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After Effects 5.5 Magic

Nathan Moody, Mark Christiansen

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Awesome book for intermediate users 4 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Don't get this as a beginner's book - you'll be lost in the first example! Instead, think of this as fodder for your next work of art AFTER you have a handle on the basics. I got several great tips that created ideas that I was able to implement on my own. Great complement to the Trish & Chris Meyers AE books.

Editorial Review:

In the right hands, After Effects can be a creatively enabling motion design tool. With After Effects 5.5 Magic, you can leverage its capabilities. Written by motion graphics experts, who have themselves transitioned from other fields, this book provides the kind of first-hand advice and practiced techniques that can improve your efficiency and help you hone your skills. Divided into practical, visual tutorials written and illustrated by experts in various areas of motion graphics, this book takes you through various techniques while providing you with expert tips. After Effects 5.5 Magic can be used in conjunction with the Standard Edition or more advanced Production Bundle. Growing numbers of digital media artists are attempting to learn techniques practiced by professional studios. In this innovative book, motion design professionals share their expertise on such methods.

How to Use Adobe After Effects 5.0 & 5.5 (How to Use)

Donna L Baker

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 1.5 of 5

Avoid this book if you're new to AE 2 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Not at all effective if you really need an introduction to this application. Confusing.

Huh? 2 out of 5 stars.
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I am an advanced Adobe Premiere user and I wanted to try my hand at After Effects. I didn't want to blow $50 on a training book so I bought this one. The packaging and content look great. However upon attempting to read the book, I had no idea of what it was talking about. It doesn't do a good job of talking you through what you're doing...so I guess I'll be blowing the $50 on another book after all.

Editorial Review:

How to Use Adobe After Effects X is a four-color, task-based book that starts with common functions, and gets the reader producing results by provides information on common tasks and how to solve problems quickly. It is designed as a quick reference and is intended for the user to integrate it into their workflow when learning to use After Effects. The book is broken down into sections, each covering a functional area. Each task in a group covers a different topic, thus making the tasks standalone segments. Materials are provided for each task area. The reader need not complete tasks in one area in order to use the materials for another area.

Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Vol. 2: Advanced Techniques (3rd Edition, Version 6.5)

Trish Meyer; Chris Meyer

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Trish and Chris Meyer share their years of real-world production experience in this vital update to the acclaimed Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects series. More than a step-by-step review of the features, you learn how this program integrates into real-world production workflows from award-winning artists who make their living using After Effects. This full-color guide is packed with visual examples, and the enclosed DVD-ROM is loaded with source material and projects that encourage you to practice their techniques.

Creating Motion Graphics Volume 2: Advanced Techniques focuses on core concepts such as audio, alpha channels, and manipulating time, plus Professional edition features such as color keying (including Keylight) and motion tracking. The timeless subjects of video and film are demystified, while Expressions and the new Paint engine are covered in depth. Detailed chapters explore the integration between After Effects and programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, 3D applications, nonlinear editing systems, and Web tools.

USER LEVEL: Intermediate to Advanced. Topics include:
_ New chapters on Paint and Color Correction (including Color Finesse)
_ Advanced animation techniques, including mastering Expressions
_ Integrating with graphic and 3D programs, Web tools, and NLEs
_ Mastering the technicalities of video and film, including widescreen and HD

Creative After Effects 7: Workflow Techniques for Animation, Visual Effects and Motion Graphics

Angie Taylor

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Realize your creative potential with a working knowledge of After Effects 7. Renowned artist and designer Angie Taylor demonstrates professional workflows and inspires with practical tutorial lessons that help put the theory (and you!) to work.

You'll learn from a comprehensive survey of the new interface and features, with illustrated techniques for animation, visual effects and motion graphics. Practice exercises to reinforce essential techniques, and continuous projects challenge you with fantastically creative uses of the application. The companion DVD includes everything you'll need to complete the tutorials as well as an array of bonus plug-ins and demo software.

·A comprehensive survey of the new After Effects 7 interface and toolset
·Illustrated techniques for animation, visual effects and motion graphics
·Practical tutorial lessons that demonstrate professional workflows
·A companion DVD with tutorial media and valuable plug-ins.

Adobe After Effects 6 Hands-On Training

Lynda Weinman

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Mac user only 2 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

While the author states that she is writting a cross platform book,
she ofter fails to explain the correct way of doing things on the Windows platform. The Windows user is left to figure it out on their own. The Windows user may find another title more suitable.

solid introduction 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

traditionally the Meyers books are considered the standard, but they're kind of dense, a lot to absorb, and they move through material a bit fast. If you're committed and hungry, then maybe they're what you want, but if you want a gentler beginning to build your confidence, I think you're better off starting with this book, and then taking on the Meyers books once you have a solid overall grounding. The difference in layout alone is plenty reason: this book has a lot more white space and breathing room, while the Meyers books are just crammed margin to margin, and feel smaller, even though they are the same size. Properly delivered, AE gives itself up wonderfully, but there's so much to it, you run the risk of overwhelm if it piles on too fast.

Editorial Review:

Learn basic techniques for creating motion graphics and special effects for film, video and the Web. The accompanying CD-ROM features exercises and QuickTime tutorials.

Adobe(R) After Effects(R) 5.0: Classroom in a Book

Adobe Creative Team

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

You can sink the Titanic with it, but you don't have to. Filmmakers andTV-commercial directors have turned to Adobe After Effects for years tocreate sophisticated visual effects, but its fan club is rapidly expandingto include graphic designers who want to add motion graphics to their Websites. Adobe After Effects 5.0 Classroom in a Book takes theintimidation factor out of this moviemaking program without diminishing itspowerful potential. Developed by the experts at Adobe, this project-basedguide walks you through easy-to-follow lessons tested in the company's ownclassrooms.

