Total Training for Adobe After Effects CS5: Essentials (PC/Mac)

With Total Training for Adobe After Effects CS5 Essentials you'll learn the basics from getting started setting up compositions and importing files, to more complex animations, masks, text, and even 3D! You will learn tips and tricks, as well as techniques that you can use to create your own compositions. After Effects is the standard in the industry for compositing and graphics animation - stay competitive and add this skill set to your knowledge.

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO AFTER EFFECTS (73 min)

1. Basic Video Concepts
2. Importing Files
3. Project Panel Overview and Arranging a Workspace
4. Creating a New Composition
5. Placing Footage in the Composition
6. Creating a Film Strip Effect with Multiple Movies
7. Timeline Panel Overview
8. Timeline Switches, Time Ruler and Work Area
9. Composition Panel Overview

Chapter 2: ANIMATION BASICS (54 min)

1. Exploring the Transform Properties
2. Introduction to Keyframing
3. Spatial Interpolation
4. Temporal Interpolation
5. Practicing Interpolation
6. Copying and Pasting Keyframes
7. Creating a Loop and Changing the Animation Speed

Chapter 3: WORKING WITH MASKS (54 min)

1. Introduction to Masks
2. Animating Masks
3. Working with Mask Interpolation
4. Using Masks for Position Keyframes
5. Creating a Simple Animation Using Masks

Chapter 4: ANIMATING TEXT (38 min)

1. An Introduction to Text in After Effects
2. Using Text Presets
3. Creating Text on a Path
4. Creating a Preset
5. Animators: Adding a Range Selector
6. Adding Properties to the Same Range Selector
7. Animating Two or More Range Selectors
8. Animators: Adding a Wiggly Selector
9. Working with Photoshop® Text

Chapter 5: ANIMATION ASSISTANTS (36 min)

1. Using Motion Sketch and Smoother
2. Working with Auto-Orient and Split Layer
3. Time Remapping
4. Creating a Picture Montage

Chapter 6: PARENTING and BASIC EXPRESSIONS (53 min)

1. Parenting Basics and Null Objects
2. Using Parenting in a Mechanical Crane Animation
3. Using Parenting to Create a Stacking Ruler Animation
4. Text Animation Based on the CTI Location
5. Introduction to Basic Expressions
6. Wiggle and Looping Expressions
7. Using Expressions to Animate Based on Audio Amplitude

Chapter 7: BASIC COMPOSITING (51 min)

1. Applying Layer Blending Modes
2. Creating a Track Matte
3. Keying and Keylight
4. Compound Effects: Gradient Wipe and Displacement Map
5. Compound Effects: Wave World and Caustics
6. Precomposing and Nesting
7. Rotoscoping with the Roto Brush

Chapter 8: PARTICLES and PAINT (40 min)

1. Introduction to Particle Generators
2. Creating a Chimney and Smoke Animation
3. Introduction to Paint
4. Creating an Invisible Pen Effect with Paint

Chapter 9: BASIC EFFECTS 22:31 min)

1. Creating Clouds with Fractals
2. Creating a Spinning Globe with CC Sphere
3. Creating a Moving Background with Bezier Warp
4. Colorizing with CC Toner
5. Animating a Stroke with a Lens Flare

Chapter 10: INTRODUCTION TO THE 3D ENGINE (43 min)

1. Introduction to Lights, Cameras and Camera Views
2. Creating 3D Text with Lights and Shadows
3. Animating a 3D Scene
4. A Quick Look at Vanishing Point

Chapter 11: RENDERING and EXPORTING (17 min)

1. Using the Render Queue
2. Other Methods of Exporting
3. Credits