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Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release) [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 416 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 230x190x20 mm, kaal: 854 g
  • Sari: Classroom in a Book
  • Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jan-2019
  • Kirjastus: Addison Wesley
  • ISBN-10: 0135298644
  • ISBN-13: 9780135298640
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 416 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 230x190x20 mm, kaal: 854 g
  • Sari: Classroom in a Book
  • Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jan-2019
  • Kirjastus: Addison Wesley
  • ISBN-10: 0135298644
  • ISBN-13: 9780135298640

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects CC (2019 release) choose Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2019 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, distorting and warping images and video, 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. 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. 

Where Are The Lesson Files? iii
Getting Started 1(7)
About Classroom in a Book
1(1)
Prerequisites
2(1)
Installing After Effects, Bridge, and Media Encoder
2(1)
Activating fonts
2(1)
Optimizing performance
3(1)
Restoring default preferences
3(1)
Online content
4(1)
How to use these lessons
5(1)
Additional resources
6(1)
Adobe Authorized Training Centers
7(1)
1 Getting To Know The Workflow 8(30)
Getting started
11(1)
Creating a project and importing footage
11(4)
Creating a composition and arranging layers
15(3)
Adding effects and modifying layer properties
18(4)
Animating the composition
22(8)
Previewing your work
30(2)
Optimizing performance in After Effects
32(1)
Rendering and exporting your composition
32(1)
Customizing workspaces
33(2)
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(2)
Applying effects to a layer
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 Adobe Fonts
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(4)
Animating type tracking
78(1)
Animating text opacity
79(1)
Using a text animator group
80(3)
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
90(1)
Adding a shape layer
91(2)
Creating a self-animating shape
93(2)
Duplicating a shape
95(3)
Creating custom shapes
98(1)
Positioning layers with snapping
99(3)
Animating a shape
102(3)
Creating nulls from paths
105(6)
Previewing the composition
111(2)
Review questions and answers
113(1)
5 Animating A Multimedia Presentation 114(30)
Getting started
116(3)
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(3)
Animating precomposed layers
136(3)
Animating the background
139(2)
Adding an audio track
141(2)
Review questions and answers
143(1)
6 Animating Layers 144(32)
Getting started
146(4)
Simulating lighting changes
150(2)
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(4)
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(5)
Feathering the edges of a mask
185(1)
Replacing the content of the mask
186(2)
Adding a reflection
188(4)
Creating a vignette
192(2)
Adjusting the timing
194(2)
Trimming the work area
196(1)
Review questions and answers
197(1)
8 Distorting Objects With The Puppet Tools 198(20)
Getting started
200(5)
About the Puppet tools
205(1)
Adding Position pins
206(2)
Adding Advanced and Bend pins
208(3)
Stiffening an area
211(1)
Animating pin positions
212(1)
Using the Puppet tools to animate video
213(1)
Recording animation
214(3)
Review questions and answers
217(1)
9 Using The Roto Brush Tool 218(22)
About rotoscoping
220(1)
Getting started
220(2)
Creating a segmentation boundary
222(6)
Fine-tuning the matte
228(2)
Freezing your Roto Brush tool results
230(1)
Changing the background
231(2)
Adding animated text
233(3)
Outputting your project
236(3)
Review questions and answers
239(1)
10 Performing Color Correction 240(30)
Getting started
242(3)
Adjusting color balance with levels
245(3)
Adjusting color with the Lumetri Color effect
248(2)
Replacing the background
250(5)
Color-correcting using Auto Levels
255(1)
Motion tracking the clouds
255(3)
Replacing the sky in the second clip
258(4)
Color grading
262(7)
Review questions and answers
269(1)
11 Creating Motion Graphics Templates 270(20)
Getting started
272(1)
Preparing a master composition
272(6)
Setting up a template
278(1)
Adding properties to the Essential Graphics panel
279(3)
Providing image options
282(2)
Protecting the timing of a section
284(1)
Exporting the template
285(4)
Review questions and answers
289(1)
12 Using 3D Features 290(26)
Getting started
292(1)
Creating 3D text
293(2)
Using 3D views
295(2)
Importing a background
297(1)
Adding 3D lights
298(4)
Adding a camera
302(2)
Extruding text in After Effects
304(2)
Working with Cinema 4D Lite
306(7)
Integrating the C4D layer in After Effects
313(1)
Finishing the project
314(1)
Review questions and answers
315(1)
13 Working With The 3D Camera Tracker 316(22)
About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
318(1)
Getting started
318(2)
Tracking the footage
320(1)
Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
321(4)
Creating additional text elements
325(3)
Locking an image to a plane with a solid layer
328(3)
Tidying the composition
331(1)
Adding a final object
332(1)
Creating realistic shadows
333(2)
Adding ambient light
335(1)
Adding an effect
335(1)
Previewing the composition
336(1)
Review questions and answers
337(1)
14 Advanced Editing Techniques 338(34)
Getting started
340(1)
Stabilizing a shot
340(6)
Using single-point motion tracking
346(6)
Using multipoint tracking
352(4)
Creating a particle simulation
356(10)
Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect
366(5)
Review questions and answers
371(1)
15 Rendering And Outputting 372(16)
Getting started
374(1)
About rendering and output
375(1)
Exporting using the Render Queue
375(4)
Creating templates for the Render Queue
379(1)
Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder
380(7)
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.