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Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2018 release) [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 416 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 230x190x20 mm, kaal: 826 g
  • Sari: Classroom in a Book
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Feb-2018
  • Kirjastus: Adobe Press,U.S.
  • ISBN-10: 0134853253
  • ISBN-13: 9780134853253
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 416 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 230x190x20 mm, kaal: 826 g
  • Sari: Classroom in a Book
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Feb-2018
  • Kirjastus: Adobe Press,U.S.
  • ISBN-10: 0134853253
  • ISBN-13: 9780134853253

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects CC (2018 release) choose Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2018 release) from Adobe Press. The 15 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. Create Motion Graphics templates in After Effects so colleagues can make specific edits in Premiere Pro without accidentally changing other critical settings. 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 relevant 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 multiple-choice quizzes. 

Getting Started 1(7)
About Classroom in a Book
1(1)
Prerequisites
1(1)
Installing After Effects and Bridge
2(1)
Optimizing performance
2(1)
Restoring default preferences
3(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(3)
About the Tools panel
25(1)
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(1)
Applying an animation preset
49(3)
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
63(2)
Creating and formatting point text
65(3)
Using a text animation preset
68(3)
Animating with scale keyframes
71(1)
Animating using parenting
72(2)
Animating imported Photoshop text
74(1)
About parent and child layers
74(4)
Animating type tracking
78(1)
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(1)
Creating the composition
91(1)
Adding a shape layer
92(2)
Creating a self-animating shape
94(1)
Duplicating a shape
95(3)
Creating custom shapes
98(1)
Positioning layers with snapping
99(3)
Animating a shape
102(4)
Creating nulls from paths
106(5)
Previewing the composition
111(1)
Animating layers to match audio
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(2)
Precomposing layers
123(2)
Keyframing a motion path
125(4)
Animating additional elements
129(4)
Applying an effect
133(1)
About solid-color layers
134(2)
Animating precomposed layers
136(3)
Animating the background
139(2)
Adding an audio track
141(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)
About expressions
152(1)
Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
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(2)
Creating a mask with the Pen tool
180(1)
Editing a mask
180(3)
About mask modes
183(1)
Creating a Bezier mask
184(1)
Feathering the edges of a mask
185(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(5)
About the Puppet tools
205(1)
Adding Deform pins
206(3)
Defining areas of overlap
209(1)
Stiffening an area
209(1)
Squash and stretch
210(1)
Animating pin positions
210(2)
Recording animation
212(2)
Extra Credit: Act it out with Adobe Character Animator
214(1)
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(2)
Editing Adobe Premiere Pro clips with After Effects
222(4)
Fine-tuning the matte
226(1)
Refine Soft Matte and Refine Hard Matte effects
227(1)
Freezing your Roto Brush tool results
228(1)
Changing the background
229(2)
Adding animated text
231(3)
Outputting your project
234(1)
Extra credit:Tracking faces
235(2)
Review questions and answers
237(1)
10 Performing Color Correction 238(30)
Getting started
240(2)
Previewing your project on a video monitor
242(1)
Adjusting color balance with levels
243(3)
Adjusting color balance with Color Finesse 3
246(4)
Replacing the background
250(4)
Color-correcting using Auto Levels
254(1)
Motion tracking the clouds
255(2)
Replacing the sky in the second clip
257(4)
Color grading
261(4)
Extra credit: Cloning an object in a scene
265(2)
Review questions and answers
267(1)
11 Creating Motion Graphics Templates 268(20)
Getting started
270(1)
Preparing a master composition
270(5)
Setting up a template
275(1)
Creating an image slider
275(4)
Fading a background image
279(1)
Adding text properties to the Essential Graphics panel
280(4)
Exporting the template
284(2)
Extra credit: Using a Motion Graphics template in
Adobe Premiere Pro
286(1)
Review questions and answers
287(1)
12 Using 3D Features 288(26)
Getting started
290(1)
Creating 3D text
291(2)
Using 3D views
293(1)
Importing a background
294(1)
Adding 3D lights
295(4)
Adding a camera
299(2)
Extruding text in After Effects
301(2)
Working with Cinema 4D Lite
303(7)
Integrating the C4D layer in After Effects
310(1)
Finishing the project
311(1)
Save multiple takes in Cinema 4D
312(1)
Review questions and answers
313(1)
13 Working With The 3D Camera Tracker 314(22)
About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
316(1)
Getting started
316(2)
Repairing rolling
shutter distortions
318(1)
Tracking the footage
319(1)
Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
320(4)
Creating realistic shadows
324(2)
Adding ambient light
326(1)
Creating additional text elements
327(2)
Locking a layer to a plane with a null object
329(2)
Animating the text
331(2)
Adjusting the camera's depth of field
333(1)
Previewing the composition
334(1)
Review questions and answers
335(1)
14 Advanced Editing Techniques 336(34)
Getting started
338(1)
Stabilizing a shot
338(1)
Bicubic scaling
339(2)
Warp Stabilizer VFX settings
341(2)
Removing motion blur
343(1)
Using single-point motion tracking
343(4)
Moving and resizing the track points
347(1)
Checking for drift
348(1)
Using multipoint tracking
349(4)
mocha for After Effects
353(1)
Creating a particle simulation
354(2)
Understanding Particle Systems II properties
356(7)
About high dynamic range (HDR) footage
363(6)
Review questions and answers
369(1)
15 Rendering And Outputting 370(18)
Getting started
372(1)
Creating templates for the Render Queue
373(4)
About compression
377(1)
Exporting using the Render Queue
378(2)
Preparing movies for mobile devices
380(1)
Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder
380(5)
Preparing a movie for broadcast output
385(2)
Review questions and answers
387(1)
Appendix: General Keyboard Shortcuts 388(1)
Appendix: Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts 389(2)
Index 391
Lisa Fridsma has long loved the process of teaching others to use Adobe products. She has produced and illustrated over thirty books in the Classroom in a Book series over the last two decades (including books on Photoshop and After Effects), starting with her time on-staff at Adobe. She is currently the owner of Darlington Hill Productions (informational illustrations and publishing). Lisa lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her family which includes a tortoise and an above-average dog.

 

Brie Gyncild aims to make technical information accessible to those who need it. Brie has written and co-written dozens of books about Adobe applications, including 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 cats and an overgrown garden.