Books about After effects from Amazon.com

If you're new to After Effects and want to get up to speed quickly, After Effects Apprentice was created just for you. With 11 core lessons plus a fun final project, you'll quickly get into the program and learn how to tap its potential - whether you want to create motion graphics for a network program, your company's video, or your own independent production.

In this book, you'll get a professional perspective on the most important features a motion graphics artist needs to learn to use this program effectively. You'll learn to creatively edit and combine layers, animate eye-catching titles, replace a screen on a computer monitor, place a studio shot in anew environment, manipulate 3D space, and use effects to generate excitement or enhance the realism of a scene. Easy to follow step-by-step instructions take you through each technique, including projects that encourage you to express it in your own way. You'll learn more than just the tools; you'll learn skills that you can immediately put to work in your own projects.

Topics include how to:
* Animate, layer, and composite images and text.
* Manipulate keyframes to create more refined animations.
* Use masks, mattes, stencils and modes to add depth.
* Manage layers to make them easier to coordinate.
* Add 3D to your animations.
* Use tracking and keying to create special effects.
* Includes new CS3 features; Shape layers, the Puppet tool, Brainstorm, and Per-Character 3D Text.

DVD contains: All exercise source material and projects in AE7 and CS3, video guided tours, and movies of the finished projects.

* Full color presentation of professional workflows
* Core motion graphic techniques in 12 engaging lessons
* Companion DVD features QuickTime movies and lesson media.
Price: $21.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Trish and Chris Meyer share fifteen years of real-world film and video production experience inside the critically acclaimed Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects. More than a step-by-step review of the features in After Effects, you will learn how the program thinks so that you can realize your own visions more quickly and efficiently. This full-color book is jammed full of tips, gotchas, and sage advice that will help you survive whatever your next project throws at you.

Creating Motion Graphics 4th Edition has been heavily revised, reuniting the previous two volumes plus adding detailed coverage of new features introduced in After Effects 7 and CS3 Professional to form one massive, essential reference. The enclosed DVD-ROM contains source footage and project files for the numerous exercises which help reinforce each concept. The DVD also includes over 180 pages of additional information, including lengthy Bonus Chapters on
Expressions and Effects.

* Mastering animation through the use of keyframes, motion paths, and the Graph Editor

* Blending imagery using alpha channels, masks, mattes, modes, and stencils

* Building groups and hierarchies through parenting and nested comps

* Extended coverage of type animation, paint tools and 3D space

* Advanced subjects such as keying, motion tracking, expressions, and video issues

* Includes over 180 PDF pages of bonus content on the DVD

* Extensive coverage of the new CS3 features including the Shape and Puppet tools, Brainstorm, per-character 3D text, color management, and more!.
Price: $35.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This is the only book in the After Effects market to focus exclusively on the creation of visual effects, and is a one-stop resource for anyone who wants in-depth explanations that demystify the realm of visual effects and how they were created, thanks to veteran author Mark Christiansen's friendly and accessible style. A thoroughly packed, informative read, this masterful guide focuses on explaining the essential concepts, features, and techniques that are key to creating seamless movie-quality visual effects. Readers will learn how to put After Effects to work to create the shots they need. Users who are comfortable with After Effects will find a helpful review of After Effects fundamentals--managing footage, viewing and editing layers, animating type, and more--so they can learn how to work smarter and more efficiently. Readers of all levels will learn core techniques for effects compositing: color matching, keying, rotoscoping, motion tracking, and emulating the camera. The final section of the book delves into creative explorations, demonstrating actual effects that readers might want to re-create. Readers will also find comprehensive coverage of all that's new in this upgrade. Throughout the book, beautiful full-color examples demonstrate what's possible, while the companion DVD offers plenty of sample footage and dozens of demos of the most useful After Effects plug-ins. ..
Price: $30.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

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Price: $25.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Put the power of Expressions to work in your animations with controls and efficiencies impossible to achieve with traditional keyframing techniques.
No programming skills are required. Foundation concepts and skills orient the new designer and serve as a handy reference to the experienced one. Basics of creating Expressions, variables, commands, and Expression helpers precede the leap into JavaScript and math essentials for more advanced Expressions that include randomness and physical simulations.
Full color illustrations display the scripts and the resulting effects, Pick Whip techniques, and sequential animations. Downloadable companion files include QuickTime movies of the demo animations, and AE project files that permit you to examine the Expressions.

* No programming experience required.
* Full-color presentation of Pick Whip techniques and sequential animations.
* Downloadable project files and QuickTime videos..
Price: $24.19 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Flash Designers: push Flash to the next level with After Effects' robust toolset.
* Add motion graphics and visual effects to your Flash projects
* Fuse 3D depth into 2D animations
* Prepare Flash animations for broadcast
* Save development time in executing animations

Combine these two powerhouse applications to expand your multimedia horizons. Flash + After Effects gives the experienced Flash designer a working understanding of the After Effects toolset with professional techniques that raise the design bar for Web, broadcast, or CD/DVD delivery. The companion DVD contains project media that permit you to practice essential After Effects skills that include:
* Working with video and the AE timeline
* Using alpha channels for keying and enhancing interactivity
* Putting vector animation to work with Text and Shape Layers, and animation presets
* Creating 3D backgrounds with cameras and lights
* Animating with Behaviors, Parenting, Expressions and the Puppet Tool
You also get a video primer, render and file optimization techniques, and publishing and streaming guidelines.

