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Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2017 release)

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Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2017 release)

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  • Copyright 2017
  • Dimensions: 7-3/8" x 9-1/8"
  • Pages: 400
  • Edition: 1st
  • Book
  • ISBN-10: 0-13-466532-5
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-466532-0

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects CC (2017 release) choose Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2017 release) from Adobe Press. The 14 project-based lessons in this book show users step-by-step the key techniques for working in After Effects. Learn how to create, manipulate, and optimize motion graphics for film, video, DVD, the web, and mobile devices. Gain hands-on experience animating text and images, customizing a wide range of effects, tracking and syncing content, rotoscoping, and correcting color. Learn to create 3D content with both After Effects and Maxon Cinema 4D Lite (included with the software).

The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers to complete the projects featured in each chapter as well as ebook updates when Adobe releases new features for Creative Cloud customers. All buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition: a Web-based version of the complete ebook enhanced with video and interactive multiple-choice quizzes. As always with the Classroom in a Book, Instructor Notes are available for teachers to download.

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Table of Contents

  • 1 Getting to Know the Workflow
  • 2 Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets
  • 3 Animating Text
  • 4 Working with Shape Layers
  • 5 Animating a Multimedia Presentation
  • 6 Animating Layers
  • 7 Working with Masks
  • 8 Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
  • 9  Using the Roto Brush Tool
  • 10  Performing Color Correction 
  • 11  Using 3D Features                
  • 12  Working with the 3D Camera Tracker 
  • 13  Advanced Editing Techniques
  • 14  Rendering and Outputting
  • Appendix: General keyboard shortcuts

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