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A Digital Video Primer
In addition, Aer Eects includes Turbulent Displace and Magnify eects for creating special-
ized distortions. Turbulent Displace uses fractal noise to create turbulent distortions, such as
for owing water, waving ags, or fun-house mirrors. Magnify simulates the placement of a mag-
nifying glass over an area of the image, making it possible to scale an image beyond 100% while
maintaining resolution.
Aer Eects also delivers a comprehensive set of audio eects for full-featured audio-processing. For
example, you can synchronize animation elements to audio amplitude and drive video eects using
audio data. In addition to applying audio eects to your footage, you can also change the volume
levels of audio layers, preview them at a specied quality, and identify and mark locations. Use the
convenient Audio panel to set the volume levels of an audio level, or use the Timeline panel to view
the waveform values and apply time remapping.
Using expressions
Expressions enable you to link complex animations. For example, you could link the rotation of a
wheel on one layer with its shadow on another layer to synchronize the rotation. e expression
translates the motion, so you don’t need to enter keyframes. You can create relationships between
the behavior of a property and the behavior of almost any other property on any other layer,
opening up an innite number of animation possibilities.
e easiest way to create an expression is to drag the expression pick whip from one property to
another. For example, you could drag the opacity property of one layer to the scale property of
another, so that as one layer increases in size, the opacity of the other increases. Or the tracking
path of text could be linked to the rotation of another layer, so that the text tracks more tightly as
the layer rotates in one direction, then tracks more loosely as it rotates back. Aer Eects auto-
matically creates the expression for you. You can even drag the pick whip between the Timeline
and Eect Controls panels. If you have some familiarity with JavaScript, you can create powerful,
complex expressions with scripting.
An expression is used to tie a directional blur eect to text tracking.
Leverage graphics experience into new opportunities
If you are a graphic designer, you are probably acutely aware that motion is nding its way into
your world, in everything from animated web banners to business presentations. Your experi-
ence with Illustrator and Photoshop will make it easy for you to migrate to the world of motion
graphics, expanding your creative and business potential. Aer Eects lets you directly animate
layered media from Illustrator and Photoshop. e layering and compositing methodologies in
Aer Eects build on similar functionality in the Adobe soware applications you already know.
Many graphic designers have found new markets for their talents in work ranging from the web
to the world of music videos and even lm titles by adding Aer Eects to their tool kits.
Build on your Adobe product skills
If you already use Photoshop, Illustrator, or Adobe Premiere Pro, you’ll recognize the award-
winning Adobe user interface featured in After Effects. You’ll find the familiar tools and
common keyboard shortcuts that make it possible for you to work more eciently and move
among the programs with ease. Productivity-boosting features such the pen tool, Align panel,
rulers and guides, editing tools, and Free Transform mode work in Aer Eects just as they do
in other Adobe products. Plus Aer Eects and Adobe Premiere Pro use a similar time-based
interface. Here are just a few of the ways you benet from Aer Eects integration with other
Adobe applications.
A few examples of the Distort eects
available in After Eects
ASSET MANAGEMENT WITH ADOBE BRIDGE
Adobe Bridge is your control center for managing
audio, video, and image assets that you use in Adobe
Production Studio applications. Simply drag a le
from Bridge into your layout, project, or composition,
or work with the asset directly in Bridge.
Manage media les: Organize, browse, locate, and
view assets, including audio les.
Preview and apply presets and templates: Use
Adobe Bridge to apply After Eects project templates,
and animation and behavior presets.
Search metadata: Find les on hard disks or net-
works using extensive metadata, such as title, author,
keywords, and camera, that you create.
Access stock photos: Use Adobe Stock Photos to
locate and purchase images or search for royalty-free
images.
Process camera raw images: Adjust, crop, and process
camera raw images, and copy settings between les.
Manage color: Synchronize image color settings, so
the colors look the same regardless of which Adobe
Creative Suite 2 application you open the image in.