Adobe After Effects

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Using Adobe After Effects CS4: Creating Compositions in Device Central: Oct 21, 2008; Learn how to create compositions in Device Central to create movies that play correctly and look as you intend on the mobile devices you choose.

Using Keylight for Adobe After Effects CS4: Oct 23, 2008; If you think of a color key as an edge matte surrounded by two holdout mattes (one for the core, one for the background), how do you combine these mattes in Keylight? Mark Christiansen explains.

Using the New Warp Stabilizer in Adobe After Effects CS6: Apr 23, 2012; In this excerpt from Adobe After Effects CS6 Classroom in a Book, you will learn how to use the Warp Stabilizer to stabilize a handheld camera shot and to track one object to another in an image so that their motion is synchronized. Then you will use corner-pinning to track an object with perspective. Finally, you will explore some of the high-end digital effects available in After Effects CS6: a particle system generator and the Timewarp effect.

Using the Roto Brush tool in Adobe After Effects CS5: Dec 10, 2010; This excerpt from Adobe After Effects CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to use the new Roto Brush tool in After Effects CS5, which is much faster than conventional rotoscoping, and for movies with complex backgrounds, much easier than keying.

Virtual Cinematography in After Effects 7.0: Nov 13, 2008; Mark Christiansen's far-reaching article discusses multiple aspects of replicating a physical camera in After Effects, with the ultimate goal of matching, influencing, or changing the camera's perspective.

What's the Score? Creating Compositions in After Effects: Feb 8, 2008; Antony Bolante shows you step-by-step how to create compositions in After Effects CS3 Professional that will be music to your ears.

Working with Masks in Adobe After Effects CS5: Dec 10, 2010; This excerpt from Adobe After Effects CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to create a mask using the Pen tool, edit a mask, feather a mask edge, create a vignette, and more.

Working with Shape Layers in Adobe After Effects CC (2015 release): Feb 3, 2016; Shape layers make it easy to create expressive backgrounds and intriguing results. You can animate shapes, apply animation presets, and add Repeaters to intensify their impact. Learn how in this chapter from Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2015 release).