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Hands-on Introduction to After Effects

Hands-on Introduction to After Effects. Chris Jackson Author, Designer, Professor Rochester Institute of Technology. Hands-on Introduction to After Effects. Course Description Import and composite Photoshop and QuickTime files Set manual and automatic keyframes on the Timeline

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Hands-on Introduction to After Effects

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  1. Hands-on Introductionto After Effects Chris Jackson Author, Designer, Professor Rochester Institute of Technology

  2. Hands-on Introduction to After Effects Course Description • Import and composite Photoshop and QuickTime files • Set manual and automatic keyframes on the Timeline • Apply the Puppet Tool to animate still images • Use the Roto Brush Tool to add transparency to video • Apply effects for stylizing and enhancing video • Render for delivery to film, broadcast, the web, and mobile devices • Demo how easy it is to integrate After Effects with a Flash Workflow

  3. Hands-on Introduction to After Effects Chris Jackson • Author • Flash + After Effects • Flash Cinematic Techniques • Flash 3D: Animation, Interactivity, and Games • Tenured professor at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) • Designer • Consultant for worldwide corporations and nonprofit organizations

  4. Hands-on Introduction to After Effects Creating an After Effects Project Adapted from Flash + After Effects: 2nd Edition

  5. Hands-on Introduction to After Effects WORKFLOW: Step 1 – Import Footage • After Effects requires images, movies, and sounds to composite an animation. These imported assets are referred to as footage.

  6. Hands-on Introduction to After Effects WORKFLOW: Step 2 – Preview Footage • Footage is linked to the After Effects project. The Project panel displays the linked footage.

  7. Hands-on Introduction to After Effects WORKFLOW: Step 3 – Create a Composition • Footage is layered within a timeline and composition panel. Comp panel Timeline panel

  8. Hands-on Introduction to After Effects WORKFLOW: Step 4 – Set Keyframes to create an animation • Keyframes are set in the Timeline to create an animation.

  9. Hands-on Introduction to After Effects WORKFLOW: Step 5 – Apply the Puppet Tools • Puppet Tools enhance the character animation

  10. Hands-on Introduction to After Effects WORKFLOW: Step 6 – Use the Roto Brush Tool • The Roto Brush Tool allows you to separate out foreground elements from the background. Before After

  11. Hands-on Introduction to After Effects WORKFLOW: Step 8 – Render the Composition • The process of outputting your project is called rendering. • Each pixel of your image and audio signal is determined and rendered to the output type of your choice. • QuickTime movie • Windows Media File • AVI • Flash Video – FLV and F4V • Flash Player SWF • Flash Professional XFL (layered file) • Image Sequence

  12. Hands-on Introduction to After Effects SUMMARY: Some key concepts to remember include: • The Project panel displays imported footage and stores the compositions created with these files. • The Comp Window is used to compose, preview, and edit your project. • The Timeline shows the structure of your composition. • Only one project can be open at one time. • Footage is not embedded within After Effects.

  13. Hands-on Introduction to After Effects SUMMARY: Some key concepts to remember include: • To create an animation you keyframe transform properties inherent to a layer in the Timeline. • A motion path is the dotted line that traces the path of animation from start to finish in the Comp Window. • After Effects uses interpolation to fill in the transitional frames between two keyframes. • The Comp Window visually displays the spatial interpolation. • The Graph Editor visually displays the temporal interpolation.

  14. Hands-on Introduction to After Effects SUMMARY: Some key concepts to remember include: • Use the Puppet tools to quickly add natural motion to raster images and vector graphics, including still images, shapes, and text characters. • Puppet Pin tool places and moves Deform pins. • Puppet Overlap tool places Overlap pins, which indicate which parts of an image should appear in front of others when distortion causes parts of the image to overlap one another. • Puppet Starch tool places Starch pins, which stiffen parts of the image so that they are distorted less.

  15. Hands-on Introduction to After Effects SUMMARY: Some key concepts to remember include: • After Effects renders compositions within a project. • Compositions can be rendered out as QuickTime, SWF, FLV. • A codec includes a compressor and decompressor. • Streaming data moves data from a server to your Flash player. • Data rate is the quality that defines the amount of information sent within a unit of time.

  16. Hands-on Introduction to After Effects Thank You!

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