Creating Motion Graphics With After Effects

by Meyer, Trish

• ISBN13: 9780240810102
• ISBN10: 0240810104
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-29
• Publisher: Focal Pr

Summary

Trish and Chris Meyer share fifteen years of real-world film and video production experience inside the critically acclaimed Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects. More than a step-by-step review of the features in After Effects, you will learn how the program thinks so that you can realize your own visions more quickly and efficiently. This full-color book is jammed full of tips, gotchas, and sage advice that will help you survive whatever your next project throws at you. Creating Motion Graphics 4th Edition has been heavily revised, reuniting the previous two volumes plus adding detailed coverage of new features introduced in After Effects 7 and CS3 Professional to form one massive, essential reference. The enclosed DVD-ROM contains source footage and project files for the numerous exercises which help reinforce each concept. The DVD also includes two hundred pages of additional information, including lengthy Bonus Chapters on Expressions and Effects. * Mastering animation through the use of keyframes, motion paths, and the Graph Editor * Blending imagery using alpha channels, masks, mattes, modes, and stencils * Building groups and hierarchies through parenting and nested comps * Extended coverage of type animation, paint tools and 3D space * Advanced subjects such as keying, motion tracking, expressions, and video issues * Includes two hundred PDF pages of bonus content on the DVD * Extensive coverage of the new CS3 features including the Shape and Puppet tools, Brainstorm, per-character 3D text, color management, and more!

Table of Contents

Creating a Composition

Basic Animation

The Anchor Point

Advanced Animation

The Layer Essentials

Trimming

Motion Blur

Blending Modes

All About Masking

All About Track Mattes

Stencils and the 'T'

3D Space

Cameras

Lighting in 3D

Parenting Skills

Nesting Compositions

Precomposing

Collapsing Transformations

Textacy

Applying and Using Effects

Effects Roundup

Compound Effects

Presets & Variations

Color Management

Keying

Frame Rate Manipulation

Motion Stabilization

Motion Tracking

Paint and Clone

Vector Paint

Working with Audio

Express Yourself

Import and Interpret

Integration 101

Integration with 3D Applications

Video Issues

Rendering Queue

Advanced Rendering

Prerendering and Proxies

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