Adobe After Effects 6 hands-on training

Do you like to learn by doing? Do manuals leave you bored to tears and craving real-world examples? Do you want concrete training that goes beyond theory and reference materials? (f so, this is the book for you.

These hands-on exercises teach you the basic techniques of creating motion graphics and special effects for film, video, and the Web. You'll learn to animate text and images, integrate sound, and publish the results to a variety of formats. Complete with insider tips, illustrated with detailed graphics, and accompanied by a CD loaded with classroom-proven exercises and QuickTime movies, this book ensures you'll master key features of After Effects 6 in no time.

• More than 100 Step-by-Step Tutorials
• Working with Timeline, keyframes, and animation
• Previewing movies
• Understanding layers
• Working with new text layers
• Parenting and pre-compositing
• Creating effects
• Working with new Paint tools
• Setting up masks
• Using expressions
• Using 3D layers
• Adding audio
• Rendering final movies
• Plus much more

Contents

• Introduction
• Background
• Interface
• The project
• The composition
• Keyframes, animation, and timeline
• Playing with time
• Previewing movies
• Layers
• Text layers
• Effects
• Parenting
• Paint
• Masks
• Track mattes
• 3D layers
• Expressions
• Audio
• Rendering final movies
• Resources
• Troubleshooting
• Index