Main Concepts:

These are the features and concepts we will be focusing on in this project:

• Separating interlaced footage

• Combining fill and matte movies

• Nesting compositions

• Choosing a title font

• Importing an Illustrator file as Comp

• Applying effects and Effect Favorites

• Gradient Wipe effect

• Displacement Map effect [PB]

• Block Dissolve effect

• Adjustment Layers

• Knoll Light Factory EZ effect*

• Velocity controls for effects

• Using modes to enhance footage

• Snapshots for comparing effects

• Field rendering for D1 and DV

Requirements:

After Effects 4.1 or later; Production Bundle recommended for Displacement Map effect, but this effect is optional.

Third-party effects: Knoll Light Factory LE and Tinderbox T_LensBlur (both included on this book s CD in the Free Plug-ins folder).

Getting Started:

* Be sure to install the Knoll Light Factory LE effect from Pinnacle Systems (www.pinnaclesys.com) and the Tinderbox T_LensBlur effect from The Foundry (www.thefoundry.co.uk) included in the accompanying CD s Free Plug-ins folder.

Inside the Tutorials master folder on the accompanying CD, locate and copy the folder 10_Cosmopolis to your hard drive.

In the folder Final Movie inside this folder, double-click on and play Cosmopolis.mov.

Inside the Project folder you ll find the finished After Effects project file Cosmopolis.aep. Open the project file that is appropriate for your version: 4 for 4.1, or 5 for 5.0. If you have the Production Bundle, open the file ending in PB