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Page 1: ...ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS Help and tutorials...

Page 2: ...What s New...

Page 3: ...ources Video tutorial series After Effects CS6 New features workshop Video tutorial New features workshop Overview of new and changed features in After Effects CS6 Blog What s new and changed in After...

Page 4: ...erer you can curve 3D footage and nested compositions around a vertical axis using controls in Geometry Options Curvature The amount of bend as a percentage Segments The smoothness the bend Resources...

Page 5: ...l reTooled net Bounding boxes Vector art footage to shape conversion Vector art footage to shape conversion creates shape layers from any vector art footage layer You can even modify vector based Illu...

Page 6: ...called ARRIRAW Resources File formats supported for import MXF OP1a video codec support There is export support for additional video codecs in an MXF OP1a wrapper AVC Intra Class 50 720 AVC Intra Cla...

Page 7: ...Effects CS6 plus new scripting guide Miscellaneous changes Miscellaneous changes in After Effects CS6 are described in Help documentation and are compiled on the After Effects Region of Interest blog...

Page 8: ...n After Effects CS5 5 For the tutorials see this Adobe TV video series New and changed features in After Effects CS4 CS5 and CS5 5 collected by Chris and Trish Meyer on the ProVideo Coalition website...

Page 9: ...hanged in Adobe Media Encoder CS5 For details of new and changed features in After Effects CS4 see the After Effects CS4 Help document Top new features in After Effects CS5 64 bit After Effects CS5 ap...

Page 10: ...to open the source file in the media player assigned for that file type by the operating system Press Enter on the numeric keypad to open selected footage items in a Footage viewer The behavior in pr...

Page 11: ...es for motion paths and some effect control points General preferences Selecting vertices direction handles and effect control points is easier Instead of needing to click directly on the point you ca...

Page 12: ...MP metadata Include Source XMP Metadata option is off by default in all output module templates Exporting XMP metadata from After Effects After Effects writes startTimecode and altTimecode values into...

Page 13: ...dule settings Removed Edit Edit In Adobe Audition command Edit audio in Adobe Soundbooth Keyboard shortcuts and miscellaneous user interface changes To mitigate the problem of some new Apple keyboards...

Page 14: ...Support to After Effects Support Center After Effects Support Center on the Adobe website In Composition panel changed Show Last Snapshot to Show Snapshot Snapshots In Mask Interpolation panel changed...

Page 15: ...S6 what s new and changed Apr 12 2012 After Effects CS6 video tutorials video tutorial Aug 14 2012 Video tutorials for After Effects CS6 After Effects CS6 New Features Workshop video tutorial Apr 12 2...

Page 16: ...Create a simple movie HTML 5 10 minutes to complete Classroom Basic Compositing and animation in After Effects Free sample video tutorials from After Effects CS5 Learn By Video Getting Started with A...

Page 17: ...ources HTML Color correction and color management Resources for color correction color grading and color adjustment HTML Color management overview and resources HTML New RED color science and how to m...

Page 18: ...xample if you want an image to fill your composition frame configure the image in Adobe Photoshop so that the image size and pixel aspect ratio match the composition size and pixel aspect ratio If the...

Page 19: ...lly you ll have three drives one for source footage files one from which the application runs and one for rendered output For more information see Improve performance and Memory Multiprocessing prefer...

Page 20: ...m projects it s best if the full paths have the same names on Mac OS and Windows systems If the footage and the project are on different volumes make sure that the appropriate volume is mounted before...

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Page 22: ...itations of the trial version for After Effects CS5 5 see the Adobe website Limitations of the trial version for Adobe After Effects CS5 The free trial version of Adobe After Effects CS5 software does...

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Page 24: ...y of a layer such as size position and opacity You can make any combination of layer properties change over time using keyframes and expressions Use motion tracking to stabilize motion or to animate o...

Page 25: ...log box by entering 5 00 5 seconds choose Web Video from the Preset menu and click OK 3 Create a new text layer Choose Layer New Text Press Ctrl Alt Shift T Windows or Command Option Shift T Mac OS 4...

Page 26: ...ick Save For the location choose something easy to find like your desktop 14 Click the Render button to process all items in the render queue The Render Queue panel shows the progress of the rendering...

Page 27: ...Workspace and workflow...

Page 28: ...itations of the trial version for After Effects CS5 5 see the Adobe website Limitations of the trial version for Adobe After Effects CS5 The free trial version of Adobe After Effects CS5 software does...

Page 29: ...Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy...

Page 30: ...y of a layer such as size position and opacity You can make any combination of layer properties change over time using keyframes and expressions Use motion tracking to stabilize motion or to animate o...

Page 31: ...log box by entering 5 00 5 seconds choose Web Video from the Preset menu and click OK 3 Create a new text layer Choose Layer New Text Press Ctrl Alt Shift T Windows or Command Option Shift T Mac OS 4...

Page 32: ...ick Save For the location choose something easy to find like your desktop 14 Click the Render button to process all items in the render queue The Render Queue panel shows the progress of the rendering...

Page 33: ...xample if you want an image to fill your composition frame configure the image in Adobe Photoshop so that the image size and pixel aspect ratio match the composition size and pixel aspect ratio If the...

Page 34: ...lly you ll have three drives one for source footage files one from which the application runs and one for rendered output For more information see Improve performance and Memory Multiprocessing prefer...

Page 35: ...m projects it s best if the full paths have the same names on Mac OS and Windows systems If the footage and the project are on different volumes make sure that the appropriate volume is mounted before...

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Page 37: ...n be automated from one frame to another For example you can use the motion tracking features of After Effects to track the motion of a microphone boom and then automatically apply that same motion to...

Page 38: ...do video and animation work in Photoshop in RGB If relevant for your final output it is better to ensure that the colors in your image are broadcast safe in Photoshop before you import the image into...

Page 39: ...for run time control of animation After Effects is oriented toward video and film production provides a wide range of visual effects and is generally used to create video files as final output Both ap...

Page 40: ...namically linked sequence appears as a footage item in After Effects Start After Effects from within Premiere Pro and create a new composition with settings that match the settings of your Premiere Pr...

Page 41: ...fects add it to the composition and mute the original audio in the audio video clip by deselecting the Audio switch in the Timeline panel Note Any effects applied to audio in After Effects aren t incl...

Page 42: ...Importing from Adobe After Effects Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy...

Page 43: ...n based on those clips The new composition inherits the sequence settings from Adobe Premiere Pro 1 In a sequence select the clips you want in the composition 2 Right click any of the selected clips 3...

Page 44: ...ion or clip You can delete a linked composition from an Encore project if the composition isn t used in the project You can delete a linked composition from an Adobe Premiere Pro project at any time e...

Page 45: ...osition with the rendered file If you commonly work with complex source compositions try adding RAM or a faster processor Note A linked After Effects composition will not support Render Multiple Frame...

Page 46: ...Grouped panels C Individual panel To increase the available screen space use multiple monitors When you work with multiple monitors the application window appears on the main monitor and you place flo...

Page 47: ...ration doesn t match it uses the current local workspace Reset a workspace Reset the current workspace to return to its original saved layout of panels Choose Window Workspace Reset workspace name Del...

Page 48: ...o move an individual panel drag the gripper area in the upper left corner of a panel s tab onto the desired drop zone Drag panel gripper to move one panel To move an entire group drag the group grippe...

Page 49: ...e divider are resized 1 Do either of the following To resize either horizontally or vertically position the pointer between two panel groups The pointer becomes a double arrow To resize in both direct...

Page 50: ...u or click the Toggle Viewer Lock button To lock the current viewer split the current frame and create a new viewer of the same type in the new frame press Ctrl Alt Shift N Windows or Command Option S...

Page 51: ...lick the panel button if available For example clicking this button when a paint tool is active opens or closes the Paint and Brushes panels Select the Auto Open Panels option in the Tools panel to au...

Page 52: ...f the property that determines the amount for a blur effect is Amount sometimes it is Blurriness and sometimes it is Blur Radius If you search for Amount Blurriness Radius then you will see the equiva...

Page 53: ...do as many as 99 of the most recent changes made to the project depending on the Levels Of Undo setting Edit Preferences General Windows or After Effects Preferences General Mac OS The default is 32 T...

Page 54: ...g keyboard shortcuts General keyboard shortcuts Result Windows Mac OS Select all Ctrl A Command A Deselect all F2 or Ctrl Shift A F2 or Command Shift A Rename selected layer composition folder effect...

Page 55: ...Open Project Settings dialog box Click bit depth button at bottom of Project panel Click bit depth button at bottom of Project panel Preferences keyboard shortcuts Result Windows Mac OS Open Preferenc...

Page 56: ...the screen Ctrl backslash Command backslash Move application window or floating window to main monitor resize window to fit screen Press again to resize window so that contents fill the screen Ctrl Al...

Page 57: ...n tools Pen Add Vertex Delete Vertex and Convert Vertex CS5 5 and earlier G G Activate and cycle between the Pen and Mask Feather tools CS6 G G Temporarily activate Selection tool when a pen tool is s...

Page 58: ...em in time ruler keyframe layer marker work area beginning or end Note Also goes to beginning end or base frame of Roto Brush span if viewing Roto Brush in Layer panel J or K J or K Go to beginning of...

Page 59: ...ag current time indicator RAM preview number of frames specified by Alternate RAM Preview preference defaults to 5 Alt 0 on numeric keypad Option 0 on numeric keypad or Control Option 0 zero on main k...

Page 60: ...n main keyboard Zoom out time hyphen on main keyboard hyphen on main keyboard Zoom in Timeline panel to single frame units Press again to zoom out to show entire composition duration semicolon semicol...

Page 61: ...rl H Command H Reload selected footage items Ctrl Alt L Command Option L Set proxy for selected footage item Ctrl Alt P Command Option P Effects and animation presets keyboard shortcuts Result Windows...

Page 62: ...n Effect Controls panel for selected layers Ctrl Shift T Command Shift T Open layer in Layer panel opens source composition for precomposition layer in Composition panel Double click a layer Double cl...

Page 63: ...Timeline panel Ctrl F Command F Toggle expansion of selected layers to show all properties Ctrl accent grave Command accent grave Toggle expansion of property group and all child property groups to sh...

Page 64: ...difying layer properties keyboard shortcuts Result Windows Mac OS Modify property value by default increments Drag property value Drag property value Modify property value by 10x default increments Sh...

Page 65: ...hift plus or Option Shift plus on numeric keypad Decrease Scale of selected layers by 10 Ctrl Shift minus or Alt Shift minus on numeric keypad Command Shift minus or Option Shift minus on numeric keyp...

Page 66: ...nd Option A Deselect all keyframes properties and property groups Shift F2 or Ctrl Alt Shift A Shift F2 or Command Option Shift A Move keyframe 1 frame later or earlier Alt Right Arrow or Alt Left Arr...

Page 67: ...Home or End Select all text on a layer Double click text layer Double click text layer Select text from insertion point to beginning or end of text frame Ctrl Shift Home or Ctrl Shift End Command Shi...

Page 68: ...own Arrow or Ctrl Alt Shift Up Arrow Command Option Shift Down Arrow or Command Option Shift Up Arrow Decrease or increase kerning or tracking 20 units 20 1000 ems Alt Left Arrow or Alt Right Arrow Op...

Page 69: ...Stroke Only option Ctrl Shift Command Shift Show and move overlay change Offset value of aligned Clone Stamp tool or change Source Position value of unaligned Clone Stamp tool Alt Shift drag with Clo...

Page 70: ...hen dragging to create shape Left Arrow when dragging to create shape Set rounded rectangle roundness to maximum increase polygon and star outer roundness Right Arrow when dragging to create shape Rig...

Page 71: ...key Option Shift arrow key Saving exporting and rendering keyboard shortcuts Result Windows Mac OS Save project Ctrl S Command S Increment and save project Ctrl Alt Shift S Command Option Shift S Sav...

Page 72: ...tion on remapping keyboard shortcuts for keyboard layouts other than the standard US English layout see Jonas Hummelstrand s website For a reference of keyboard shortcuts see Keyboard shortcuts refere...

Page 73: ...s in Explorer button Windows Click the Reveal Preferences in Finder button Mac OS Clicking the button opens the folder containing the After Effects preference files Note You shouldn t need to modify t...

Page 74: ...e dialog box is available for checking on texture memory for your GPU and to set the ray tracing preference to the GPU if it is available The OptiX version number is available as well as Copy button t...

Page 75: ...ffects Video Preview preferences Preview on an external video monitor Appearance preferences Use Label Color For Layer Handles And Paths and Use Label Color For Related Tabs Color labels for layers co...

Page 76: ...Projects and compositions...

Page 77: ...omatically from the names of source files and solid color names are not exposed in string elements Some strings such as workspace and view names are exposed as human readable strings but modifications...

