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Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2017 release) [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 400 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 230x190x20 mm, kaal: 789 g
  • Sari: Classroom in a Book
  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jan-2017
  • Kirjastus: Adobe Press,U.S.
  • ISBN-10: 0134665325
  • ISBN-13: 9780134665320
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 400 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 230x190x20 mm, kaal: 789 g
  • Sari: Classroom in a Book
  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jan-2017
  • Kirjastus: Adobe Press,U.S.
  • ISBN-10: 0134665325
  • ISBN-13: 9780134665320
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Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects CC (2017 release) choose Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2017 release) from Adobe Press. The 14 project-based lessons in this book show users step-by-step the key techniques for working in After Effects. Learn how to create, manipulate, and optimize motion graphics for film, video, DVD, the web, and mobile devices. Gain hands-on experience animating text and images, customizing a wide range of effects, tracking and syncing content, rotoscoping, and correcting color. Learn to create 3D content with both After Effects and Maxon Cinema 4D Lite (included with the software).

 

The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers to complete the projects featured in each chapter as well as ebook updates when Adobe releases new features for Creative Cloud customers. All buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition: a Web-based version of the complete ebook enhanced with video and interactive multiple-choice quizzes. As always with the Classroom in a Book, Instructor Notes are available for teachers to download.
GETTING STARTED
1(372)
About Classroom in a Book
1(1)
Prerequisites
1(1)
Installing After Effects and Bridge
2(1)
Optimizing performance
2(1)
Restoring default preferences
2(1)
Online content
3(2)
How to use these lessons
5(1)
Additional resources
5(1)
Adobe Authorized Training Centers
6(2)
1 Getting to Know the Workflow
8(30)
About the After Effects work area
10(1)
Getting started
11(1)
Creating a project and importing footage
11(4)
Creating a composition and arranging layers
15(2)
About layers
17(1)
Adding effects and modifying layer properties
18(4)
Animating the composition
22(2)
About the Tools panel
24(2)
About timecode and duration
26(1)
About the Timeline panel
27(3)
Previewing your work
30(2)
Optimizing performance in After Effects
32(1)
Rendering and exporting your composition
32(1)
Customizing workspaces
32(3)
Controlling the brightness of the user interface
35(1)
Finding resources for using After Effects
36(1)
Review questions and answers
37(1)
2 Creating A Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets
38(20)
Getting started
40(1)
Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
41(2)
Creating a new composition
43(3)
Working with imported Illustrator layers
46(1)
Applying effects to a layer
47(1)
Applying and controlling effects
48(2)
Applying an animation preset
50(2)
Previewing the effects
52(1)
Adding transparency
53(1)
Rendering the composition
54(3)
Review questions and answers
57(1)
3 Animating Text
58(30)
Getting started
60(2)
About text layers
62(1)
Installing a font using Typekit
62(3)
Creating and formatting point text
65(2)
Using a text animation preset
67(3)
Animating with scale keyframes
70(2)
Animating using parenting
72(1)
About parent and child layers
73(1)
Animating imported Photoshop text
74(3)
Animating type tracking
77(2)
Animating text opacity
79(1)
Using a text animator group
80(1)
About text animator groups
81(2)
Animating a layer's position
83(2)
Timing layer animations
85(1)
Adding motion blur
86(1)
Review questions and answers
87(1)
4 Working With Shape Layers
88(26)
Getting started
90(2)
Adding a shape layer
92(5)
Creating custom shapes
97(2)
Duplicating shapes
99(3)
Duplicating and modifying a composition
102(1)
Positioning layers with snapping
103(3)
Adding compositions to a 3D project
106(4)
Adding the finishing touches
110(2)
Extra credit
112(1)
Review questions and answers
113(1)
5 Animating A Multimedia Presentation
114(30)
Getting started
116(1)
Using Creative Cloud Libraries in After Effects
117(2)
Adjusting anchor points
119(2)
Parenting layers
121(1)
Precomposing layers
122(3)
Keyframing a motion path
125(4)
Animating additional elements
129(4)
Applying an effect
133(1)
About solid-color layers
134(3)
Animating precomposed layers
137(2)
Animating the background
139(1)
Adding an audio track
140(1)
Supported audio file formats
141(1)
Editing audio files in Adobe Audition
142(1)
Review questions and answers
143(1)
6 Animating Layers
144(32)
Getting started
146(2)
Preparing layered Photoshop files
148(1)
About Photoshop layer styles
149(1)
Simulating lighting changes
