- About Classroom in a Book
- Prerequisites
- Installing After Effects
- Optimizing performance
- Restoring default preferences
- Copying the lesson files
- How to use these lessons
- Additional resources
- Adobe certification
- Getting to Know the Workflow
- Getting started
- Creating a project and importing footage
- Creating a composition and arranging layers
- Adding effects and modifying layer properties
- Animating the composition
- Previewing your work
- Optimizing performance in After Effects
- Rendering and exporting your composition
- Customizing the workspace
- Controlling the brightness of the user interface
- Finding resources for using After Effects
- Checking for updates
- Review answers
- Review questions
Installing After Effects
You must purchase the Adobe After Effects CS4 software separately. For system requirements and complete instructions on installing the software, see the Adobe After Effects ReadMe.html file on the application DVD. You must also have Apple QuickTime 7.1.5 or later installed on your system.
Install After Effects from the Adobe After Effects CS4 application DVD onto your hard disk; you cannot run the program from the DVD. Follow the onscreen instructions.
Make sure that your serial number is accessible before installing the application; you can find the serial number on the registration card or on the back of the DVD case.