Page 78: ...al consequence is leaving open with unsaved changes for a long enough period that eventually all of the auto save versions will be identical For example when auto save is set to save every 10 minutes...

Page 79: ...dio switch for those items is deselected in the Timeline panel Black or light gray lines indicate that the switch is selected depending on the Brightness setting in the Appearance preferences To open...

Page 80: ...nels See Timeline panel To change time display units choose File Project Settings and choose from the options in the Display Style section Change time display units in After Effects CS5 5 and later To...

Page 81: ...if the item has source timecode If there is no timecode value counting begins with zero Timecode Conversion causes After Effects to behave as it has in previous versions where the frame count and the...

Page 82: ...anually The Composition panel contains the composition frame and a pasteboard area outside the frame that you can use to move layers into and out of the composition frame The offstage extents of layer...

Page 83: ...ing frame size width and height and pixel aspect ratio are automatically set to match the characteristics of the footage item Create a single composition from multiple footage items 1 Select footage i...

Page 84: ...el are rendered first and in the case of 2D image layers appear farthest back in the Composition panel and in the final composite To cycle forward through Timeline panels press Alt Shift period Window...

Page 85: ...Use the color swatch or eyedropper to pick a composition background color See Select a color or edit a gradient note When you add one composition to another nesting the background color of the contai...

Page 86: ...n blur Depth of field calculations in Ray traced 3D are more accurate than they are in Classic 3D and previously in Advanced 3D Click an arrow button to anchor layers to a corner or edge of the compos...

Page 87: ...the same time period Reuse anything you build You can build an animation in its own composition and then drag that composition into other compositions as many times as you want Update in one step When...

Page 88: ...e size of the new composition is the same as the size of the selected layer This option is not available when you select more than one layer a text layer or a shape layer Move All Attributes Into The...

Page 89: ...tion the multiple instances of the nested composition appear as one entry with a number in parentheses indicating the number of instances To open the Composition Mini Flowchart do one of the following...

Page 90: ...layer pre compose the layer with the mask applied and then apply the effect to the pre composed layer See About precomposing and nesting Collapsing transformations If the Collapse Transformations swi...

Page 91: ...ailed visual demonstration of the render order and how to work with and around it Chris and Trish Meyer explain collapsing transformations and continuous rasterization in this article on the ProVideo...

Page 92: ...Importing footage...

Page 93: ...video entire upper field odd numbered lines is drawn to screen first from top to bottom in one pass B Next entire lower field even numbered lines is drawn to screen from top to bottom in one pass C Fo...

Page 94: ...ield order The field order for an interlaced video footage item determines the order in which the two video fields upper and lower are displayed A system that draws the upper lines before the lower li...

Page 95: ...film so that effects you add in After Effects synchronize perfectly with the original frame rate of film Removing 3 2 pulldown reduces the frame rate by 1 5 from 30 to 24 fps or from 29 97 to 23 976...

Page 96: ...file shot is designed to be treated as a single clip or footage item in a video editing application For After Effects to automatically import a group of spanned clips simultaneously and assemble them...

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Page 98: ...Lloyd Alvarez provides a script on the After Effects Scripts website with which you can search an After Effects project and replace the file paths for the sources of footage items This is convenient...

Page 99: ...pplied to the alpha channel and it may become misaligned with the color channels When you edit a still image sequence selected in the Timeline or Composition panel the individual image that is current...

Page 100: ...empty box indicates that the footage item is in use throughout the project though a proxy has been assigned No box indicates that no proxy is assigned to the footage item Proxy items in Project panel...

Page 101: ...settings and click Render Create placeholders for output You can create placeholder files that can be used in different compositions For example you can create a placeholder for an item in the render...

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Page 103: ...r more sequences in it are already dynamically linked to After Effects See Working with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects When you import an Adobe Premiere Pro project After Effects imports it into...

Page 104: ...ce footage item to its Project panel If the layer contains an effect that is also used by Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Premiere Pro converts the effect and all of its settings and keyframes You can also c...

Page 105: ...ter Effects retains the Photoshop layer information You cannot paste Adobe Premiere Pro titles into After Effects but you can paste text with attributes from the Adobe Premiere Titler into After Effec...

Page 106: ...id color layers Video effect properties and keyframes Effect properties and keyframes if the effect also exists in After Effects After Effects doesn t display unsupported effects in the Effect Control...

Page 107: ...or crop a still image in Photoshop before you bring it into After Effects rather than scaling and cropping the image in After Effects It is better to perform an operation once in Photoshop than to fo...

Page 108: ...ion about source files and footage items Audio formats Adobe Sound Document ASND multi track files imported as merged single track Advanced Audio Coding AAC M4A Audio Interchange File Format AIF AIFF...

Page 109: ...rmats are stored in container formats with filename extensions that are not recognized by After Effects examples include vob and mod In some cases you can import these files into After Effects after c...

Page 110: ...menu 2 Do one of the following Select a file and then click Open Ctrl click Windows or Command click Mac OS multiple files to select them and then click Open Click a file and then Shift click another...

Page 111: ...Project panel and do one of the following Click the Interpret Footage button at the bottom of the Project panel Drag the footage item to the Interpret Footage button Choose File Interpret Footage Main...

Page 112: ...sually black or white When After Effects creates FLV files with transparency they are created as premultiplied with black Straight channels retain more accurate color information than premultiplied ch...

Page 113: ...rame rate is 30 fps then each frame of the footage item appears in two successive frames of the composition This assumes of course the simple case in which no time stretching or frame blending has bee...

Page 114: ...the ratio of width to height of the image frame A 4 3 frame aspect ratio left and a wider 16 9 frame aspect ratio right Most computer monitors use square pixels but many video formats including ITU R...

Page 115: ...of 720x480 The pixel aspect ratio setting of the composition should match the pixel aspect ratio of the final output format In most cases you can simply choose a composition settings preset In contra...

Page 116: ...mat pixel dimensions in After Effects CS4 and later previous pixel dimensions NTSC D1 square pixel equivalent 720x534 720x540 NTSC D1 Widescreen square pixel equivalent 872x486 864x486 PAL D1 DV squar...

Page 117: ...phic 2 1 2 0 Footage was shot using an anamorphic film lens or it was anamorphically transferred from a film frame with a 2 1 aspect ratio HDV 1080 DVCPRO HD 720 HD Anamorphic 1080 1 33 Footage has a...

Page 118: ...pixels in Photoshop For video tutorials about using Vanishing Point data from Photoshop in After Effects go to the Adobe website Working with Vanishing Point in Photoshop and After Effects Using Vanis...

Page 119: ...and fnord ProEXR plug ins to use that data in After Effects Chris and Trish Meyer explain how to use data from 3D applications in After Effects in an excerpt from their book Creating Motion Graphics o...

Page 120: ...n which has a filename prefixed by Square is a square pixel composition containing the camera data The second or parent composition is a nonsquare pixel composition that retains the dimensions of the...

Page 121: ...ickering between them See Interlaced video and separating fields and Best practices for creating text and vector graphics for video If final output will be broadcast video make sure that important par...

Page 122: ...the first frame number For example if you start to render on frame 25 the name of the file is 00025 A sequence of still image files left becomes one image sequence when imported into After Effects ri...

Page 123: ...odes opacity visibility transparency alpha channel layer masks layer groups imported as nested compositions adjustment layers layer styles layer clipping paths vector masks image guides and clipping g...

Page 124: ...so that you can import meaningful collections of Photoshop layers as individual layers in After Effects For example if you used 20 layers to create your foreground object and 30 layers to create your...

Page 125: ...eated After Effects can t read blending modes from AI documents saved as a version later than Illustrator CS2 If you need to retain blending mode information when importing a file into After Effects f...

Page 126: ...the Color Management tab of the Interpret Footage dialog box corresponding to the film stock on which the footage was recorded If creating output for film use the same profile as the output color pro...

Page 127: ...Load video actions Content aware scaling Specify crop marks for trimming or aligning Release items to separate layers Camera Raw Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy...

Page 128: ...Layers and properties...

Page 129: ...mposition By default these numbers are visible in the Timeline panel next to the layer name The number corresponds to the position of that layer in the stacking order When the stacking order changes A...

Page 130: ...e items When you create layers from multiple footage items the layers appear in the layer stacking order in the Timeline panel in the order in which they were selected in the Project panel 1 Select on...

Page 131: ...item which becomes the source for the selected layer Adjustment layers When you apply an effect to a layer the effect applies only to that layer and no others However an effect can exist independently...

Page 132: ...ts as a footage item Any changes that you save in Photoshop appear in the footage item in After Effects To create a Photoshop footage item and use it as the source for a new layer in the current compo...

Page 133: ...quickly so that After Effects can recognize them as one number To select the next layer in the stacking order press Ctrl Down Arrow Windows or Command Down Arrow Mac OS To select the previous layer p...

Page 134: ...tion and is therefore measured in the composition space of that composition As you move the pointer over the layer frame in the Layer panel the Info panel displays the coordinates of the pixel under t...

Page 135: ...of this automatic smoothing to gain greater control of spatial animation Working with separate dimensions also makes some simulations easier especially in cases in which the simulated forces acting on...

Page 136: ...the In Out Duration Stretch button in the lower left corner of the Timeline panel The duration In point and Out point for the selected layer are also shown in the Info panel In the Layer panel In and...

Page 137: ...one of the following To remove the section and leave a gap of the same duration as the removed section choose Edit Lift Work Area To remove the section choose Edit Extract Work Area The gap is closed...

Page 138: ...Back Layers to use the transparency of the selected layers otherwise choose Dissolve Front Layer To leave gaps between the layers select Overlap and enter a negative Duration value Copy or duplicate a...

Page 139: ...er who is looking at the road ahead while driving Orient Towards Camera The layer is always oriented so that it faces the active camera This option is available for 3D layers this option is not availa...

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Page 141: ...ers with properties that match a search string or certain other characteristics See Search and filter in the Timeline Project and Effects Presets panels and Showing properties and groups in the Timeli...

Page 142: ...effects on the layer are applied to the composite of the layers below it If the layer is a camera or light the Video switch controls whether the layer is on or off Several components of layers such a...

Page 143: ...y To toggle between hiding and showing all shy layers click to select or deselect the Hide Shy Layers composition switch at the top of the Timeline panel or choose Hide Shy Layers from the Timeline pa...

Page 144: ...e vector graphics in layers based on Illustrator SWF EPS and PDF files Continuously rasterizing causes After Effects to rasterize the file as needed based on the transformation for each frame A contin...

Page 145: ...ick the triangle to the left of the layer name or property group name To expand or collapse a property group and all of its children Ctrl click Windows or Command click Mac OS the triangle To expand o...

Page 146: ...nel To change the units for a property right click Windows or Control click Mac OS the underlined value choose Edit Value and choose from the Units menu The available units are different for different...

Page 147: ...point using the Selection tool in the Layer panel Note Layers of some types such as text layers and shape layers can t be opened in the Layer panel To move a layer anchor point 1 pixel choose Anchor...

Page 148: ...large factor can cause the image to appear blocky or pixelated Adobe Photoshop provides fine control over resampling methods used for scaling of images For fine control of resampling you can export fr...

Page 149: ...en the parenting relationship is removed Note In After Effects CS6 when parenting layers you can use the Shift key to move the child layer to the location of the parent This can be useful when you wan...

Page 150: ...ull object is visually distracting in your composition frame consider dragging it out of the frame onto the pasteboard Andrew Kramer provides a video tutorial on his Video Copilot website that demonst...

Page 151: ...perty group and use Brainstorm to explore the entire space of properties for all shapes on the layer You can use Brainstorm on any property that has numeric values or options in a pop up menu in the T...

Page 152: ...for inclusion in the next Brainstorm operation click Brainstorm at the bottom of the Brainstorm dialog box and return to step 2 If you click Brainstorm without marking any variants for inclusion the B...

Page 153: ...ending modes to achieve a filmic look in this PDF document on the Artbeats website Trish and Chris Meyer explain how to use blending modes layer styles and the Displacement Map effect to make text ble...

Page 154: ...ying color channel value and divides by maximum value for 8 bpc 16 bpc or 32 bpc pixels depending on the color depth of the project The result color is never brighter than the original If either input...

Page 155: ...r is the complement of the underlying color If the source color is black the result color is the underlying color Subtract Subtracts the source color from the underlying color If the source color is b...

Page 156: ...evel Satin Applies interior shading that creates a satiny finish Color Overlay Fills the contents of the layer with a color Gradient Overlay Fills the contents of the layer with a gradient Stroke Outl...

Page 157: ...erty group the opacity of the layer styles is unaffected For example if a text layer has the Drop Shadow layer style applied decreasing the Fill Opacity to 0 makes the text disappear but the drop shad...

