Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release), First Edition

Select the Move tool in the Tools icon palette. Drag the green arrow (the y axis) down until the Y value for Position in the ...

The text looks pretty good, but its angle isn’t right. You’ll fix that next. 7. Return to Cinema 4D Lite. 8. Select the Rotate t ...

The Software option uses a faster renderer that doesn’t include all the features of the file. The Standard (Final) option render ...

addition, the layer takes on new properties that are unique to 3D layers, such as the Materials Options property group. 2 The ap ...

13 Working with the 3D Camera Tracker Lesson overview In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following: Track footage using ...

PROJECT: TV AD The 3D Camera Tracker effect analyzes two- dimensional footage to create a virtual 3D camera that matches the ori ...

Shoreline.mov In the Sample_Movies folder: Lesson13.avi, Lesson13.mov 2. Open and play the Lesson13.avi sample movie in Windows ...

The camera moves around a beach scene, with a close-up of some scurrying crabs before it zooms back out to a shot of the ocean a ...

Depending on your system, this may take a while. After Effects opens the Effect Controls panel and displays its progress as it a ...

Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text You have a 3D scene, but it needs a 3D camera. You’ll add a camera when ...

After Effects displays a large text item lying flat in the Composition panel. It also adds two layers to the Timeline panel: Tex ...

If you selected a different target for your ground plane, you may need to use different values. Instead of entering values, you ...

12. Click the stopwatch icon ( ) to create an initial keyframe for the Position property. 13. Go to 2:03. Change the Position pr ...

Select the Text layer in the Timeline panel, and press the R key to reveal the Rotation values. Then change the Orientation va ...

Hide the properties for the layer. If you used the Hand tool to reposition the image, move it back now. Then select the Select ...

The text is in position, but you want it to appear suddenly on the screen. You’ll trim the layers to stagger their appearance. 1 ...

Adjusting the camera’s depth of field You can make the computer-generated elements more closely match the source footage if you ...

After Effects displays the Quote1.psd image where you created a solid layer. 8. Use the Selection and Rotation tools to position ...

16. Choose File > Save to save your work so far. Tidying the composition You’ve done some complex work to create a scene that ...

2. Find a plane that is relatively flat on a rock, right-click the target, and choose Create Solid. 3. Right-click or Control-cl ...