Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book (2021 release) contains 15 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. Learn how to create, manipulate, and optimise motion graphics for film, video, DVD, the web, and mobile devices. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.

Lisa Fridsma has long loved the process of teaching others to use Adobe products. She has helped create over thirty books in the Classroom in a Book series over the last two decades (including books on Photoshop, After Effects, and Acrobat), going back to her time on-staff at Adobe. She's currently the owner of Darlington Hill Productions which provides production, design, illustration, and writing publishing services.

Brie Gyncild aims to make technical information accessible to those who need it. Brie has authored The Photoshop CS5 Pocket Guide and The Photoshop Elements 8 Pocket Guide. She has also co-written The Photoshop Show Starring Russell Brown; numerous editions of the Classroom in a Book series on Photoshop, After Effects, Flash, and Acrobat; and several editions of the How to Wow series. 

GETTING STARTED

1 GETTING TO KNOW THE WORKFLOW

2 CREATING A BASIC ANIMATION USING EFFECTS AND PRESETS

3 ANIMATING TEXT

4 WORKING WITH SHAPE LAYERS

5 ANIMATING A MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION

6 ANIMATING LAYERS

7 WORKING WITH MASKS

8 DISTORTING OBJECTS WITH THE PUPPET TOOLS

9 USING THE ROTO BRUSH TOOL

10 PERFORMING COLOR CORRECTION

11 CREATING MOTION GRAPHICS TEMPLATES

12 USING 3D FEATURES

13 WORKING WITH THE 3D CAMERA TRACKER

14 ADVANCED EDITING TECHNIQUES

15 RENDERING AND OUTPUTTING