[...]... for example, that you’ll work with three-dimensional effects and layers in different ways over several chapters rather than in just one chapter entirely devoted to 3D, as you’d find in the After Effects 5.0 User Guide AE_CIB.book Page 7 Monday, October 8, 2001 12:08 PM ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 5.0 7 Classroom in a Book Additional resources Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book is not meant to replace documentation... starting After Effects and choosing Help > Contents (Windows) or Help > Help Contents (Mac OS) • The Adobe Web site (www .adobe. com), which you can explore by choosing Help > Adobe Online if you have a connection to the World Wide Web Adobe Certification The Adobe Training and Certification Programs are designed to help Adobe customers improve and promote their product proficiency skills The Adobe Certified... actually used in the lessons, so there’s much more to learn about After Effects The Classroom in a Book aims to give you confidence and skills so that you can start creating your own projects For more comprehensive information about program features, see: • The Adobe After Effects 5.0 User Guide, which is included with the Adobe After Effects 5.0 software and contains descriptions of all features • Online... HexOutlines_final.mov from the Sample_Movies folder now Creating a project After Effects files are called projects and can be recognized by the aep extension to the filename Your first task is to create a new project After Effects can have just one open project at a time 1 Start After Effects 5.0, if it is not already open Or, if another After Effects Project is open, save and close that project now by choosing... recognize the high-level skills of expert users Adobe Certified Training Providers (ACTP) use only Adobe Certified Experts to teach Adobe software classes Available in either ACTP classrooms or on-site, the ACE program is the best way to master Adobe products For Adobe Certified Training Programs information, visit the Partnering with Adobe Web site at http://partners .adobe. com AE_CIB.book Page 8 Monday, October... to copy the sample movies as needed for each lesson and then remove them from your hard disk after you finish viewing them If you use After Effects on a Windows computer, you’ll also need to unlock the files before you use them This is not necessary if you are using a Macintosh computer 1 Insert the Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book CD into your CD-ROM drive 2 Copy the source files from the following... into this rewarding industry I believe strongly in the potential of After Effects and have been impressed how the Adobe team has continued to evolve the product, adding many new features without alienating their core users I hope this book will not only inspire but will teach users a new way of approaching projects Inexpensive tools like After Effects empower artist visions to dance across movie screens,...AE_CIB.book Page 5 Monday, October 8, 2001 12:08 PM ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 5.0 5 Classroom in a Book You’ll use these folders to store files by type, with Adobe Illustrator files in your _ai folder, your After Effects project files in the _aep folder, and so forth Copying the source files The source files for the lessons are relatively... Guess button After Effects attempts to analyze which type of alpha channel the file uses and apply the appropriate interpretation method If it cannot determine this, After Effects warns you with an alert sound The Interpret Footage dialog box also includes an Invert Alpha option Selecting (checking) this option reverses the existing alpha channel You can read more about alpha channels in After Effects 5.0... images 15, 87 Hue/Saturation effect 279 Tint 250 unlocking (Windows) 5 See also the effects PDF files on After Effects 5.0 application CD Footage window I playing movies in 99 Ignore option 16 Effects category 21, 124 reviewing audio files in 147 Enable Motion Blur button 180–181 viewing files in 69 Illustrator files See Adobe Illustrator files image quality 41 End key 46 formatting text 175 enlarging . 4,837,613; 5, 1 85, 818; 5, 634,064; 5, 729,637; 5, 737 ,59 9; 5, 754 ,873; 5, 781,7 85; 5, 819,301; 5, 832 ,53 0; 5, 832 ,53 1; 5, 8 35, 634; and 5, 860,074. Patents pending. Written and designed at Adobe Systems. Adobe After Effects 5 Prefs.txt file (Windows) or the Adobe After Effects 5 Prefs file (Mac OS). AE_CIB.book Page 3 Monday, October 8, 2001 12:08 PM 4 Getting Started 3 Start Adobe After. files 1 45 Adobe Photoshop files 15, 85 Adobe Training and Certification Programs 7 Adobe Type Manager 2 AE_CIB job folder 4 allocating RAM to After Effects 2 alpha channels 15, 16, 1 45 Alpha