| After Effects Apprentice (DV Expert Series) | 
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Sales Rank: 15581
Category: Book
Authors: Chris Meyer, Trish Meyer
Publisher: Focal Press
Studio: Focal Press
Manufacturer: Focal Press
Label: Focal Press
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 8.3 x 1
ISBN: 0240809386
Dewey Decimal Number: 621
EAN: 9780240809380
ASIN: 0240809386
Publication Date: April 6, 2007
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Product Description
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 fun final project, you'll quickly get into the program and learn how to tap its potential - whether you want to create motion graphics for a network program, your company's video, or your own independent production.
In this book, you'll get a professional perspective on the most important features a motion graphics artist needs to learn to use this program effectively. You'll learn to creatively edit and combine layers, animate eye-catching titles, replace a screen on a computer monitor, place a studio shot in anew environment, manipulate 3D space, and use effects to generate excitement or enhance the realism of a scene. Easy to follow step-by-step instructions take you through each technique, including projects that encourage you to express it in your own way. You'll learn more than just the tools; you'll learn skills that you can immediately put to work in your own projects.
Topics include how to:
* Animate, layer, and composite images and text.
* Manipulate keyframes to create more refined animations.
* Use masks, mattes, stencils and modes to add depth.
* Manage layers to make them easier to coordinate.
* Add 3D to your animations.
* Use tracking and keying to create special effects.
* Includes new CS3 features; Shape layers, the Puppet tool, Brainstorm, and Per-Character 3D Text.
DVD contains: All exercise source material and projects in AE7 and CS3, video guided tours, and movies of the finished projects.
* Full color presentation of professional workflows
* Core motion graphic techniques in 12 engaging lessons
* Companion DVD features QuickTime movies and lesson media
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After Effects - easy ease in November 10, 2008
Initiation to the steep learning curve for Adobe After Effects is eased considerably by this volume of scaffolded lessons that include extra tips and keyboard shortcuts.
Amazing book!!!!! October 18, 2008
This is a must have book along with Mark Christiansen's Studio Techniques. So well explained, step by step tutorials, thorough explanations of why things happen. Highly recommended!!
 Good basic guide October 6, 2008
The only real downfall of this book is that you really have to have the included disk to really get all this book has to offer - of course the best way to learn anything is to do it, but I am a fan of manuals that just walk you through the steps of how to do something. This isn't a good book to just sit down and read but if you want to jump right in and read this AS you do the exercises from the disk (which I find sometimes inconvenient) this is a great manual.
It covers pretty much all the basic functions that you will commonly use in AE and is full of instructional images.
Starting out, Hey fantasitc! October 4, 2008
This is a fantastic book to get started in after affects. Adobe CS4 is coming out in October 2008 so this book will be out of date just a little. Saying that though if you are just starting out with motions graphics this is the place to start.
Fantastic book.
A good book. Worth the price September 1, 2008
This title has a wealth of information that is geared mostly towards beginners, but can still be used by those familiar with the program. The slightly non-linear arrangement of information makes certain topics hard to locate, but otherwise this is definitely a good book.
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