Real World After Effects (version 3.1)

by Sherry London

Adobe's after effects have been called Photoshop on steroids. The video compositing program allows the user to take still images and turn them into animated pictures. It allows the user to layer... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201688395
• ISBN13: 9780201688399
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

What was old is new again!

Why write a review about a seven year old book? Chapter 13 of this book gives indepth coverage of the "new" filters recently added to the 6.5 upgrade to After Effects. It also has copious movies and templates of the effects listed. By now it should be clear to anyone familiar with this excellent program you learn by doing (and reading, listening, plagiarising (smile)). This book allows you to do all of those things. Don't but the book unless the CD is there or you can get your hands on a copy of the CD. Some of the QT movies will remind you of some well known tricks you see everyday. Cheers.

Tough program, good book

This program isn't user-friendly, and takes alot to master. This book does a good job at making you a master of the porgram. You have to stick with the book and program. An application like this won't be mastered in 24 hours. Good tips, and advice in the book.

This is a great book but is now outdated.

After Effects 4.0 is now out and is much improved. It is worthwhile to learn 3.1 if you can't get a copy of 4.0 yet.

Good, but not easy!

I found this book intimidating at first--let's face it, After Effects is not from the KAI camp of built-in-presets type software. It is a very complex professional program used everywhere from local television stations to major motion pictures. I finally hunkered down at dealt with it. The result, I was creating my own professional looking 2D animation in two-days. I consider it an investment that will pay-off 100-fold for me in the future.

A true teaching book

The writers of this book have a great understanding of how humans learn. The use of repetition with a seamless introduction of advanced techniques... this book has taught me a tremendous amount. It took me three full days to go through the book, and I feel I learned more than I could of in any expensive training program. This book is great, congratulations to the writers...