After Effects 5.5 Film and Video Compositing Storm

Author: Qian Yi
Publisher: Beijing Kehai Electronic Publishing House
Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This set of teaching materials is an authoritative learning guide for the widely used video compositing software Adobe After Effects 5.5. It comprehensively covers the basic functions and advanced production techniques of After Effects, including over 60 professional video title and advertisement effects. The examples involve text effects, transition masks, layer masks, 3D layers, lighting and cameras, expressions, slow and fast motion, vector drawing, dynamic clouds, grid deformation, displacement map deformation, water wave effects, bokeh effects, radio wave effects, foam effects, particle effects, electronic text, glowing text, fire, fractal noise effects, and picture color correction, among others. It also provides perfect solutions for key technologies in post-production compositing, such as scene and pixel aspect ratio. Additionally, it teaches advanced integrated application techniques that seamlessly combine with various 2D, nonlinear, and 3D animation software, including layered rendering and Z-channel compositing, thereby bridging the application channels between major software platforms.