The Focal Easy Guide to After Effects [antikvár]

The Focal Easy Guide Series Focal Easy Guides are the best choice to get you started with new software, whatever your level. Refreshingly simple, they do not attempt to cover everything, focusing solely on the essentials needed to get immediate results. ideal if you need to learn a new software package quickly, the Focal Easy Guides offer an effective, time-saving introduction to the key tools, not hundreds of pages of confusing reference material. The emphasis is on quickly getting to grips with the software in a practical and accessible way to achieve professional results. Highly illustrated in color, explanations are short and to the point. Written by professionals in a user-friendly style, the guides assume some computer knowledge and an understanding of the general concepts in the area covered, ensuring they aren't patronizing! THE FOCAL EASY GUIDE TO AFTER EFFECTS It's 4:37 a.m. and your project is almost finished. You run a full-resolution rendering out to video for final review, and there it is - your live-action source footage is stuttering, the moving text looks blurry, and the motion tracked effects are not staying aligned to their targets. I've been there plenty of times: it's really late (or early depending on how you think about it), I'm tired, and my project just sucks. All because I failed to properly set one little option. And now all I have to do is figure out what option it was that I overlooked. Even with all the excellent on-line help resources available, often I just wanted to keep a simple reference at hand to flip through, guiding me toward the resolution of my problem. That was the impetus of this book - an easy-to-follow, sufficiently detailed, cheat-sheet to get me back up and running, and back to bed. For Beginners with Experience This Easy Guide is not intended to teach the complete animation neophyte the basics of film and video functions and techniques - it is aimed at the user who understands the basic concepts of video production and operation. It's meant for editors, broadcast graphic artists, 3D animators - the people who already are exposed to everyday motion graphics or animation for video but have not had any or enough hands-on exposure to After Effects. It's for people who both want and need to use After Effects. Though there are countless useful features in After Effects I wished I could have covered in more detail (or included at all), I had to keep the scope narrow enough to keep it an Easy Guide. Inside I've discussed what I and some other advanced After Effects designers feel are the critical features for day-in and day-out broadcast and animation production: the fundamental aspects that make us better artists as well as make us money. Author Polishing Forehead