From After Effects to Flash

Poetry in Motion Graphics
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-59059-748-4
Verlag: Apress

Buch, Englisch, 484 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 812 g

As a Flash 8 designer, you have discovered the power of the video tools in the application. The new filters and effects and ActionScript classes allow you to create a variety of stunning visual effects in Flash. What you probably haven't discovered is how easy it is empower your video hundreds of times more by combining the many effects and tools in After Effects 7 Professional with Flash!

This book, the first to explore the potential power and creativity boost that can be unleashed when After Effects and Flash are used together, is designed to get you up to speed with working in these two applications while hitting you with some creative innovation. You will discover how effectively you can use After Effects to create video and animation effects that were either extremely difficult or impossible to achieve in Flash.

By the end of this book, you will have created a variety of projects ranging from text effects, masks, and alpha channel video to 3D effects and audio visualization. All are designed to show you the potential available to you with these two powerhouse applications, and, more importantly, to expand the arsenal of creative motion graphics tools at your disposal.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Green, Tom

Dias, Tiago

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Digitale Animation
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Spiele-Programmierung, Rendering, Animation
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmier- und Skriptsprachen
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Webprogrammierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

From Concept to Final Product in After Effects.- From Final Product to Upload in Flash.- Motion Graphics and the Preset Text Effects in After Effects.- Creating Alpha Channel Video for Flash.- Creating Video Titling Sequences.- Creating Special Effects.- Playing with Text.- Meet the Parents.- The Video Behind the Mask.- Track Mattes are Your Friend.- Adding a Third Dimension.- Audio, the Redheaded Kid in a Family of Blondes.

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Green is a professor of interactive media in the School of Media Studies at Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Toronto. He has written four previous books on Macromedia technologies, and many articles for numerous magazines and web sites, including the MX Developers Journal, Community MX, and Computer arts. Lastly, he has spoken at over 20 conferences internationally, including FITC, MX North, Digital Design World, TODCON, and SparkEurope.