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| Getting Started | |
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| About Classroom in a Book | |
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| Prerequisites | |
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| Installing After Effects | |
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| Optimizing performance | |
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| Restoring default preferences | |
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| Copying the lesson files | |
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| How to use these lessons | |
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| Additional resources | |
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| Adobe certification | |
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| Getting To Know The Workflow | |
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| Getting started | |
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| Creating a project and importing footage | |
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| Creating a composition and arranging layers | |
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| Adding effects and modifying layer properties | |
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| Animating the composition | |
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| Previewing your work | |
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| Optimizing performance in After Effects | |
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| Rendering and exporting your composition | |
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| Customizing workspaces | |
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| Controlling the brightness of the user interface | |
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| Finding resources for using After Effects | |
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| Checking for updates | |
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| Creating A Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets | |
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| Getting started | |
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| Importing footage using Adobe Bridge | |
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| Creating a new composition | |
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| Working with imported Illustrator layers | |
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| Applying effects to a layer | |
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| Applying an animation preset | |
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| Previewing the effects | |
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| Adding transparency | |
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| Rendering the composition | |
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| Animating Text | |
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| Getting started | |
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| About text layers | |
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| Creating and formatting point text | |
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| Using a text animation preset | |
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| Animating with scale keyframes | |
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| Animating using parenting | |
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| Animating imported Photoshop text | |
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| Animating text using a path animation preset | |
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| Animating type tracking | |
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| Animating text opacity | |
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| Using a text animator group | |
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| Cleaning up the path animation | |
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| Animating a nontext layer along a motion path | |
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| Adding motion blur | |
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| Working With Shape Layers | |
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| Getting started | |
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| Adding a shape layer | |
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| Creating custom shapes | |
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| Creating stars | |
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| Incorporating video and audio layers | |
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| Applying a Cartoon effect | |
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| Adding a title bar | |
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| Using Brainstorm to experiment | |
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| Animating A Multimedia Presentation | |
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| Getting started | |
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| Animating the scenery using parenting | |
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| Adjusting an anchor point | |
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| Masking video using vector shapes | |
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| Keyframing a motion path | |
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| Animating additional elements | |
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| Applying an effect | |
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| Creating an animated slide show | |
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| Adding an audio track | |
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| Zooming in for a final close-up | |
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| Animating Layers | |
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| Getting started | |
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| Simulating lighting changes | |
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| H Duplicating an animation using the pick whip | |
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| Animating movement in the scenery | |
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| Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte | |
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| Animating the shadows | |
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| Adding a lens flare effect | |
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| Animating the clock | |
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| Retiming the composition | |
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| Working With Masks | |
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| About masks | |
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| Getting started | |
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| Creating a mask with the Pen tool | |
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| Editing a mask | |
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| Feathering the edges of a mask | |
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| Replacing the content of the mask | |
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| Adding a reflection | |
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| Creating a vignette | |
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| Adjusting the color | |
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| Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools | |
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| Getting started | |
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| About the Puppet tools | |
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| Adding Deform pins | |
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| Defining areas of overlap | |
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| Stiffening an area | |
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| Animating pin positions | |
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| Recording animation | |
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| Performing Color Correction | |
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| Getting started | |
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| Adjusting color balance | |
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| Replacing the background | |
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| Removing unwanted elements | |
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| Correcting a range of colors | |
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| Warming colors with the Photo Filter effect | |
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| Building 3D Objects | |
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| Getting started | |
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| Building a 3D object | |
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| Working with a null object | |
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| Working with 3D text | |
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| Creating a backdrop for 3D animation | |
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| Nesting a 3D composition | |
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| Adding a camera | |
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| Completing the scene | |
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| Using 3D Features | |
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| Getting started | |
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| Animating 3D objects | |
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| Adding reflections to 3D objects | |
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| Animating a camera | |
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| Adjusting layer timing | |
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| Using 3D lights | |
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| Adding effects | |
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| Adding motion blur | |
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| Previewing the entire animation | |
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| Working with the 3D Camera Tracker | |
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| About the 3D Camera Tracker effect | |
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| Getting started | |
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| Tracking the footage | |
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| Creating a camera and the initial text | |
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| Creating realistic shadows | |
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| Adding ambient light | |
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| Creating additional text elements | |
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| Locking a layer to a plane with a null object | |
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| Animating the text | |
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| Adjusting the camera's depth of field | |
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| Rendering the composition | |
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| Advanced Editing Techniques | |
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| Getting started | |
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| Using the Warp Stabilizer | |
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| Using single-point motion tracking | |
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| Using multipoint tracking | |
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| Creating a particle simulation | |
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| Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect | |
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| Rendering and Outputting | |
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| Getting started | |
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| Creating templates for the rendering process | |
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| Creating templates for output modules | |
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| Exporting to different output media | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Index | |