Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects

After Effects CS5.5 Update:

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Chris and Trish Meyer have created a series of videos demonstrating how to use their favourite new and enhanced features in After Effects CS5.5. Virtually all of these videos use exercise files from Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects (5th Edition for CS5) as their starting point, extending the usefulness of this book for its owners. These videos may be viewed for free on AdobeTV.

Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects is the 5th Edition of the best-selling After Effects book by renowned authors Trish and Chris Meyer. It covers the important updates in After Effects CS4 and CS5. The book explores both essential and advanced techniques, ranging from basic layer manipulation and animation through to keying, motion tracking, and colour management.

The downloadable resources are packed with project files for version CS5, source materials, and nearly 200 pages of bonus chapters. Trish and Chris Meyer share over 17 years of hard-earned, real-world film and video production experience in this critically acclaimed text. More than a step-by-step review of the features in AE, readers will learn how the program thinks, allowing them to realise their own visions more quickly and efficiently. This full-colour book is packed with tips, gotchas, and sage advice to help users thrive no matter what projects they might encounter.

Creating Motion Graphics 5th Edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the new features introduced in both After Effects CS4 and CS5. New chapters cover the revolutionary new Roto Brush feature, as well as mocha and mocha shape. The 3D section has been expanded to include working with 3D effects such as Digieffects FreeForm plus workflows including Adobe Repoussé, Vanishing Point Exchange, and 3D model import using Adobe Photoshop Extended. The print version is also accompanied by downloadable resources that contain project files and source materials for all the techniques demonstrated in the book, as well as nearly 200 pages of bonus chapters on subjects such as expressions, scripting, and effects.

Subjects include: Animation Techniques; Layer Management; Modes, Masks, and Mattes; Mastering 3D Space; Text Animation; Effects & Presets; Painting and Rotoscoping; Parenting, Nesting, and Collapsing; Colour Management and Video Essentials; Motion Tracking and Keying; Working with Audio; Integrating with 3D Applications; Puppet Tools; Expressions; Exporting and Rendering; and much more.