Real World After Effects

by Reinfeld, Eric; London, Sherry; Adobe Systems

• ISBN13: 9780201688399
• ISBN10: 0201688395
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr

Summary

Adobe's After Effects has been called "Photoshop on steroids." This powerful video compositing program allows you to take still images and turn them into animated pictures. With it, you can layer moving video and create special effects that would take months to perfect with traditional techniques.After Effects is used by high-end video production studios as well as wannabe MTV-style home video producers. After Effects achieves that rare combination of a powerful, yet easy to use, program-like Photoshop. Not surprisingly, it provides a very logical upgrade path for Photoshop artists who want to learn animation and multimedia.Real World After Effects goes way beyond the Adobe manual. The book takes the reader from capturing a subject image to outputting the final production to videotape or posting it on the Web. The book covers the basics, but also goes into more depth at the intermediate to advanced level. Finally, it covers a variety of third-party After Effects plug-ins and filters, including KPT's Final Effects. The cross-platform CD-ROM contains "before" and "after" files for each book project.

Table of Contents

Section 1 -- Basic Moves	3	(76)
Chapter 1: After Effects Environment	3	(16)
Chapter 2: Using Still Images	19	(20)
Chapter 3: Using Video and Still Images	39	(18)
Chapter 4: Video on Video	57	(22)
Section 2 -- Using a Variety of Input	79	(130)
Chapter 5: Using Illustrator Files	79	(30)
Chapter 6: Using Photoshop Comps	109	(16)
Chapter 7: Audio Tools and Resources for After Effects Artists	125	(32)
Chapter 8: 3D Tools and After Effects	157	(22)
Chapter 9: Companion Programs	179	(30)
Section 3 -- Special Effects	209	(202)
Chapter 10: Keyframes and Animations	209	(14)
Chapter 11: Mattes	223	(26)
Chapter 12: Transfer Modes	249	(14)
Chapter 13: Built-in Filters	263	(60)
Chapter 14: MetaCreations Effects	323	(24)
Chapter 15: Third-Party Effects	347	(28)
Chapter 16: Production Bundle	375	(36)
Section 4 -- Preparing for Output	411	(14)
Chapter 17: Big Images are not Just for Print	411	(14)
Section 5 -- After Thoughts	425	(28)
Chapter 18: After Effects Technical Esoterica	425	(16)
Chapter 19: After Effects Experts	441	(12)
Index	453