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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

Questions


  1. What are the steps for creating an animation?

  2. How do you trim or extend a layer in the timeline?

  3. How do you trim or extend the workspace area?

  4. Where are the safe guides located?

  5. How do you advance one key frame down the timeline?

  6. How do you preview your movie?

  7. How do you create a solid layer?

  8. Where are your masking shapes located?

  9. How do you edit one single masking point?

  10. How do you edit all the masking points at once?

  11. How do you apply the subtract masking?

  12. What is a key frame?

  13. How are key frames represented on the timeline?

  14. How are seconds represented on the timeline?