Book description
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does -- an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book (2021 release) contains 15 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. Learn how to create, manipulate, and optimize motion graphics for film, video, DVD, the web, and mobile devices. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the books Getting Started section to unlock access to:
Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book
Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step
What you need to use this book: Adobe After Effects (2021 release) software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)
Note: Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe After Effects software.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Where are the Lesson Files?
- Contents
- Getting Started
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1. 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 workspaces
- Controlling the brightness of the user interface
- Collaborating in After Effects
- Finding resources for using After Effects
- Review questions
- Review answers
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2. Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets
- Getting started
- Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
- Creating a new composition
- Working with imported Illustrator layers
- Applying effects to a layer
- Applying an animation preset
- Precomposing layers for a new animation
- Previewing the effects
- Adding transparency
- Rendering the composition
- Review questions
- Review answers
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3. Animating Text
- Getting started
- About text layers
- Installing a font using Adobe Fonts
- Creating and formatting point text
- Animating with scale keyframes
- Using a text animation preset
- Animating imported Photoshop text
- Animating type tracking
- Animating text opacity
- Animating an image to replace text
- Using a text animator group
- Animating a layer’s position
- Adding motion blur
- Review questions
- Review answers
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4. Working With Shape Layers
- Getting started
- Creating the composition
- Adding a shape layer
- Creating a self-animating shape
- Duplicating a shape
- Creating custom shapes with the Pen tool
- Positioning layers with snapping
- Animating a shape
- Animating using parenting
- Using nulls to connect points
- Previewing the composition
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 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. Creating Motion Graphics Templates
- 12. Using 3D Features
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13. Working with the 3D Camera Tracker
- About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
- Getting started
- Tracking the footage
- Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
- Creating additional text elements
- Locking an image to a plane with a solid layer
- Tidying the composition
- Adding a final object
- Creating realistic shadows
- Adding ambient light
- Adding an effect
- Previewing the composition
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 14. Advanced Editing Techniques
- 15. Rendering and Outputting
- Index
- Production Notes
Product information
- Title: Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book (2021 release)
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2021
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780136815716
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