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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


In this chapter, we learned more about Solid layers, masking, key frames, the Keyframe Assistant, the text tool, Null objects, precomps, and how to create a lower third for a television show. We also learned about easy ease and how to render your projects. After reading this chapter, you can group your layers into precomps and edit masks. This is crucial as we move forward into the next chapter, where we will design with shape layers and work more with editing and animating masks. We will build on the skills that we have learned from this chapter and learn about shape layers, text presets, editing audio, and how to create an animated lyric video for social media.