Adobe After Effects : a complete course and compendium of features / Ben Goldsmith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldsmith, Ben, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer graphics.

Cinematography--Special effects--Data processing.

Cinematography.

Image processing--Digital techniques.

Image processing.

Multimedia systems.

Adobe After effects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (488 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

San Rafael, CA : Rocky Nook, [2022]

Summary:

Adobe After Effects: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to editing and enhancing videos in Adobe After Effects. Whether you’re animating text or objects, changing a scene’s setting, or creating a 3D scene, After Effects is the tool for you—and this book will teach you what you need to know. First, with a complete Course that includes a set of projects and lessons derived from video editor and Adobe Certified Instructor Ben Goldsmith, you will learn the procedures needed to use After Effects effectively and professionally. Dozens of exercises are included that can be applied to any videos you have in mind. Through step-by-step lessons, you’ll be exposed to all of After Effects’ features in practical contexts and its best practices for optimal workflows. To complete the Course, we’ll supply lesson documents and their assets to download, so you can work alongside the text. Then, for greater depth of knowledge and subsequent reference, you’ll use the Compendium to uncover more of the “how” and “why” of After Effects. With each topic easy to access, you can find and explore all of Premiere Pro’s key features and concepts in depth. With cross-references between the Course and Compendium, the two parts of the book complement each other perfectly. Best of all, when the lessons in the Course are done, the Compendium will continue to serve for months and years to come.

Contents:

Intro

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Software and Files

A Note Regarding Keyboard Shortcuts

The Course

1 Layout and Basic Animation

Project Organization

Folder Structure

Setting Up the After Effects Project

Create a New Project

Import Assets

The Composition Panel

Configure the Comp Panel to Your Liking

Layout in the Comp Window

Changing an Object's Position

Changing an Object's Scale

Changing an Object's Rotation

Changing an Object's Anchor Point

Transform Controls in the Timeline

Configuring the Timeline

Transform Controls

PARTS

Zoom In and Out of the Timeline

Keyframe Animation

Prepping for Animation

Animating Position

It's Playback Time

Configuring Playback

The Preview Panel

Work Area

Adding a Pause in Animation

Editing Keyframes

Adding Finesse

Curved Position Paths

Add Rotation

Trimming Clips

2 Advanced Animation, Parenting & Text

Set Up the Project

Import the Asset

Open the Composition

Composition Settings

Null Objects

Create a Null Object

Parenting

Parent with Pickwhipping

Scale the Null

Continuous Rasterization

Enable Continuous Rasterization

Animating Scale

Don't Forget to Set Your Anchor Point

Scale in the Timeline

Eased Animation

Easy Ease

Keyframe Velocity

The Graph Editor

Adjusting Keyframe Velocity

Editing Graphs

Graph Bezier Curves

Finalize the Animation

More Parenting

Reusing Animation

Adding Text

Creating a Text Layer

Editing Text

Text on a Path

Animating Text

The Effects & Presets Panel

Retiming, Again

Trim the Comp

Exporting

Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue

3 Shape Layers & Effects

Set Up the Project

Creating a New Composition from Scratch

Creating an Emoji

Create an Ellipse Shape

Change a Shape's Fill

Gradient Fill

Change a Shape's Stroke

Rename Your Stuff

Add More Shapes

Add a Custom Shape

Stroke Settings

Organizing Shape Layers

Grouping Shapes

Animating an Emoji

Using Markers

Animate the Face Group

Animate the Eyebrows

Animate the Mouth

Finesse the Animation

Shape Effects

Create a New Shape Layer

Adding a Second Stroke

Stroke Taper

Trim Paths

Stylize It With an Effect

Motion Blur

Enable Motion Blur

Optimizing Playback

Adobe Media Encoder Caveats

Exporting with Render Queue

4 Masking, Matting & Precomps

Masking

Create a Mask

Editing a Mask

Mask Options

The Mask Feather Tool

Mattes

Creating a Matte

Precomposing

Set Up the Precomp

Working with Precomps

Animate It

Animating a Mask

Animating an Effect

Timing Within a Precomp

Retiming

Moving On

5 3D, Character Animation & Expressions

What Is (and Isn't) 3D

Some Quick Parenting

3D

Convert a Layer to a 3D Layer

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781681988672

1681988674

OCLC:

1337494142