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Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC

Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC

By : David Dodds
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Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC

Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC

4.2 (17)
By: David Dodds

Overview of this book

If you’re thinking seriously about making and publishing your videos with professional editing and animation, look no further! Adobe After Effects is a popular tool among video editors and YouTubers to enhance their videos and bring them to life by implementing visual effects and motion graphics. This book will take you right from the basics through to the advanced techniques in Adobe After Effects CC 2018. You will start by setting up your editing environment to learn and improve techniques to sharpen your video editing skills. Furthermore, you will work with basic and advanced special effects to create, modify, and optimize motion graphics in your videos. Lastly, you will not only learn how to create 2.5D animations, but also get to grips with using Cinema 4D Lite to build and animate complete 3D scenes. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned how to package a video efficiently with the help of the projects covered.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
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To get the most out of this book

Before beginning to use this book, you should have a working knowledge of your computer. You should know how to use the mouse and how to open, save, and close files.

After Effects CC is not included with this book. You need to purchase and install it. Some of the lessons in this book use Adobe Bridge, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Character Animator. You must install these programs from Adobe Creative Cloud.

To work through the projects in this book, you need to download the lesson files. The link is provided in the Technical requirements section of Chapter 2, Creating a Lower Third for a Television Show.

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/9781789345155_ColorImages.pdf.

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There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

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