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Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC

By : David Dodds
Book Image

Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC

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 (15 chapters)
Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC
Contributors
Preface
Assessment
Other Book You May Enjoy
Index

Summary


Congratulations! You have created an awesome sports graphic project! We have learned how to create a dynamic composited video project. Understanding how to track video footage, apply color correction, and apply lighting effects will help you to create convincing, professional quality projects. The tools are used in movies, television, and music videos. Anytime you see a 3D element in a movie, it is using 3D tracking software. Traditionally this process is done using an expensive camera tracker. But now, After Effects has its own camera tracker, and you know how to use it! Now, you can track a shot and add 3D elements to it all in After Effects. How cool is that! Movie standard effects at your fingertips! This chapter sets the tone for our next lesson on combining visual effects, live action footage, and 3D camera tracking. Join us in the next chapter, where we will continue working with effects, and learn about camera tracking.