Page 158: ...dinate space of the layer or a custom space by selecting an axis mode You can add effects and masks to 3D layers composite 3D layers with 2D layers and create and animate camera and light layers to vi...

Page 159: ...tion Orientation and Material Options properties are removed including all values keyframes and expressions These values cannot be restored by converting the layer back to a 3D layer The Anchor Point...

Page 160: ...he layer around the z axis dragging a left or right center handle turns the layer around the y axis dragging a top or bottom handle turns the layer around the x axis Drag the layer Shift drag to const...

Page 161: ...uding text layers are not affected by effects applied to that layer If you want the shadow to show the results of the effect then precompose the layer with the effect To ensure that the shadow remains...

Page 162: ...attach it to a null layer Use the null layer to manipulate the live Photoshop 3D layer rather than directly manipulating the live Photoshop 3D layer s Transform properties To move selected layers so t...

Page 163: ...eans of the Live Photoshop 3D effect which is a special example of a Comp Camera effect Note After Effects CS6 no longer supports the Live Photoshop 3D effect You can choose to view a composition thro...

Page 164: ...camera focusing effects The depth of field is the distance range within which the image is in focus Images outside the distance range are blurred Focus Distance The distance from the camera to the pl...

Page 165: ...fects Andrew Kramer provides a two part video tutorial on his Video Copilot website that demonstrates basic camera mapping and camera projection In this tutorial he shows how to project an image onto...

Page 166: ...roportionally to the inverse square of the distance away Radius After Effects CS5 5 and later Specifies the radius of falloff from a light Inside this distance the light is a constant light Outside th...

Page 167: ...nified Camera Tool is selected hold the left mouse button Shift dragging with the Unified Camera tool selected temporarily activates the Orbit Camera tool and constrains rotation to one axis Track XY...

Page 168: ...cifies whether a layer casts shadows on other layers The direction and angle of the shadows are determined by the direction and angle of the light sources Set Casts Shadows to Only if you want the lay...

Page 169: ...are Stereo 3D The output stereo 3D composition nests both eye compositions and contains a layer called Stereo 3D Controls This layer contains a Stereo 3D Controls effect for controlling the rig and a...

Page 170: ...rue stereoscopic 3D Stereoscopic 3D tips If you are working with3D stereoscopic footage in the Composition panel and you do not have a 3D television you can work with the anaglyph format Ordinary red...

Page 171: ...Views and previews...

Page 172: ...views keyboard shortcuts Use RAM preview to play video and audio RAM preview allocates RAM to play video and audio in the Timeline Layer or Footage panel at real time speed The number of frames that c...

Page 173: ...ine the final dimensions in pixels of a saved RAM preview If the Resolution setting in the render settings template is Current Settings then the Resolution setting in the Preview panel is used If the...

Page 174: ...when the audio signal exceeds the maximum level that the audio device allows To view the VU meter and levels controls in more detail increase the height of the Audio panel Audio panel A VU meter B Le...

Page 175: ...ific period of time or number of frames click the current time display and then enter the plus sign followed by the timecode or number of frames to advance For example enter 20 to go forward 20 frames...

Page 176: ...turn Draft 3D mode on or off click the Draft 3D button at the top of the Timeline panel Updates images in the Composition or Layer panel during interactions When Live Update is deselected After Effect...

Page 177: ...es the ray tracing quality number of rays fired by the ray tracer to 1 When laying out a complex scene or if you are working in a ray traced 3D composition you can use Fast Draft mode for previewing I...

Page 178: ...nd right R edges of the region from the top left corner of the composition To draw a region of interest click the Region Of Interest button at the bottom of the Composition Layer or Footage panel and...

Page 179: ...connect a digital camcorder or similar device to the port then connect the video monitor to the device For more information on setting up FireWire previews see the documentation that came with your di...

Page 180: ...lor management When you are using OpenGL to render previews the preview shown on the video monitor doesn t update as you interact with elements of your composition until you have released the mouse at...

Page 181: ...ayers appear in working 3D views 2D layers do not appear in working 3D views Note The Composition panel displays a label within each view such as Top or Right to indicate which view is associated with...

Page 182: ...to linear pixel density the number of pixels or dots in a certain span expressed in such terms as ppi pixels per inch and dpi dots per inch In video film and computer graphics contexts the linear meas...

Page 183: ...omposite drag the Adjust Exposure control far to the left and far to the right and look for places where the composited elements differ too much in color or luminance This technique sometimes called g...

Page 184: ...zone indicators The center cut indicators show which parts of a 16 9 composition may be cut off when the image is shown on a 4 3 display Such cropping is a concern when creating images for high defini...

Page 185: ...Animation and Keyframes...

Page 186: ...frames to create a change over time you typically use at least two keyframes one for the state at the beginning of the change and one for the new state at the end of the change See Set or add keyframe...

Page 187: ...ou can view multiple properties simultaneously When more than one property is visible in the Graph Editor each property s curve has the same color as the property s value in the layer outline When you...

Page 188: ...ditor Shows or hides the expression editor field Allow Keyframes Between Frames Allows placement of keyframes between frames for fine tuning animation Pan and zoom in the Graph Editor To pan verticall...

Page 189: ...o keyframe mode on or off When Auto keyframe mode is on modifying a property automatically activates its stopwatch and adds a keyframe at the current time Note Auto keyframe mode doesn t automatically...

Page 190: ...ue of the highlighted keyframe in the selection Edit Value Opens a dialog box in which you can edit the value of the keyframe Select Equal Keyframes Selects all keyframes in a property that have the s...

Page 191: ...ggles the keyframes off and on as a side effect If you accidentally delete keyframes choose Edit Undo Jeff Almasol provides a script on his redefinery website that automatically removes keyframes base...

Page 192: ...two keyframes in layer bar mode to display the duration between them in the Info panel Jeff Almasol provides a script on his redefinery website that creates new layer markers either on the selected la...

Page 193: ...fects move the current time indicator to the time at which you want to paste the new keyframe data This time is usually the time of the first keyframe that you selected and copied at the beginning of...

Page 194: ...k is especially useful for Mask Path keyframes in a rotoscoping workflow See Rotoscoping introduction and resources Move or change keyframes in the Graph Editor A value graph in the Graph Editor displ...

Page 195: ...e pointer on a bounding box handle When the pointer changes to a straight double sided arrow drag the bounding box to a new size Shift drag to constrain the ratio of width to height Ctrl drag Windows...

Page 196: ...less complex and generally easier to modify when you use fewer keyframes to describe the path You can use the Smoother to remove extraneous keyframes from a motion path Jonas Hummelstrand and Dan Ebb...

Page 197: ...d the new keyframe and click to add the keyframe A new keyframe appears at the frame you clicked on the motion path and in the Timeline panel To move the keyframe use the Selection tool Note Though th...

Page 198: ...es to create a constant velocity along the path By default the duration of the pasted motion path is 2 seconds You can adjust the duration by dragging the first or last keyframe in the Timeline panel...

Page 199: ...ject with motion blur applied appears to lag behind the position of the object without motion blur applied A Shutter Phase value that is 1 2 of the Shutter Angle value is best for a layer that is comp...

Page 200: ...roduce fluttering Add it to brightness or opacity to simulate the flicker of an old projector 1 Select a range of keyframes for the property 2 Choose Window Wiggler 3 For Apply To select the type of c...

Page 201: ...s Nathan Gambles provides an expression on the Video Copilot website that ducks reduces the volume of audio on one layer when the volume of audio on another layer increases This technique is useful fo...

Page 202: ...ise adjustments to the temporal property keyframes you ve created for your animation The value graph displays x values as red y values as green and z values 3D only as blue The value graph provides co...

Page 203: ...emporal properties experiment by setting up at least three keyframes with different values for a temporal layer property such as Opacity and change the interpolation methods as you view the value grap...

Page 204: ...raph Hold interpolation Hold interpolation is available only as a temporal interpolation method Use it to change the value of a layer property over time but without a gradual transition This method is...

Page 205: ...lowing If the keyframe uses Linear interpolation Ctrl click Windows or Command click Mac OS the keyframe to change it to Auto Bezier If the keyframe uses Bezier Continuous Bezier or Auto Bezier interp...

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Page 207: ...anging speed top speed decreases and then increases bottom For information about keyframe interpolation see Keyframe interpolation The following factors affect the speed at which a property value chan...

Page 208: ...ecrease speed by moving one keyframe position closer to the other More spatial distance between keyframes increases layer speed In layer bar mode or in the Graph Editor adjust the time difference betw...

Page 209: ...f you want a handle to have influence over more than one keyframe use roving keyframes Control speed with the speed graph 1 In the Timeline panel expand the outline for the keyframe you want to adjust...

Page 210: ...utline for the keyframe you want to adjust 2 Click the Graph Editor button and display the speed graph for the property 3 Make sure the interpolation method for the keyframe you want to adjust is set...

Page 211: ...fluence of 33 33 on either side When you ease the speed of an object for example the object slows down as it approaches a keyframe and gradually accelerates as it leaves You can ease speed when coming...

Page 212: ...n Keyframe Interpolation Then choose Lock To Time from the Roving menu Use Exponential Scale to change the speed of scaling You can simulate a realistic acceleration of a zoom lens when working with 2...

Page 213: ...eo tutorials and other resources for learning to use mocha AE with After Effects Adobe TV has a mocha AE channel which includes several video tutorials about using mocha planar tracking and rotoscopin...

Page 214: ...ession algorithms to compress your video Motion tracking user interface and terminology overview You set up initiate and apply motion tracking with the Tracker panel As with all properties you can mod...

Page 215: ...ion This post on the AE Enhancers forum describes and links to a script from Paul Tuersley that can make a difficult tracking job easier by averaging multiple sets of tracking data Jeff Almasol provid...

Page 216: ...ttach point above the head If you left the attach point centered in the feature region the cloud would be attached to that point and would obscure the head Attach point centered in feature region Atta...

Page 217: ...era The farther apart the regions the more accurate the calculations and the better the result After Effects calculates rotation by measuring the change of angle of the line between the attach points...

Page 218: ...n the tracked layer and sets Rotation keyframes for the target When tracking scale this mode creates two track points and produces Scale keyframes for the target Parallel Corner Pin tracks skew and ro...

Page 219: ...mine the Confidence values for the track point in the Timeline panel for problematic frames Specify a confidence value that is slightly larger than the largest confidence value for the problematic fra...

Page 220: ...ttach point together drag inside the track point area avoiding the region edges and the attach point or press the Up Down Left or Right Arrow key Hold Shift while pressing an arrow key to move by an i...

Page 221: ...e position of the center of the feature region You can fine tune the keyframes of the motion path in the Layer panel as you would any other motion path Modifying the motion path is most useful when yo...

Page 222: ...the Composition panel indicating that analysis is occurring When analysis is complete the second banner displays a message that stabilization is occurring You are free to work with the footage or els...

Page 223: ...ning You can prevent anomalies by choosing a simpler method Borders Borders settings adjust how borders the moving edges are treated for footage that is stabilized Controls how the edges appear in a s...

Page 224: ...ng banner indicating that it must be reanalyzed Warp Stabilizer workflow tips 1 Apply the Warp Stabilizer 2 While Warp Stabilizer is analyzing your footage you can adjust settings or work on a differe...

Page 225: ...era Tracker effect is applied The analysis and solving phases occur in the background with status appearing as a banner on the footage and next to the Cancel button 2 Adjust the settings as needed The...

Page 226: ...ect It can interpret points for stationary objects close to the camera as moving due to parallax To help solve the camera delete bad or unwanted points Deleting unwanted track points To delete unwante...

Page 227: ...ual solve method used Average Error Displays the average distance in pixels between the original 2D source points and a reprojection of the 3D solved points onto the 2D plane of the source footage If...

Page 228: ...ct Show in the Tools panel When you move one or more Deform pins the mesh changes shape to accommodate this movement while keeping the overall mesh as rigid as possible The result is that a movement i...

Page 229: ...ne of the following in the Composition panel or the Layer panel Click any nontransparent pixel of a raster layer to apply the Puppet effect and create a mesh for the outline created by auto tracing th...

Page 230: ...unlocked masks shapes or text characters on it when you apply the Puppet effect it uses Auto trace to create paths from the alpha channel These paths are only used by the Puppet effect in the determin...

Page 231: ...and click Reset Only the keyframes at the current time are reset To increase or decrease the number of triangles used in a mesh modify the Triangle value in the options section of the Tools panel or...

Page 232: ...ruptly it does not decrease gradually with distance from the pin Extent is indicated visually by a fill in the affected parts of the mesh The fill is dark if In Front is negative the fill is light if...

Page 233: ...tent is indicated visually by a pale fill in the affected parts of the mesh In addition to animating still images you can use the Puppet effect on a layer with motion footage as its source For example...

