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Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book (2021 release) / Brie Gyncild and Lisa Fridsma
Publication details: San Jose : AdobePress, 2021. 2021Description: ix, 405 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780136815648
- 777.9 GYN
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does -- an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book (2021 release) contains 15 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. Learn how to create, manipulate, and optimize motion graphics for film, video, DVD, the web, and mobile devices. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book's "Getting Started" section to unlock access to:
Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step
What you need to use this book: Adobe After Effects (2021 release) software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)
Note: Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe After Effects software.
Includes index
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Where are the Lesson Files? (p. iii)
- Getting Started (p. 1)
- About Classroom in a Book (p. 1)
- Prerequisites (p. 2)
- Installing After Effects, Bridge, and Media Encoder (p. 2)
- Activating fonts (p. 2)
- Optimizing performance (p. 3)
- Restoring default preferences (p. 3)
- Online content (p. 4)
- How to use these lessons (p. 5)
- Additional resources (p. 6)
- Adobe Authorized Training Centers (p. 7)
- 1 Getting to know the workflow (p. 8)
- Getting started (p. 11)
- Creating a project and importing footage (p. 11)
- Creating a composition and arranging layers (p. 15)
- Adding effects and modifying layer properties (p. 18)
- Animating the composition (p. 22)
- Previewing your work (p. 30)
- Optimizing performance in After Effects (p. 32)
- Rendering and exporting your composition (p. 32)
- Customizing workspaces (p. 33)
- Controlling the brightness of the user interface (p. 35)
- Collaborating in After Effects (p. 35)
- Finding resources for using After Effects (p. 36)
- Review questions and answers (p. 37)
- 2 Creating basic animation using effects and presets (p. 38)
- Getting started (p. 40)
- Importing footage using Adobe Bridge (p. 41)
- Creating a new composition (p. 43)
- Working with imported Illustrator layers (p. 46)
- Applying effects to a layer (p. 48)
- Applying an animation preset (p. 50)
- Precomposing layers for a new animation (p. 51)
- Previewing the effects (p. 52)
- Adding transparency (p. 53)
- Rendering the composition (p. 54)
- Review questions and answers (p. 57)
- 3 Animating Text (p. 58)
- Getting started (p. 60)
- About text layers (p. 62)
- Installing a font using Adobe Fonts (p. 62)
- Creating and formatting point text (p. 65)
- Animating with scale keyframes (p. 67)
- Using a text animation preset (p. 69)
- Animating imported Photoshop text (p. 72)
- Animating type tracking (p. 75)
- Animating text opacity (p. 77)
- Animating an image to replace text (p. 77)
- Using a text animator group (p. 80)
- Animating a layer's position (p. 83)
- Adding motion blur (p. 85)
- Review questions and answers (p. 87)
- 4 Working with shape layers (p. 88)
- Getting started (p. 90)
- Creating the composition (p. 90)
- Adding a shape layer (p. 91)
- Creating a self-animating shape (p. 93)
- Duplicating a shape (p. 95)
- Creating custom shapes with the Pen tool (p. 99)
- Positioning layers with snapping (p. 101)
- Animating a shape (p. 103)
- Animating using parenting (p. 107)
- Using nulls to connect points (p. 111)
- Previewing the composition (p. 113)
- Review questions and answers (p. 115)
- 5 Animating Multimedia Presentation (p. 116)
- Getting started (p. 118)
- Adjusting anchor points (p. 121)
- Parenting layers (p. 123)
- Precomposing layers (p. 125)
- Keyframing a motion path (p. 127)
- Animating additional elements (p. 131)
- Applying an effect (p. 135)
- Animating precomposed layers (p. 138)
