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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 films, VFX is most successful when you don't notice it. In this chapter, we learned how to create VFX shots that look real. These types of shot can be used in movies, commercials, and music videos or to fix a shot. You have learned many skills and tools. You can take photos and edit them in Photoshop with the Quick Selection tool and cut the background out in a nondestructive way. You can also use the 3D Camera Tool to track your footage, and create a scene with all of your VFX elements composited realistically together. The biggest thing we learned was how to replace our solid with any image of our choice and composite our footage into a scene. You now have incredible tools to create believable visual effects that can be used in movies, commercials, and personal projects. Have fun experimenting with these VFX tools!