Lynda.com After Effects CS5 New Features

Author: Mark Christiansen
Duration (hr:min): 01:23
Released on: 4/12/2010
Exercise files: Yes
Software works on: Mac and Windows

In After Effects CS5 New Features, author Mark Christiansen explores the added tools, plug-ins, and other productivity enhancements in the CS5 release of Adobe's motion graphics and visual effects software. This course covers improvements to the user interface, changes to RED footage and 3D and text compositions workflows, the Roto Brush tool, and the new mocha, Color Finesse, and Freeform AE plug-ins. Exercise files are included with the course.

Topics include:

• Comparing After Effects CS4 and CS5
• Working in the CS5 Timeline
• Importing RED footage
• Selecting with the Roto Brush tool
• Optimizing performance and memory usage in a 64-bit application
• 3D image warping with Freeform AE
• Optimizing selections with the Refine Matte effect
• Changing color with Color Finesse and updated blending modes

Content:

Introduction - 03:28

    Welcome - 0:33 - 3.5 MB
    Using the exercise files - 0:44 - 0.6 MB
    Comparison - 2:11 - 10.8 MB

1. UI and Workflow Updates - 23:46

    Working in the CS5 timeline - 2:40 - 2.9 MB
    Working with 3D and text in CS5 - 5:57 - 7.9 MB
    Aligning layers - 2:09 - 2.4 MB
    Making use of updated color effects and blending modes - 5:42 - 7.1 MB
    Importing RED footage - 4:04 - 5.7 MB
    Understanding and implementing LUTS - 3:14 - 6.8 MB

2. Roto Brush - 17:58

    Making a quick selection with Roto Brush - 7:52 - 13.0 MB
    Refining a matte - 3:13 - 4.7 MB
    Combining Roto Brush with other techniques - 6:53 - 7.4 MB

3. 64-Bit Processing - 07:46

    Understanding memory and multiprocessing - 2:06 - 3.7 MB
    Managing RAM usage - 3:10 - 4.9 MB
    Rendering multiple frames simultaneously - 2:30 - 6.1 MB

4. mocha for AE v2 - 13:59

    Using mocha shape - 6:24 - 12.3 MB
    Refining a mocha mask in After Effects - 3:22 - 6.9 MB
    Recreating motion blur - 4:13 - 10.1 MB

5. Color Finesse LE 3 - 05:17

    Refining color looks with Color Finesse - 5:17 - 7.1 MB

6. Digieffects FreeForm - 10:46

    Warping an image in 3D with FreeForm AE - 10:46 - 18.6 MB

Conclusion - 00:12

    Goodbye - 0:12 - 0.2 MB