- Animating the background (p. 141)
- Adding an audio track (p. 143)
- Review questions and answers (p. 145)
- 6 Animating layers (p. 146)
- Getting started (p. 148)
- Simulating lighting changes (p. 151)
- Duplicating an animation using the pick whip (p. 153)
- Using a track matte to confine animation (p. 156)
- Animating using the Corner Pin effect (p. 161)
- Simulating a darkening sky (p. 163)
- Retiming the composition (p. 167)
- Review questions and answers (p. 177)
- 7 Working with masks (p. 178)
- About masks (p. 180)
- Getting started (p. 180)
- Creating a mask with the Pen tool (p. 182)
- Editing a mask (p. 183)
- Feathering the edges of a mask (p. 186)
- Replacing the content of the mask (p. 187)
- Adjusting the opacity (p. 189)
- Adding a shadow (p. 190)
- Creating a vignette (p. 195)
- Review questions and answers (p. 199)
- 8 Distorting objects with the puppet tools (p. 200)
- Getting started (p. 202)
- About the Puppet tools (p. 207)
- Adding Position pins (p. 208)
- Adding Advanced and Bend pins (p. 210)
- Stiffening an area (p. 213)
- Animating pin positions (p. 214)
- Using the Puppet tools to animate video (p. 215)
- Recording animation (p. 216)
- Review questions and answers (p. 219)
- 9 Using the roto brush tool (p. 220)
- About rotoscoping (p. 222)
- Getting started (p. 222)
- Creating a segmentation boundary (p. 224)
- Fine-tuning the matte (p. 230)
- Freezing your Roto Brush tool results (p. 232)
- Changing the background (p. 234)
- Adding animated text (p. 236)
- Outputting your project (p. 238)
- Review questions and answers (p. 239)
- 10 Performing color correction (p. 242)
- Getting started (p. 244)
- Adjusting color balance with levels (p. 247)
- Adjusting color with the Lumetri Color effect (p. 250)
- Replacing the background (p. 252)
- Color-correcting using Auto Levels (p. 257)
- Motion tracking the clouds (p. 258)
- Replacing the sky in the second clip (p. 260)
- Color grading (p. 265)
- Review questions and answers (p. 271)
- 11 Creating motion graphics templates (p. 272)
- Getting started (p. 274)
- Preparing a master composition (p. 274)
- Setting up a template (p. 280)
- Adding properties to the Essential Graphics panel (p. 281)
- Providing image options (p. 284)
- Protecting the timing of a section (p. 287)
- Exporting the template (p. 288)
- Review questions and answers (p. 291)
- 12 Using 3D features (p. 292)
- Getting started (p. 294)
- Creating 3D layers (p. 295)
- Animating 3D layers (p. 300)
- Adding ambient light (p. 303)
- Precomposing layers (p. 304)
- Creating 3D text (p. 305)
- Using 3D views (p. 308)
- Adding camera (p. 310)
- Lighting a scene (p. 313)
- Review questions and answers (p. 319)
- 13 Working with the 3D camera tracker (p. 320)
- About the 3D Camera Tracker effect (p. 322)
- Getting started (p. 322)
- Tracking the footage (p. 324)
- Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text (p. 325)
- Creating additional text elements (p. 329)
- Locking an image to a plane with a solid layer (p. 332)
- Tidying the composition (p. 335)
- Adding a final object (p. 336)
- Creating realistic shadows (p. 337)
- Adding ambient light (p. 339)
- Adding an effect (p. 339)
- Previewing the composition (p. 340)
- Review questions and answers (p. 341)
- 14 Advanced editing techniques (p. 342)
- Getting started (p. 344)
- Stabilizing a shot (p. 344)
- Using single-point motion tracking (p. 350)
- Removing unwanted objects (p. 355)
- Creating a particle simulation (p. 360)
- Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect (p. 371)
- Review questions and answers (p. 377)
- 15 Rendering and outputting (p. 378)
- Getting started (p. 380)
- About rendering and output (p. 381)
- Exporting using the Render Queue (p. 381)
- Creating templates for the Render Queue (p. 385)
- Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder (p. 386)
- Review questions and answers (p. 393)
- Index (p. 395)