| Description |
1 online resource (488 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
Adobe After Effects: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to editing and enhancing videos in Adobe After Effects. Whether you're animating text or objects, changing a scene's setting, or creating a 3D scene, After Effects is the tool for you-and this book will teach you what you need to know. First, with a complete Course that includes a set of projects and lessons derived from video editor and Adobe Certified Instructor Ben Goldsmith, you will learn the procedures needed to use After Effects effectively and professionally. Dozens of exercises are included that can be applied to any videos you have in mind. Through step-by-step lessons, you'll be exposed to all of After Effects' features in practical contexts and its best practices for optimal workflows. To complete the Course, we'll supply lesson documents and their assets to download, so you can work alongside the text. Then, for greater depth of knowledge and subsequent reference, you'll use the Compendium to uncover more of the "how" and "why" of After Effects. With each topic easy to access, you can find and explore all of Premiere Pro's key features and concepts in depth. With cross-references between the Course and Compendium, the two parts of the book complement each other perfectly. Best of all, when the lessons in the Course are done, the Compendium will continue to serve for months and years to come. |
| Contents |
Intro -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Software and Files -- A Note Regarding Keyboard Shortcuts -- The Course -- 1 Layout and Basic Animation -- Project Organization -- Folder Structure -- Setting Up the After Effects Project -- Create a New Project -- Import Assets -- The Composition Panel -- Configure the Comp Panel to Your Liking -- Layout in the Comp Window -- Changing an Object's Position -- Changing an Object's Scale -- Changing an Object's Rotation -- Changing an Object's Anchor Point -- Transform Controls in the Timeline -- Configuring the Timeline |
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Transform Controls -- PARTS -- Zoom In and Out of the Timeline -- Keyframe Animation -- Prepping for Animation -- Animating Position -- It's Playback Time -- Configuring Playback -- The Preview Panel -- Work Area -- Adding a Pause in Animation -- Editing Keyframes -- Adding Finesse -- Curved Position Paths -- Add Rotation -- Trimming Clips -- 2 Advanced Animation, Parenting & Text -- Set Up the Project -- Import the Asset -- Open the Composition -- Composition Settings -- Null Objects -- Create a Null Object -- Parenting -- Parent with Pickwhipping -- Scale the Null -- Continuous Rasterization |
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Enable Continuous Rasterization -- Animating Scale -- Don't Forget to Set Your Anchor Point -- Scale in the Timeline -- Eased Animation -- Easy Ease -- Keyframe Velocity -- The Graph Editor -- Adjusting Keyframe Velocity -- Editing Graphs -- Graph Bezier Curves -- Finalize the Animation -- More Parenting -- Reusing Animation -- Adding Text -- Creating a Text Layer -- Editing Text -- Text on a Path -- Animating Text -- The Effects & Presets Panel -- Retiming, Again -- Trim the Comp -- Exporting -- Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue -- 3 Shape Layers & Effects -- Set Up the Project |
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Creating a New Composition from Scratch -- Creating an Emoji -- Create an Ellipse Shape -- Change a Shape's Fill -- Gradient Fill -- Change a Shape's Stroke -- Rename Your Stuff -- Add More Shapes -- Add a Custom Shape -- Stroke Settings -- Organizing Shape Layers -- Grouping Shapes -- Animating an Emoji -- Using Markers -- Animate the Face Group -- Animate the Eyebrows -- Animate the Mouth -- Finesse the Animation -- Shape Effects -- Create a New Shape Layer -- Adding a Second Stroke -- Stroke Taper -- Trim Paths -- Stylize It With an Effect -- Motion Blur -- Enable Motion Blur |
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Optimizing Playback -- Exporting -- Adobe Media Encoder Caveats -- Exporting with Render Queue -- 4 Masking, Matting & Precomps -- Set Up the Project -- Masking -- Create a Mask -- Editing a Mask -- Mask Options -- The Mask Feather Tool -- Mattes -- Creating a Matte -- Precomposing -- Set Up the Precomp -- Working with Precomps -- Animate It -- Animating a Mask -- Animating an Effect -- Timing Within a Precomp -- Retiming -- Moving On -- 5 3D, Character Animation & Expressions -- Set Up the Project -- What Is (and Isn't) 3D -- Some Quick Parenting -- 3D -- Convert a Layer to a 3D Layer |
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Adobe After effects.
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Adobe After effects |
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Computer graphics.
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Cinematography -- Special effects -- Data processing.
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Image processing -- Digital techniques.
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Multimedia systems.
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Infographie. |
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Cinéma -- Effets spéciaux -- Informatique. |
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Traitement d'images -- Techniques numériques. |
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Multimédia. |
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computer graphics. |
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digital imaging. |
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Cinematography -- Special effects -- Data processing |
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Computer graphics |
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Image processing -- Digital techniques |
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Multimedia systems |
| ISBN |
9781681988672 (electronic bk.) |
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1681988674 (electronic bk.) |
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