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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

Chapter 3. Using Shape Layers to Create an Animated Lyric Video

In this chapter, we are going to work with shape layers. Shape layers are like solid layers, except they are much more powerful! Essentially, shape layers are a bit like Illustrator, you can create custom shapes and edit them, but you have access to tons of animation parameters as well. Shape layers are a natural continuation of solid layers and the masking that we did in the last chapter. Both solid layers and shape layers are vector objects. They can be scaled infinitely without losing quality.

We will use shape layers as transition elements in our project. Every time you create an animation project, ask yourself, is there a creative way I can transition in or out of this scene? By the end of this chapter, you will know a couple interesting ways to transition between your scenes.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Shape layer animation

  • Mask animation

  • Editing audio

  • Text animation