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After Effects CS3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide
Here to get filmmakers, Web designers, and broadcast pros up to speed on After Effects CS3 Professional - in time to meet their next deadline, is everyone's favorite task-based guide, but geared toward more advanced users. Through step-by-step instructions, enhanced by tips, sidebars, and plenty of visual aids, veteran video editor Antony Bolante
will show 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 CS3: Shape layers, which enables you to easily create and animate shapes; Puppet tool, which you can use to animate a 2D image like a marionette; powerful integration with Photoshop CS3; new support for Flash designers; the new Brainstorm panel, which lets you preview an array of different visual possibilities in one gorgeous panel; complete color management workflow; Adobe Clip Notes, which lets you attach comments directly to a composition; Adobe Device Central CS3, which lets you preview and test animations for mobile devices, and more.
CONTENTS:
1. After Effects: The Big Picture
2. Importing Footage into a Project
3. Managing Footage
4. Compositions
5. Layer Basics
6. Layer Editing
7. Properties and KeyFrames
8. Playback, Previews, and RAM
9. Keyframe Interpolation
10. Mask Essentials
11. Effects Fundamentals
12. Creating and Animating Text
13. Painting on a Layer
14. More Layer Techniques
15. 3D Layers
16. Complex Projects
17. Output
INDEX
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