Page 234: ...rate the quality of motion within the layer may suffer For best results when time remapping a layer use the Timewarp effect Time stretch a layer from a specific time 1 In the Timeline or Composition p...

Page 235: ...see About precomposing and nesting 1 In a Timeline panel select the layer you want to reverse 2 Choose Layer Time Time Reverse Layer or press Ctrl Alt R Windows or Command Option R Mac OS Reverse key...

Page 236: ...t time Layer panel for time remapping A Current time indicator B Time remap value C Remap time marker D Navigator bar The Graph Editor provides a view of the changes you specify over time by marking y...

Page 237: ...sition of the current time indicator to freeze the frame If you previously enabled time remapping on the layer any keyframes you created are deleted when you apply the Freeze Frame command Freeze the...

Page 238: ...flat Another method is to select the keyframe and choose Animation Toggle Hold Keyframe and then add another keyframe where you want the motion to start again Before you move a time remap keyframe it...

Page 239: ...ls property 4 Move the current time indicator to the new In point and choose Animation Add Audio Levels Keyframe 5 In the Audio panel change the decibel value to 0 0 6 Press the Page Up key on your ke...

Page 240: ...on motion footage items such as video or image sequences 1 Select the layer in the Timeline panel 2 Do one of the following Choose Layer Frame Blending Frame Mix Choose Layer Frame Blending Pixel Moti...

Page 241: ...Color...

Page 242: ...of the following Alt click Windows or Option click Mac OS the Project Settings button in the Project panel Choose File Project Settings or click the Project Settings button in the Project panel and c...

Page 243: ...ynamic range image Because we can see only a subset of the luminance values in a real world scene in an HDR image on a monitor it is sometimes necessary to adjust the exposure the amount of light capt...

Page 244: ...edropper by default ignores the composition background color and samples only straight color channels To sample color channels premultiplied with the composition background color press Shift as you cl...

Page 245: ...oject For enter a color value in hexadecimal form This color format is common in web workflows Edit a gradient A gradient is defined by color stops and opacity stops Each stop has a location along the...

Page 246: ...eo series shows how to combine motion tracking and rotoscoping to isolate and selectively color correct an actor s face The Rebel CC animation preset is a simple telecine style color correction tool f...

Page 247: ...f these color spaces defines color using the same three axes R G and B their gamuts and tone response curves are different Though many devices use red green and blue components to record or express co...

Page 248: ...s aren t normally shot in a dim environment For example the device gamma for an HD camera is approximately 1 1 9 and the device gamma for an HD display is approximately 2 2 Multiplying these values gi...

Page 249: ...Effects QuickTime Gamma Adjustments option is selected by default for projects created in After Effects 7 0 or earlier You should create new projects without this option selected For information on is...

Page 250: ...ce to the color space of your computer monitor through the monitor profile This conversion ensures that your composition will look identical on two different monitors if the monitors have been properl...

Page 251: ...ustom ICC profile using Adobe Photoshop In Photoshop choose Edit Color Settings The RGB and CMYK menus in the Working Spaces area of the Photoshop Color Settings dialog box include options for saving...

Page 252: ...e Project Settings dialog box color management is off for the project Choosing a working color space is an essential step in managing color in a project Colors of footage items are converted into the...

Page 253: ...profile In some cases files that you import have ICC profiles embedded in them When you import these files you can be confident that the colors that you see are as the producer of the footage original...

Page 254: ...r appearance is not preserved Turning off color management for a specific footage item is useful when the footage item is not intended for visual display but is instead intended for use as a control l...

Page 255: ...menu after selecting the preset to see a representation of which color conversions and reinterpretations are occurring for that simulation type Output simulation applies only to a specific viewer Comp...

Page 256: ...8 bpc values Therefore many common video devices and software systems interpret 16 as black and 235 as white instead of 0 and 255 These numbers don t directly correspond to RGB values If you notice th...

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Page 258: ...Drawing painting and paths...

Page 259: ...ine panel as instances of the Paint effect Each instance of the Paint effect has a Paint On Transparent option If you select this option the layer source image and all effects that precede this instan...

Page 260: ...t select a paint tool from the Tools panel Choose a brush gallery display mode Choose a display mode from the Brushes panel menu Text Only Small Thumbnail Large Thumbnail Small List or Large List Crea...

Page 261: ...tool Use the Brush tool to paint on a layer in the Layer panel with the current foreground color Important To specify settings for a paint stroke before you apply it use the Paint and Brushes panels...

Page 262: ...ool to copy pixel values from one place and time and apply them at another place and time For example you can use the Clone Stamp tool to remove wires by copying from a clear patch of sky or you can c...

Page 263: ...int when the current sampling point goes beyond the end of the duration of the source layer This looping is especially helpful when you have a lot of frames to repair in the target layer but only a fe...

Page 264: ...ast paint stroke drawn and does not create an Eraser stroke To temporarily use the Eraser tool in Last Stroke Only mode Ctrl Shift drag Windows or Command Shift drag Mac OS 1 Select the Eraser tool fr...

Page 265: ...drag to create a paint stroke 4 Using the Selection tool select the paint stroke To momentarily activate the Selection tool press and hold V 5 Press SS to show the selected paint stroke in the Timeli...

Page 266: ...of magnification Some images are created as vector graphics in another application but are converted to pixels rasterized when they are imported into After Effects If a layer is continuously rasterize...

Page 267: ...ction lines are calculated automatically for RotoBezier paths making them easier and faster to draw When you use the shape tools Rectangle Rounded Rectangle Ellipse Polygon or Star to draw a shape pat...

Page 268: ...pe layers visit the Adobe website Trish and Chris Meyer provide an introduction to shape layers in a PDF excerpt from the Shape Layers chapter of their book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects...

Page 269: ...to bottom See Alter shapes with path operations Paint operations within a group are performed from the bottom to the top in the Timeline panel stacking order This means for example that a stroke is r...

Page 270: ...ties are defined for each vertex but are contained within the Path property When you modify a Bezier path using the free transform bounding box you modify these intrinsic properties for the vertices t...

Page 271: ...om Illustrator Photoshop or Fireworks Convert a text layer to one or more editable masks on a solid color layer by using the Create Masks From Text command See Create shapes or masks from text charact...

Page 272: ...generating the tracing result Select this option to reduce small artifacts and to smooth jagged edges in the tracing result Deselect this option to closely trace details in a high contrast image Spec...

Page 273: ...res of Illustrator files are currently preserved Examples include opacity images and gradients Converted shapes ignore PAR overrides specified in the Interpret Footage dialog box Gradients and unsuppo...

Page 274: ...draw an ellipse drag diagonally To draw a circle Shift drag diagonally 2 Release the mouse button to finish drawing If drawing a circle release the Shift key after releasing the mouse button Circles a...

Page 275: ...ght segment to begin and click to place a vertex Do not drag 2 Click again where you want the segment to end Shift click to constrain the angle between segments at the corner point to a whole multiple...

Page 276: ...om the outlines and puts the masks on a new solid color layer You can then use these masks as you would any other masks Some font families such as Webdings include characters that are graphical images...

Page 277: ...ct the Path property of an existing shape in a shape layer This selection tells After Effects what the target of the paste operation is if the target isn t specified in this way After Effects assumes...

Page 278: ...otion path 5 Choose Edit Paste Selecting and copying Position keyframes left then pasting them in the selected Mask Path property right Create a shape path from a motion path 1 In the Timeline panel c...

Page 279: ...asier such as using motion tracking on the object before you begin drawing masks and then using the motion tracking data to make a mask or matte automatically follow the object Rotoscoping tips Immedi...

Page 280: ...To hide a mask path while showing others lock the mask by selecting its Lock switch in the Timeline panel and then choose Layer Mask Hide Locked Masks To isolate selected masks and hide others choose...

Page 281: ...lection tool to draw a marquee selection box around the vertices to select To add vertices to the selection hold down the Shift key as you draw additional marquee selection boxes Select all points on...

Page 282: ...otate the selected vertices by dragging the bounding box or its handles You can also change the reference point from which the vertices are rotated or scaled by moving the bounding box anchor point Th...

Page 283: ...es To delete a vertex from a mask use the Delete Vertex tool to click the vertex Adjust a path segment Do one of the following with the Selection tool Drag a vertex Drag the direction handles extendin...

Page 284: ...polation 2 Select at least two adjacent mask path keyframes 3 Set options in the Mask Interpolation panel and then click Apply To interrupt the interpolation process press Esc The Info panel indicates...

Page 285: ...paths contained curved segments Specifies that Smart Mask Interpolation creates a vertex on one mask path that matches the same numbered vertex on the other mask path On each of the input mask paths...

Page 286: ...e Composition panel drag the mask or masks to a new location To constrain the movement of the mask or masks to horizontal or vertical hold down Shift after you start dragging Pan a layer behind its ma...

Page 287: ...ars after it in the Timeline panel To override this default behavior for a specific fill or stroke choose Above Previous In Same Group for the Composite property for the fill or stroke in the Timeline...

Page 288: ...the offset of a highlight By default when you create a shape path by drawing with the Pen tool the control points for the gradient are placed in the center of the layer You can adjust these points aft...

Page 289: ...the line crosses a left to right portion of the path minus the total number of times that the line crosses a right to left portion of the path If a line drawn in any direction from the point has a cr...

Page 290: ...sired magnitude of the wiggle for each of these transformations by setting a value in the Transform property group that is contained in the Wiggle Transform property group The wiggled transformations...

Page 291: ...ual copies of all paths strokes and fills above it in the same group The virtual copies are not represented by separate entries in the Timeline panel but they are rendered in the Composition panel Eac...

Page 292: ...Repeater after a path above the fill and stroke property groups for a shape then the set of virtual copies is filled or stroked as a compound path If you leave the Repeater below the fill and stroke t...

Page 293: ...Text...

Page 294: ...pendent edges You cannot open a text layer in its own Layer panel but you can work with text layers in the Composition panel After Effects uses two kinds of text point text and paragraph text Point te...

Page 295: ...less than other blurs Philip Hodgetts provides tips on the Creative COW website for getting the best results when creating text or vector graphics for video Scripts and expressions for working with te...

Page 296: ...tion drag Mac OS to define a bounding box around a center point The pointer for a type tool changes depending on whether it is over a text layer in the Composition panel When the pointer is not direct...

Page 297: ...to move a text layer To activate the move pointer without leaving text editing mode move the type tool away from the text in the Composition panel when you see the move pointer drag to move the text Y...

Page 298: ...o Layered Comp to decompose the imported Photoshop document into its layers 1 Add the Photoshop text layer to your composition and select it 2 Choose Layer Convert To Editable Text The layer becomes a...

Page 299: ...the local Fonts folder the font appears in Adobe applications only If the formatting for a character specifies a font that is unavailable on your computer system another font will be substituted and t...

Page 300: ...eaking space If a set of characters is set to be non breaking the characters animate together as if they were a single word 1 Select the characters you want to prevent from breaking 2 Choose No Break...

Page 301: ...with the Stroke Color control in the Character panel 4 Choose one of the following in the Character panel to control the position of the stroke Stroke Over Fill Fill Over Stroke The stroke of only sel...

Page 302: ...Superscript characters are reduced in size and shifted above the text baseline subscript characters are reduced in size and shifted below the text baseline If the font does not include superscript or...

Page 303: ...r right tab of the panel Using tate chuu yoko does not prevent you from editing and formatting text you can edit and apply formatting options to rotated characters as you do to other characters Smart...

Page 304: ...enter or bottom for vertical text and justify text to both edges of a paragraph Alignment options are available for both point text and paragraph text justification options are available only for para...

Page 305: ...e do not appear outside the margins Text composition methods The appearance of text on the page depends on a complex interaction of processes called text composition Using the word spacing letter spac...

Page 306: ...e Apply an effect or animation preset and Animation presets A great way to see how advanced users use After Effects is to apply an animation preset and press U or UU to reveal only the animated or mod...

Page 307: ...he layer and to the individual characters for which you can then add animators Choose a property from the Animate menu located in the Switches Mode column of the Timeline panel Animate menu 3 In the T...

Page 308: ...te an animator property or animator group select it in the Timeline panel and press Delete To remove animators from a text layer select the text layer in the Timeline panel and choose Animation Remove...

Page 309: ...the same animator group If you have only one selector Mode specifies the interaction between the selector and the text Add is the default behavior and Subtract inverts the influence of the selector I...

Page 310: ...ually move at an angle from the lower left to the upper right You can specify Square Ramp Up Ramp Down Triangle Round and Smooth Using different Shape options you can greatly change the appearance of...

Page 311: ...is evaluated the input parameter textIndex is updated to match the index of the character Apply the Text Bounce or Inch Worm animation preset to a text layer to see how expression selectors can be us...

Page 312: ...ientation options Enabling per character 3D properties causes each character in the text layer to behave like an individual 3D layer within the text layer which behaves like a precomposition with coll...

