Adobe After Effects CS4 Classroom in a Book

Chapter 5. Animating a Multimedia Presentation

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Create a complex animation with multiple layers.

• Adjust the duration of a layer.

• Clip live motion video using a shape layer.

• Animate with Position, Scale, and Rotation keyframes.

• Animate a precomposed layer.

• Apply the Radio Waves effect to a solid layer.

• Add audio to a project.

• Loop an audio track using time remapping.

In this lesson, you will work on a more complex animation project. Along the way, you’ll learn to mix media, including motion video and Adobe Photoshop art; to work with audio; and to become more adept at using the Timeline panel ...