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ISBN 10: 0240811364 

ISBN 13: 9780240811369

Author: Chris Trish Meyer

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 hip final project that pulls it all together, you’ll learn how to tap this program’s vast potential -whether you want to create motion graphics for network television, corporate communications, or your own work.

Fully updated to cover After Effects CS4, this book presents a professional perspective on the most important features a motion graphics artist needs to learn in order to use this program effectively. You’ll learn to creatively combine layers, animate eye-catching titles,
manipulate 3D space, key and stabilize a shot to place it in a new environment, and use effects to generate excitement or enhance the
realism of a scene.

DVD contains: All exercise source material and projects, guided video tours, and movies of the finished projects.

After Effects Apprentice 2nd Table of contents:

Lesson 1 – Basic Animation Building your first animation while you learn a typical After Effects workflow.

creating folders in the Project panel

creating a new composition

importing files and folders

interpreting alpha channels

adding layers to the Comp panel

changing the Background Color

scrubbing parameter values

interactively transforming layers

animating Position; RAM Preview

navigating between keyframes

adding a background layer

dragging footage to the Timeline panel

editing a keyframe’s Bezier handles

editing spatial keyframes; motion paths

animating Opacity, Scale, and Rotation

arranging and replacing layers

adding solid layers

applying, copying and pasting effects

rendering

understanding the comp’s alpha channel

importing layered Photoshop and Illustrator files

Lesson 2 – Advanced Animation Manipulating keyframes to create more refined animations.

keyframe basics

the Work Area

Anchor Point overview

Pan Behind tool

motion control moves

the Graph Editor

Speed versus Value Graphs

panning and zooming time

editing graph curves

easing animations

Graph Editor Sets

Separate Dimensions

Motion Sketch

Smoother

Auto-Orient

Motion Blur

Roving Keyframes

Time-Reverse Keyframes

Hold keyframes

time display and timecode

Lesson 3 – Layer Control Learning how to trim layers and enhance them using Blending Modes and effects.

layers and stacking order

moving layers in time

trimming layers

trimming in the Layer and Footage panels

slip editing

Sequence Layers assistant

looping footage

image sequences

changing the frame rate; Time Stretch

Blending Modes

effects and solids

effect motion path

Effects & Presets panel

searching for effects

Animation Presets

Behavior presets

Layer Styles

Adjustment Layers

filmic glow

non-square pixels

Lesson 4 – Creating Transparency Using masks, mattes, and stencils to cut out portions of a layer.

masking tools, creating mask shapes

Rounded Rectangle tool

Free Transform Points

masking in the Layer panel

Mask Feather

animating a mask path

creating a vignette; Mask Expansion

masking with the Pen tool

creating and editing Bezier masks

effecting a masked area

controlling mask path interpolation

using effects with the mask path

Mask Modes and multiple masks

Mask Opacity

creating and editing RotoBezier masks

Audio Spectrum effect

Alpha Track Matte

nesting a track matte composite

Luma Track Matte

animating matte layers

Stencil Alpha and Stencil Luma

effects with track mattes and stencils

Lesson 5 – Type and Music Animating text and working with music are essential to motion graphics design.

creating basic text

creating Text Animators, Range Selectors

animating text transform properties

randomizing the order of characters

creating cascading text

working with selection Shapes

setting the text Anchor Point

animating by words

title safe areas

animating text Blur and Tracking

text on a path

Per-character 3D animators

separating fields

adding the Wiggly Selector

rendering with an alpha channel

field rendering

adding sound to a comp

add comp and layer markers

applying Text Animation Presets

customizing presets

saving text animations as presets

editing Photoshop Text layers

Lesson 6 – Parenting and Nesting Grouping layers to make them easier to coordinate.

parenting, nesting, and expressions defined

assigning a parent

parenting, opacity, and effects

parenting with null objects

using guides

nesting comps

editing precomps

navigating composition hierarchies

nesting a common source

sizing precomps

locking panels

precomposing a group of layers

precomposing a single layer

render order explained

splitting work between comps

using precomposing to re-order

continuously rasterized layers

Lesson 7 – Expressions and Time Games Using expressions and playing with time.

using the pick whip to create expressions

altering expressions

stabilizing shadows

matching value ranges (the linear expression)

looping keyframes

expression tips

the wiggle expression

expression controllers

keyframing the wiggle expression

creating a master controller

converting sound to keyframes

frame blending

Pixel Motion

stop motion tricks

Preserve Frame Rate

creating freeze frames

Time Remapping

resources for learning more

Lesson 8 – 3D Space Adding a new dimension to your animations.

moving and animating cameras

layer and camera auto-orientation

3D lights

vignettes; animating lights

casting shadows

OpenGL and Fast Previews

Vanishing Point Exchange

Photoshop 3D Layers

adding dimension to stills

editing stills for 3D

Lesson 9 – Track and Key Tackling several essential skills for creating special effects.

enabling layers for 3D

moving layers in 3D space

how layers stack in 3D

3D rotation and orientation

multiplaning effects

3D motion paths

multiple views

camera settings

customizing 3D views

camera track and orbit tools

creating track points

important Tracker options

applying stabilization

compensating for stabilized footage

fixing bad tracks

tracking interlaced footage

motion tracking

applying a motion track

Radio Waves effect

applying tracks to effect points

perspective corner pin tracking

Bezier Warp effect

stabilizing Position, Rotation, and Scale

interpolating obscured tracks

working with high-definition footage

keying using the Keylight effect

improving keyed composites

creating garbage mattes

Lesson 10 – Paint and Puppet Exploring Paint, the Puppet Tools, and Brainstorm.

basic painting

erasing strokes

Paint Channels

Paint Blending Modes

brush duration bar

animating strokes

revealing a layer

creating organic textures

tablet settings

cloning

transforming strokes

Vector Paint effect

Puppet Pin tool

animating Puppet pins

Puppet Overlap tool

Recording Puppet Animation

Puppet Starch tool

using Brainstorm

Brainstorm with keyframes

Brainstorm with the Cartoon effect

Lesson 11 – Shape Layers Creating and animating vector-based shapes.

creating a Shape Layer

shape Stroke and Fill settings

editing shapes

multiple shapes

Even-Odd Fill

Shape Effects

creating buttons

Shape Repeater

Compound Paths

Gradients

shape Pen paths

creating an abstract texture

advanced strokes

animating a stroke

Brainstormed shapes

Lesson 12 – Final Project Using 3D space plus effects to create a show’s opening title.

creating elements; Grid effect

creating a gradient

preserve underlying transparency

creating the Skater comp

Block Dissolve effect

setting the layer size in Illustrator

copying paths from Illustrator

Stroke effect

Tint effect

rotating in 3D with the wiggle expression

creating Main Comp 1; audio waveforms

nesting the spinning Radar comp

nesting the Grid comp

setting the anchor point for the Skater layer

creating a reflection; precomposing

Lens Blur effect; luma track matte

using Collapse Transformations

crafting the camera move

creating and animating a title in 3D space

adding a light; casting shadows

final tweaks

animating a null object parent in 3D

assembling the final composition

inevitable client changes

Appendix – Rendering

The Render Queue (movie)

rendering: under the hood

Render Settings Templates

Output Module Templates

rendering movies

rendering sequences

rendering for the web

Flash Video

Flash project export (XFL)

converting between D1 and DV

3:2 Pulldown

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