After Effects 7: Visual QuickPro Guide

Description

Need to take your Adobe After Effects skills to the next level? Learn After Effects the fast, efficient way! This Visual QuickPro Guide uses illustrations and in-depth explanations. You'll be a master in time!

* Takes a visual, task-based approach to teaching After Effects, using pictures to guide you through the software and show you what to do.
* Works like a reference book - you look up what you need and then get straight to work.
* Concise, straightforward steps and explanations offer the fastest way to learn tasks and concepts.
* Affordably priced, because buying a computer book shouldn't be an investment in itself.

Through step-by-step instructions, enhanced by tips, sidebars, and plenty of visual aids, veteran video editor Antony Bolante shows you how to effectively and efficiently import and manage footage, view and edit layers, apply effects, animate type, and more. You'll learn about key features with real-world examples of how and when features should be used, including what's new in After Effects 7.0: motion tracker, powerful animation and keyframing controls, high quality keying and matte tools, network rendering, expert effects, nondestructive vector painting, and more!

CONTENTS:

After effects: The big picture
Importing footage into a project
Managing foofage
Compositions
Layer basics
Layer editing
Properties & keyframes
Playback & RAM
Keyframe interpolation
Mask essentials
Effects fundamentals
Creating text
Painting on a layer
More layer techniques
3D layers
Complex projects
Output