Adobe after Effects CS5
Those creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects CS5 choose Adobe After Effects CS5 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 14 project-based lessons in this book show readers step-by-step the key techniques fo...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Adobe Press
2010
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Edición: | 1st edition |
Colección: | Classroom in a book Adobe After Effects CS5 classroom in a book
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629109606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- COVER
- CONTENTS
- GETTING STARTED
- About Classroom in a Book
- Prerequisites
- Installing After Effects
- Optimizing performance
- Restoring default preferences
- Copying the lesson files
- How to use these lessons
- Additional resources
- Adobe certification
- 1 GETTING TO KNOW THE WORKFLOW
- Lesson overview
- 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 the workspace
- Controlling the brightness of the user interface
- Finding resources for using After Effects
- Checking for updates
- Review questions and answers
- 2 CREATING A BASIC ANIMATION USING EFFECTS AND PRESETS
- Lesson overview
- Getting started
- Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
- Creating the composition
- Working with imported Illustrator layers
- Applying effects to a layer
- Applying an animation preset
- Previewing the effects
- Adding transparency
- Rendering the composition
- Review questions and answers
- 3 ANIMATING TEXT
- Lesson overview
- Getting started
- About text layers
- Creating and formatting point text
- Using a text animation preset
- Animating with scale keyframes
- Animating using parenting
- Animating imported Photoshop text
- Animating text using a path animation preset
- Animating type tracking
- Animating text opacity
- Using a text animator group
- Cleaning up the path animation
- Animating a nontext layer along a motion path
- Adding motion blur
- Exporting to Adobe Flash Professional CS5
- Review questions and answers
- 4 WORKING WITH SHAPE LAYERS
- Lesson overview
- Getting started
- Adding a shape layer
- Creating custom shapes.
- Creating stars
- Incorporating video and audio layers
- Applying a Cartoon effect
- Adding a title bar
- Using Brainstorm to experiment
- Review questions and answers
- 5 ANIMATING A MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION
- Lesson overview
- Getting started
- Animating the scenery using parenting
- Adjusting an anchor point
- Masking video using vector shapes
- Keyframing a motion path
- Animating additional elements
- Applying an effect
- Creating an animated slide show
- Adding an audio track
- Zooming in for a final close-up
- Review questions and answers
- 6 ANIMATING LAYERS
- Lesson overview
- Getting started
- Simulating lighting changes
- Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
- Animating movement in the scenery
- Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte
- Animating the shadows
- Adding a lens flare effect
- Animating the clock
- Retiming the composition
- Review questions and answers
- 7 WORKING WITH MASKS
- Lesson overview
- About masks
- Getting started
- Creating a mask with the Pen tool
- Editing a mask
- Feathering the edges of a mask
- Replacing the content of the mask
- Adding a reflection
- Creating a vignette
- Adjusting the color
- Review questions and answers
- 8 DISTORTING OBJECTS WITH THE PUPPET TOOLS
- Lesson overview
- Getting started
- About the Puppet tools
- Adding Deform pins
- Defining areas of overlap
- Stiffening an area
- Animating pin positions
- Recording animation
- Review questions and answers
- 9 USING THE ROTO BRUSH TOOL
- Lesson overview
- About rotoscoping
- Getting started
- Creating a segmentation boundary
- Fine-tuning the matte
- Creating a transition from the full clip to the foreground
- Creating the logo
- Animating text
- Adding a background image
- Adding audio
- Review questions and answers
- 10 PERFORMING COLOR CORRECTION.
- Lesson overview
- Getting started
- Adjusting color balance
- Replacing the background
- Removing unwanted elements
- Correcting a range of colors
- Warming colors with the Photo Filter effect
- Review questions and answers
- 11 BUILDING 3D OBJECTS
- Lesson overview
- Getting started
- Building a 3D object
- Working with a null object
- Working with 3D text
- Creating a backdrop for 3D animation
- Nesting a 3D composition
- Adding a camera
- Completing the scene
- Review questions and answers
- 12 USING 3D FEATURES
- Lesson overview
- Getting started
- Animating 3D objects
- Adding reflections to 3D objects
- Animating a camera
- Adjusting layer timing
- Using 3D lights
- Adding effects
- Adding motion blur
- Previewing the entire animation
- Review questions and answers
- 13 ADVANCED EDITING TECHNIQUES
- Lesson overview
- Getting started
- Using motion stabilization
- Using single-point motion tracking
- Using multipoint tracking
- Creating a particle simulation
- Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect
- Review questions and answers
- 14 RENDERING AND OUTPUTTING
- Lesson overview
- Getting started
- Creating templates for the rendering process
- Creating templates for output modules
- Exporting to different output media
- Review questions and answers
- Appendix: Color Management in After Effects CS5
- INDEX.