Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2018 release) / Edition 1

by Lisa Fridsma

Overview

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects CC (2018 release) choose Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2018 release) from Adobe Press. The 15 project-based lessons in this book show users step-by-step the key techniques for working in After Effects. Learn how to create, manipulate, and optimize motion graphics for film, video, DVD, the web, and mobile devices. Gain hands-on experience animating text and images, customizing a wide range of effects, tracking and syncing content, rotoscoping, and correcting color. Create Motion Graphics templates in After Effects so colleagues can make specific edits in Premiere Pro without accidentally changing other critical settings. Learn to create 3D content with both After Effects and Maxon Cinema 4D Lite (included with the software).

The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers to complete the projects featured in each chapter as well as ebook updates when Adobe releases relevant new features for Creative Cloud customers. All buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition: a Web-based version of the complete ebook enhanced with video and multiple-choice quizzes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900134853252
Publication date:	12/14/2017
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Lisa Fridsma has long loved the process of teaching others to use Adobe products. She has produced and illustrated over thirty books in the Classroom in a Book series over the last two decades (including books on Photoshop and After Effects), starting with her time on-staff at Adobe. She is currently the owner of Darlington Hill Productions (informational illustrations and publishing). Lisa lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her family which includes a tortoise and an above-average dog.

Brie Gyncild aims to make technical information accessible to those who need it. Brie has written and co-written dozens of books about Adobe applications, including numerous editions of the Classroom in a Book series on Photoshop, After Effects, Flash, and Acrobat; and several editions of the How to Wow series. Brie lives in Seattle with cats and an overgrown garden.

Table of Contents

GETTING STARTED

1 GETTING TO KNOW THE WORKFLOW

2 CREATING A BASIC ANIMATION USING EFFECTS AND PRESETS

3 ANIMATING TEXT

4 WORKING WITH SHAPE LAYERS

5 ANIMATING A MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION

6 ANIMATING LAYERS

7 WORKING WITH MASKS

8 DISTORTING OBJECTS WITH THE PUPPET TOOLS

9 USING THE ROTO BRUSH TOOL

10 PERFORMING COLOR CORRECTION

11 CREATING MOTION GRAPHICS TEMPLATES

12 USING 3D FEATURES

13 WORKING WITH THE 3D CAMERA TRACKER

14 ADVANCED EDITING TECHNIQUES

15 RENDERING AND OUTPUTTING

APPENDIX: GENERAL KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

APPENDIX: CUSTOMIZING KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS