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by Brie Gyncild, Andrew Faulkner
Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2014 release)
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- How to Get Your Lesson Files
- Contents
- Getting Started
- 1. Getting to Know the Workflow
- About the After Effects work area
- Getting started
- Creating a project and importing footage
- Creating a composition and arranging layers
- About layers
- About the Tools panel
- Adding effects and modifying layer properties
- Animating the composition
- About the Timeline panel
- About timecode and duration
- 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
- Getting started
- Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
- Creating a new composition
- Working with imported Illustrator layers
- Applying effects to a layer
- Applying and controlling effects
- Applying an animation preset
- Previewing the effects
- Adding transparency
- Rendering the composition
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 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
- About parent and child layers
- Animating imported Photoshop text
- Animating text using a path animation preset
- Animating type tracking
- Animating text opacity
- Using a text animator group
- About text animator groups
- Cleaning up the path animation
- Animating a nontext layer along a motion path
- Adding motion blur
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 4. Working with Shape Layers
- 5. Animating A Multimedia Presentation
- Getting started
- Animating the scenery using parenting
- Adjusting an anchor point
- Masking video using vector shapes
- Keyframing a motion path
- Animating additional elements
- Applying an effect
- About solid-color layers
- Creating an animated slide show
- Supported audio file formats
- Adding an audio track
- Zooming in for a final close-up
- Extra credit: Editing audio files in Adobe Audition
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 7. Working with Masks
- About masks
- Getting started
- Creating a mask with the Pen tool
- Editing a mask
- About mask modes
- Creating a Bezier mask
- Feathering the edges of a mask
- Replacing the content of the mask
- Adding a reflection
- Creating a vignette
- Using the Rectangle and Ellipse tools
- Trimming the work area
- Tips for creating masks
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 8. Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
- 9. Using the Roto Brush Tool
- About rotoscoping
- Getting started
- Using Adobe Premiere Pro with After Effects
- Creating a segmentation boundary
- Fine-tuning the matte
- Refine Soft Matte and Refine Hard Matte effects
- Freezing your Roto Brush tool results
- Changing the background
- Adding animated text
- Outputting your project
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 10. Performing Color Correction
- Getting started
- Previewing your project on a video monitor
- Adjusting color balance with levels
- Adjusting color balance with Color Finesse 3
- Replacing the background
- Color-correcting using Auto Levels
- Motion tracking the clouds
- Replacing the sky in the second clip
- Color grading
- Extra Credit: Cloning an object in a scene
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 11. Using 3D Features
- 12. Working with the 3D Camera Tracker
- About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
- Getting started
- Repairing rolling shutter distortions
- 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
- Getting started
- Using Warp Stabilizer VFX
- Bicubic scaling
- Using single-point motion tracking
- Warp Stabilizer VFX settings
- Checking for drift
- Moving and resizing the track points
- Using multipoint tracking
- mocha for After Effects
- Creating a particle simulation
- Understanding Particle Systems II properties
- About high dynamic range (HDR) footage
- Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 14. Rendering and Outputting
- Index
- Production Notes
- Contributors
- Notes
- Learn by Video
Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book® 2014 release
The official training workbook from Adobe
Andrew Faulkner & Brie Gyncild
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