CS5.5 Update: Adobe After Effects CS5 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques

Material included in this update

• Chapter 1 - Timecode

• Chapter 1 - Save as CS5

• Chapter 1 - Caching

• Chapter 8 - Warp Stabilizer

• Chapter 9 - Camera Commands

• Chapter 9 – Depth of Focus

• Chapter 9 - Stereoscopic 3D

• Chapter 12 - Light Falloff

Chapter 1: Composite in After Effects

Timecode

Timecode support in After Effects isn’t that life-changing unless you’ve been accustomed to not having it, as After Effects users were before CS5.5. Timecode is simply absolute, unchanging timing in hours, minutes, seconds, and frames used to log source media when recorded and edited. This makes it possible to determine exactly where a clip begins and ends and have ...