150(2)
Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
152(1)
About expressions
152(2)
Animating movement in the scenery
154(4)
Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte
158(1)
About track mattes and traveling mattes
159(3)
Animating the shadows
162(2)
Adding a lens flare effect
164(2)
Adding a video animation
166(1)
Rendering the animation
167(1)
Retiming the composition
168(7)
Review questions and answers
175(1)
7 Working With Masks
176(22)
About masks
178(1)
Getting started
178(1)
Creating a mask with the Pen tool
179(1)
Editing a mask
180(1)
About mask modes
181(3)
Creating a Bezier mask
184(1)
Feathering the edges of a mask
184(1)
Replacing the content of the mask
185(1)
Zooming and panning by touch
186(2)
Adding a reflection
188(4)
Creating a vignette
192(2)
Using the Rectangle and Ellipse tools
194(1)
Adjusting the timing
194(1)
Tips for creating masks
195(1)
Trimming the work area
196(1)
Review questions and answers
197(1)
8 Distorting Objects With the Puppet Tools
198(18)
Getting started
200(4)
About the Puppet tools
204(1)
Adding Deform pins
204(2)
Defining areas of overlap
206(1)
Stiffening an area
207(1)
Animating pin positions
208(1)
Squash and stretch
208(4)
Recording animation
212(1)
Act it out with Adobe Character Animator
213(2)
Review questions and answers
215(1)
9 Using the Roto Brush Tool
216(22)
About rotoscoping
218(1)
Getting started
218(2)
Creating a segmentation boundary
220(1)
Using Adobe Premiere Pro with After Effects
220(7)
Fine-tuning the matte
227(1)
Refine Soft Matte and Refine Hard Matte effects
228(1)
Freezing your Roto Brush tool results
229(1)
Changing the background
230(2)
Adding animated text
232(2)
Outputting your project
234(1)
Extra credit
235(2)
Review questions and answers
237(1)
10 Performing Color Correction
238(28)
Getting started
240(2)
Previewing your project on a video monitor
242(1)
Adjusting color balance with levels
243(2)
Adjusting color balance with Color Finesse 3
245(4)
Replacing the background
249(4)
Color-correcting using Auto Levels
253(1)
Motion tracking the clouds
254(1)
Replacing the sky in the second clip
255(4)
Color grading
259(4)
Extra Credit
263(2)
Review questions and answers
265(1)
11 Using 3D Features
266(28)
Getting started
268(1)
Creating 3D text
269(2)
Using 3D views
271(2)
Importing a background
273(1)
Adding 3D lights
274(5)
Adding a camera
279(3)
Extruding text in After Effects
282(1)
Working with Cinema 4D Lite
283(7)
Integrating the C4D layer in After Effects
290(2)
Finishing the project
292(1)
Review questions and answers
293(1)
12 Working With the 3D Camera Tracker
294(24)
About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
296(1)
Getting started
296(2)
Repairing rolling shutter distortions
298(1)
Tracking the footage
299(1)
Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
300(5)
Creating realistic shadows
305(2)
Adding ambient light
307(1)
Creating additional text elements
308(2)
Locking a layer to a plane with a null object
310(2)
Animating the text
312(2)
Adjusting the camera's depth of field
314(2)
Rendering the composition
316(1)
Review questions and answers
317(1)
13 Advanced Editing Techniques
318(34)
Getting started
320(1)
Using Warp Stabilizer VFX
320(1)
Bicubic scaling
321(2)
Warp Stabilizer VFX settings
323(2)
Using single-point motion tracking
325(4)
Checking for drift
329(1)
Moving and resizing the track points
330(1)
Using multipoint tracking
331(4)
Mocha for After Effects
335(1)
Creating a particle simulation
336(2)
Understanding Particle Systems II properties
338(7)
About high dynamic range (HDR) footage
345(6)
Review questions and answers
351(1)
14 Rendering and Outputting
352(21)
Getting started
354(1)
Creating templates for the Render Queue
355(4)
About compression
359(1)
Exporting using the Render Queue
360(2)
Preparing movies for mobile devices
362(1)
Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder
363(7)
Preparing a movie for broadcast output
370(1)
Review questions and answers
371(2)
Appendix: General Keyboard Shortcuts 373(2)
Index 375
Lisa Fridsma has long loved the process of teaching others to use Adobe products. She has written, edited, and designed over thirty books in the Classroom in a Book series over the last decade and a half (including books on Photoshop and After Effects), going back to her time on-staff at Adobe. Shes currently the owner of Darlington Hill Productions (Informational illustrations and publishing). Lisa lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her family and two above-average dogs.

 

Brie Gyncild aims to make technical information accessible to those who need it. Brie wrote The Photoshop CS5 Pocket Guide and The Photoshop Elements 8 Pocket Guide. She has also co-written The Photoshop Show Starring Russell Brown; numerous editions of the Classroom in a Book series on Photoshop, After Effects, Flash, and Acrobat; and several editions of the How to Wow series. Brie lives in Seattle with two cats and an overgrown garden.