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Book Description

0321499794 978-0321499790 August 3, 2007 1
Visual effects and motion graphics pros of all stripes--from broadcast professionals to VFX supervisors to Web designers who need to produce occasional video segments--will welcome the dramatically accelerated features provided in the brand-new After Effects CS3 This best-selling book has been revised to cover all that's new in this upgrade: Shape layers, which enables users to easily create and animate shapes; Puppet tool, which you can use to animate a 2D image like a marionette; powerful integration with Photoshop CS3; new support for Flash designers; the new Brainstorm panel, which lets you preview an array of different visual possibilities in one gorgeous panel; complete color management workflow; Adobe Clip Notes, which lets you attach comments directly to a composition; Adobe Device Central CS3, which lets you preview and test animations for mobile devices, and more. Designed around a single complex project that's broken down into manageable lessons, this book-and-DVD package mimics a real-world workflow--but one that readers tackle at their own pace. The DVD contains all the lesson files and footage readers need to complete the lessons.


Educational instructor notes—created to help teachers plan, organize, and time their lessons—are available for this book (and for other Classroom in a Book titles) at www.peachpit.com/instructorresources.


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  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Adobe Press; 1 edition (August 3, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321499794
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321499790
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #270,513 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not Bad, October 15, 2007
This review is from: Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book (Paperback)
I have only begun working on the 1st 2 lessons. I have done the 1st one several times. It isn't that the book doens't have good information its just that it is often difficult to follow exactly what the writers are telling you to do. The lessons themselves are pretty basic and helpful. I just wish they could be a bit more specific so that I am not having to figure out what layers or project selection I am supposed to make. I have had the same problem with both lesson 1 and 2. I think a DVD lesson would have been better so that there would have been nothing left out of the details. Once you figure out what the writer wants you to select, the book isn't bad.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Neither comprehensive nor for beginners, May 25, 2008
This review is from: Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book (Paperback)
I am totally unfamiliar with Adobe After Effects and based upon the title and experience with other Adobe Classroom in a Book titles, thought this would bring me gently into the After Effects universe.

Wrong. Totally wrong.

Rather than provide an overview of what After Effects does or is capable of, the book states "Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional provides a comprehensive set of 2D and 3D tools for compositing, animation and effects that motion-graphics professionals, visual effects artists, web designers and film and video professionals need. After Effects is widely used for digital post-production of film, video, DVD, and the web. You can compositer layers in various ways, apply and combine sophisticated visual and audio effects, and animate both objects and effects." That's it. That's the whole introduction to After Effects. Hardly illuminating and certainly not helpful to the neophyte.

The authors promises to teach the newcomer fundamental concepts and features - and it dispenses with that mission in a few inadequate pages.

Then it is on to learning the new features of After Effects CS3, which is what this book is all about.

But even that is not done well. Take for example these informative sentences: "You can pucker a shape by pulling the path's vertices inward while curving segments outward." There are no explanatory illustrations.

The lessons are nothing more than instruction lists with little explanation of what you are doing or why. The back cover declares "The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional". I don't think so. Not by a long shot.

Overall, a disappointment and not the way for a beginner to learn about the capabilities of After Effects.

Jerry
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars not for reference or help, just good for following their lessons, October 6, 2008
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I had to buy this book for school.It's full of lessons you follow along with, using art and graphics provided on a CD. As far as reference or help with your own projects, forget it. Your better off googling your question. If following along is all you need then, it's a nice book. The puppet stuff is OK. That helped a bit in learing it.
I had a question about nesting, they said it was pg 19. They just tell you what it is, not how to do it. ( Creativecow.com had a video explaining it)
I would not recommend this book.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
color difference key, shape layer, advanced editing techniques, render settings, window contents, composition settings, final comp, click the fill color, corner pin, magnification ratio, mask path, blending mode, photo filter, compression settings, web video, select the artwork, search size, work area end bracket, text animator groups, track matte layer, full skyline, animation presets, footage items, animator properties, click the stopwatch icon
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
After Effects, Source Name, Layer Name, Effect Controls, Choose File, Press the Home, Adobe Bridge, Orange Dot, Anchor Point, Tracker Controls, Output Module, Window Lit, Time Remap, Material Options, Time Controls, Review Review, Pixel Aspect Ratio, Graph Editor, Multimedia Presentation, Import File, Flare Brightness, Pond Title Sequence, Using the Selection, Change the Position, Lens Flare
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