Page 313: ...the alignment specified in the Paragraph panel 4 To reposition the text on the path change the text margins using the First Margin and Last Margin properties in the Timeline panel or do one of the fo...

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Page 315: ...ualified video cards that are capable of rendering a Ray traced 3D composition Depending on your hardware and complexity of your composition objects within Ray traced 3D compositions can be difficult...

Page 316: ...operties Previewing Ray traced 3D compositions When previewing 3D Ray traced compositions you can choose a different Fast Previews mode to achieve a more suitable workflow See Fast Previews CS6 Monito...

Page 317: ...nd material options are the properties for the surfaces that dictate how the objects interact with light After Effects CS6 has several new material options properties and new ways to apply materials t...

Page 318: ...nd Side submenus of material options However because the fill or stroke defines the geometry for a shape layer the Fill and Stroke shape operators are still available in case you want to add them Note...

Page 319: ...Twitter and Facebook posts are not covered under the terms of Creative Commons Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy environment layer to be used as a backdrop and source of reflections in 3D scenes...

Page 320: ...Holmes provides a tutorial on the Layers Magazine website that uses three text animators and per character 3D text animation to create a text animation Colin Braley provides a tutorial and example pr...

Page 321: ...omposition Example Offset characters This example illustrates how you can easily animate random characters so that they gradually form a legible word or phrase by specifying a Character Offset value a...

Page 322: ...ad of just the colors Example Animate text tracking This example shows you how easy it is to isolate characters when tracking a line of text Using the Tracking and Line Anchor animator properties you...

Page 323: ...Opacity 4 Set Opacity to 0 5 Expand the Range Selector 1 and click the stopwatch icon for Start 6 In the Composition panel drag the start selector to the left edge of the text the value will be at 0...

Page 324: ...to reveal the expression The following expression appears by default selectorValue textIndex textTotal 7 Replace the default expression with the following expression seedRandom textIndex amount linea...

Page 325: ...Transparency and compositing...

Page 326: ...k Online resources for compositing Aharon Rabinowitz provides an introduction to compositing What is Compositing part of the Multimedia 101 series on the Creative COW website Mark Christiansen provide...

Page 327: ...creating and compositing fog smoke mist rain and snow in the Climate Air Water Smoke Clouds in After Effects chapter of After Effects Studio Techniques on the Peachpit Press website Daniel Broadway pr...

Page 328: ...channel represented as a grayscale image C Composite using all four channels with a background showing through transparent areas Many file formats can include an alpha channel including Adobe Photosh...

Page 329: ...ut not open masks as input include Fill Smear Reshape Particle Playground and Inner Outer Key A mask belongs to a specific layer Each layer can contain multiple masks You can draw masks in common geom...

Page 330: ...ve and choose Layer Masks Remove All Masks Control mask path color To help you identify and work with masks the Composition and Layer panels outline a mask path with color and the Timeline panel displ...

Page 331: ...ve it in the stacking order Where multiple masks intersect the lowest transparency value is used The mask is added to the masks above it in the stacking order In areas where the mask does not overlap...

Page 332: ...would a linear fall off Variable width mask feathering CS6 Earlier versions of After Effects had the ability to add a feathered edge to a closed mask but the width extent of the feather was the same a...

Page 333: ...no vertices on the mask are selected or if the first two conditions don t apply the feathered edge will be only the clicked segment To delete a feather point Using the Selection or Mask Feather tool...

Page 334: ...of the track matte This is then composited over an additional image layer A track matte only applies to the layer directly beneath it To apply a track matte to multiple layers first precompose the mul...

Page 335: ...as of the layer with this option selected appear only when positioned over opaque areas in underlying layers This behavior is similar to the behavior of a track matte except that a track matte can onl...

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Page 337: ...objects Noise grain and other subtle variations can make difference keying very difficult to use in practice Keying effects including Keylight After Effects includes several built in keying effects as...

Page 338: ...olor of the composition or include a background layer behind the layer you are keying out As you apply the keying effect to the layer in the foreground the composition background or a background layer...

Page 339: ...al bluescreen image The background for the number is also blue B After keying the background for the number is also transparent C Hold out matte containing the part of the image you want to remain opa...

Page 340: ...e Roto Brush tool see this article on the Adobe website For a video that demonstrates the use of the Roto Brush tool to quickly create a matte for selective color correction see the Adobe website For...

Page 341: ...Undo changes However if After Effects misinterprets your stroke and includes or excludes too much of the image don t undo further teach Roto Brush by drawing additional strokes to include or exclude r...

Page 342: ...mentation information is used for contiguous frames in a span Other properties of the Roto Brush effect affect the matte that is generated based on the initial segmentation The Refine Matte effect inc...

Page 343: ...Decontamination Radius Amount in pixels by which to increase the radius value for the cleaning of edge colors in addition to any cleaning that covers feather motion blur and extended decontamination V...

Page 344: ...rned off when the View menu in the Layer panel is changed to anything other than Roto Brush Alpha Overlay Shows source layer with foreground unchanged and background overlaid with a solid color Alt 6...

Page 345: ...Effects and animation presets...

Page 346: ...press U or UU to reveal only the animated or modified layer properties Viewing the animated and modified properties shows you what changes the designer of the animation preset made to create the anima...

Page 347: ...destructively and effects operate non destructively After Effects uses effects exclusively so changes are non destructive A direct result of the ability to change the properties of effects is that the...

Page 348: ...rag the effect name to a new position in the list See Render order and collapsing transformations Adjustment layers To apply an effect to only a specific portion of a layer use an adjustment layer An...

Page 349: ...solid layer is a good starting point for creating a control layer Apply the Turbulent Noise effect to a layer and precompose it to create a good control layer for turbulent or atmospheric results You...

Page 350: ...oose in the Effects Presets panel menu determine which items are shown Show Effects For All Color Depths Shows effects that work with any color depth not only the effects that work with the depth of t...

Page 351: ...output However in the Render Queue panel you can specify that the composition is rendered for final output with all effects on regardless of which effects are rendered for previews in the Composition...

Page 352: ...by default have effect control points in layer space View an effect control point To view an effect control point in the Layer panel choose the effect name from the View menu at the bottom of the Lay...

Page 353: ...ose Light Silk Smoke Rising Sweeping Curves Behaviors Autoscroll horizontal Autoscroll vertical Drift Over Time Fade In Over Layer Below Fade In Out frames Fade In Out msec Fade Out Over Layer Below O...

Page 354: ...shadow Grayscale Inset Video framed Inset Video torn edges Left Third scoop mask NTSC Left Third scoop mask PAL Lower Third scoop mask NTSC Lower Third scoop mask PAL Lower Third Holdout darken Lower...

Page 355: ...arm Kaleidoscopic Nerve Net Circular Nerve Net Linear Nerve Net Penta Backgrounds 2 Autumn Leaves Blue Hibiscus Butterfly Resolve Fabric of Space Floral Explosion Jellyfish Web Sharps Elements 60s Tex...

Page 356: ...LT_double bubble still LT_fade bar still LT_neutral gradient anim LT_neutral gradient still LT_red skew glow anim LT_slant underscore still LT_underhook still Sprites Animated Alien Face animated Cir...

Page 357: ...raille numbers letters punctuation contractions and fragments I Ching hexagrams and trigrams Pictograms Schematic antennas batteries capacitors diodes grounds inductors logic symbols resistors transfo...

Page 358: ...amera 3D Fly Down Random Rotate Y 3D Lines Zoom In 3D Rain Down Words Colors 3D Random Spike Tumble 3D Resolve Position 3D Rotate around Circle 3D Rotate in by Character 3D Rotate out by Word 3D Scram...

Page 359: ...op Buzz Words Raining Characters In Random Fade Up Random Shuffle In Random Word Shuffle In Slow Fade On Smooth Move In Spin In By Character Spin In By Word Straight In By Character Straight In By Wor...

Page 360: ...loom Flower Clockwise Entry Counter Rotate Dust Devil Lasso Tumble Lasso Musical Chairs Newton Pinwheel Radial Flare Retrograde Rotate Somersault Spin Fast Spiral Exit Spiral In Spirograph Swoopy Entr...

Page 361: ...Wiggly Stroke Width Graphical Bars Blinky Bars Lime Blue Note Cut Shapes Exchange Green Dots Hazard Red Circles Scratchy Film Snowflakes White Trim Yellow Boxes Lights and Optical Blue Flash Broadway...

Page 362: ...trip Scale Bounce Screen Roll Stairstep Submarine Underscore Warp 9 8 Miscellaneous Angle Fly In Back Flip Blow Away Bounce In Bungee Chaotic Clay Pigeons Dot Com Elbow Room Explosion Hop Skip And A J...

Page 363: ...rs Fly In By Words Front Back Frontside Backside Ideas Incoming Jetstream 2 Jetstream Multi Line Flip Outgoing Incoming Pneumatic Production Stack Right Left Weekdays Word Processor Zippy Organic Autu...

Page 364: ...s Tag Team Wheatfield Wind Current Wobble Paths 360 Loop Antelope Ants Back Stage Balance Balloon Man Balloon Bouncing Bubble Pop Bump And Slide On Centipede Circuit Board Conveyor Belt Double Spiral...

Page 365: ...Zig Zag Rotation Drip Down Flip Up Full Rotation Loopy Loop Random Rotation Rotate Chars Rotate Per Word Spin In Swirly Rotation Whirlwind Scale Large Scale Let s Dance Scale Down Word Scale Down Sca...

Page 366: ...d PAL Dissolve blobs Dissolve dither Dissolve ripple Dissolve sand Dissolve unmelt Dissolve vapor Fade dip to black Fade flash to white Fade overexposed Ovals concentric NTSC Ovals concentric PAL Oval...

Page 367: ...e zigzag NTSC Band Wipe zigzag PAL Barn Doors Checker Wipe NTSC Checker Wipe PAL Clam Shell Clock Wipe Corner Reveal Grid Wipe Iris cross Iris diamond Iris points Iris round Iris square Iris star unfo...

Page 368: ...obe After Effects software However After Effects CS5 5 and later does include the Keylight effect in the trial version For information about these effects see Third party plug ins included with After...

Page 369: ...Matting effect Set Channels effect Set Matte effect Shift Channels effect Solid Composite effect Third party effects CC Composite effect Color Correction effects Auto Color and Auto Contrast effects A...

Page 370: ...fect Distort effects Bezier Warp effect Bulge effect Corner Pin effect Displacement Map effect Liquify effect Magnify effect Mesh Warp effect Mirror effect Offset effect Optics Compensation effect Pol...

Page 371: ...ayer Control effect Point Control effect Slider Control effect Generate effects 4 Color Gradient effect Advanced Lightning effect Audio Spectrum effect Audio Waveform effect Beam effect Cell Pattern e...

Page 372: ...ffects CC Simple Wire Removal effect Keylight Matte effects Matte Choker effect Roto Brush and Refine Matte Simple Choker effect Third party effects mocha shape Noise Grain effects Add Grain effect Du...

Page 373: ...effect CC Mr Mercury effect CC Particle Systems II effect CC Particle World effect CC Pixel Polly effect CC Rainfall effect CS6 CC Scatterize effect CC Snowfall effect CS6 CC Star Burst effect Styliz...

Page 374: ...ewarp effect Third party effects CC Force Motion Blur effect CC Time Blend effect CC Time Blend FX effect CC Wide Time effect Transition effects Block Dissolve effect Card Wipe effect Gradient Wipe ef...

Page 375: ...created with previous versions of After Effects When updating projects or creating new projects you should use alternative effects and techniques rather than effects in the Obsolete category Basic 3D...

Page 376: ...applications including Maxon Cinema 4D NewTek Lightwave and Luxology modo The articles then show you how to use RE Vision Effects RE Map and fnord ProEXR plug ins to use that data in After Effects Da...

Page 377: ...n use a map generated using this channel to selectively apply effects to certain objects in a 3D scene for example to apply selective color adjustments This channel is not anti aliased Texture UV This...

Page 378: ...16 bpc and 32 bpc color Original upper left and with Depth Of Field applied using different Focal Plane values lower left and lower right Focal Plane The distance along the z axis of the focal plane...

Page 379: ...e 3D scene layer Layer Contribution How much the gradient layer affects the fog density ID Matte effect Many 3D programs tag each element in a scene with a unique Object ID The ID Matte effect uses th...

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Page 381: ...ounts of the original dry sound and delayed wet sound in the final output Values of 50 are commonly used Flange Chorus effect Flange is an audio effect caused by mixing the original audio with a copy...

Page 382: ...ulation Amplitude Modulation The amount of amplitude modulation Parametric EQ effect The Parametric EQ effect emphasizes or attenuates specific frequency ranges Parametric EQ is useful for enhancing m...

