Adobe After Effects 4.0 Classroom in a Book

By Adobe Creative Team

Adobe After Effects is the tool multimedia professionals turn to for creating animated graphics and visual effects for film, video, and the Web. Adobe After Effects 4.0 Classroom in a Book is the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201658917
• ISBN13: 9780201658910
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Adobe Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great for new After Effects users

Highly recommended for anyone starting out in After Effects. In fact, if you've never even seen After Effects, this book is for you. After just a few lessons, you'll feel more comfortable and confident using the After Effects interface and features. If you need to get up to speed quickly with this powerful compositing software, then AE Classroom in a Book will serve you well.Regarding a few of the criticisms that some people have leveled against this book:If you're already an AE pro and have gone through the earlier edition, then the "what's new" section of the official AE manual should be your main learning tool. This book is designed for beginners, not to help people migrate from version 3.Yes, the lessons in this book are not earth shattering and exciting. This book teaches you how to use a professional compositing software package. Serious compositing is, generally, an unexciting procedure. For people wishing to be entertained, I would recommend a collection of Gary Larson's Far Side strips. For people who wish to learn After Effects, I would recommend this book.Happy compositing!Philip Williams (...)

Adobe Publishing at its best

Clear and precise, this classroom really does offer excellent teaching. This pupil is learning all the time. Now wouldn't it be a good idea for Adobe to make their own teaching CD-ROMs?

Great as a tutorial

This book is a wonderful tutorial, especially for new users, but does not function as well as a general reference. Still, I highly recommend this book and as others have said, it is useful to work through it more than once. Don't bother with the Online Helpless file--this book will teach you more than anything Adobe includes with the program.

Must have for Framemaker neophytes

I recommended Frame to my company and had to quickly learn how to use it and be productive from day 1. I purchased this book and went through it. The proof of the book's quality was when I recently took a Frame Int/Adv course, there wasn't much that was new for me to learn. One word of advice... Go through the lessons then use Frame in your work. Go through the book again in about 3 months - you'll reinforce concepts and learn something new, since you'll be able to apply certain features to the work you have in progress.I HIGHLY recommend this book to all Frame users. Now if only Adobe could get some help with their online help ....