Adobe After Effects 6.5 Studio Techniques
Adobe After Effects 6.5 Studio Techniques
ISBN: 0321316207
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 156
Pages: 156
Authors: Mark Christiansen
- Adobe After Effects 6.5 STUDIO TECHNIQUES
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Why This Book?
- The Cult of Magic
- Truly Challenging
- The Keys
- About This Book
- If You ve Used Other Compositing Programs
- What s On the CD
- The Bottom Line
- SectionI.Working Foundations
- Chapter1.The Effects Toolset
- Preparing Your Workspace
- Elegant UI Usage
- Footage and Composition Settings
- Previewing Like a Pro
- A Useful Effects Palette
- Render Queue: Flight Check
- Study Footage Like a Pro
- Chapter2.The Timeline
- Organization
- Transforms
- Working with Keyframes
- ber-mastery
- Animation Offsets
- Motion Blur
- Playing with Time Itself
- In Conclusion
- Chapter3.Selections: The Key to Compositing
- The Many Ways to Create Selections
- Compositing: Science and Nature
- Alpha Channels and Premultiplication
- Masks
- Combining Multiple Masks
- Putting Masks in Motion
- Blending Modes: The Real Deal
- Track Mattes
- Chapter4.Optimizing the Pipeline
- Navigating Multiple Compositions
- Pre-Composing and Nesting
- Adjustment and Guide Layers
- Understanding Rendering Order
- Optimizing Projects
- Onward to Effects
- SectionII.Effects Compositing Essentials
- Chapter5.Color And Light: Adjusting And Matching
- Optimizing Plate Levels
- Color Matching
- Chapter6.Color Keying
- Good Habits and Best Practices
- Linear Keyers and Hi-Con Mattes
- Blue-Screen and Green-Screen Keying
- Understanding and Optimizing Keylight
- Fixing Typical Problems
- Conclusion
- Chapter7.Rotoscoping and Paint
- Articulated Mattes
- Working Around Limitations
- Morphing
- Paint and Cloning
- Conclusion
- Chapter8.Effective Motion Tracking
- The Essentials
- Optimizing Tracking via 3D
- Continuing a Track with Expressions
- Tracking for Rotoscoping
- Using 3D Tracking Data
- Conclusion
- Chapter9.Virtual Cinematography
- 2.5D: Using the Camera
- Storytelling and the Camera
- Camera Blur
- The Role of Grain
- Film and Video Looks
- Conclusion
- Chapter10.Expressions
- Logic and Grammar, in that Order
- Muting Keyframes
- Linking Animation Data
- Looping Animations
- Smoothing and Destabilizing
- Offsetting Layers and Time
- Conditionals
- Emulating 3D Tracking
- Tell Me More
- Chapter11.Issues Specific To Film And HDR Images
- Film 101
- Dynamic Range
- Cineon Log Space
- Video Gamma Space
- Battle of the Color Spaces
- Floating Point
- eLin
- Conclusion
- SectionIII.Creative Explorations
- Chapter12.Working with Light
- Light Source and Direction
- Creating a Look with Color
- Backlighting, Flares, Light Volume
- Shadows and Reflected Light
- Re-lighting a Scene
- Conclusion
- Chapter13.Air, Water, Smoke, and Clouds
- Particulate Matter
- Sky Replacement
- The Fog, Smoke, or Mist Rolls In
- Billowing Smoke
- Wind
- Water
- Conclusion
- Chapter14.Fire and Explosions
- Firearms
- Sci-Fi Weaponry
- Heat Distortion
- Fire
- Explosions
- Fiery Conclusion
- Chapter15.Learning to See
- Why Doesn t This Shot Look Real?
- All Hail Reference
- Rolling Thine Own
- Not a Conclusion
- What s on the CD?
- Index
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Adobe After Effects 6.5 Studio Techniques
ISBN: 0321316207
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 156
Pages: 156
Authors: Mark Christiansen