After Effects CC Digital Classroom (eBook)

Jerron Smith is an animator, editor, and educator with more than 10 years of Adobe expertise. He teaches web, interactive, and new media classes at American Graphics Institute. The AGI Creative Team develops and delivers training programs for creative, marketing, and communications professionals through the American Graphics Institute.

Starting up 1

About Digital Classroom 1

Prerequisites 1

System requirements 1

Starting Adobe After Effects CC 3

Fonts used in this book 3

Loading lesson files 4

Working with the video tutorials 6

Viewing the video tutorials with the Adobe Flash Player 7

Additional resources 8

Lesson 1: Understanding Motion Graphics 9

Lesson 2: Understanding the After Effects Interface 19

Lesson 3: Media Management--Working with Images, Audio, andVideo 49

Lesson 4: Creating Animation in After Effects 81

Lesson 5: Working with Masks, Track Mattes, and Keys 135

Lesson 6: Working with Text 181

Lesson 7: Working with Audio 217

Lesson 8: Working with 3D in After Effects 247

Lesson 9: Advanced Animation 305

Lesson 10: Tracking and Stabilizing Footage 343

Lesson 11: Working with Expressions and Scripts 373

Lesson 12: Outputting After Effects Projects 393

Appendix A: Adobe After Effects keyboard shortcuts 423

Appendix B: After Effects secondary panels 447

Appendix C: Importable media formats 455

Appendix D: Understanding bit rate 459

Appendix E: Understanding video displays 461