Trish and Chris Meyer share fifteen years of real-world film and video
production experience inside the critically acclaimed Creating Motion
Graphics with After Effects. More than a step-by-step review of the
features in After Effects, you will learn how the program thinks so that
you can realize your own visions more quickly and efficiently. This
full-color book is jammed full of tips, gotchas, and sage advice that
will help you survive whatever your next project throws at you. Creating
Motion Graphics 4th Edition has been heavily revised, reuniting the
previous two volumes plus adding detailed coverage of new features
introduced in After Effects 7 and CS3 Professional to form one massive,
essential reference.

* Mastering animation through the use of keyframes, motion paths, and
the Graph Editor

* Blending imagery using alpha channels, masks, mattes, modes, and
stencils

* Building groups and hierarchies through parenting and nested comps

* Extended coverage of type animation, paint tools and 3D space

* Advanced subjects such as keying, motion tracking, expressions, and
video issues

* Extensive coverage of the new CS3 features including the Shape and
Puppet tools, Brainstorm, per-character 3D text, color management, and
more!