Adobe After Effects 7 Hands-On Training [Paperback]

Chad Fahs (Author), Lynda Weinman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0321397754 | ISBN-13: 978-0321397751 | Publication Date: September 4, 2006

Learn Adobe After Effects 7.0 with hands-on exercises and demo movies.

Do you like to learn by doing? Do manuals leave you bored and craving real-world examples? Do you want concrete training that goes beyond theory and reference materials? If so, this is the book for you.

These hands-on exercises, complete with insider tips and detailed color illustrations, teach you the latest techniques for creating motion graphics and special effects for film, video, and the Web. You'll learn to animate text and images, integrate sound, and publish the results to a variety of formats. You'll also learn to use the new project management enhancements, how to fine-tune animations, use animation blending and freeze frame options, convert alpha channels to masks with Auto-Trace, use the new Script Editor, and more.

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About the Author

Lynda Weinman is an author, instructor, and designer who specializes in Web design, graphics and animation. She has taught digital arts at numerous seminars and colleges, including Art Center College of Design. Lynda also developed and produced the After Effects West Conference, a Conference dedicated soley to the After Effects community. Lynda Weinman is the originator of the Hands-On Training series. She personally develops each book with carefully selected instructors who are experts in their fields. It is Lynda's belief that people learn from doing and that too few books offer tutorials that walk students through a progressive learning process.

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press (September 4, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321397754
• ISBN-13: 978-0321397751
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.9 x 9.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #304,194 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars After Effects 7 Hands-On Training is just that!, July 4, 2007

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N. E. Wyllie - See all my reviews
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As an educator who teaches Digital Imaging on the college level, I have become familiar with hundreds of training texts through the years. This book is excellent in that, unlike so many others, it starts at the beginning. I am not entirely sure why training books and digital courses so often pick up somewhere near the middle when we are all trying to encourage others to surrender to the digital age.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Beginner Book for After Effects 7, June 24, 2007

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Richard Eltzroth (Cotopaxi, Colorado United States) - See all my reviews
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After completing 3 books on Adobe After Effects 7, I think I have a fairly good view of the types of instruction books that are available. "Classroom in a Book" by Adobe, this one by Fahs & Weinman, and "Creative After Effects 7" by Taylor.
My earlier rating of "Classroom in a Book" should probably have been at least 4 stars since it's the best of the 3 (for beginners) that I've read.
This one by Fahs & Weinman is straight forward and easy to follow, but isn't quite detailed enough in comparison to the "Classroom" book.
The book by Taylor mentioned above is so filled with typos that it's virtually unreadable and that's why I rated it poor and is definitely the worst of these 3.
After Effects is a very complicated video software effects program and has a steep learning curve on par with the still image processing program Photoshop. The more time you spend with it and the more instruction you can get, the better.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best for beginners, May 12, 2007

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schnoggi - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe After Effects 7 Hands-On Training (Paperback)

when you are done with this book, wade into the massive haphazard stew that is the Meyers books. Start with this one though, it starts at the beginning, tells you what you need to know when you need to know it, breaks it down just right. AE is a fairly vast program, and it's easy to become overwhelmed and discouraged, so getting the right book can be the difference between sticking with it or not.