- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Getting in Gear: An After Effects 5 Tutorial
- Oct 1, 2001
- by Antony Bolante, author of Adobe After Effects 5: Visual QuickStart Guide
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Managing Footage
- Nov 3, 2006
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- Managing Footage
- Aug 28, 2006
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Selections: The Key to Compositing
- Jul 17, 2006
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Using 3D Features in Adobe After Effects CS5
- Dec 10, 2010
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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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