbage mask
Applying the Color Difference Key effect
Checking the alpha channel for errors
Choking the matte
Removing spill
Adjusting contrast
Adding the background animation
Adding the title
Stylizing the title
Checking placement
Adding a drop shadow
Adding the animated logo
Copying effects across two layers
Review
Review questions
Review answers
8. Performing Color Correction
Lesson overview
Getting started
Setting up the project
Importing the footage
Creating the composition
Adjusting color balance
Masking the grass
Brightening the dark grass
Replacing an element of the shot
Adding the clouds
Color-correcting the clouds
Masking the sky
Cleaning up the mask
Lightening other dark areas
Masking the shrub and tree
Removing stray sky elements and copying effects
Correcting a range of colors
Warming colors with the Photo Filter effect
Removing unwanted elements
Preparing the workspace
Painting across time
Checking your work
Review
Review questions
Review answers
9. Building and Animating a 3D Object
Lesson overview
Getting started
Setting up the project
Creating the composition
Animating a square in 3D space
Creating the square
Turning on the 3D Layer switch
Animating the square in space
Using 3D views
Flipping the cube bottom
Moving the layer’s anchor point
Flipping the square on its back
Rotating the square
Adding pauses
Creating the 3D floor
Creating the floor layer
Positioning the floor
Animating the floor
Adding the grid to the floor
Building the cube sides
Creating the first side
Creating the other sides
Positioning the cube sides
Animating the cube sides
Review
Review questions
Review answers
10. Using 3D Effects
Lesson overview
Getting started
Setting up the project
Using 3D lights
Creating a light layer
Adjusting the point of interest
Positioning the spotlight
Turning on shadows
Adding a camera
Setting the camera’s point of interest
Animating the camera
Adding an animated sphere
Creating the sphere
Positioning the sphere
Deflating the orange dot
Inflating the sphere
Making the sphere bulge
Previewing the animated sphere
Adding the logo
Creating the text layer
Reversing the animation direction
Positioning the text
Customizing the text
Finishing up
Review
Review questions
Review answers
11. Advanced Editing Techniques
Lesson overview
Getting started
Using motion stabilization
Setting up the project
Importing the footage
Creating the composition
Positioning the track points
Analyzing and applying stabilization
Scaling the layer
Using single-point motion tracking
Preparing the text layer
Positioning the track point
Analyzing and applying tracking
Using multipoint tracking
Setting up the project
Importing the footage
Creating the composition
Positioning the track points
Applying the multipoint tracker
Adding a drop shadow and blur effect
Creating a particle system
Setting up the project
Creating the composition
Creating a particle system
Customizing the particle effect
Here comes the sun
Lighting the darkness
Adding a lens flare
Let’s do the Timewarp
Setting up the project
Importing the footage and creating the composition
Using Timewarp
Review
Review questions
Review answers
12. Rendering and Outputting
Lesson overview
Getting started
Setting up the project
Creating templates for the rendering process
Creating a render-settings template for full resolution
Creating a render-settings template for test renderings
Creating templates for output modules
Creating an output-module template for broadcast renderings
Creating a low-resolution output-module template
Rendering to different output media
Preparing to render a test movie
Working with multiple output modules
Preparing the composition for full-resolution rendering
Using pixel aspect correction
Rendering the final movie for broadcast
Review
Review questions
Review answers
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