From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training

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Introduction

Introduction

- Hi, I'm Chad Perkins and welcome to After Effects CS5 Essential Training. In this training title we're going to get familiar with Adobe After Effects CS5, the world standard for motion graphics, compositing, animation and visual effects. Now, although After Effects is a very robust application, to say the least, we'll be starting from the ground up here, including introductory project to help you feel comfortable with the application. I'll show you how to use the After Effects Animation tools, especially the ever-popular puppet tool, to breathe life into still images, allowing you to manipulate an object as if it were a puppet. Then we'll explore effects, the core of the program. Effects allows you to easily create stuff like glows, blurs, lens flares or even a galaxy scene from scratch. We'll look at the concept of compositing and we'll look at several features in After Effects that allows us to merge objects into the same scene. We'll also look at the powerful new roto brush tool,…

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