Not assuming any prior After Effects knowledge, Adobe After Effects 5.0Classroom in a Book takes a building-block approach. The book isdesigned around one large and complex project that is broken down intomanageable lessons, each of which builds on topics covered in previoussections. The task-oriented format mimics a real-world work flow: Features,functions, and subjects are introduced as they come up during the course ofthe project. This edition of the book covers what's new and exciting inAfter Effects 5.0: 3D compositing, hierarchical layering, and powerfulanimation and masking enhancements. The accompanying cross-platform CDincludes all the files you need to complete the projects.

Adobe After Effects 6.5 Magic

James Rankin, Anna Ullrich

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Best book on After Effects you ever find 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Just buy this one. I'm so glad that I did.

Editorial Review:

Animation Presets, an advanced Clone tool, scripting support, and a powerful new color correction system are just a few of the reasons you're chomping at the bit to get down to work with After Effects 6.5. In these pages, a master of the medium allows you to do just that, presenting a series of projects that explore every aspect of Adobe's animation and effects powerhouse. By focusing on the areas that can be troublesome for professional users--whether because they present thorny issues or because they draw on completely new features--this volume provides the focused, practical instruction you need to maximize your After Effects productivity. Each lesson provides need-to-know tips, proven techniques, and best practices for a variety of After Effects 6.5 functions: from importing and managing footage to viewing and editing layers, animating type, and more. The companion CD includes QuickTime instructional movies, source code, and files for all of the book's projects.

After Effects 5 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickPro Guide

Antony Bolante

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Great beginners and Quick Start Book 5 out of 5 stars.
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Thi Book is excellent for those who just want to get Affter Effects up and running and quickly jump into the application. It is not, however, going to teach you how to do stunning special effects, as this book is not geared for that purpose.

What this book does do however, is organize the various features of After Effects into an easy to read, quick to lookup format. This book wastes no time at all in getting you to find out what the heck that weird looking tiny button on a particular window does....as the title implies...this is a VISUAL instruction guide to After Effects.

If you are already familiar with After Effects and instead are looking for a book to teach you how to make amazing footage with it, then this is NOT the book you want.

If you are however, totally new to After effects and want to just get some darned footage, graphics and sound loaded into the application and apply some basic animated effects to these elements then this IS the book for you.

The main problem with After Effects is it's complex interface. The interface is very non-intuitive and extremely user unfriendly....that is until you know what the heck you are doing in it. This is where this book comes in. I was able to pick up this book and in about 20 mins pretty much know the basics of what the heck I was doing in After Effects. I am one of these people who hates long boring labourious explanations for simplistic concepts....in other words WHAT DOES THIS BUTTON DO and tell me in like one paragraph not a whole bloody chapter....that's exactly what this book does. It completely cuts to the chase in plain simple, easy to understand terms.

If you want to learn creative techniques and shapen your blending, composition and editing skills then stay far away from this book and go by a book for that purpose. But if you have just loaded up After Effects for the first time and are sitting there staring at it wondering why the damned application will not allow you to change the duration of footage, or how the heck to apply a rotation over time (instead of instantaneously) then this book will help you with those basic concepts and it will help you FAST!

And finally, cheers to the Author who made great efforts NOT to jam the book full of techie talk. Thank you so much for skipping the BS and using Plain English to explain things.

Editorial Review:

Uses practical, task-based, visually formatted lessons to lead intermediate to advanced users through the After Effects interface and work environment. Quick reference. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

After Effects 6.5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide

Antony Bolante

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

Tough motion-graphics and effects production challenges require bold solutions, and Adobe's completely overhauled After Effects 6.0 ($699, Standard Edition; $999, Professional Edition) has a bushel of them! Here to get you up to speed on it--perhaps in time to meet your next deadline!--is everyone's favorite task-based guide. Employing the same concise instructions and visual approach as Peachpit's popular Visual QuickStart Guides but geared toward more advanced users, this Visual QuickPro Guide covers all the improvements that make this version of Adobe's motion-graphics and effects program such a boon to video pros of all stripes: a revolutionary text engine, support for OpenGL (which greatly accelerates 2D and 3D graphics rendering), new vector paint tools (which allow painting on layers), a faster and more accurate motion tracker, advanced keying tools, and more. Through step-by-step instructions, enhanced by plenty of tips and sidebars, veteran video editor Antony Bolante will have you effectively and efficiently importing and managing footage, viewing and editing layers, applying effects, animating type, and more in no time.

After Effects 5 Bible

J. J. Marshall, Zed Saeed, J.J. Marshall

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After Effects has been established as the world's most powerful and cost-effective solution for motion graphics professionals. The application has revolutionized the broadcast industry. Proof of the revolution was clear when the mid-1990s revealed a dazzling array of visual artistry in ad campaigns and television network promotions, the quality and the quantity of which had never been seen.

Version 5.0 was a major upgrade (3D, expressions, parenting, to name a few) and Version 5.5 could hardly be considered a dot release. Truly phenomenal software, this build of After Effects boasts a variety of new features as well as vast enhancements to its user interface. There are numerous new filters for concretizing any visual effects that the mind can envision. Additionally, After Effects 5.5 includes improved 3D-compositing capabilities, greater command over expressions with the Expression Controls effects, as well as native support for OSX, among numerous other improvements.

The After Effects Bible looks into every aspect of the application. Whether you're completely new to motion graphics, or an experienced hand looking for ways to get the most out of the recent upgrade, there is valuable, time-saving information to be found in each chapter. There are step exercises for everything from creating complex keyframe animations to animating cameras in 3D space. Whether it's read from front-to-back or used as a desktop reference, the After Effects Bible belongs in the motion graphic designer's library.