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Available

Released

Oct 19th, 2010

Adobe’s After Effects CS5 is the industry-leading motion graphics software that powers animations across all media including the web, on TV and in feature films. Join visual artist/musician and macProVideo.com trainer Richard Lainhart in this detailed exploration of everything you need to know about the powerful animation tools in After Effects CS5.

Animation, like music, exists in time and space, moving and evolving as it takes you on a virtual, visual journey. Adobe After Effect CS5 is the industry-leading software for accomplishing all kinds of animations from simple text fly-bys to vast multi-dimensional imaginary worlds. macProVideo.com is proud to bring you Richard Lainhart (filmmaker, composer and all around digital artisan) to lead you through our new After Effects 101 tutorial.

With a friendly, captivating way of teaching, Richard walks you through the essential skills you need to efficiently and effectively use Adobe After Effects. From the basics of navigating the interface, to more complex skills such as animating and using visual effects, you'll learn all you need to know to composite and manipulate 3D layers in space!

• After Effects CS5 101: Core After Effects CS5
• After Effects CS5 201: Motion Tracking and Stabilization
• After Effects CS5 203: Secrets of Particle Playground
• After Effects CS5 302: Cartoon Animation Basics
• After Effects CS5 303: More Cartoon Animation Basics

For a full list of the topics covered, see the Tutorial Outline
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• Adobe After Effects CS5 101 Chapter 1 - Interface ...
• 1 - After Effects Interface Basics
• 02:00
  1. Introduction to Adobe After Effects CS5 101
• 04:28
  2. Windows and Workspaces
• 04:36
  3. The Project Window and File Import
• 04:21
  4. Important Preferences
• 06:51
  5. Imported Files and the Composition Window
• 03:03
  6. The Comp Window - Part 2
• 2 - The Timeline and Layers
• 05:18
  7. The Timeline Window and Working with Layers
• 07:24
  8. Manipulating Layers
• 03:58
  9. More Layer Properties
• 3 - Animation Essentials
• 06:33
  10. What Are Keyframes?
• 06:10
  11. Setting Keyframes and RAM Preview
• 03:46
  12. Adding More Keyframes
• 08:56
  13. Modifying the Motion Path and Keyframing More Prope...
• 06:42
  14. Keyframing vs Procedural Animation
• 03:23
  15. Soloing Animated Properties and Disabling Keyframes
• 08:35
  16. Moving Keyframes - Linear vs Eased Keyframes
• Adobe After Effects CS5 101 Chapter 2 - Compositin...
• 4 - Basic Compositing
• 04:02
  17. Compositing and Keying Defined
• 06:48
  18. Using the Luma Key
• 05:26
  19. Masking and Rotoscoping - Part 1
• 03:07
  20. About Alpha Channels
• 06:19
  21. Adjusting the Bezier Mask
• 04:01
  22. Refining the Matte
• 5 - Color Keying and More Rotoscoping
• 05:09
  23. Using the Color Key
• 07:16
  24. Alpha Channels and Rotoscoping Sequenced Stills
• 04:55
  25. The Roto Brush Tool - Part 1
• 04:36
  26. The Roto Brush Tool - Part 2
• 6 - Blending Modes and Track Mattes
• 06:53
  27. Compositing with Add Mode
• 05:35
  28. More Blending Modes
• 05:02
  29. Combining Blending Modes
• 04:06
  30. Working with Track Mattes
• Adobe After Effects CS5 101 Chapter 3 - Text Anima...
• 7 - Text Properties and Animation Basics
• 06:04
  31. Introducing Text and the Character Panel
• 04:05
  32. Text Properties and Text as Track Matte
• 06:29
  33. Path Text
• 8 - Text Animation Presets
• 04:55
  34. About Animation Presets
• 04:24
  35. 3D Text Animation Presets
• 03:10
  36. 2D Text Animation Presets
• 9 - Animating Text with Selectors
• 03:45
  37. Global Text Animation Properties
• 05:13
  38. About Text Range Selectors
• 05:38
  39. Animating Text Range Selectors
• 05:27
  40. Animating Multiple Text Range Properties
• 03:28
  41. Adding Animators and Range Selectors
• Adobe After Effects CS5 101 Chapter 4 - 3D Basics
• 10 - Concepts in 3D
• 06:55
  42. Enabling 3D and Setting Views
• 04:41
  43. Manipulating Layers in 3D Space
• 11 - Static 3D Scenes
• 05:15
  44. Adding Lights to the 3D Scene
• 04:14
  45. Modifying Lights
• 12 - Animating 3D Scenes
• 06:29
  46. Adding a Camera and Animating Lights
• 05:29
  47. Animating Lights 2
• 03:47
  48. Camera Positioning and Animation
• Adobe After Effects CS5 101 Chapter 5 - Introducti...
• 13 - Blurs
• 02:29
  49. Blur Effects - Gaussian Blur
• 05:40
  50. Blur Effects - Compound Blur and Pre-Composing
• 14 - Color and Distortions
• 05:28
  51. Color Correction Effects
• 03:35
  52. Distortion Effects
• 15 - Generators
• 01:45
  53. Generate Effects - Gradients and Lightning
• 03:57
  54. Generate Effects - Audio Waveform
• 16 - Stylizations
• 06:14
  55. Animating a Kaleidoscope Automatically With Sound
• 06:25
  56. Stylize Effects - Cartoon and Time Effects - Echo
• Adobe After Effects CS5 101 Chapter 6 - Output
• 17 - Render and Output Settings
• 03:24
  57. Make Movie and Render Settings
• 04:41
  58. Render Settings - About Video Fields
• 04:47
  59. Output Modules and Rendering Your Movie

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