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Summary: Good, but not easy!
Review: I found this book intimidating at first--let's face it, After Effects is not from the KAI camp of built-in-presets type software. It is a very complex professional program used everywhere from local television stations to major motion pictures. I finally hunkered down at dealt with it. The result, I was creating my own professional looking 2D animation in two-days. I consider it an investment that will pay-off 100-fold for me in the future.
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Summary: Very disappointed with the book.
Review: Kudos to Amazon.com for delivering Real World After Effects to my door in Hawaii within 4 days--Regular Mail! I was thrilled to get it until I read page 4 describing the main benefit from using After Effects.
It says: " Premiere only performs an AB roll (it can transition between Clip A and Clip B and then make the result the new Clip A so that you can add more footage). In After Effects, you can mix mutliple layers of video together or with still images and use them all at the same time."
What's said about Premiere is simply NOT TRUE! I've been using Premiere with multiple layers, multiple video tracks, all at the same time. It is very good, very clean and very easy to use.
No, I haven't read the whole book, yet. But what does this do to credibility of the rest of the book? I hope to be enlightened with fantastic new techniques. I'll tell you know in a few weeks.
Regards.
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Summary: Really good, kind of Bad.
Review: This book is really good in some areas, but weak in others. I got a pretty good understanding of the basics and some intermediate level aspects. But, some of lessons I completed and I did not know exactly what I did, and I even read over the hard parts more than once. There are actual typographical errors every now and then that I detected. It does give you a good feel for how somebody would use it in the real world however. I have not read any other After Effects books to compare it to.
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Summary: What was old is new again!
Review: Why write a review about a seven year old book? Chapter 13 of this book gives indepth coverage of the "new" filters recently added to the 6.5 upgrade to After Effects. It also has copious movies and templates of the effects listed. By now it should be clear to anyone familiar with this excellent program you learn by doing (and reading, listening, plagiarising (smile)). This book allows you to do all of those things. Don't but the book unless the CD is there or you can get your hands on a copy of the CD. Some of the QT movies will remind you of some well known tricks you see everyday. Cheers.
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