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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

Creating text, easy easing key frames, and rendering


Imagine yourself getting very close to the finish line! We are almost done with this lower third project. You should be very proud of yourself. In this next section, we are going to add some information for our show, using the type tool. Pay special attention to the text tool. It's one of the main communication devices used with After Effects, and is one of the principal means of communicating information. It's very important that you understand how to use this tool. We are also going to learn ways of how to further edit your key frames for more natural movement. Then, we are going to learn a couple of ways of how to render our movie.

The type tool

The type tool is one of the most versatile tools in After Effects. Text layers are useful for many purposes, including lower thirds, animated titles, and dynamic typography. You can fully edit your text layers, spacing, size, and stroke. You can animate the text layers, or the color, size, and...