Motion graphics is the animating of digital images to create new looks, sophisticated special effects, network logos and film-style title sequences. Adobe After Effects is the leading software application for creating motion graphics. After Effects is a dual-platform program used by major production departments and art houses, and taught in graphics design classes. Volume 2 focuses on how After Effects integrates with other programs vital to the motion graphics work-flow and technical details of preparing files for broadcast. It includes targeted chapters on subjects such as alpha channels, working with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, type effects, keyframe assistants, expressions, audio, keying, time remapping, motion tracking and stabilization, integrating with non-linear editing systems and 3D applications, web graphics, interlaced video, 3:2 pulldown, luminance and IRE issues, working with NTSC, PAL, Widescreen, and HiDef video, film issues, and advanced rendering techniques. It also addresses functionality exclusively available in the Production Bundle of After Effects and popular plug-ins including Vector Paint and Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator.
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"I can't think of anyone more qualified to show you how to get the most out of After Effects than Trish and Chris Meyer." --Steve Kilisky, Senior Product Manager, Adobe After Effects
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Trish and Chris Meyer are the creative forces behind CyberMotion, an award-winning motion graphics studio in Los Angeles. They both teach at the American Film Institute in Hollywood, host motion graphics user groups and write the Motion Graphics column for DV magazine.Trish and Chris Meyer are the creative forces behind CyberMotion, an award-winning motion graphics studio in Los Angeles. They both teach at the American Film Institute in Hollywood, host motion graphics user groups and write the Motion Graphics column for DV magazine.
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Trish and Chris Meyer have done an outstanding job on the entire series of Creating Motion Graphics. Learning graphics software from instructional books is an unappealing task, and through painful experience, I have learned that most are not worth the paper they are printed on. This series is a stunning exception to that rule. The style is thorough yet straightforward, building skills progressively from chapter to chapter, tutorial to tutorial. All three books in the series are packed with demonstrations of all the technical aspects covered, and each example builds upon what has been covered in previous chapters and tutorials, allowing you to absorb and integrate the techniques through experience using them.
By Dave Joly
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I have both of the Meyer's previous books on AE because they are the gold standard in useful AE information. I've learned more practical and applicable info from those books than any other AE source, and their stucture and info layout is head and shoulders above 99% of most of the other graphics related software books I've bought over the years.
I come to AE with an illustration and Flash animation background, so I was a newbie to the world of desktop digital video production for broadcast. The Meyer's have cleared up a world of questions that have cropped up along the way.
But, on to the specific reason for my glowing assesment of this new title:
I needed to composite an animated character, created in Flash, within an AE comp. My problem was that, after following Macromedia's instructions for exporting the animation with an alpha channel, every tiime I brought it in to AE, the alpha would not work, leaving me with an un-wanted background color. I searched high and low through the Flash documentation, the web, even posted my question on Macromedia's Flash User-to-User forum, but no one was able to answer this question.
Enter Creating Motion Graphics, Volume 2.
The complete problem and solution (setting the background color of the Flash movie to a transparent color - THEN exporting as video) is explained in clear and concise detail on pgs. 276-277.
If I had any hair left, the Meyer's would have once again saved me from pulling it all out.
When I find solutions to Flash problems in a book for AE, that even the Macromedia user-forums don't touch, I take it as a pretty strong indicator these folks know what's important, and why.
Of course, this doesn't even touch on the value of the other 398 pages (I just got the book and haven't had time to really read in depth yet), but you get the idea.
Buy the book. Period. And invest in the other two - if you're interested enough in this stuff to lay out the $$ for AE, you'll get a BIG return on your investment in all 3 books.
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I found the "editorial reviews" to be a little bit biased given they also contributed to either the book itself, another book by the same authors, or have collaborated with the authors. That being said, Chris and Trish Meyer are two of the most influential Motion Graphics trainers in the industry. They know their stuff and are open to feedback, comments and the like. For example, Chris and I recently corresponded regarding the Volume One book. He was really responsive, professional and considerate. You can't beat that kind of value.
This book picks up where the first left off. I call it, more of the essential skills you need to be a professional After Effects motion graphics producer. This book is for BEGINNERS. Anyone with little to moderate experience might find Volumes One and Two to be a bit beneath them. The way I look at it, Chris and Trish are just being thorough. They have several books out that address the entire motion graphics production creative and technical process. This book falls in between Volume One and After Effects in Production.
This book picks up where the first left off. I call it, more of the essential skills you need to be a professional After Effects motion graphics producer. This book is for BEGINNERS. Anyone with little to moderate experience might find Volumes One and Two to be a bit beneath them. The way I look at it, Chris and Trish are just being thorough. They have several books out that address the entire motion graphics production creative and technical process. This book falls in between Volume One and After Effects in Production.
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