Page 383: ...eholder layer for the effect to generate audio replace the placeholder with a footage item Waveform Options Specifies the type of waveform to use Sine waves produce the purest tones Square waves produ...

Page 384: ...ng them from darkening and becoming more transparent the result of being averaged with a lot of zeroes Deselect this option to make the blur algorithm operate as if the pixel values beyond the edge of...

Page 385: ...eates a halo around the edge of an iris that simulates light bending concentrating around the edge of the iris blades When set to 100 a natural normal halo that is based on the area represented in the...

Page 386: ...udges and fingerprints or changes in visibility caused by atmospheric conditions such as smoke or heat especially with animated blur layers such as those generated with the Turbulent Noise effect This...

Page 387: ...lated camera aperture In After Effects CS5 5 and later the Lens Blur effect has been replaced by the Camera Lens Blur effect See Camera Lens Blur effect CS5 5 Richard Bird provides a video tutorial on...

Page 388: ...he draft results for special effects but the grain may flicker on interlaced displays This effect works with 8 bpc 16 bpc and 32 bpc color Original left and with effect applied right Type Spin blurs i...

Page 389: ...es the contrast between colors that define an edge Chris and Trish Meyer provide instructions on the ProVideo Coalition website for using the Unsharp Mask effect with the CC Composite effect to sharpe...

Page 390: ...alue of that channel for each pixel in the image And Or and Xor Apply bitwise logical operations Add Subtract Multiply and Difference Apply basic math functions Max Set the channel value of the pixel...

Page 391: ...pixel to the value of the selected color channel for the original pixel Alpha converts all channels to the value of the alpha channel for the original pixel Invert Input Inverts the layer subtracts e...

Page 392: ...mple if you set this value to 100 the effect has no visible result on the layer if you set this value to 0 the original image doesn t show through Invert effect The Invert effect inverts the color inf...

Page 393: ...tionality differs from Knoll Unmult and other effects that synthesize an alpha channel from the color channels in an image Aharon Rabinowitz provides a video tutorial on the Creative COW website that...

Page 394: ...h only where the current matte and the new matte both have some opacity Premultiply Matte Layer Premultiplies the new matte layer with the current layer Shift Channels effect The Shift Channels effect...

Page 395: ...e 50 70 range and iPhone is close to 100 Adjust this value until distorted lines become vertical Scan Direction Specifies the direction that the rolling shutter scan takes place Most cameras scan top...

Page 396: ...ffect adjusts the overall contrast and mixture of colors Each effect maps the lightest and darkest pixels in the image to white and black and then redistributes the intermediate pixels The result is t...

Page 397: ...viding control over how individual colors are converted This effect works with 8 bpc and 16 bpc color Decrease or increase the property value for each color component to convert that color channel to...

Page 398: ...till be matched Matching Softness The amount that the effect affects unmatched pixels in proportion to their similarity to Color To Change Match Colors Determines the color space in which to compare c...

Page 399: ...works with 8 bpc and 16 bpc color Color Balance HLS effect The Color Balance HLS effect alters the hue lightness and saturation of an image This effect is intended only to provide compatibility with...

Page 400: ...lorama effect to create a procedural matte as a first step in replacing a sky Input Phase controls Get Phase From The color attribute to use as input Choose Zero to use a color attribute from another...

Page 401: ...w far a color can be from Matching Color and still be affected by the Colorama effect When Matching Tolerance is 0 the Colorama effect only affects the exact color selected for Matching Color When Mat...

Page 402: ...stops of the camera that captured the image The Exposure effect works by performing calculations in a linear color space rather than in the current color space for the project The Exposure effect is d...

Page 403: ...the sliders for that color range 3 For Hue type a value or drag the dial 4 For Saturation type a value or drag the slider The color shifts away from or toward the center of the color wheel relative to...

Page 404: ...in an image See Color correction color grading and color adjustment Click the histogram to alternate between showing colorized versions of the histograms for all color channels and only showing the hi...

Page 405: ...e color cast common to underwater photography PS Arbitrary Map effect The PS Arbitrary Map effect is intended only to provide compatibility with projects created in earlier versions of After Effects t...

Page 406: ...value the less the effect affects the clip For example if you set this value to 100 the effect has no visible result on the clip if you set this value to 0 the original image doesn t show through Expa...

Page 407: ...example if you set this value to 100 the effect has no visible result on the layer if you set this value to 0 the original image doesn t show through Vibrance effect The Vibrance effect adjusts satura...

Page 408: ...Wave Warp effect You can use each of the Distort effects to distort morph an image Third party effects in this category included with After Effects CC Bend It effect CC Bender effect CC Blobbylize eff...

Page 409: ...tangents Andrew Kramer provides a video tutorial on his Video Copilot website that demonstrates the use of the Bezier Warp effect This effect works with 8 bpc and 16 bpc color Original upper left and...

Page 410: ...pective or movement that pivots from the edge of a layer such as a door opening You can also use it to attach a layer to a moving rectangular region tracked by the motion tracker You can move the corn...

Page 411: ...deo tutorial on the Creative COW website that shows how to use the Displacement Map effect with a text layer and some smoke footage to create a smoky text title sequence Trish and Chris Meyer explain...

Page 412: ...of the brush area as you hold down the mouse button or drag Bloat Moves pixels away from the center of the brush area as you hold down the mouse button or drag Shift Pixels Moves pixels perpendicular...

Page 413: ...the magnified area is equal to the Magnification value a percentage times the Size value Size Feather To Magnification The radius of the magnified area is equal to the Magnification value a percentage...

Page 414: ...Offset effect The Offset effect pans the image within a layer Visual information pushed off one side of the image appears on the opposite side One use of the Offset effect is to create a looping backg...

Page 415: ...y Optics Compensation to it using the FOV value from step 2 4 Select Reverse Lens Distortion 5 Remove Optics Compensation from the footage layer Polar Coordinates effect The Polar Coordinates effect d...

Page 416: ...tiffest setting possible that doesn t create a polygonal image Use a higher elasticity setting if the final image looks polygonal but the curves are smooth Use Stiff Less Stiff or Below Normal if the...

Page 417: ...pples travel to the edge of the image A value of 0 produces no ripples Like ripples in water ripples in the layer become smaller as they travel farther from the center To create a single wave ripple s...

Page 418: ...polation that Smear performs between keyframes Linear requires two or more keyframes and performs a straight line interpolation between the keyframes Discrete produces animations in which the distorti...

Page 419: ...l not geometrics or other controls so you can get different results with different Size or Offset settings Random Seed Specifies a value from which to generate the fractal noise Animating this propert...

Page 420: ...ames or expressions This effect works with 8 bpc and 16 bpc color Wave Type The shape of the wave Wave Height The distance in pixels between wave peaks Wave Width The size of the wave in pixels Direct...

Page 421: ...er values create more gradual transitions between colors Jitter The amount of jitter noise in the gradient The jitter which reduces banding affects only those areas where banding could occur Opacity T...

Page 422: ...Composites the lightning with the original layer using the Add blending mode When deselected only the lightning is visible Complexity Specifies the complexity of the turbulence in the lightning Min F...

Page 423: ...e Start color shifts to the maximum frequency in the range of displayed frequencies This setting allows the hue to follow the fundamental frequency of the spectrum displayed as it changes Color Symmet...

Page 424: ...Composite On Original Composites the audio waveform with the original layer using the Add blending mode When deselected only the audio waveform is visible Beam effect The Beam effect simulates the mov...

Page 425: ...al determine how many cells wide and how many cells high each tile is Evolution Animating this setting results in changes of the pattern over time Note Although the Evolution value is set in units cal...

Page 426: ...color to a second layer This effect works with 8 bpc color Sample Point The center of the sampled area Sample Radius The radius of the sampled area Average Pixel Color Which color values are sampled...

Page 427: ...mum brightness and saturation Black And White uses alternating bands of black and white Solid Color turns everything transparent except the inside of the set which uses the color specified by the Hue...

Page 428: ...A value of 0 causes the grid to disappear Note The anti aliasing of the grid borders may cause the visible thickness to vary Feather The softness of the grid Invert Grid Inverts the transparent and o...

Page 429: ...es in the Timeline panel except for Fill Only Use Fill Only to show only the fill Note If you apply multiple instances of Paint Bucket to a layer be sure not to set more than one to use the Fill Only...

Page 430: ...in the upper left corner is number 1 Wave Motion controls Wave Motion controls specify how the wave emits from the center point Frequency Specifies the number of waves per second flowing out of the p...

Page 431: ...es of a path are determined by the direction in which the path is drawn When using the Left Edge or Right Edge fill types on masks that have tight curves you get best results by making the Edge Width...

Page 432: ...trator copy the path and paste it into a layer in After Effects This effect works with 8 bpc color Andrew Kramer provides a video tutorial on his Video Copilot website that demonstrates the use the St...

Page 433: ...e original layer Color Specifies the color of the stroke unless Stencil is chosen for Blending Mode Width Specifies the width of the stroke in pixels Fractional values are supported Hardness Determine...

Page 434: ...Reveal Original Image The original image is revealed by the paint stroke More Help topics Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy...

Page 435: ...ain a second different color By combining the two mattes into a third matte called the alpha matte the Color Difference Key creates well defined transparency values The Color Difference Key produces h...

Page 436: ...ter Effects can be useful for some purposes you should try keying with Keylight before attempting to use these built in keying effects Some keying effects have been superseded by more modern effects l...

Page 437: ...zziness slider to soften the edges between transparent and opaque regions 7 Use the sliders in the Min and Max controls to fine tune the color range you selected with the plus and minus eyedroppers Th...

Page 438: ...comparison and doesn t blur final output 12 Before closing the Effect Controls panel make sure to select Final Output from the View menu to ensure that After Effects renders the transparency Extract...

Page 439: ...menu to extract the gap and remove the background image 4 Create additional open or closed masks to clean up other areas of the image and then select them from the Cleanup Foreground or Cleanup Backg...

Page 440: ...r Color Key from the View menu in the Layer panel 6 Adjust matching tolerance in one of the following ways Select the Plus or the Minus eyedropper and then click a color in the left thumbnail image Th...

Page 441: ...the key color from an image with a screen that s already been keyed out Typically the Spill Suppressor is used to remove key color spills from the edges of an image Spills are caused by light reflecti...

Page 442: ...suppress other colors because After Effects may need to analyze the colors more carefully to produce accurate transparency The Better option may increase rendering time 4 Drag the Suppression slider u...

Page 443: ...atte Choker lower right You can use the Matte Choker effect to only blur the alpha channel To use this effect as an alpha channel blur set Gray Level Softness to 100 Close a hole in a matte 1 Select t...

Page 444: ...ite areas indicating opacity Choke Matte sets the amount of choke Negative values spread the matte positive values choke it This effect works with 8 bpc 16 bpc and 32 bpc color Original upper left con...

Page 445: ...mple compression algorithms usually achieve smaller file sizes if the input material is less noisy so noise reduction is a valuable preprocessing step for work such as DVD creation and video streaming...

Page 446: ...ls in the matte or mask It affects only how each grain effect treats the white areas of the matte or mask 1 Apply a grain effect to the image 2 Do any of the following in the Effect Controls panel To...

Page 447: ...or removing grain can affect sharpness of detail you may want to preview an area of fine detail such as a human face or some text When you remove grain with the Remove Grain effect a best practice is...

Page 448: ...r without regarding any effects or masks already applied to the layer this method results in more accurate sampling If you want the samples to include the existing effects precompose or pre render the...

Page 449: ...parameter constant You can use the Animation controls group for the Add Grain or Match Grain effect to do the following To specify the frame rate of the added grain as a multiple of the destination fr...

Page 450: ...oup for the Add Grain effect in the Effect Controls panel To modify the color of the added noise adjust the Color controls To define how the color value of the generated noise combines with the color...

Page 451: ...x to provide a distant backdrop in a 3D world The Turbulent Noise effect is essentially a modern higher performance implementation of the Fractal Noise effect The Turbulent Noise effect takes less tim...

Page 452: ...a short period of time may result in flashing To create a seamless loop use Cycle Evolution and set Evolution keyframes at full revolutions with no degrees partially completed revolutions may interrup...

Page 453: ...the same composition 2 Select the destination layer to which you want to add grain 3 Choose Effect Noise Grain Match Grain 4 Choose a layer from the Noise Source Layer control in the Effect Controls...

Page 454: ...ols in the Effect Controls panel Click the point parameter for the Compensation Sample Point in the Effect Controls panel and then click where you want to move the point in the Composition panel 5 Cho...

Page 455: ...ise HLS and Noise HLS Auto effects add noise to the hue lightness and saturation components of an image The noise generated by the Noise HLS Auto effect is automatically animated noise you choose the...

Page 456: ...Tuning controls group to improve the balance between noise reduction and retained sharpness Chroma Suppression Suppresses some of the chroma from the noise to clean up the image If the noise is colorf...

