After Effects 5 Bible

Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Quick Start: Making a Movie with After Effects.

Part I: Welcome to After Effects 5.

Chapter 1: Working in After Effects: Finding Your Way Around the Interface.

Chapter 2: Importing Media: Bringing Things In.

Chapter 3: Moving Your Artwork.

Chapter 4: Setting Your Preferences.

Part II: Keyframes and Rendering.

Chapter 5: Sharpening Positional Animations.

Chapter 6: Improving Keyframe Animations.

Chapter 7: Working the Render Queue.

Chapter 8: Building Complex Compositions.

Part III: Broadening Animation Skills: Masks, Transparency and Time.

Chapter 9: Making Use of Masks.

Chapter 10: Creating Mattes: Creative Hole-Punching.

Chapter 11: Mixing It Up with Transfer Modes.

Chapter 12: Manipulating Time: Relativity in After Effects.

Part IV: Using Effects: The Big Fun.

Chapter 13: Photoshop in Motion: Color Correction and Selective Blurring.

Chapter 14: Changing Channels and Colors.

Chapter 15: Simulating Natural Physics: Perspective, Light, and Sound.

Chapter 16: Designing with Style.

Chapter 17: Warping and Morphing Matter.

Chapter 18: Particle Playground.

Chapter 19: Keying and Knockouts.

Chapter 20: Vector Painting.

Part V: Aiming Higher: Advanced Techniques.

Chapter 21: Working with Text Within After Effects.

Chapter 22: Working with Text Outside After Effects.

Chapter 23: Putting Math in Motion: Using Motion Math Scripts.

Chapter 24: Adding the Third Dimension to Your Design.

Chapter 25: Adding Expressions to Your Arsenal.

Chapter 26: Improving Your Visuals with Sound.

Chapter 27: Wiggling, Tracking, and Stabilizing.

Part VI: Rendering for All Media.

Chapter 28: Juggling Format Issues.

Chapter 29: Prepping for Editors.

Part VII: Appendixes.

Appendix A: After Effects Resources.

Appendix B: Keyboard Shortcuts for the Mac.

Appendix C: Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows.

Appendix D: What's on the DVD-ROM.

Index.

Ads.

End-User License Agreement.