Adobe After Effects 5.0- P11

Adobe After Effects 5.0- P11: AdobeAfter Effects5.0 provides the core 2D and 3D tools for compositing, animation,and effects that motion-graphics professionals, Web designers, and video professionalsneed. After Effects is widely used for digital post-production of film, motion graphics,video multimedia, and the Web.
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Adobe After Effects 5.0- P1110 Building the Final Animation At this point, you bring everything together in one overall project, and your careful organization really pays off. Find- ing the files you need is much easier because you’ve thought ahead and taken the time to keep your file structure logical and tidy—setting a good example for when you go on to create even larger and more complex After Effects projects of your own.308 LESSON 10 Building the Final Animation In this lesson, you’ll learn to do the following: • Import After Effects projects • Organize the Project window with multiple imported projects • Apply a track matte • Work with the Spherize, Lens Flare, and Bevel Alpha effects • Add a light to a composition and animate it • Place items in compositions at specific points in time • Rotoscope an image, using the mask tools • Create a realistic reflection layer You continue compositing both 2D and 3D layers in a final composition to complete the animation. You’ll start by building a reflection that you’ll position on the glowing ball and add a light burst to it. Then, after making a number of adjustments and creating a some new layers, you’ll import, place, and set properties for the final image files, which come together as the final scene, showing the client’s logo. Then you’ll be completely finished building the visuals and ready to render your final animation—which you’ll do in Lesson 11. This lesson takes approximately an hour and a half to complete. Getting started Make sure that the following files are in the AE_CIB job folder on your hard drive, or copy them from the After Effects Classroom in a Book CD now. • In the _psd folder: A.psd, R.psd, and Adobe.psd • In the Sample_Movies folder: FinalComposite_final.mov from the Sample_Movies/Lesson10 folder on the CD • In the Finished_Projects folder: FinalComposite10_finished.aep This lesson also uses several files you created in earlier lessons. Make sure that the following files are also stored in the appropriate folders in your AE_CIB job folder: • In the _aep folder: 2DComposite07_work.aep and 3DComposite09_work.aep • In the _mov folder: 3DHexagons.mov, 3DHexLines.mov, LensFlare.mov, and Squares01.mov ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 5.0 309 Classroom in a BookOpen and play the sample movie FinalComposite_final.mov, to see the work you’llcomplete in this lesson. When you finish, quit the QuickTime player. You can delete thesample movie now to save storage space, if necessary.Begin by creating a new project.1 Start After Effects 5.0, if it is not already open.2 Choose File > New > New Project.3 Choose File > Save As.4 In the Save Project As dialog box, find and open the _aep folder in the AE_CIB jobfolder you created earlier.5 In File Name, type FinalComposite10_work.aep and click Save.Importing the source filesYou start by importing all your source files, including two After Effects projects.1 Choose File > Import > Multiple Files.2 Locate the _mov folder inside your AE_CIB job folder and individually select andimport the following movie files that you built in earlier lessons:• 3DHexagons.mov• 3DHexLines.mov• LensFlare.mov• Squares01.mov3 Locate the _psd folder and import each of the following Photoshop files. Each time theInterpret Footage dialog box appears, be sure that the Straight – Unmatted option isselected, and then click OK.• A.psd• Adobe.psd• R.psd4 Locate the _aep folder and import each of the following After Effects project files:• 2DComposite07_work.aep• 3DComposite09_work.aep310 LESSON 10 Building the Final Animation 5 Click Done to close the Import Multiple Files dialog box. The two After Effects projects you imported appear as folders in the Project window. Inside, you’ll find all the compositions and source files you used when you created these projects. You’ll reuse some of these source files to create new images in the final composite. Organizing the Project window The number of items in your Project window is larger than any previous project in these ...