Combine two powerhouse applications to:
* Add motion graphics and visual effects
* Fuse 3D depth into 2D animations
* Prepare Flash animations for broadcast
* Save development time.
Price: $25.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Visual effects and motion graphics pros of all stripes - from broadcast professionals to VFX supervisors to Web designers who need to produce occasional video segments - will welcome the dramatically accelerated features provided in the brand-new After Effects CS4. This best-selling book has been revised to cover all that's new in this upgrade: the ability to import 3D layers from Photoshop; the Cartoon effect that converts live-action footage into stylized imagery; Adobe Device Central CS4, which lets you preview and test animations for mobile devices, and more. Designed around a single complex project that’s broken down into manageable lessons, this book-and-DVD package mimics a real-world workflow - but one that readers tackle at their own pace. The DVD contains all the lesson files and footage readers need to complete the lessons..
Price: $34.64 [Notify me when price goes down.]

"Jeff Foster has created the one indispensable and definitive production guide to two of the world's greatest symbiotic tools: After Effect and Photoshop."
—Jack H. Davis, coauthor, the Photoshop Wow! books and How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography

Nothing beats the tight synergy of After Effects and Photoshop for creating professional-level effects, and nothing beats this book for showing you how Hollywood professionals really use these programs.

In this second edition to his bestselling book, TV and movie graphics veteran Jeff Foster provides all-new information on After Effects 7 and Photoshop CS2—plus expanded coverage of blue/green screening and titling, beautiful new images, and innovative real-world solutions for today's professionals. Better than ever, this must-have reference is still the only guide that shows how to use these two superpower programs together to achieve professional results.

The DVD includes production materials, third-party plug-ins and filters, and stock video. You'll also find project files and footage to go with every one of the book's projects, which require After Effects 7 or later.

Learn what the pros know, including how to:

• Add depth to your animation by mimicking real motion
• Grab your audience's attention with creative motion titling
• Shoot a clean blue/green screen
• Apply 3D animation to 2D images
• Remove backgrounds with blue-screen garbage mattes
• Retouch frame by frame with rotoscoping
• Construct realistic composites and locales with matte painting
• Make movies from stills by simulating 3D camera motion
• Produce realistic effects such as noise, clouds, and smoke

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file..
Price: $6.40 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Trish and Chris Meyer share their years of real-world production experience in the critically acclaimed Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects. Learn how the program thinks as these award-winning artists share the tips and techniques they use in their own work. This full-color guide is packed with visual examples, while the accompanying DVD is loaded with projects that reinforce important skills you can apply to your own work.

Creating Motion Graphics is divided into two volumes. Volume 1: The Essentials is for all users of the version 6.5 Standard edition. It covers the core concepts and tools you need to tackle virtually every job, including keyframe animation, masking, mattes, 3D space, and over 100 plug-in effects. This thoroughly updated third edition features new chapters on mastering the new Type tool for dynamic text animation, plus Animation Presets for saving and recalling your work--as well as coverage of the hundreds of shortcuts and enhancements introduced in version 6.0 and 6.5 of this powerful tool. An introductory tutorial ensures that even the newest user can get up to speed quickly.

Topics include:

- Mastering complex animation through keyframe and velocity control - Blending imagery using masks, mattes, and modes - Building groups and hierarchies through parenting and nested comps - Thorough coverage of 3D layers, cameras, and lights - Exploring the new Type tool, as well as Text and Animation Presets

Includes DVD-ROM with hundreds of movies, stills, objects, and audio clips, plus free plug-ins and more. Includes Tryout version of Adobe After Effects 6.5 (Mac or Windows).

Also available: Volume 2: Advanced Techniques covers topics such as integrating with Photoshop, Illustrator, and 3D programs, motion tracking, keying, video and film issues, alpha channels, as well as Professional edition-specific features..
Price: $29.99 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Here to get filmmakers, Web designers, and broadcast pros up to speed on After Effects CS3 Professional - in time to meet their next deadline, is everyone's favorite task-based guide, but geared toward more advanced users. Through step-by-step instructions, enhanced by tips, sidebars, and plenty of visual aids, veteran video editor Antony Bolante will show you  how to effectively and efficiently import and manage footage, view and edit layers, apply effects, animate type, and more. You'll learn about key features with real-world examples of how and when features should be used, including what's new in After Effects CS3: Shape layers, which enables you  to easily create and animate shapes; Puppet tool, which you can use to animate a 2D image like a marionette; powerful integration with Photoshop CS3; new support for Flash designers; the new Brainstorm panel, which lets you preview an array of different visual possibilities in one gorgeous panel; complete color management workflow; Adobe Clip Notes, which lets you attach comments directly to a composition; Adobe Device Central CS3, which lets you preview and test animations for mobile devices, and more..
Price: $24.05 [Notify me when price goes down.]