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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Accessing the Classroom in a Book files |
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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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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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About parent and child layers |
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Animating imported Photoshop text |
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Animating text using a path animation preset |
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Using a text animator group |
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About text animator groups |
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Cleaning up the path animation |
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Animating a nontext layer along a motion path |
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Review questions and answers |
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4 Working With Shape Layers |
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Using Brainstorm to experiment |
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Positioning layers with snapping |
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Adding compositions to a 3D project |
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Extra credit: 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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Animating the scenery using parenting |
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Adjusting an anchor point |
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Masking video using vector shapes |
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124 | (4) |
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Animating additional elements |
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135 | (1) |
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Creating an animated slide show |
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Supported audio file formats |
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Zooming in for a final close-up |
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Extra credit: Editing audio files in Adobe Audition |
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Review questions and answers |
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147 | (1) |
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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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154 | (2) |
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156 | (1) |
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Duplicating an animation using the pick whip |
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156 | (2) |
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Animating movement in the scenery |
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158 | (4) |
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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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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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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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202 | (4) |
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206 | (1) |
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Defining areas of overlap |
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209 | (1) |
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210 | (4) |
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Review questions and answers |
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9 Using The Roto Brush Tool |
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218 | (1) |
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218 | (2) |
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Using Adobe Premiere Pro with After Effects |
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Creating a segmentation boundary |
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227 | (2) |
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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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229 | (2) |
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Review questions and answers |
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235 | (1) |
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10 Performing Color Correction |
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238 | (2) |
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Previewing your project on a video monitor |
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240 | (1) |
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Adjusting color balance with levels |
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241 | (2) |
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Adjusting color balance with Color Finesse 3 |
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243 | (3) |
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246 | (5) |
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Color-correcting using Auto Levels |
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251 | (1) |
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Motion tracking the clouds |
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252 | (1) |
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Replacing the sky in the second clip |
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253 | (4) |
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257 | (4) |
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Extra Credit: Cloning an object in a scene |
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Review questions and answers |
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278 | (1) |
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Working with Cinema 4D Lite |
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Extra credit: Extruding 3D text |
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289 | (2) |
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Review questions and answers |
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291 | (1) |
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12 Working With The 3D Camera Tracker |
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About the 3D Camera Tracker effect |
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294 | (1) |
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Repairing rolling shutter distortions |
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296 | (1) |
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Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text |
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298 | (5) |
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Creating realistic shadows |
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303 | (2) |
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305 | (1) |
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Creating additional text elements |
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306 | (2) |
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Locking a layer to a plane with a null object |
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308 | (2) |
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310 | (2) |
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Adjusting the camera's depth of field |
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312 | (1) |
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Rendering the composition |
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313 | (2) |
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Review questions and answers |
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315 | (1) |
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13 Advanced Editing Techniques |
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318 | (1) |
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Using Warp Stabilizer VFX |
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318 | (1) |
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Using single-point motion tracking |
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322 | (1) |
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Warp Stabilizer VFX settings |
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323 | (4) |
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327 | (1) |
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Moving and resizing the track points |
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328 | (1) |
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Using multipoint tracking |
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329 | (4) |
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333 | (1) |
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Creating a particle simulation |
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334 | (3) |
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Understanding Particle Systems II properties |
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337 | (6) |
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About high dynamic range (HDR) footage |
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343 | (1) |
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Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect |
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344 | (5) |
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Review questions and answers |
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349 | (1) |
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14 Rendering And Outputting |
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350 | (19) |
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352 | (1) |
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Creating templates for the Render Queue |
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353 | (4) |
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357 | (1) |
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Exporting using the Render Queue |
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358 | (2) |
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Preparing movies for mobile devices |
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360 | (1) |
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Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder |
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361 | (3) |
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Preparing a movie for broadcast output |
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364 | (3) |
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Review questions and answers |
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367 | (2) |
Appendix |
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Index |
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