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Five Best New Features of Adobe® After Effects® CS5
Jun 15, 2010
Rob Birnholz and Ian Robinson, contributing authors to Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Studio Techniques, take a break to discuss their top five favorite new features of Adobe After Effects CS5. Whether you use After Effects for hard-core compositing or you’re a designer looking to push your projects to the next level, there’s something new for everyone.
Flash Essentials for After Effects Users
Jun 17, 2009
Flash baffles After Effects users as often as it makes them feel comfortable. This chapter from Rich Harrington introduces you to Flash’s interface and core animation techniques.
Get a Grip! How to Manage Your Footage in After Effects 7
Jan 26, 2007
In this chapter, you'll learn how to use the Project panel in After Effects 7 to organize and sort the items contained in your project. You'll also learn about other aspects of asset management such as how to replace missing footage and use placeholders and proxies to temporarily stand in for footage items. As always, taking a little time to prepare will save you a lot of time in the long run.
Getting in Gear: An After Effects 5 Tutorial
Oct 1, 2001
by Antony Bolante, author of Adobe After Effects 5: Visual QuickStart Guide
Getting Started and Getting to Know the Workflow of Adobe After Effects CS4
Mar 2, 2009
Learn the how to get started and the basic workflow of Adobe After Effects CS4, including how to create a project and import footage, create compositions and arrange layers, navigate the Adobe After Effects interface and more.
How to Optimize Projects in Adobe After Effects CS5
Nov 10, 2010
This chapter examines how image data flows through an After Effects project in close detail. It's full of the kind of information that will help you make the most of After Effects.
Keyframe Interpolation in Adobe After Effects CS4
Mar 9, 2009
This chapter explains how you can assign various interpolation methods to keyframes to impart nuance and variation to your animations using the Timeline panel’s Graph Editor.
Keyframing a Motion Path in Adobe After Effects CS4
Oct 20, 2008
This excerpt, adapted from Adobe After Effects CS4 Classroom in a Book, shows you ways to animate a car.
Keying in After Effects CS3
Nov 12, 2008
Does the idea of keying conjure up images of a meteorologist on the evening news, or a shooting technique used in motion pictures? With After Effects, even the simplest, least-expensive project can take advantage of keying. The Adobe Creative Team takes us through a step-by-step example of this technique.
Managing Footage
Nov 3, 2006
Managing Footage
Aug 28, 2006
Managing Footage in Adobe After Effects
Sep 23, 2005
In this chapter, you'll learn how to use the Project window to organize and sort the items contained in your project and introduces you to the Footage window, which lets you not only see your footage but really scrutinize it.
Managing Footage in Adobe After Effects 7
Dec 8, 2006
In this chapter, you'll learn how to use the Project panel in Adobe After Effects 7 to organize and sort the items contained in your project. You'll also learn about other aspects of asset management such as how to replace missing footage and how to use placeholders and proxies to temporarily stand in for footage items. As always, taking a little time to prepare will save you a lot of time in the long run.
Preprocessing: How Real Movie Magic is Made
May 5, 2008
In this excerpt from Real World Video Compression, author Andy Beach shares industrial-strength preprocessing techniques that will make your video look professional no matter what device you're watching it on.
Pyrotechnics: Creating Fire, Explosions, and Energy Phenomena in After Effects 7.0
Nov 13, 2008
Humans are so familiar with fire that we can tell when it looks wrong, even if we don't understand the physics of explosions and fireworks. By using Mark Christiansen's After Effects techniques, however, you can provide at the compositing stage what the filmmaker couldn't afford on set: realism.
Saving Assets with Adobe Generator
Sep 16, 2014
This excerpt from Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2014 release) shows you how Adobe Generator can easily generate a JPEG, PNG, or GIF image from the contents of a layer or layer group in a Photoshop file.
Selections: The Key to Compositing
Jul 17, 2006
Selections: The Key to Compositing in Adobe After Effects 7.0
Dec 22, 2006
A particle physicist works with atoms, bakers and bankers work with their own types of dough, and compositors work with selections—many different types of selections, each of them derived uniquely. In this chapter, you'll look at the foundation techniques that define how a layer merges with those behind it.
Top Five Features in Adobe After Effects CS5
Jul 19, 2010
Mark Christiansen, author of Adobe After Effects CS5 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques (September, 2010), points out his favorite changes in the latest version of the program.
Using 3D Features in Adobe After Effects CS5
Dec 10, 2010
This excerpt from Adobe After Effects CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to add lights, effects, reflections, and other elements to a composition. In doing so, you’ll learn how to use additional 3D features available in Adobe After Effects.

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