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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

Importing audio, text animation presets, and background graphics


We are going to finish the lyric video by adding music, creating dynamic animated typography, and creating an animated background.

Importing audio and creating composition markers

You import audio layers the same way you import anything. An audio layer is just like any other layer, except it doesn't have some transform properties. Any layer that is represented by a visual image will have position, scale, and rotation transform properties. However, an audio layer isn't represented visually; therefore, you don't have any of the usual transform properties. You will have access to wave forms that will display the sound variations on your audio layers.

To reveal your wave form, simply do the following:

  1. Twirl down the audio layer to reveal the wave forms:

    Audio

    These audio layers have volume that can be animated.

  2. To adjust and key frame your audio volume, reveal the stopwatch audio parameter.

  3. Key frame the audio levels in the negative direction...