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by Brie Gyncild, Andrew Faulkner
Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2014 release)
Title Page
Copyright Page
How to Get Your Lesson Files
Contents
Getting Started
About Classroom in a Book
Prerequisites
Installing After Effects and Bridge
Optimizing performance
Restoring default preferences
Accessing the Classroom in a Book files
How to use these lessons
Additional resources
Adobe Authorized Training Centers
1. Getting to Know the Workflow
About the After Effects work area
Getting started
Creating a project and importing footage
Creating a composition and arranging layers
About layers
About the Tools panel
Adding effects and modifying layer properties
Animating the composition
About the Timeline panel
About timecode and duration
Previewing your work
Optimizing performance in After Effects
Rendering and exporting your composition
Customizing workspaces
Controlling the brightness of the user interface
Finding resources for using After Effects
Review questions
Review answers
2. Creating A Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets
Getting started
Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
Creating a new composition
Working with imported Illustrator layers
Applying effects to a layer
Applying and controlling effects
Applying an animation preset
Previewing the effects
Adding transparency
Rendering the composition
Review questions
Review answers
3. Animating Text
Getting started
About text layers
Installing a font using Typekit
Creating and formatting point text
Using a text animation preset
Animating with scale keyframes
Animating using parenting
About parent and child layers
Animating imported Photoshop text
Animating text using a path animation preset
Animating type tracking
Animating text opacity
Using a text animator group
About text animator groups
Cleaning up the path animation
Animating a nontext layer along a motion path
Adding motion blur
Review questions
Review answers
4. Working with Shape Layers
Getting started
Adding a shape layer
Creating custom shapes
Duplicating shapes
Using Brainstorm to experiment
Positioning layers with snapping
Adding compositions to a 3D project
Extra credit: Animating layers to match audio
Review questions
Review answers
5. Animating A Multimedia Presentation
Getting started
Animating the scenery using parenting
Adjusting an anchor point
Masking video using vector shapes
Keyframing a motion path
Animating additional elements
Applying an effect
About solid-color layers
Creating an animated slide show
Supported audio file formats
Adding an audio track
Zooming in for a final close-up
Extra credit: Editing audio files in Adobe Audition
Review questions
Review answers
7. Working with Masks
About masks
Getting started
Creating a mask with the Pen tool
Editing a mask
About mask modes
Creating a Bezier mask
Feathering the edges of a mask
Replacing the content of the mask
Adding a reflection
Creating a vignette
Using the Rectangle and Ellipse tools
Trimming the work area
Tips for creating masks
Review questions
Review answers
8. Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
Getting started
About the Puppet tools
Adding Deform pins
Defining areas of overlap
Stiffening an area
Animating pin positions
Squash and stretch
Recording animation
Review questions
Review answers
9. Using the Roto Brush Tool
About rotoscoping
Getting started
Using Adobe Premiere Pro with After Effects
Creating a segmentation boundary
Fine-tuning the matte
Refine Soft Matte and Refine Hard Matte effects
Freezing your Roto Brush tool results
Changing the background
Adding animated text
Outputting your project
Review questions
Review answers
10. Performing Color Correction
Getting started
Previewing your project on a video monitor
Adjusting color balance with levels
Adjusting color balance with Color Finesse 3
Replacing the background
Color-correcting using Auto Levels
Motion tracking the clouds
Replacing the sky in the second clip
Color grading
Extra Credit: Cloning an object in a scene
Review questions
Review answers
11. Using 3D Features
Getting started
Creating 3D text
Using 3D views
Importing a background
Adding 3D lights
Adding a camera
Repositioning layers
Adding a text layer
Working with Cinema 4D Lite
Extra credit: Extruding 3D text
Review questions
Review answers
12. Working with the 3D Camera Tracker
About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
Getting started
Repairing rolling shutter distortions
Tracking the footage
Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
Creating realistic shadows
Adding ambient light
Creating additional text elements
Locking a layer to a plane with a null object
Animating the text
Adjusting the camera’s depth of field
Rendering the composition
Review questions
Review answers
13. Advanced Editing Techniques
Getting started
Using Warp Stabilizer VFX
Bicubic scaling
Using single-point motion tracking
Warp Stabilizer VFX settings
Checking for drift
Moving and resizing the track points
Using multipoint tracking
mocha for After Effects
Creating a particle simulation
Understanding Particle Systems II properties
About high dynamic range (HDR) footage
Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect
Review questions
Review answers
14. Rendering and Outputting
Getting started
Creating templates for the Render Queue
About compression
Exporting using the Render Queue
Preparing movies for mobile devices
Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder
Preparing a movie for broadcast output
Review questions
Review answers
Index
Production Notes
Typefaces used
Team credits
Contributors
Special Thanks
Notes
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