TABLE OF CONTENTS It s 4:37 a.m. and your project is almost finished. You run a full-resolution rendering out to video for final review, and there it is your live-action source footage is stuttering, the moving text looks blurry, and the motion tracked effects are not staying aligned to their targets.
I ve been there plenty of times: it s really late (or early depending on how you think about it), I m tired, and my project just sucks. All because I failed to properly set one little option. And now all I have to do is figure out what option it was that I overlooked.
Even with all the excellent on-line help resources available, often I just wanted to keep a simple reference at hand to flip through, guiding me toward the resolution of my problem. That was the impetus of this book an easy-to-follow, sufficiently detailed, cheat-sheet to get me back up and running, and back to bed.
This Easy Guide is not intended to teach the complete animation neophyte the basics of film and video functions and techniques it is aimed at the user who understands the basic concepts of video production and operation. It s meant for editors, broadcast graphic artists, 3D animators the people who already are exposed to everyday motion graphics or animation for video but have not had any or enough hands-on exposure to After Effects. It s for people who both want and need to use After Effects.
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