After Effects apprentice : real-world skills for the aspiring motion graphics artist / Trish & Chris Meyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyer, Trish, 1961- author.

Contributor:

Meyer, Chris, 1961-

Series:

DV expert series.

DV expert series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cinematography--Special effects--Data processing.

Cinematography.

Video tapes--Editing--Data processing.

Video tapes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Burlington, Mass. : Focal Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If you're new to After Effects and want to get up to speed quickly, After Effects Apprentice was created just for you. With 11 core lessons plus a fun final project, you'll quickly get into the program and learn how to tap its potential - whether you want to create motion graphics for a network program, your company's video, or your own independent production.In this book, you'll get a professional perspective on the most important features a motion graphics artist needs to learn to use this program effectively. You'll learn to creatively edit and combine layers

Contents:

Cover; AFTER EFFECTS Apprentice: Real-World Skills for the Aspiring Motion Graphics Artist; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction; Getting Started; Pre-Roll; Exploring the After Effects landscape.; The After Effects Project; The Application Window; The Tools Panel; The Project Panel; Importing Footage; The Composition Panel; The Timeline Panel; The Layer Panl; Other Panels; Time Controls; Info; Audio; Effects & Presets; Effect Controls; Managing Workspaces; Lesson 1 Basic Animation; Building your first animation while you learn a typical After Effects workflow; Starting a Project

Creating a New CompositionImporting Footage; Managing the Comp View; Building a Comp; Animating Position; Adding a Second Layer; Animating Opacity, Scale, and Rotation; Arranging and Animating Multiple Layers; Adding a Flying Flower; Solid Design; Importing Layered Photoshop and Illustrator Files; Rendering; Lesson 2 Advanced Animation; Manipulating keyframes to create more refined animations; Adobe Bridge; The Graph Editor; Panning and Zooming Time; The Work Area; Speed versus Value Graphs; The Smoother; Auto-Orient and Motion Blur; Motion Blur; Roving Keyframes; Anchor Point 101

Pan Behind ToolFaux Motion Control; Hold Keyframes; Tech Corner: Time Display and Timecocle; Lesson 3 Layer Control; Learning how to trim layers and enhance them using Blending Modes and effects; Working with Layers; Moving Layers in Time; Trimming Layers; Trimming in Other Panels; Slip Edit; Sequence Layers; Looping Footage; Image Sequences; Frame Rate versus Time Stretch; Blending Modes; Effects, Solids, and Modes; Effect Motion Path; Deeper into Effects; Finding and Animating Effects; Saving Animation Presets; Adjustment Layers; Instant Sex; Tech Corner: Non-Square Pixels

Lesson 4 Creating TransparencyUsing masks, mattes, and stencils to cut out portions of a layer; Masking; Animating a Mask Shape (Mask Path); Creating a Vignette; Masking with the Pen Tool; Drawing a Path; Applying an Effect to a Masked Area; How Mask Shapes Interpolate; Mask Paths and Effects; Multiple Mask Madness; Mask Opacity; RotoBezier Mask Shapes; Audio Spectrum Effect; Using Track Mattes; Nesting with Track Mattes; Effects and Track Mattes; Luma Track Matte; Animated Track Matte; Stencil Alpha and Stencil Luma; Masks in After Effects CS3; Lesson 5 Type and Music

Animating text and working with music are essential to motion graphics designText Basics; Text Animators; Adding More Properties; Randomize Order; Creating Cascading Text; Adjusting the Anchor Point; Safe Areas; Flowing Text: Animating Blur; Text on a Curve; Separating Fields; The Wiggly Selector; Rendering with an Alpha Channel; Rendering with Fields; Just Add Sound; Just Add Markers; Text Animation Presets; Editing a Preset; Saving Text Animations; Editing Photoshop Text Layers; Per-Character 3D in CS3; Lesson 6 Parenting and Nesting; Grouping layers to make them easier to coordinate.

Parenting

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786611050863

9781136065828

1136065822

9781281050861

1281050865

9780080475790

0080475795

OCLC:

299750791