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CREATING MOTION GRAPHICS WITH AFTER EFFECTS
Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects
Essential and Advanced Techniques
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Chris and Trish Meyer, Trish and Chris Meyer are principals in Crish Design (formerly known as CyberMotion), an award-winning motion graphic design studio. The Meyers are authors of the well-known reference book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, and teach motion graphics at numerous events around the country.
Chris Meyer, Monitor Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Trish Meyer, Trish and Chris Meyer are the principals of CyberMotion, an award-winning motion graphic design studio in Los Angeles. Their studio was one of the original development sites for After Effects, and they continue to work closely with Adobe to this day. They speak around the country on the subjects of After Effects and motion graphics, and are also the authors of After Effects Apprentice as well as the Motion Graphics column for DV magazine.

Description
Trish and Chris Meyer share fifteen years of real-world film and video production experience inside the critically acclaimed Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects. More than a step-by-step review of the features in After Effects, you will learn how the program thinks so that you can realize your own visions more quickly and efficiently. This full-color book is jammed full of tips, gotchas, and sage advice that will help you survive whatever your next project throws at you. Creating Motion Graphics 4th Edition has been heavily revised, reuniting the previous two volumes plus adding detailed coverage of new features introduced in After Effects 7 and CS3 Professional to form one massive, essential reference. The enclosed DVD-ROM contains source footage and project files for the numerous exercises which help reinforce each concept. The DVD also includes over 180 pages of additional information, including lengthy Bonus Chapters on Expressions and Effects. Authored in CS3, a free web chapter written for CS4 is included with the book.

Audience
motion graphics artists, postproduction professionals and students

Contents
Creating a Composition, Basic Animation, The Anchor Point, Advanced Animation, The Layer Essentials, Trimming, Motion Blur, Blending Modes, All About Masking, All About Track Mattes, Stencils and the 'T', 3D Space, Cameras, Lighting in 3D, Parenting Skills, Nesting Compositions, Precomposing, Collapsing Transformations, Textacy, Applying and Using Effects, Effects Roundup, Compound Effects, Presets & Variations, Color Management, Keying, Frame Rate Manipulation, Motion Stabilization, Motion Tracking, Paint and Clone, Vector Paint, Working with Audio, Express Yourself, Import and Interpret, Integration 101, Integration with 3D Applications, Video Issues, Rendering Queue, Advanced Rendering, Prerendering and Proxies

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 704 pages, publication date: OCT-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-81010-2
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS

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