After Effects On the Spot[c] Time-Saving Tips and Shortcuts from the Pros
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After Effects On the Spot[c] Time-Saving Tips and Shortcuts from the Pros
ISBN: 1578202396
EAN: N/A
EAN: N/A
Year: 2006
Pages: 447
Pages: 447
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- After Effects on the Spot - Time-Saving Tips Shortcuts from the Pros
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Off to a Good Start - Mastering AE s interface
- Change the Channel
- Take my Picture
- Get Your Toolbox Out
- It s All Best in the End
- Improve Your View
- A Working Canvas
- Speeding up the Comp Window
- Welcome Back
- No Canvas
- A Bigger Preview
- Clean Up Your Workspace
- Opening Your Tool Chest
- A Sticky Drag
- Grids
- Using Rulers
- Visibility Powers
- Power Scrub
- Clean Your Room
- Build Your Own Room
- If You Don t Like Tabs
- Give up Time, Get Back Space
- Get a Hand on Things
- The Info-mation Age
- Where Did That Palette Come From?
- Mommy, I Lost My Effect
- A Smaller Preview
- I Need Shades...
- A Longer Preview
- Send it Out
- Chapter 2: Animation Assistance - Using Keyframe Assistants and Generators
- And It Can Be Even Ease-ier
- Dance to the Music
- Convert Expression to Keyframes
- Line Em Up
- Line Em Up and Fade Em Out
- Stop Motion in AE
- Gather Round for the Slideshow
- True Camera Scale (Pro)
- A Switch in Time
- Keyframe Interpolation
- Broken Keyframes
- Graph It
- Keyframe Velocity
- Draw Your Animation with Motion Sketch
- Smooth Operator
- Everything in Its Right Place
- Motion Tracking (Pro)
- Tracker Attachments (Pro)
- Tracking Tough Footage (Pro)
- Following Tracks: 2D Auto Orientation
- Look at Me: 3D Auto Orientation
- Stay on Targets: Multipoint Motion Tracking (Pro)
- Faithfully Yours
- Roving Keyframes
- Follow Me: Auto-trace
- A Better Trace
- Healthy ParentChild Relationships
- Come to Me: Parenting Using Null Objects
- Here Kiddy-Kiddy
- Save Everything I
- Save Everything II
- Chapter 3: Master of Time - Getting Results in the Timeline
- Breaking Up Is Easier
- Make Your Mark (and Comment)
- Get on Top
- Mighty Mouse
- Lost Your Way
- A Closer View I
- A Closer View II
- Pick a Layer, Any Layer
- Back to Keyframes
- The Fundamentals of Animation
- Get Those Keyframes
- Nudge It
- A Different Kind of Nudge
- Step Inside the Box
- What s in a Name?
- Keys to the Locks
- Get There on Time
- This Layer is Too Small
- Send Your Layers Home
- Making your Point (In or Out)
- Making Two Points (In and Out)
- I d Like to Move in the Timeline
- Boxes Inside of Boxes
- It s OK, Be Shy
- Get Me Out (Or In)
- Remapping Time
- In Reverse
- Getting Around the Keys
- Size Matters
- On Top of the Deck
- Got Snaps?
- The Perfect Clone
- A Better Timeline
- Chapter 4: AE in 3D - Working in 3D Space
- OpenGL and See What s Inside
- Z: 3rd Dimension or a Snore?
- Rotation Makes My Head Spin
- My Name s Solid and I m a 3D Layer
- Smile, You re on Orbiting Camera
- Try Seeing Things from My View
- 2D or not 2D, That Is the Question
- There s a Stain on My Window
- The Path to Righteousness - in 3D
- It s Good to Be Blurry
- I m the Active Camera No, I Am
- May I See Your ID Please?
- Man, Those Layers Are Stacked
- Don t Bruise the Material
- Fine. Don t Use My Camera
- The Shadow Knows
- You Can Call Me Ray
- Manipulating the Manipulators
- Camera Shy
- My Picture Got Panned
- What s Your Point?
- Importing Without a Tariff
- Importing Without a Tariff II
- Wipe Your Feet on the 3D Matte
- Use Advanced 3D Without a Ph.D.
- 3D Assistants
- 3D Assistants I: Cylinder
- 3D Assistants II: Lights
- 3D Assistants III: Nulling Nulls
- 3D Assistants IV: Nulling Layers
- 3D Assistants V: Exploding Layers
- 3D Assistants VI: Line Em Up
- Hold Shift For Real Time Feedback
- Creative Zig-Zags
- Instant Updates To Your 3D Models
- Chapter 5: Type-Oh - Great Titles with AE s new Text Engine
- Adding Text to a Comp is Easy
- Centering Text Around a Point
- Centering Text in the Comp Window
- Point Text vs. Paragraph Text
- Where s My Text?
