After Effects 6.5 instance tutorial--Walk into AE New World

Tutorial

First, enter the new world of AE

1.1 New features Introduction

The Adobe video Collection 2.5 series, released this year, includes an entirely new version of Adobe Digital audio software, including after Effects 6.5. This professional video non-linear editing and post synthesis software has been a professional video workers and the vast number of video enthusiasts love the Dongdong, today let us take a look at its latest version has brought what surprises.

After Effects 6.5 has two versions: After Effects 6.5 Standard Edition provides the core 2D and 3D synthesis, the animation production and the visual effect tool. After the effects 6.5 Professional Edition includes all the features of the After Effects Standard Edition, it also provides animation tracking and stabilization, advanced indexing and texturing tools, more than 30 additional visuals, particle systems, scripts, network imaging, 16-bit color per channel, and additional audio effects Wait a minute.

First, optimize OpenGL

OpenGL is a cross-platform two-dimensional and three-dimensional image acceleration rendering standard, using OpenGL can speed up the rendering speed of two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, especially to greatly improve the speed and interactivity of rendering on the screen. When you adjust lights and cameras, layer distortion, manipulate text layers, and adjust shadows, you can see the results of the operation almost simultaneously, as long as your machine is in a good speed. In addition, it is optimized for the latest processors and supports Intel's HT (Hyper-threading) technology.

Second, the integration of software

The Adobe Video Collection 2.5 series also includes
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5,
Adobe Audition 1.5,
Adobe Encore DVD 1.5

After Effects 6.5 not only with the combination of these software is very close, but also did not forget the combination of Photoshop CS. We can use Photoshop CS to modify still pictures, use Premiere Pro edit or create an interactive DVD menu with a encore dvd, and then edit the artwork after Effects 6.5来.

and Photoshop CS combination

First take a look at the situation with Photoshop CS. Use Phothoshop CS to make a picture with text, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1

Start After Effects 6.5, open the "file/import/file ..." menu option to import the made pictures into the after effects. When you import pop-up prompts dialog box, you can select the "merged Layers" (merged layer) option to import, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2

Select the imported picture and open the Layer/convert to layered Comp menu option to separate the merged layers so that we can reorder the layers and adjust the effects, as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3

If we select the text layer, and then open the "Layer/conver to Editable Text" menu option, you can also convert the text to an editable state, which makes it easy for us to edit the Photoshop image in After effects. We see that the 2nd layer of text has become editable, as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4

Integrated use of Premiere Pro 1.5

Importing a group sequence from Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 is most likely if the imported files have transparency, transitions, and motion keyframes, which are converted to deformed keyframes in after Effects 6.5, converting the cut point to a mask, It is also convenient to copy and paste files or special effects between the two software.

Start Premiere Pro 1.5 and make a movie fragment with a transition effect, as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5

Select the movie Fragment and transition effect on the VIDEO1 layer and press the CTRL + C key to copy the object. When you return to After effects, press the "CTRL + V" key to paste the object, and on the timeline you will see the transition between the movie fragment and the fragment produced in premiere, as shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6

In addition, we can also directly premiere in the project file into after Effects6.5.

Combined with Adobe Encore DVD 1.5

Adobe Encore DVD 1.5,after effects 6.5 is also very well supported by Adobe's DVD production software, which allows us to easily create DVDs with DVD menus and buttons.

Third, new design tools

After Effects 6.5 added a lot of design tools, text animation is also a lot more than before.

Use the Text tool to enter the text "Pconline.com.cn" in the scene, select the text, and open the "animation/apply Animation Preset ..." menu option to see the new text animation effect. As shown in Figure 7 and Figure 8, the effect of text animation.

Figure 7

Figure 8

In addition, a lot of special effects are added in after Effects 6.5, such as adjust (adjustment), particle world (particle universe), Light Sweep (sweep) and toner (color matching).

The new advanced cloning tool. We import a fragment of the movie as shown in Figure 9.

Figure 9

We cloned a new object from the frame in the video, double-click the edit window to open the video file, and select the Clone tool in the tool panel. Press the ALT key at the frame you want to copy, and then start drawing the outline of the frame using the mouse at the point where you want to clone, as in Photoshop, as shown in Figure 10.

Figure 10

Cloning tools can be used in a number of ways, in the film filming some lenses need to use steel wire to the actor hanging in the aerial shooting, in the post-production need to remove the wire, this time the use of cloning tools.

Four, color correction

In color correction, there are new color correction and texture management tools that can be used to make certain parts of a screen custom colors, while others display the original color of the picture. For example, we make cars in the mountains, we can keep the original color of the car, and the background of the mountains to make black and white color effect.

V. Other

In addition, after Effects 6.5 added input and output support for the OMF (Open Media Framework) file and input support for AAF (Advanced authoring Format) files, and almost complete support for 16-bit color displays.