Lynda.COM After Effects CS5 Essential Training

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Introduction
Introduction           01:30     8.2 MB
What is After Effects?           03:12     13.8 MB
How to use the exercise files           00:58     0.9 MB
28:14 2. Introductory Project
After Effects workflow overview           02:18     3.9 MB
Bringing elements into After Effects           02:23     2.6 MB
Adding elements to the Timeline           01:57     2.1 MB
Working with layers           03:45     4.4 MB
Creating animation with presets           03:24     5.2 MB
Applying effects           03:34     5.0 MB
Creating animation without presets           05:38     6.6 MB
Previewing your work           02:46     4.6 MB
Exporting content as a movie file           02:29     3.0 MB
27:20 3. Getting Started with After Effects
Touring the interface           06:02     8.2 MB
How After Effects projects work           04:47     5.1 MB
What is a composition?           04:52     5.1 MB
Tips for adding content to compositions           02:49     3.2 MB
Understanding the properties of video           08:50     9.1 MB
57:08 4. Learning to Animate
Importing an Illustrator file           04:57     6.0 MB
Animation basics           07:12     8.6 MB
Animating opacity           06:40     9.4 MB
Understanding anchor points           04:57     6.7 MB
Animating position           06:08     7.2 MB
Animating rotation           04:41     5.5 MB
Animating scale           07:19     11.0 MB
Using the Puppet tool           07:13     8.5 MB
Copying and pasting keyframes           03:04     4.4 MB
Animation shortcuts           04:57     7.2 MB
09:42 5. Precomposing and Nesting Compositions
Understanding precomposing           06:51     10.3 MB
Navigating through compositions quickly           02:51     3.5 MB
01:12:09 6. The Power of Effects
A showcase of effects           02:34     4.5 MB
Creating a layer for effects           03:01     3.3 MB
Applying effects           04:54     5.5 MB
Animating effect properties           04:29     5.8 MB
Using Glow           05:34     7.3 MB
Creating patterns and textures           06:57     12.5 MB
Creating a fireball           07:09     8.4 MB
Using the Cycore effects           05:58     10.3 MB
Adding blur           05:45     7.7 MB
Creating a galaxy scene from scratch           08:38     13.9 MB
Distorting objects with effects           04:07     4.8 MB
Creating and using lens flares           04:21     5.7 MB
Creating lightning bolts           04:03     5.5 MB
Viewing random variations with Brainstorm           04:39     6.3 MB
30:52 7. Working with Video
Shortening the duration of layers           04:23     4.7 MB
Trimming in the Footage panel           04:14     6.1 MB
Slowing and accelerating video speed           07:09     11.2 MB
Applying video transitions between clips           06:07     9.6 MB
Working with image sequences           04:47     5.1 MB
Importing footage with an alpha channel           04:12     4.5 MB
36:11 8. Color-Correcting Footage
Brightening dark footage           09:12     11.2 MB
Changing colors in footage           06:34     8.3 MB
Creating cinematic color treatments           08:17     11.2 MB
Creating a quick vignette           03:42     4.4 MB
Colorizing black-and-white objects           04:50     8.2 MB
Using adjustment layers           03:36     4.1 MB
21:09 9. Creating and Animating Text
Creating and editing text           07:39     9.1 MB
Applying text animation presets           04:41     7.3 MB
Animating text manually           04:43     5.6 MB
Applying layer styles to text           04:06     4.9 MB
28:58 10. Becoming More Efficient
Let's get better           00:37     6.9 MB
Using work areas           03:37     5.1 MB
Creating markers           06:17     7.7 MB
Replacing layers           02:35     3.5 MB
Mastering Timeline navigation           03:18     3.7 MB
Aligning and distributing layers           03:04     3.4 MB
Selecting layers quickly           01:56     2.3 MB
Cropping layers           03:43     4.6 MB
Adjusting comp resolution           03:51     4.8 MB
23:53 11. Painting
Using the paint tools           09:35     12.0 MB
Using the Roto Brush tool           09:25     12.7 MB
Animating growing vines           04:53     5.6 MB
40:29 12. Working with Masks and Shape Layers
Creating and using masks           06:42     8.6 MB
Exploring mask options           07:57     11.6 MB
Creating masks with Auto-trace           06:51     8.1 MB
Masking objects with other objects           05:33     15.9 MB
Making shape layers           03:43     4.7 MB
Modifying shape layers           09:43     14.1 MB
30:44 13. Working in 3D
Turning 2D layers into 3D layers           09:22     11.2 MB
Creating lights and cameras           06:14     8.3 MB
Creating shadows           04:23     5.7 MB
Using depth of field           04:42     6.1 MB
Working with 3D effects           06:03     11.6 MB
18:10 14. Keying and Compositing
Removing a green screen background           04:37     5.3 MB
Refining the matte           04:48     5.6 MB
Compositing with color adjustments           04:50     5.2 MB
Compositing with blend modes           03:55     7.4 MB
25:44 15. Intermediate Animation
Understanding spatial interpolation           02:05     2.4 MB
Creating and adjusting motion paths           03:55     4.9 MB
Orienting moving objects along a path           01:29     2.0 MB
Drawing motion with Motion Sketch           02:51     3.5 MB
Creating pauses in animation           03:06     3.6 MB
Understanding temporal interpolation           01:56     2.4 MB
Easing keyframes           05:57     8.3 MB
About the Graph Editor           04:25     5.0 MB
17:52 16. Stabilizing and Tracking Motion
Stabilizing shaky footage           07:46     11.3 MB
Tracking the motion in footage           04:27     6.5 MB
Tracking with mocha           05:39     7.0 MB
24:58 17. Parenting and Expressions
Setting up parent layers           05:49     7.2 MB
Working with null objects           02:31     4.6 MB
What are expressions?           07:17     9.4 MB
Modifying simple expressions           02:20     3.5 MB
Using the wiggle expression           07:01     12.7 MB
06:52 18. Working with Audio
Understanding audio in motion graphics           01:22     1.7 MB
Previewing and mixing audio           03:55     4.4 MB
Enhancing audio tracks with effects           01:35     1.7 MB
11:36 19. Rendering and Compression
Adding comps to the Render Queue           02:30     3.1 MB
Exploring key Render Queue settings           04:11     4.4 MB
How should I export my video?           04:55     5.2 MB
07:16 20. Integration
Using Photoshop with After Effects           02:10     3.1 MB
Using Illustrator with After Effects           03:02     4.2 MB
Using Flash with After Effects           02:04     2.2 MB
00:11 Conclusion
Goodbye           00:11     0.1 MB