- Moving Text with the Type Tool
- Selecting Text
- Turning off the Highlight
- Changing Properties I
- Changing Properties II: Scrubbing
- The Kerning Shortcut
- Changing Text Over Time
- Text on a Path
- Animators, Properties, and Selectors
- Paint with your Scene
- Animating Text: Multiple Properties
- Animating Text: Multiple Selectors
- Selector Speed Tip I
- Selector Speed Tip II
- Black is Black and White is White?
- Animating Text: When to Add What
- Animating Text: Selector Offsets
- Selector Tip III
- Selector Tip IV
- Range Shapes
- Text Strokes
- Wiggly Selectors
- Dragging Characters
- Editing Photoshop Text in AE
- Creating Masks from Text Layers
- Mostly There
- Text Expressions
- Easy Typer
- Secret Code
- Text on a Path
- Web Geeks Rejoice
- Characters in a Blender
- Chapter 6: Key Solutions - Advanced Keying with Keylight
- Shooting for Keying
- DV or Not DV, That is the Question
- Keylight: What the...?
- Keylight: Where the...?
- Keylight: Pick Your Color Wisely
- Keylight: You Don t Need a Ph.D.
- Keylight: Seeing in Black and White
- Keylight: Oh Holey Matte
- Keylight: Who Was That Masked Man?
- Keylight: View Master
- Keylight: Ring Around The Color
- Keylight: Color Me Corrected
- Keylight: Getting a Little Edgy
- Keylight: 90 Degrees of Separation
- Keylight: What a Load of Crop
- Don t Scrub So Hard
- Background Radiation
- The More Mattes the Merrier I
- The More Mattes the Merrier II
- The More Mattes the Merrier III
- Putting Your Layers in the Blender
- Getting the Best Key
- Chapter 7: Sounds Good - Using Audio in your Comps
- Can You Hear Me?
- Something Completely Different
- Got Sound?
- iTunes: Get Converted
- If You Need to Edit Audio
- Audio Preview
- Control the Audio Preview
- Scrubbing
- Speed Changes - Hidden Messages
- That Music is Hot, Too Hot
- MP3 Sucks (for Pro Audio)
- Fast VideoLoud Audio
- It s Got a Great Beat
- And You Can Dance to It
- Seeing Sound
- Catching a Wave
- Why Only One Speaker Works
- Reel-to-Reel Speed Effects
- Where Did You Go?
- Adding Audio After the Render
- Chapter 8: Visual FX - Effects you ll want
- Dangerous Curves
- Do You Know You re Out of Focus
- Can You Direct Me to the Blur?
- The Return of the King
- Let s All Do the Wave
- A-U-T-O-MATIC
- Morph Fun for Less
- In Living Colorama I
- In Living Colorama II: Force Colors
- In Living Colorama III: Alpha Blues
- In Living Colorama IV: Spot Color
- In Living Colorama V: Blending
- Colorama: Squash the Bug
- Less Signal, More Noise I
- More Noise II: Giant Patterns
- More Noise III: Layers
- More Noise IV: It s a Gray World
- It s Fun to Break Things I
- It s Fun to Break Things II
- Cool Transitions: Gradient Wipe
- Cool Transitions: Power Blur
- Cool Transitions: Pixelated
- Fast Blur, Zoom Zoom
- What Do I Like More?
- Animating a Stroke I
- Animating a Stroke II
- Scribble
- Animating Color to Monochrome
- Bad Backlight... Bad
- It s So Fast it s Blurry
- The (Free) Secret Effects Book
- Chapter 9: Blend for Success - Using Blending Modes for Advanced Results
- Get to the Modes
- Making Blend Modes Easy
- Under Where?
- The Bottom of the Comp
- It s a Classic
- When Two Alphas Don t Add Up
- Luminescent Premul
- A Cheap Luma Key
- Incoming
- 3D Blending Modes
- Outbound
- Animating Blending Modes
- Surveillance Video
- It s a Wash
- Film Look - Soft Bloom
- Film Look - Blown-Out
- The Power of Duotones
- After Effects Photo Filter Layers
- More From Your Effects
- Chapter 10: Painting the Town - Getting more from AE s new paint tools
- Paint, Clone, and Erase Palettes
- Paint Palette Options
- Vertex Mania
- Dynamics
- Make Your Own
- Finer Control, Better Navigation
- Animating Strokes
- No Alpha? No Worries
- Perfect Strokes
- Maybe Not So Perfect After All
- Frame by Frame I
- Frame by Frame II
- Playing God
- Cloning Tips
- Using Vector Paint (Pro Only)
- Showdown Paint vs. Vector Paint
- Don t Option Out
- Quick Brush Tips
- The Write-On Effect
- Cloning Color
- Paint Stroke as Mask
- Chapter 11: Managing Assets - Importing and Organizing Your Footage
- The Right Profile
- A Layer By Any Other Name
- Importing Photoshop and Illustrator Files
- Over the Border
- Mobile Style
- Parent Layer Styles
- Think Ahead
- PS Alpha Channel (1-Layer graphic)
- PS Alpha Channel (Multiple Layers)
- Peek-a-Boo
- To Crop or Not to Crop?
