Adobe After Effects CS3 Basics #07: Paint Roller 1

Adobe After Effects is the industry-standard animation application that is available for both Mac and Windows OS. We plan to introduce 12 video tutorials in total in this After Effects CS3 Basics video tutorial series. All these video tutorials originally come from the digital download version of a video tutorial suite introduced at MacHouse Rich Media Store.

This project involves three objectives. The first objective is to show how to eliminate or key out unnecessary pixels. The second objective is to show how to use the Null Object.

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Adobe After Effects CS3 Basics #06: Stage 2

Adobe After Effects is the industry-standard animation application that is available for both Mac and Windows OS. We plan to introduce 12 video tutorials in total in this After Effects CS3 Basics video tutorial series. All these video tutorials originally come from the digital download version of a video tutorial suite introduced at MacHouse Rich Media Store.

In the second part of the first project, we continue to work on curtain shapes and then embed an audio file to finish the project.

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Adobe After Effects CS3 Basics #05: Stage 1

Adobe After Effects is the industry-standard animation application that is available for both Mac and Windows OS. We plan to introduce 12 video tutorials in total in this After Effects CS3 Basics video tutorial series. All these video tutorials originally come from the digital download version of a video tutorial suite introduced at MacHouse Rich Media Store.

The main objective of this project is to show how to create shapes with the Pen Tool and make dynamic movements on them. It also shows how to use RAM Preview to preview the animation project.

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Adobe After Effects CS3 Basics #04: Earth

Adobe After Effects is the industry-standard animation application that is available for both Mac and Windows OS. We plan to introduce 12 video tutorials in total in this After Effects CS3 Basics video tutorial series. All these video tutorials originally come from the digital download version of a video tutorial suite introduced at MacHouse Rich Media Store.

This tutorial’s main objective is to show how to set keyframes in After Effects.

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Adobe After Effects CS3 Basics #03: Importing files

Adobe After Effects is the industry-standard animation application that is available for both Mac and Windows OS. We plan to introduce 12 video tutorials in total in this After Effects CS3 Basics video tutorial series. All these video tutorials originally come from the digital download version of a video tutorial suite introduced at MacHouse Rich Media Store.

The third tutorial explains 3 ways of importing resource files to Adobe After Effects. Continue reading →