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After Effects Apprentice
book

After Effects Apprentice

by Chris Trish Meyer
September 2012
Beginner
320 pages
13h 28m
English
Focal Press
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Lesson 1

Basic Animation

Building your first animation while you learn a typical After Effects workflow.

In This Lesson

creating folders in the Project panel

creating a new composition

importing files and folders

interpreting alpha channels

adding layers to the Comp panel

changing the Background Color

scrubbing parameter values

interactively transforming layers

animating Position

navigating between keyframes

editing a keyframe’s Bezier handles

dragging footage to the Timeline panel

animating Opacity, Scale, and Rotation

aligning and distributing layers

editing spatial keyframes, motion paths

auto orientation

adding solids

adding effects

copying and pasting effects

importing layered Photoshop and Illustrator files

rendering

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