Adobe After Effects 5.0- P2

Adobe After Effects 5.0- P2: 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- P2 ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 5.0 17 Classroom in a BookOrganizing the projectIt is just as important to organize files within an After Effects Project as it is that youorganize the files for a job on your hard drive. Just as you created the organizationalfolders on your drive at the beginning of this job (in “Setting up a folder structure” onpage 4), you’ll now create folders that give order to this After Effects Project.1 Choose File > New > New Folder. Or, click the folder icon ( ) on the lower edge of theProject window. An untitled folder appears in the Project window.2 Type psd files and then press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS) to name the folder.3 Drag the Hexagon01.psd file into the psd files folder.4 Use the arrow to expand the psd files folder so that you see the Hexagon01.psd nestedin it.In this lesson you’ll import only .psd files, so you don’t need any other folders. Later, inmore complex projects with many kinds of files, you’ll create a Project-window folder foreach file type that you import.Creating the first compositionYou start building your animation by creating a new composition. Compositions are thebasic units of an After Effects project in which you place and manipulate images, movies,audio, and even other compositions..18 LESSON 1 Creating 2D Elements from Hexagons Delivery formats At this point in the project, it’s important to consider what format you’ll use for the final delivery of your project (such as film, Web, or television), because this determines the size at which you build your elements. You specify these settings at the composition level. You know from the job scenario described in the introductory chapter that this animation is intended primarily for NTSC broadcast. This means that your final animation should be rendered at D1 resolution (720 x 486). Therefore, as you build your elements you need to construct them in compositions that are large enough for their required size in the final animation. This D1 resolution is a non-square pixel format. However, in these lessons you build elements using square pixel aspect ratio and place your final composition into a 720 x 486 D1 NTSC composition before you render the final animation for delivery. 1 Choose Composition > New Composition. 2 In the Composition Settings dialog box, type Hexagon Final Comp in Composition Name. Note: Final indicates that this is the composition that you will render at the end of the lesson. This name distinguishes it from other intermediate compositions that you’ll create in this lesson. 3 Using the Preset pop-up menu, select the NTSC D1 Square Pix, 720 x 540 option. 4 Make sure that the following settings are shown: • Width: 720 • Height: 540 • Lock Aspect Ratio: unselected (no checkmark) • Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels • Frame Rate: 29.97 • Resolution: Full. (You can select a lower resolution. Use Half or lower if your system has only the minimum amount of RAM, a standard monitor size, or a slow processor.) • Start Timecode: 0;00;00;00 5 In Duration, type 400 for four seconds. ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 5.0 19 Classroom in a Book6 When all these options are set, click OK.The Hexagon Final Comp now appears in the Project window and in the title bar of twonew windows: the Composition window and the Timeline window. If necessary, resizethese windows so that they all fit on your screen. The Composition window, whichusually shows you how your composition looks, is empty (solid black, or whicheverbackground color is currently selected) because you haven’t added any images to yournew composition.The Timeline window is also empty, but you can see the numerous controls in it thatyou’ll use to manipulate items in compositions. Notice that the right side of the Timelinewindow shows the duration you specified: four seconds. You can make your Timeline window more efficient for the work you’ll do in this lessonby closing the Parent panel. To do this, right-click (Windows) or Control + click (Mac OS)the word Parent in the panel heading to open the contextual menu and choose Hide This.20 LESSON 1 Creating 2D Elements from Hexagons Placing footage in a composition When you ad ...