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- 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
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Additional resources
Adobe After Effects CS4 Classroom in a Book is not meant to replace documentation that comes with the program. This book explains only the commands and options actually used in the lessons, so there’s much more to learn about After Effects. Classroom in a Book aims to give you confidence and skills so that you can start creating your own projects. For more comprehensive information about program features, see:
- Adobe After Effects CS4 Community Help, which you can view by choosing Help > After Effects Help. Community Help is an integrated online environment of instruction, inspiration, and support. It includes custom search of expert-selected, relevant content on and off Adobe.com. Community Help combines content from Adobe Help, Support, Design Center, Developer Connection, and Forums—along with great online community content so that users can easily find the best and most up-to-date resources. Access tutorials, technical support, online product help, videos, articles, tips and techniques, blogs, examples, and much more.
- Adobe After Effects CS4 Product Support Center, where you can find and browse support and learning content on Adobe.com. Visit www.adobe.com/support/aftereffects/.
- Adobe TV, where you will find programming on Adobe products, including a channel for professional photographers and a How To channel that contains hundreds of movies on After Effects CS4 and other products across the Adobe Creative Suite 4 lineup. Visit http://tv.adobe.com/.
Also check out these useful links:
- The After Effects CS4 product home page at www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/.
- After Effects user forums at www.adobe.com/support/forums/ for peer-to-peer discussions of Adobe products.
- Adobe Exchange at www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/ for extensions, functions, code, and more.