Getting Started |
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About Classroom in a Book |
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Installing After Effects and Bridge |
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Restoring default preferences |
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Adobe Authorized Training Centers |
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1 Getting To Know The Workflow |
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About the After Effects work area |
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Creating a project and importing footage |
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Creating a composition and arranging layers |
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Adding effects and modifying layer properties |
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Animating the composition |
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About timecode and duration |
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Optimizing performance in After Effects |
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Rendering and exporting your composition |
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Controlling the brightness of the user interface |
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Finding resources for using After Effects |
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Review questions and answers |
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2 Creating A Basic Animation Using Effects And Presets |
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Importing footage using Adobe Bridge |
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Creating a new composition |
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Working with imported Illustrator layers |
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Applying effects to a layer |
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Applying and controlling effects |
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Applying an animation preset |
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Rendering the composition |
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Review questions and answers |
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3 Animating Text |
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60 | (2) |
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Installing a font using Typekit |
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Creating and formatting point text |
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Using a text animation preset |
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Animating with scale keyframes |
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Animating using parenting |
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Animating imported Photoshop text |
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About parent and child layers |
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Using a text animator group |
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About text animator groups |
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Animating a layer's position |
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Review questions and answers |
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4 Working With Shape Layers |
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Creating a self-animating shape |
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Positioning layers with snapping |
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Creating nulls from paths |
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Previewing the composition |
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Animating layers to match audio |
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Review questions and answers |
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5 Animating A Multimedia Presentation |
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Libraries in After Effects |
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Animating additional elements |
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Animating precomposed layers |
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Supported audio file formats |
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Editing audio files in Adobe Audition |
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Review questions and answers |
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6 Animating Layers |
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Preparing layered Photoshop files |
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About Photoshop layer styles |
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Simulating lighting changes |
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Duplicating an animation using the pick whip |
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Animating movement in the scenery |
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Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte |
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About track mattes and traveling mattes |
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Adding a lens flare effect |
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Review questions and answers |
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7 Working With Masks |
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Creating a mask with the Pen tool |
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Feathering the edges of a mask |
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Replacing the content of the mask |
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Zooming and panning by touch |
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Using the Rectangle and Ellipse tools |
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Review questions and answers |
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8 Distorting Objects With The Puppet Tools |
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Defining areas of overlap |
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Extra Credit: Act it out with Adobe Character Animator |
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Review questions and answers |
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9 Using THE ROTO BRUSH TOOL |
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Creating a segmentation boundary |
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Editing Adobe Premiere Pro clips with After Effects |
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222 | (4) |
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Refine Soft Matte and Refine Hard Matte effects |
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Freezing your Roto Brush tool results |
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Extra credit:Tracking faces |
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Review questions and answers |
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10 Performing Color Correction |
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Previewing your project on a video monitor |
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Adjusting color balance with levels |
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Adjusting color balance with Color Finesse 3 |
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Color-correcting using Auto Levels |
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Motion tracking the clouds |
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Replacing the sky in the second clip |
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Extra credit: Cloning an object in a scene |
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Review questions and answers |
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11 Creating Motion Graphics Templates |
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Preparing a master composition |
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Fading a background image |
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Adding text properties to the Essential Graphics panel |
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280 | (4) |
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Extra credit: Using a Motion Graphics template in |
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Review questions and answers |
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12 Using 3D Features |
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Extruding text in After Effects |
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301 | (2) |
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Working with Cinema 4D Lite |
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303 | (7) |
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Integrating the C4D layer in After Effects |
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310 | (1) |
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Save multiple takes in Cinema 4D |
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312 | (1) |
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Review questions and answers |
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13 Working With The 3D Camera Tracker |
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About the 3D Camera Tracker effect |
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Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text |
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Creating realistic shadows |
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324 | (2) |
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Creating additional text elements |
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327 | (2) |
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Locking a layer to a plane with a null object |
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329 | (2) |
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Adjusting the camera's depth of field |
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Previewing the composition |
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Review questions and answers |
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14 Advanced Editing Techniques |
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Warp Stabilizer VFX settings |
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341 | (2) |
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Using single-point motion tracking |
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Moving and resizing the track points |
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Using multipoint tracking |
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Creating a particle simulation |
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Understanding Particle Systems II properties |
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About high dynamic range (HDR) footage |
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Review questions and answers |
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15 Rendering And Outputting |
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Creating templates for the Render Queue |
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373 | (4) |
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Exporting using the Render Queue |
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Preparing movies for mobile devices |
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Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder |
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Preparing a movie for broadcast output |
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Review questions and answers |
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Appendix: General Keyboard Shortcuts |
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Appendix: Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts |
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Index |
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