Page 457: ...16 bpc and 32 bpc color Controls Fractal Type The fractal noise is created by generating a grid of random numbers for each noise layer The Complexity setting specifies the number of noise layers The F...

Page 458: ...se features move at the same speed as larger noise features A larger value makes the multiple layers of noise appear to roil in a manner more like that of natural turbulence in a fluid Random Seed Set...

Page 459: ...w Preview Wireframe when you finish manipulating the wireframe image The preview wireframe is drawn only at Draft quality when you switch to Best quality the image content is drawn This way you won t...

Page 460: ...to composite the lightning on top of the original layer These blending modes work identically to the ones in the Timeline panel Rerun At Each Frame Regenerates the lightning at each frame To make the...

Page 461: ...center of rotation is on the point where the character intersects the path Perpendicular To Path changes the initial angle of the characters Perpendicular To Path Rotates each character so that it s p...

Page 462: ...character begins to appear at a value of 7 20 and is fully opaque at 7 80 Mode The blending mode used if characters overlap Jitter Settings Specify the maximum amount of deviation added randomly to b...

Page 463: ...ind the following guidelines Use the same vertical dimensions for the composition and source images A one pixel difference produces the same result as moving the position one pixel vertically Make sur...

Page 464: ...tion as Red Green LR but also balances the colors to reduce shadows or ghosting effects caused by one view showing through the other Setting a high value reduces the overall contrast Balanced Red Blue...

Page 465: ...a shadow outside the bounds of the layer The quality setting of the layer affects the subpixel positioning of the shadow and the smoothness of the soft edges of the shadow For some purposes the Drop...

Page 466: ...arent pixels the shadow uses both the color and transparency of the layer This option creates the appearance for example of sun shining through stained glass The more transparent the pixels in the lay...

Page 467: ...the first light layer in the composition which can use a variety of settings Light Intensity Specifies the power of the light The higher the value the brighter the layer Other lighting settings affect...

Page 468: ...olor Original upper left and with rotation adjusted using Camera Position controls lower left and Corner Pin controls lower right Original left gradient layer center and with Card Dance applied right...

Page 469: ...side back or any other angle X Y Position Where the camera is positioned along the x and y axes Z Position Where the camera is positioned along the z axis Smaller numbers move the camera closer to the...

Page 470: ...er Water controls Water Surface Specifies the layer to use as the surface of the water Caustics uses the luminance of this layer as a height map for generating a 3D water surface Light pixels are high...

Page 471: ...e bubbles without fully rendering them Using Draft mode is a fast way to preview the behavior of the bubbles Draft mode is the only way to preview the universe edges the Flow Map alignment and the Pro...

Page 472: ...ty value creates resistance as the bubbles get farther away from the producer point causing them to slow down If Viscosity is set high enough the bubbles stop The thicker the substance the higher the...

Page 473: ...low Map Steepness Controls the difference between white and black as they are used to determine steepness If the bubbles are ricocheting randomly off the flow map decrease this value Flow Map Fits Spe...

Page 474: ...n generate three kinds of particles dots a layer or text characters You can specify only one kind of particle per particle generator Create particles by using the Cannon the Grid the Layer Exploder an...

Page 475: ...Out points for the layers within the nested composition to make the exploding layer transparent at different points in time The Layer Exploder does not create particles where the source of the layer...

Page 476: ...e Random Time Max you specify Choose Absolute Random when you want each particle to represent a different single frame of a multiframe layer For example if you choose Absolute Random and specify a Ran...

Page 477: ...values for the Gradient Force property in the Property Mappers Appearance At particle creation the Cannon Grid Layer Exploder and Particle Exploder set particle size unless you replace the default do...

Page 478: ...or example if you use a layer map to modify particle size and you animate the layer map so it exits the frame the particles keep the last size value set by the layer map after it exits the frame An ep...

Page 479: ...rightness values in the color channel define the resistance to particle force at each pixel so the color channel acts like a layer map of hills and valleys that decrease or increase particle force In...

Page 480: ...e corresponding pixel on the layer map Multiply Multiplies the value of a particle property by the brightness value of the corresponding pixel on the layer map and uses the result Min Compares the bri...

Page 481: ...y control the timing and order of an explosion For example you can import a logo and use Shatter to blow a logo shaped hole in a layer Brian Maffitt provides more than two hours of video explanation a...

Page 482: ...Forces Position Specifies the current center point of the blast in x y space Depth Specifies the current center point in z space or how far in front of or behind the layer the blast point is Adjust De...

Page 483: ...g of 30 for Mass Variance gives a realistic approximation of this law of physics Setting Mass Variance to 100 greatly exaggerates the difference between the behavior of large versus small pieces Setti...

Page 484: ...the easiest way to get correct results Creating a custom shatter map All layers in After Effects are represented as an RGBA image including black and white images The Shatter effect calculates the lum...

Page 485: ...t but can be distorted by using a grayscale image The white grid represents the surface of the water Wireframe controls Wireframe controls fine tune the appearance of the wireframe model These control...

Page 486: ...frame of the effect are applied to the layer during the pre roll Ground controls The Ground controls specify the appearance of the ground layer Ground Specifies the layer that appears at the bottom of...

Page 487: ...ple with the default setting of 0 the first disturbance in the liquid is a convex wave projecting upward from the surface of the water With Phase set to 180 the first disturbance in the liquid is a co...

Page 488: ...ecify the direction of strokes they re scattered randomly by a small amount to give a more natural result This effect alters the alpha channel as well as the color channels if you masked out a portion...

Page 489: ...t smooths the image and removes minor variations with a blurring operation similar to that used by the Bilateral Blur effect Modify the Detail Radius and Detail Threshold properties to control this ph...

Page 490: ...edges A larger radius for a blur means that more pixels are averaged together to determine each pixel value so increasing the Detail Radius value increases the blurriness Detail Threshold The blur op...

Page 491: ...ty is 0 only the pixels that have been identified as being part of an edge receive a stroke when Render is set to Edges the image is white except in areas with a pure black stroke Increase the Edge Bl...

Page 492: ...glow on more of the image a higher percentage produces glow on less of the image Glow Radius The distance in pixels that the glow extends out from the bright areas of the image Larger values produce...

Page 493: ...m mirror images If Phase is set to 0 selecting this option causes the edges of the layer to be mirrored with the surrounding tiles Phase The horizontal or vertical offset of the tiles Horizontal Phase...

Page 494: ...etween Evolution keyframes determines the timing of the Evolution cycles Note The Cycle control affects only the state of the fractal not geometrics or other controls so you can get different results...

Page 495: ...lity the texture layer is positioned and scaled with subpixel precision Chris Zwar provides an example project on his website that uses the Displacement Map effect the Turbulent Displace effect the Te...

Page 496: ...Effect applied with threshold settings of 44 left 70 center and 200 right Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy...

Page 497: ...t the Value Offset Random Max value increases If you select Random the number is bounded by 0 and the Value Offset Random Max value Random Values Random values limited by the Value Offset Random Max v...

Page 498: ...o influence on composition frame rate or the frame rate of the source footage item for the layer Drop Frame Select Drop Frame to generate drop frame timecode or deselect it to generate non drop frame...

Page 499: ...en echoes Negative values create echoes from previous frames positive values create echoes from upcoming frames Number of Echoes The number of echoes For example if the value is 2 the result is a comb...

Page 500: ...om moving sections Target Specifies the layer to be compared to the effect layer The Video switch for the comparison layer doesn t need to be on unless you select the source layer as the Target Time O...

Page 501: ...um backward displacement meaning that pixels at the current time are replaced by pixels from a previous time A luminance value of 255 produces maximum positive displacement meaning that pixels at the...

Page 502: ...terpolated for the frames that lie between the original frames of an image The Method setting determines how interpolated frames are generated Whole Frames Duplicates the last frame shown Frame Mix Cr...

Page 503: ...a shutter angle of 90 causes an exposure of 1 96 of a second per frame 90 360 24 fps Shutter Samples Controls the quality of the motion blur A higher value results in a smoother motion blur Matte warp...

Page 504: ...ct the Turbulent Displace effect the Texturize effect and a combination of Blur and Color Correction effects to create a transition in which an image appears as a watercolor image washed onto a rough...

Page 505: ...ou can use any layer in the composition its Video switch can even be turned off If the layer has effects or masks precompose the layer first Rows Columns Specifies the interaction of the numbers of ro...

Page 506: ...is used if possible If not it interpolates the correct value from nearby frames Focal Length Overrides the other settings if the results you ve obtained aren t what you need If you set the Focal Leng...

Page 507: ...tion Completion value than do darker pixels Iris Wipe effect The Iris Wipe effect creates a radial transition that reveals an underlying layer Specify the number of points used to create the iris usin...

Page 508: ...le The angle at which the transition starts With a start angle of 0 the transition starts at the top Wipe Specifies whether the transition moves clockwise or counterclockwise or alternates between the...

Page 509: ...Original upper left and with effect applied lower left and right More Help topics Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy...

Page 510: ...ersions of Cineon frames but in most cases you should convert the colors in a Cineon file using color management features See Cineon and DPX footage items This effect works with 8 bpc 16 bpc and 32 bp...

Page 511: ...f out of gamut colors Saturation Attempts to produce vivid colors in an image at the expense of color accuracy This rendering intent is suitable for images such as graphic logos in which bright satura...

Page 512: ...ajority of the pixels will be and the more data is lost in this process 4 Set Gamma Gamma affects the distribution of values in the range allowing more precision in specific areas of the range 5 Apply...

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Page 514: ...Markers...

Page 515: ...icant points in the audio track of a layer To view or edit a data for a marker double click the marker or right click Windows or Control click Mac OS the marker and choose Settings To move a marker to...

Page 516: ...upting the preview To add a layer marker at the current time and open the marker dialog box press Alt Windows or Option Mac OS on the numeric keypad To remove a layer marker Ctrl click Windows or Comm...

Page 517: ...e Timeline panel and can also be added as layer markers Layer Marker Rename and Number renames and numbers all markers on selected layers Layer Marker Batch Editor edits marker attributes on all selec...

Page 518: ......

Page 519: ...earch feature in Soundbooth and Premiere Pro are examples of temporal metadata Adobe Story also converts information from a screenplay script into XMP metadata that can automate the creation of shooti...

Page 520: ...preventing additional rendering and conforming The ID values used by XMP are Globally Unique Identifiers GUIDs 16 byte random numbers that are commonly used to ensure uniqueness of values XMP ID value...

Page 521: ...nd output module settings Note When Include Source XMP Metadata is on in some cases rendering and exporting can take a long time because of the time that it takes to read and assemble XMP metadata fro...

Page 522: ...D file This metadata is stored directly in such files so it appears in other applications Adobe Bridge however does not display metadata for ASND files Clip Displays properties for multitrack clips yo...

Page 523: ...lect the desired files or clips 2 In the Metadata panel edit text or adjust values as needed If you selected multiple items the panel displays properties as follows If a property matches for all items...

Page 524: ...Memory storage performance...

Page 525: ...ng preferences by choosing Edit Preferences Memory Multiprocessing Windows or After Effects Preferences Memory Multiprocessing Mac OS As you modify settings in the Memory Multiprocessing dialog box Af...

Page 526: ...dering frames with the pixel dimensions of high definition television or digital cinema The optimum amount of RAM to allocate for each of the background processes varies according to project settings...

Page 527: ...in the foreground Low is for background servers of Premiere Pro or Adobe Media Encoder in the background An example of a practical result of the shared memory pool is that starting Premiere Pro will...

Page 528: ...m size for any single memory allocation is 2 GB Online resources about memory and multiprocessing For a video that demonstrates some of the advantages of a 64 bit After Effects application and how to...

Page 529: ...tems to your hard disk when the RAM cache is full during standard previews Blue bars in the time ruler of the Timeline Layer and Footage panels mark frames that are cached to disk The disk cache is no...

Page 530: ...em all Choose Edit Preferences Media Disk Cache Windows or After Effects Preferences Media Disk Cache Mac OS and do one of the following Click one of the Choose Folder buttons to change the location o...

Page 531: ...equate memory to other applications performance can be greatly reduced when the operating system swaps RAM to the hard disk See Memory RAM usage in 64 bit After Effects For more information about impr...

Page 532: ...ideo2brain website Improve performance by modifying screen output You can improve performance in many ways that don t affect how After Effects treats your project data only how output is drawn to the...

Page 533: ...ch as masks 3D reference axes and layer handles See Show or hide layer controls in the Composition panel Lower the magnification for a composition When After Effects displays the Composition Layer and...

Page 534: ...capabilities for your installed GPU The information helps you determine the feature support levels for your GPU You can also see if CUDA is available on your GPU and which version that is installed In...

