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Creative motion mastery with Adobe After Effects: learn the ins and outs of motion graphics post-production, rotoscoping, and VFX
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Packt Publishing
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
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9781804610886
Table of Contents
From the eBook - [First edition].
Cover
Title Page
Copyright and credits
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Working with Motion Graphics
Chapter 1: Getting to Know the User Interface and Workflow
Technical requirements
Customizing the user interface
Saving an After Effects project
Importing media files
Creating compositions and keyframes
Working with the Timeline panel and layer properties
Trimming composition duration
Working with text and animations
Rendering the composition
Optimizing After Effects' performance
Summary
Chapter 2: Applying Effects and Presets to Create Animated Graphics
Technical requirements
Importing footage
Previewing presets
Applying presets
Precomposing
Modifying the preset
Summary
Chapter 3: Deep-Dive into Text Animations
Technical requirements
Opening the project and creating the text layer
Styling text using the Character and Paragraph panels
Working with text animation
Saving animation as a preset
Using multiple text animators
Offset animation
Working with the Wiggly Selector
Animating text on a path
Adding motion blur
Summary
Chapter 4: Animating Shape Layers
Technical requirements
Creating shape layers
Exploring shape tools
Creating a funnel shape
Working with Bezier paths
Creating the bottom section of the funnel
Creating text layers
Animating shape and text layers
Creating an info chart
Creating a bar graph line
Using Null for vertex points of Shape layers
Animating the info chart
Merging the compositions
Creating a transition between compositions
Summary
Chapter 5: Adding Motion to Photoshop and Illustrator Graphics
Technical requirements
Creating a master composition
Importing Illustrator and Photoshop files
Importing Illustrator files
Importing Adobe Photoshop files
Setting up the workout composition for animation
Fixing anchor points
How to convert Illustrator layers into shape layers
Parenting and linking layers
Animating the workout composition
Animating the hand layers
Animating the head and eye layers
Animating the text layer
Animating the Body layer
Using the Graph Editor to refine the animation
Working with expressions
Animating the Instagram Post 2 composition
Animating graphic layers
Animating shape layers
Using track matte to reveal the image
Converting a Photoshop text layer to an After Effects text layer for animation
Combining compositions in a master composition
Summary
Chapter 6: Creating Motion Graphic Templates for Premiere Pro
Technical requirements
Setting up the project
Building the Media Opener composition
Creating a background
Creating the Media Template placeholder layer
Adding text placeholders
Adding a line graphic
Animating the Line shape
Adding common control
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