- Merge Me Seymour
- Remember Me?
- Designing on a Deadline I
- Designing on a Deadline II
- Proxy Moxie
- Illustrator Ease
- Illustrator: Holy Crop Marks
- Templates
- Ode To the Vector
- How Did I Do That Again?
- So Many Files To Import
- Internal Folder Bliss
- Oops, Wrong Footage
- Solid State
- Bad Alpha?
- Need Your Letters on Separate Layers?
- Layer Stretch
- Make It Fit
- Cleaning Up Means Speeding Up
- In a Flash
- Streamlining Illustrator Compatibility
- Upper or Lower (How To Tell)
- Missing the PCMAC Version of a Font?
- Save and Save Again
- For Avid Users
- Drag Drop... Build Stack
- Photoshop Illustrator Convert
- A New Kind of Shy - Guides
- Chapter 12: Masks and Mattes - Using Layers to Hide (and Add)
- Creating Masks Within AE
- Tools of the Trade
- RotoBezier Masks
- Open and Closed Masks
- Quick Elliptical or Rectangular Masks
- Animating Mask Shape
- Freely Transform
- Free Transform Vertices
- Rotoscoping with Masks
- Multiple Mask Organization
- Accessing Mask Properties Quickly
- Locking and Hiding Masks
- Motion Blur on Masks
- Showdown: Layer vs. Comp Window
- Mask Modes I
- Mask Modes II
- Invert Modes
- Masks in 3D
- Using Masks from Illustrator
- Using Masks from Photoshop
- Animating Type as Masks
- Masks as Motion Paths
- Smart Mask Interpolation (Pro)
- The Pen Tool and Motion Paths
- Trouble Pasting?
- Make Your Own Mattes
- Mask Effects
- Panning in a Mask
- Contain Yourself (Track Mattes)
- A Better Track Matte
- Handling Track Mattes
- Chapter 13: Express Yourself - Harnessing the Power of Expressions
- Express Yourself
- Finishing an Expression
- Time Expressions
- Soloing Expressions
- Control and Controller
- Pickwhipping I
- Pickwhipping II
- Pickwhipping III
- Randomizing
- Another Dimension
- Expression Arithmetic I
- Expression Arithmetic II
- The Incredibly Useful Wiggle
- Mapping Value Ranges
- Naming Names
- Colorful Expressions I
- Colorful Expressions II
- Converting Expressions to Keyframes
- Audio Levels to Keyframes
- Expression Controls I
- Expression Controls II
- Where to Find Expressions
- Useful Expressions I
- Useful Expressions II
- Useful Expressions III
- Useful Expressions IV
- Chapter 14: AE and DVD - Creating Still and Motion Menus with After Effects
- Overlays from AE
- Things To Consider
- Designing in Photoshop CS
- Designing in Photoshop 7 (Step 1)
- Designing in Photoshop 7 (Step 2)
- 486 Footage
- Templates in Photoshop for Macintosh
- Color Safe
- Button... Button
- Splash Screen to Still Menu
- Splash Screen to Still Menu II
- Looping (Not)
- Quick Edits In the Layer Window
- Quick Edits In the Timeline
- Quick Motion Background I
- Quick Motion Background II
- Quick Motion Background III
- Rendering
- MPEG 2 Encoding
- Don t Rush to Encode
- Chapter 15: How to Beat the Render Queue - Advanced Render Strategies to Save Time
- Be Consistent
- Changing Standards
- Free Your RAM
- Blurring and Blending Time
- Rendering Stills Instead of Movies
- Render Once, Output Many
- When the Render Files Are Flowing
- Getting the Most From Your Machine
- Render SD and DV Simultaneously
- Kick it to the Queue
- A Smaller Render
- Need to Render Both Field Orders?
- The Power to Adjust
- Get it Together
- Where Do You Work?
- The BIG Weekend Render
- The Most Important Email All Week
- Need a Low Quality Render to Email?
- Saving Render Time at the Other End
- Mobile Workflow
- Got Transparency?
- Need to Re-render?
- More RAM Previews
- Lossless Codecs
- In the Neighborhood
- Keyable Movies
- Kooky Codecs
- The Other Render Queue
- Where Did You Go?
- A Better Stop
- After Thoughts
- The X-Factor
- List of Sidebars
After Effects On the Spot[c] Time-Saving Tips and Shortcuts from the Pros
ISBN: 1578202396
EAN: N/A
EAN: N/A
Year: 2006
Pages: 447
Pages: 447