Page 535: ...support these requirements these features will be disabled Fast Draft mode The Hardware Accelerate Composition Layer and Footage Panels preference The Cartoon effect s Use OpenGL When Available optio...

Page 536: ...and for final output with larger frame sizes and larger source files RAM previews can be much longer You can work with higher color bit depths without encountering memory limitations After Effects ca...

Page 537: ...ed to each background process each of which runs on its own CPU processor core Setting this value lower can allow more CPUs to be used simultaneously with a limited amount of RAM However if you set th...

Page 538: ...ications that are not running A memory balancer prevents swapping of RAM to disk by dynamically managing the memory allocated to each of the applications Each application registers with the memory bal...

Page 539: ...e renamed to clarify that the commands don t affect disk cached frames In After Effects CS6 the Edit Purge Video Memory command has been removed Troubleshooting memory issues Error Unable to allocate...

Page 540: ...allow you to visualize cached frames on a per layer basis This is helpful when trying to determine which layers are cached in a composition In After Effects CS5 5 enable the Layer Cache Indicators op...

Page 541: ...rames are eligible for disk caching than in previous versions In After Effects CS5 5 and later the application checks to make sure that you have 10 GB free above what is set in Preferences Media Disk...

Page 542: ...e compositions in the Project panel 3 Do one of the following Choose Composition Cache Work Area in Background Press Ctrl Enter Windows or Cmd Enter MacOS Choose Cache Work Area in Background from the...

Page 543: ...h footage items for which the source files are still available To manually remove conformed files and index files navigate to the media cache folder and delete the files The location of the media cach...

Page 544: ...Expressions and automation...

Page 545: ...plug ins in this folder In general unless specifically instructed to do so you don t install plug ins in the MediaCore folder If you install a plug in in this folder that is not supported by one or mo...

Page 546: ...tion of the Adobe website Kas Thomas provides a tutorial on the MacTech website that shows step by step how to write an After Effects plug in To ask questions about writing plug ins with the C C SDK f...

Page 547: ...u though you can immediately run the new script using the Run Script File command Scripts in the ScriptUI Panels folder are available from the bottom of the Window menu If a script has been written to...

Page 548: ...on the AE Enhancers forum leads the reader step by step through the creation of a script Jeff Almasol provides a set of scripting utilities such as useful functions to facilitate the creation of your...

Page 549: ...an automate rendering with aerender network rendering and post render actions You can also automate some tasks using workflow automation scripts in Adobe Bridge Because you can exchange data easily be...

Page 550: ...a mask can take its path from a brush stroke or a shape layer object The expression language is based on the standard JavaScript language but you do not need to know JavaScript to use expressions You...

Page 551: ...typing 2 at the end of the expression As you develop comfort editing expressions you can combine these simple operations and more For example you can add 360 100 to the end of an expression to change...

Page 552: ...tion property an expression like the following appears thisComp layer Layer 1 transform position If you drag the pick whip to one of the component values of the Position property such as the y value a...

Page 553: ...Comp in your expression look up the return value for thisComp under Global objects attributes and methods expression reference Note that thisComp returns a Comp object Next look at Comp attributes and...

Page 554: ...ession to start a new line of text For example to copy the original text from one layer onto the same layer and repeat it in all uppercase characters on a new line use the following expression text so...

Page 555: ...the expression along with all keyframe values You can copy an expression from a layer property with or without the keyframes for the property To copy an expression and keyframes from one property to o...

Page 556: ...ession to keyframes For example if you want to freeze the values in an expression you can convert the expression to keyframes and then adjust the keyframes accordingly or if an expression takes a long...

Page 557: ...written on the Position property of a layer can be either of the following wiggle 5 10 position wiggle 5 10 You do need to include the layer and property when retrieving them from outside the layer a...

Page 558: ...ue from Layer A with the y position value from Layer B you would use the following x thisComp layer Layer A position 0 y thisComp layer Layer B position 1 x y You can create an expression that refers...

Page 559: ...mes need to use time conversion methods to convert time values to perform operations on frames See Time conversion methods expression reference Expression errors If an expression cannot be processed A...

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Page 561: ...the included default value if you don t specify a different value Some argument descriptions include a number in square brackets this number indicates the dimension of the expected property or Array S...

Page 562: ...ts t to a String representing NTSC timecode See timeToFrames for an explanation of the t and isDuration arguments If ntscDropFrame is false the default the result String is NTSC non drop frame timecod...

Page 563: ...gth of vector vec length point1 point2 Return type Number Argument type point1 and point2 are Arrays Returns the distance between two points The point2 argument is optional For example length point1 p...

Page 564: ...y 90 of the results are in the range 0 1 and the remaining 10 are outside this range gaussRandom maxValOrArray Return type Number or Array Argument type maxValOrArray is a Number or Array When maxValO...

Page 565: ...h the same arguments except that the interpolation eases in and out so that the velocity is 0 at the start and end points This method results in a very smooth animation easeIn t value1 value2 Return t...

Page 566: ...change those calls to use marker key name instead Because the default name of a composition marker is a number converting the reference to use the name is often just a matter of surrounding the number...

Page 567: ...tion in degrees bgColor Return type Array 4 Returns the background color of the composition pixelAspect Return type Number Returns the pixel aspect ratio of the composition name Return type String Ret...

Page 568: ...eturn type Number Returns the width of the layer in pixels It is the same as source width height Return type Number Returns the height of the layer in pixels It is the same as source height index Retu...

Page 569: ...cript website The AE Enhancers forum provides an expression that uses the sampleImage method to measure a text layer or shape layer and determine its effective bounding box Todd Kopriva provides instr...

Page 570: ...Returns the name of the layer Layer 3D attributes and methods expression reference orientation Return type Property 3 Returns the 3D orientation value in degrees for a 3D layer rotationX Return type P...

Page 571: ...onScript website that uses the toWorld method to auto orient a layer along only one axis This is useful for example for having characters turn from side to side to follow the camera while remaining up...

Page 572: ...el value of a camera as a percentage active Return type Boolean Returns true if the camera is the active camera for the composition at the current time the Video switch for the camera layer is on the...

Page 573: ...for each frame chosen randomly from a set of four values set your four values as keyframes at 0 1 2 and 3 seconds and then apply the following expression to the property valueAtTime random 4 Note Dan...

Page 574: ...iggle 5 2 smooth width 2 samples 5 t time Return type Number or Array Argument type width samples and t are Numbers Smooths the property values over time converting large brief deviations in the value...

Page 575: ...layer The segment to loop is determined by the specified duration The duration value sets the number of composition seconds in a segment to loop the specified range is measured backward from the last...

Page 576: ...u access a Key object you can get time index and value properties from it For example the following expression gives you the value of the third Position keyframe position key 3 value The following exp...

Page 577: ...sed on that item expressions can interact with XMP metadata For information see XMP metadata in After Effects Dan Ebberts provides a tutorial on the After Effects Developer Center that includes an exa...

Page 578: ...expressions and parenting to relate the rotation of a set of wheels to the horizontal movement of a vehicle Marcus Geduld provides some examples from his book After Effects Expressions on the Focal Pr...

Page 579: ...ee Creating layers 2 Animate the positions of the first two layers in the Timeline panel See Motion paths 3 Select the third layer press P to reveal the Position property and Alt click Windows or Opti...

Page 580: ...eCamera toWorld 0 0 0 catch err No camera so assume 50mm w thisComp width thisComp pixelAspect z w 2 Math tan degreesToRadians 19 799 C 0 0 z P toWorld anchorPoint d length C P linear d startFade endF...

Page 581: ...p value else wiggle 3 25 Apply the following expression to a property to start wiggling it at time 2 seconds and stop wiggling it at time 4 seconds timeToStart 2 timeToStop 4 if time timeToStart time...

Page 582: ...Rendering and Exporting...

Page 583: ...r that contains all of the rendered frames or it can be made into a sequence of still images as you would do when creating output for a film recorder Aharon Rabinowitz provides an introduction to rend...

Page 584: ...r work Aharon Rabinowitz provides an article on the Creative COW website about planning your project and deciding what formats and settings to use for final output Keep in mind the fact that you can u...

Page 585: ...tem is complete it remains in the Render Queue panel with its status changed to Done until you remove the item from the Render Queue panel You cannot rerender a completed item but you can duplicate it...

Page 586: ...Needs Output An output filename has not been specified Choose a value from the Output To menu or click the underlined Not Yet Specified text next to the Output To heading to specify a filename and pa...

Page 587: ...ick Render Change the render complete sounds A chime plays when all items in the render queue have been rendered and exported a different sound plays if a render operation fails You can change the ren...

Page 588: ...and to save projects to a specified watch folder and then initiate watch folder rendering over a network After Effects also includes a render control file called project name _RCF txt which signals to...

Page 589: ...RAM previews which still use the composition name When this option is selected each render item is assigned the same folder name as the previous render item until you change the path If a composition...

Page 590: ...removed Proxy Use Determines whether to use proxies when rendering Current Settings uses the settings for each footage item See Placeholders and proxies Effects Current Settings default uses the curre...

Page 591: ...r item click the underlined output module settings template name next to the Output Module heading in the Render Queue panel and choose settings in the Output Module Settings dialog box To apply an ou...

Page 592: ...ges of the output movie You can specify the number of rows or columns of pixels to be added or subtracted from the top left bottom and right sides of the movie Use positive values to crop and use nega...

Page 593: ...se post render actions to automate simple tasks that occur after a composition is rendered A common example of the use of post render actions is with pre rendering Choosing Composition Pre render adds...

Page 594: ...essing preferences OpenGL in After Effects CS5 5 and earlier can render the following features Shadows except point light shadows Colored shadows appear gray Lights eight maximum Masks Alpha channels...

Page 595: ...value for Texture Memory of no more than 80 of the installed video RAM VRAM on your video card In After Effects CS6 the OpenGL renderer from After Effects CS5 5 and earlier has been removed OpenGL imp...

Page 596: ...Flash Professional as it can If After Effects can t export an element of a composition as unrendered data in an XFL file the element is either ignored or rendered into a PNG or FLV item depending on w...

Page 597: ...s other than 1 0 square pixels Flash Professional only supports a pixel aspect ratio of 1 0 When a composition is exported to XFL format the FLA document is a square pixel document with a different nu...

Page 598: ...affected by an adjustment layer Limitations of exporting a composition to XFL format When Flash Professional opens an XFL file it must load all of the assets into memory After Effects warns you when y...

Page 599: ...file that can t be modified by applications such as Flash Professional Include Object Names Includes layer mask and effect names in the file for use as input to ActionScript programs Selecting this op...

Page 600: ...ing an H 264 video codec and the AAC audio codec Note After Effects CS4 and earlier also provided the option to encode video data in FLV files using the Sorenson Spark video codec You can play a movie...

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Page 602: ...in the resulting Photoshop file Nested compositions up to five levels deep are preserved in the PSD file as layer groups The PSD file inherits the color bit depth from the After Effects project In add...

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Page 604: ...tarted instance By default aerender starts a new instance of After Effects even if one is already running To instead use the currently running instance use the reuse argument This example command tell...

Page 605: ...t causes normal rendering of all frames Higher values render a frame and use it increment times in output and then skip ahead increment frames to begin the cycle again Higher values result in faster r...

Page 606: ...blank file named ae_render_only_node txt into one of the following locations depending on the user account type 1 Install After Effects on the render only machine 2 Place a blank file named ae_render_...

Page 607: ...such as C in Windows or the Macintosh HD in Mac OS or a shared folder all of which can signify different locations to each render engine All render engines must interpret the path in the same way Once...

Page 608: ...r only still image sequences you cannot use multiple computers to render a single movie When you render a still image sequence with multiple computers rendering in each copy of After Effects starts at...

Page 609: ...xporting a movie that is larger than the maximum file size for your hard disk formatting scheme then you can set the Segment Video only Movie Files At value to a value under this maximum Hard disks fo...

Page 610: ...g times choose Layer Frame Blending Frame Mix 4 Choose Composition Add To Render Queue 5 In the Render Queue panel next to Render Settings choose the appropriate preset from the menu For example if yo...

Page 611: ...els from the top of a field rendered movie reverses the field order For example if you crop one row of pixels from the top of a movie with Upper Field First field rendering the field rendering order t...

Page 612: ...rendered back to video with 3 2 pulldown reintroduced You can introduce 3 2 pulldown by choosing one of five different phases See Remove 3 2 or 24Pa pulldown from video Note It is important to match t...

Page 613: ...Play both movies One movie will look distorted and have jumpy horizontal motion or shape distortion during vertical motion The other movie will play back smoothly with sharply defined edges Use the fi...

Page 614: ...ffects project for all subsequent sequences Keyframes effects and other properties are converted in the same way as when you paste an After Effects layer into an Adobe Premiere Pro sequence See Import...

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